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One opponent calls motion to mark day in Goldsmiths University ‘colonialist,’ another said proposal must be rejected so as not to affect organization’s pro-Palestinian stance. Union president calls discussion ‘storm in a tea cup.’

HAARETZ

The students union at London’s Goldsmiths University last week rejected a proposal to commemorate the international Holocaust Remembrance Day, branding it as “Eurocentric” and “colonialist.”

A motion brought before the student body suggested recognizing “the unspeakable horrors” of the Holocaust, other genocides, totalitarianism and racial hatred. It called on the union to organize commemorative events on Holocaust Memorial Day, on the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism and on Armenian Genocide Day, among others.

One of the vociferous opponents to the motion was the union’s Education Officer Sarah El-alfy, a Muslim student, who urged students to reject the “Eurocentric” and “colonialist” motion.

El-alfy said on Twitter that she was not against Holocaust Day and said the union had marked Holocaust Day with events in the past and would continue to do so. But she added “it is Eurocentric and pro-British colonialist if only specific dates are mentioned, where all are European history and don’t extend to those atrocities committed by Britain itself.”

She commended “the wonderful support from Goldsmiths’ students” in rejecting the motion.

In an interview to the British news website The Tab, El-alfy said “while the motion seemed sound at first, and I completely agreed with its sentiments, remembrance days should not be reduced to a list of European historical dates only.

“With our long history of pushing for diversity and recognition of multiple struggles, and considering it is currently Black History Month, I feel the motion didn’t go far enough.”

Other students published their reasons for denying the motion on their Twitter accounts.

“The motion would force people to remember things they may not want to remember,” one student tweeted.

“White people should not be proposing motions to condemn genocides without a lot of thought. This does not have that thought,” another tweeted.

Union President Howard Littler said: “We have put on events to commemorate the Holocaust before. The opposition here came from wanting to make the motion include a broader list of things to remember.” He called the discussion “a storm in a tea cup.”

Last month, the U.K.’s national students union rejected a motion to condemn Islamic State, also known as ISIS, on the grounds that the proposal was “Islamophobic.”

The motion calling on the body to condemn the brutal Sunni militant group was put to the National Union of Students’ National Executive Council.

The motion urged students “to condemn the IS and support Kurdish forces fighting against it, while expressing no confidence or trust in the U.S. military intervention,” according to student news website The Tab. It also called for unity among Muslims.

The motion had already been adopted by Scotland’s national student union, but Black Students Officer Malia Bouattia called on students to reject it when it reached the NUS executive council meeting in September.

“We recognize that condemnation of ISIS appears to have become a justification for war and blatant Islamaphobia,” The Tab cited her as saying. The rhetoric exacerbates the issue at hand and in essence is a further attack on those we aim to defend.”

Bouattia, a student of postcolonial theory and language at the University of Birmingham, is planning to put forward a new motion against IS that will “in no way pander to Western imperialistic intervention or the demonization of Muslim peoples.”

“The more radical British students see the Holocaust as an instrument in the hands of Zionism,” said Dor Glick, an Israeli student at the London School of Economics told Haaretz.

17 thoughts on “London students refuse to mark Holocaust Day”
  1. A good question is: which holocaust? There have been many the latest is the Palestinian holocaust.

  2. Maybe they could get on of those fine Jewish artists to create a shit Holocaust sculpture in lieu of the rejected commemoration.

  3. I think that Goldsmiths University should include courses in its curriculum teaching revisionist history regarding the Holohoax so as to give equally time to science to combat hearsay evidence and fraud!

  4. Holocaust revisionism is the only way to put this dead horse to rest. Keep repeating over the liars, frauds and charlatans with the same and more as to the facts. They will soon find themselves screaming to an echo chamber.

  5. #1 whiskeypap. You said it right. What holocaust? There have been many holocausts and the latest is the Palestinian Holocaust. Besides, what the Jews claim is a hollow-cause, a holo-fraud, a holo-hoax.

  6. The ‘Holocaust Denial’ Debate
    http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=663
    In the year 2000, Swiss scholar, Jurgen Graf, author of the book, “The Holocaust Swindle,” after receiving a two year jail sentence for allegedly questioning the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz, fled to St Petersburg where he’s been living ever since as an exile.
    There in St Petersburg, Graf is engaged in examining Soviet archives, which Graf claims – when allowed for release – will bring Jewry’s official version of the Holocaust to its knees.

  7. DOES ANY ONE ACTUALY BELIVE THE JEWS IN GENERAL GIVE A DAMN, WHY? . ANY CHRISTIAN, MUSLIM, MAN, WOMAN,CHILD, SHOULD BE KILLED, JUST FOR BEEN A NON-JEW, WHO GIVES A DAMN, ABOUT THEIR DIFERENCE OF OPPINION, AT UIVERSITIES ARE NOT THESE THE SAME BASTARDS THAT SOME DAY WILL BE RUNNING CORPORTIONS, OR HOLDING PUBLIC OFFICE, AND UNDER THE ARROGANCE THEY ALL HAVE OF BELIVEN THAT THEY ARE THE CHOSEN OF SATAN, WILL CONTINUE ON WHAT IS ALREADY BEEN DONE. TO A GOOOD JEWW IS THE ONE THAT IS SLEEP SIX FEET UNDER. WHAT IS IT THAT THAT YOU EXPECT THESE PARASITES TO DO IN THE FUTURE, TO CHANGE THEIR WAYS, PLEASE, IF THAT WAS THE CASE ALREADY THE WORLD WOULD BE AT PEACE FOR STARERS, WITH MORE THAN 2,000 YEARS OF DEEP BRAIN WASH BY ALL THIER ANSESTORS,INTO BEEN EVIL DOES ANY ONE BELIVE THESE PARASITES WILL CHANGE.WHO EVER BELIVES THAT STORY IS A DAM JEW HIMSELF TRYING TO CONVICE THE WORLD OF ANOTHER LIE.

  8. Searchlight. I would say that the Jews have manipulated the societies of the world for more than 5,000 years. Even when they were in captivity in Egypt and Babylonia, they still managed to control the governments of those nations, wherever there is money and power there is the Jew.
    People don’t realize many things that are historical because many people just don’t read books but there are many sources of information that tell us the truth about these people who just came to this world to inflict pain, disasters , wars, famine, hunger, blood and their Bible don’t say any thing good about them. Judaism is not a religion but a “SATANIC CULT”.

  9. @ whiskeypapa;
    You ask: “which holocaust?”.
    Note the letter “H” is capitalised.
    That’s how it is apparently, according to many dictionaries now. It seems to be an American led practice when referring to a holocaust involving Jews and widely understood to have taken place during WWII.
    So evidently, a holocaust worthy of a capital “H” is Judeo-Monopolised; as an Upper Case Jewish [H]olocaust, as distinct from all mere Goyim(non-Jew) Lower Case [h]olocausts.
    You’d best get it right, because: to describe any otherwise “Lower Case” [h]olocausts with a capital “H”; or to describe the (Jewish) [H]olocaust with a Lower Case “l” instead of a capital “H” (as widely understood) may even be viewed as a form of “Holocaust Minimisation”.
    From wiki; The European Court Of Human Rights has stated ” “denying or minimising the Holocaust must be seen as one of the acutest forms of racial slandering and incentives to hatred towards the Jews”
    There are 22 countries where “Holocaust Denial” is now a imprisonable offence.
    As you can see; “minimisation” can also get your foot half into that jail door.
    So; in the interest of prostrating yourself before Jewish Interest Groups: Would you like to retract your question “which holocaust?”; in case it’s viewed as antisemitic.
    Perhaps a Holocaust Remembrance Day in which all “lesser” [ho]olocausts are bundled in is a lessening of the Upper Case Status of the one and only [H]olocaust; which could mean that such a call for remembrance is in fact a form of [H]olocaust Minimisation in itself….. Lucky they called it off!!

  10. #11 kostalooks. thank God we still live in a society in which we have not gotten to that extreme yet. Our civil liberties have been taken from us one by one and soon we are going to be in the same situation in where the Russians had to go through with the Communism, Trotsky, Lenin, Stalin when every little possession was taken from them including food. 9/11 and all those false flags done by the Mossad in order to drag America into a series of wars for the benefit of Israel are the cause of all this economic mess we are experiencing here right now.

  11. 99% of the “Holocaust suffering” is a lie. A lie that makes Zionists rich and powerful from Christian guilt.

  12. Reblogged this on LIBYA AGAINST SUPER POWER MEDIA and commented:
    One opponent calls motion to mark day in Goldsmiths University ‘colonialist,’ another said proposal must be rejected so as not to affect organization’s pro-Palestinian stance. Union president calls discussion ‘storm in a tea cup.’
    HAARETZ
    The students union at London’s Goldsmiths University last week rejected a proposal to commemorate the international Holocaust Remembrance Day, branding it as “Eurocentric” and “colonialist.”
    A motion brought before the student body suggested recognizing “the unspeakable horrors” of the Holocaust, other genocides, totalitarianism and racial hatred. It called on the union to organize commemorative events on Holocaust Memorial Day, on the European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism and on Armenian Genocide Day, among others.
    One of the vociferous opponents to the motion was the union’s Education Officer Sarah El-alfy, a Muslim student, who urged students to reject the “Eurocentric” and “colonialist” motion.

  13. Now I understand why jews were kicked out of 109 countries. I hate them all and I am only 39 yrs old. I can’t take anymore Holocaust lies. Now look the Manorah on the Whitehouse lawn. A slap in the face to all Christians. F…k those jews.

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