Ignoring Occupation condemns and opposes in the strongest way possible all holocaust deniers, racists, neo-Nazis and disbelievers who deny that the holocaust ever happened, downplays its significance in Jewish and world history or
all right praises Nazism, Hitler and apologists for this crime against humanity and mass murder. No suffering is unique or the epitome of or serve as a justification to another people's suffering, oppression and occupation.
The Holocaust is regarded as most well known and documented genocide of the twentieth century, survivors, soldiers who liberated the concentration camps and even Hitler's government all kept records the most detail writings aside from the survivors' testimonies,
Yad Vashem and Holocaust museums in U.S. and Israel came from German archives after Second World War.Among the gruesome records are the numbers of people killed, property destroyed and burned by Nazi supporters in neighboring countries & local populations.
Stolen clothes and jeweleries were taken from concentration camp prisoners who died by camp officials and kapos (Jews who served as barrack commanders to their fellow prisoners) than given to German civilians who live only a few blocks away from camps, in other countries and neighboring cities.
deaths in gas chambers as camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, Dachau, Jasenovac in Yugoslavia in which 700,00 Serbs, Roma and children were murdered by Croatian Fascists Utashe Government under Ante Pavelić,. Despite the overwhelming evidence, film, photographs, records and testimonies of camps and
Nazis systemic killings of anyone who did not fit Nazism's definition of an master race even children were not spared, upon liberating the camps many American, Canadian and other resistance groups were shocked to find that many German, Polish, French and other local civilians who lived
only a block or around the corner from the camps denied the camps' existence or simply said they did not know what was happening or believed such places exists though they could smell the stench of gas chamber and burning human beings in ovens as Nazi sought to destroy any evidence of their crimes.
Though the Armenian Genocide was the first state sponsored systemic extermination of a minority group by a brutal regime beginning in 1915-1922 carried out by the Ottoman Empire against its own Armenian minority living in what was then considered Historical Armenian in Eastern Turkey.
From the Armenian Genocide it is said Hitler and Nazi government copied the Ottoman's use of
transporting Armenians from their homes using cattle cars which were later used to cram and transport Jews, Roma, Russians and anyone else marked for death by the Nazi Regime both before and during World War II.
Similar to the Armenians in their case World War I, the Holocaust took place while the world was preoccupied by World War II, fascism, Nazism and weakening of colonial empires. Many major media radio stations and newspaper later in 1945 tried to deny knowledge of knowing that Holocaust was taking place throughout
Hitler's regime though the Final Solution, Reich stag Fire, Book burning Brown shirts SS burning books that were banned by as Hitler's regime came power including renowned, classic, ancient and historical books by prominent intellectuals and critics of Nazism,
Kristalnacht where thousands upon thousands of Jewish businesses, shops, buildings and homes were destroyed, reports of executions of political prisoners, handicapped, many dissidents and intellectuals who fled to U.S., Canada and South America for refuge and safety
were all published by the same newspapers around the world and relayed through newsreels. Still today people denied without shame or remorse that Holocaust ever occurred. Ignoring Occupation wants to say that Holocaust and many proceeding holocausts after it Cambodia, Vietnam,
Rwanda, etc were and are not false, exaggerated or it happened along with many gruesome genocides since including the current war in Gaza that now has claimed 900 lives.
Ma'afa: African Holocaust
To even non-political Africans, African Americans and Caribbeans, slavery and colonialism and 500 years of suffering both produced since 16th
century (Europe's Age of exploration) on Africans across the world is considered a Holocaust and to a lesser extent a genocide named Maafa.
In Swahili Maafa means great turbulence or tragedy. The Maafa (African Holocaust in English) did not just include consequences of slavery and colonialism nor was it just
a coincidental event in world history occurring during 500 year rise and growth of Western Europe into a powerful hegemony according to mainstream society.
The Maafa included dehumanization and Othering of black people (first in West Africa in 16th century and later extended to rest of Africa including East and North Africa)
by Kings and Queen from 16th-19th centuries and later Western governments via media ie newspapers, especially popular culture stereotypes depicting Africa
as a dark continent, Africans as the Curse of Ham cruel using Christianity and biblical teachings to justify slavery and colonialism,
freed slaves as "enemies within" living in mainstream American society, despite freedoms Africans were viewed as inferior and subhumans by scientific racism and social Darwinism
and in modern times African American and African Diaspora men not only as
prisoners and dangerous criminals but as threats to themselves and society at large. Given long history of dehumanization (that continues in pop culture across West today)
Othering and dehumanization helped to ease the guilt of Western governments, businesses and ordinary people who benefited, profited and committed crimes during Maafa
(racism, colonialism and massacres read farther below), throw away any empathy towards Africans (during and after), public outrage and were either slow in ending Maafa or came too late. Importantly, the Maafa
has literally broken cultural, social, political, historical and spiritual identity between Mainland Africa and African diaspora.
African Americans have been the most disconnected people from their ancestral roots.
Disconnected, tangled and reconnected roots
Regardless of a globalized and interconnected world that we live in today,
most people belong to an ancient history, important historically significant, cultural and sacred place, have deep connections
to their own indigenous cultures that are older than Western culture and feel their own identity is unique and protected.
While the African diaspora in Latin America, Europe and Caribbean have reconnected with mainland Africa through religious movements and spirituality,
self education and awareness about rich diversity of African culture, traditions, history and music supporting governments and
cultural identity projects between Africa and diaspora, African Americans still remain disconnected. For 500 years, American slave masters and holders
(from 17th-20th centuries) succeeded in literally destroying any connection to Africa, to their own individual identity or their diaspora cousins African Americans had in order to keep slaves working,
making the American economy wealthy at the expense of human beings, men, women and children, denying freedom and discouraging self determination though many freed African American slaves formed seperate
cities in deep South and North. Two of the most well known and first self sufficient African American cities created before 20th century are Eatonville,
Florida and though a neighborhood and not a city is Harlem in New York. The fears of independence and successful slave revolt similar to
Haiti that ended in Haitians becoming the first black independent ruled country in 1804. In a cruel historic fate, the Maafa occurred in Western countries that praised and
supported Democracy, applauding revolutions for self determination in Americas against Spain under the banner of freedom and Rights of Men, quoting the writings and readings of
Hobbes, Locke and championing the humanism and Western European Enlightenment that had brought Europe out of the Dark Age, etc without seeing the sad irony in
Maafa's far reaching consequences for Africans across the world.
It can't be the H word if perpetrators are Europeans and victims are Africans
Finally it has allowed Western countries to deny that Maafa is equivalent to a Holocaust on the same scale as the Jewish Holocaust. The historical significance of the Maafa continues to haunt Black America, Caribbean and mainland Africa to this day.
Despite historical evidence of horrors, massacres and crimes committed during Maafa, there is no justice for descendants of slaves
whose ancestors were not only enslaved but endured unspeakable acts of violence and indifference from mainstream
Western society towards their suffering. There has been no resounding official apology from all Western countries who were involved in the Maafa.
There has been no Truth and Reconciliation Commission in U.S. or Europe or Nuremberg Trial (that would be a controversy) to examining the uncomfortable truths
of Maafa (holocaust) that is often overlooked in most history textbooks. There has been no reparations even though compensation has been given to
Japanese Americans for internment of their grandparents during World War II, remembrance and teachings of the Jewish Holocaust is mentioned daily and taught in school,
there is acknowledgment for the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and there has even been minimal recognition of the Armenian Genocide by Ottoman Turks
during World War I. Yet when speaking about Maafa (whose name alone can not be mentioned because of "controversy") and its significance, African diaspora,
mainland Africa and African Americans are told to forget about it, not bring up old wounds although the wounds have become deep and turned into scars.
Perhaps its because the perpetrators of the Maafa was Western governments and not dehumanized, others in non-Western countries maybe why calling Maafa
(African Holocaust) what is has been a difficult.
Unknown facts not found in history books: Victims of colonial atrocities speak from the grave
Before words such as "Genocide" and "Holocaust" became part of mainstream society vocabulary, massacres and attempted genocides were already being committed
by colonial authorities in Namibia and Congo in early 1900s. German colonial administration created the world's first concentration camps in Kalahari Desert in Namibia in 1904 (before
World War I, before Hitler's Rise and Jewish Holocaust). The Herero people of Namibia
were rounded up and sent to Shark Island Death Camp on the direct
orders of German Emperor ruling over Namibia. The use of concentration camps was meant to stop Herero People from revolting against the colonialist government in control of their homeland and discourage
future resistance movements and uprisings by Namibian people in general. This dark history and precursor to identifcal historical events some thirty years later inside Europe against European Jews
has been buried in the back and sands of history for over a century unknown to mainstream society. Even British set up concentration camps in South Africa during the Boer War to imprison Afrikaner men, women and children.
The origin of word concentration camp in English comes from British camps during Boer War not Nazi Germany.
In Congo, King Leopold of Belgium turned the entire country into his own personal territory using forced labor to build Belgium's wealth and archetiture at the expense of millions of Congolese who were
literraly worked to death chopping rubber trees (at the time Congo's largest exports) and had their arms and legs chopped off not fellow countrymen but by Europeans. Once again we see this history echoed
today in Congo with rebel forces and innocent Congolese involved in a natural resource driven war began in 1960 after independence. As history has it, journalists knew these atrocities were occuring
and in some cases particularly Armenian Genocide became eye witnesses to events taking place but did not connect all the historical events
together to serve as a warning to future generations to learn from atrocious horrors of racism, dehumanization and discrimination. All of the above events occurred either side by side or overlapped one another.
500 Years Later
The history of slavery, colonialism and racism through past to the present.
Directed, narrated and told from the viewpoint of African diaspora, it takes
takes the viewer on a human journey of African history ie slave trade and holocaust
denying and breaking the African culture, history, languages and heritage.
In spite of history, Africa and her children are working to overcome racism's social, cultural and historica crimes
through unity, connecting the African diaspora with Mainland Africa, self education and knowledge.
Armenian Genocide
Considered the World's and 20th century's first modern and sadly forgotten genocide.
Racism in Europe and United States: How racism and dehumanization led to murder
In 1945, British & American allied troops recorded and filmed the survivors of Holocaust and Nazi death/concentration camps as they were liberated in the immediate aftermath of allied march on Germany soon after Hitler's death. The uncensored documentary was deemed too grisly
and gruesome for public broadcast at the time. British soldiers took the original footage and stored it into Imperial War Musuem in London. In 1983, the original film was restored and broadcasted for the first time to the general public by PBS. Its images are still uncensored
and serve as a testament and witness to the horrifying consequences of inhumanity to men through the two dangerous isms of 20th century: nationalism & racism.
Dear World
Dear World: a small history on antisemitism (mostly in Europe) in which the world is condemned for not trying to stop the holocaust in which six million Jews, Roma, Russians, Poles, handicapped, etc a total of 12 million people were murdered in concentration camps, executions and bombings by Nazi Germany while all of Europe turned a blind eye towards the systemic killings
committed in the name of racism and racial purity under Hitler's horrifying regime from 1933-1945. This video is seen through the eyes of the Kahanist Movement.
Palestine, Gaza and Holocaust
From 1948 onwards, many Palestinians, Arabs, Iranians and Muslims have often asked why the Palestinians must pay for the Western world's holocaust guilt. Questions abound as to why was Israel established on top of Palestine, when Palestinians and Arab World played no part in Holocaust,
did not aid Hitler despite many Israeli officials and historians saying that the grand Mufti of Jerusalem met with him, Arab countries did not build concentration camps for their Jewish communities nor deported them outside the country? And how could Arab countries take part in the war
independently when they themselves were under British, French and European colonialism that limited self determination and crushed any form of resistance to colonial rule?
Many media pundits, right wing politicians and die hard Zionists and Israeli government supporters continously say, "Arabs, Ahmedinjad or Palestinians are trying to wipe Israel off the map!" They justify Israel's disproportional use of force in occupied Palestine,
Lebanon and once upon a time Egypt under Nassar as an act of self defense. Many leaders across the Arab World, Iran and other Muslim countries have been compared to Hitler and World War II, "a second holocaust" by Arab countries against Israel
and New Antisemitism (for anyone who calls themselves an anti-Zionist including Jews) is used as the mantra by politicians, pundits and Israel lobby to silence any criticism of Israeli policies in Gaza, Lebanon and elsewhere that would be condemned,
heavily scrutinized and leaders and government tried for war crimes if Israel were any other country in the world.
But because of the history of Holocaust (especially in U.S. & Europe)that many children and adults learn about, discuss, visit holocaust musuem and are reminded to never forget, that any criticism of Israeli government not Israeli people or
Jews is seen as automatic antisemitism even when Jewish groups see criticizing Israel as justified and necessary to promote human rights for Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc and work toward peace in Middle East.
Israel's supporters are trying to deny the crimes against humanity and war in Gaza by saying that the civilians dying are members of Hamas, that the organization started the war by firing rockets at Sderot & other Israeli cities, civilians brought it upon themselves and Palestinians are using propaganda as a way to garner sympathy.
The claims are not true. Gaza is a small area 25 kilometers wide, one of the world's densely populated places and also has a young population 50% of all Gazans are under the age of 17. Bombing a small territory or any size for that matter, full of children, women and elderly who have nothing to do with the politics of Hamas nor who care nothing
for politics in the first place is by any definition of International Law, Nuremberg Trials (which occurred in the immediate aftermath of Holocaust in 1945 to trial Nazi officials and supporters for their crimes) and human conscious a war crime regardless of what justification is used for bombing mostly civilian infrastructure across Gaza.
As Israeli officials, U.S. media have said the Jewish state is trying to defend itself from Hamas rocket fire. Many critics of Hamas and Israel's continual bombardment of Gaza have said the inaccurate homemade rockets from Hamas and other groups often miss the target and have to date only killed 10 Israelis in
Sderot, Ashkelon and Ashdod compared to 1,400 Palestinians. While many people have taken to protest for Gaza and Palestinians across the world and four corners of Earth, Western governments and media remain uncritical of Israel, its use of disproportionate and horrendous force to silence Hamas rockets while punishing the people of Gaza.
Many Palestinians and their supporters see silence from International community particularly the diplomats as complicity with Israeli war policy. The history of antisemitism and West's long holocaust guilt at not halting it has made
Since 1967 war, many supporters of Israel have warned of a second holocaust against Israel coming from neighboring Arab countries. Critics such as Professor Norman Finklestein, Noam Chomsky, Rashid Khalidi, Tariq Ramadan, Uri Aveney, etc have detested the use of holocaust as a way to silence criticism of
Israeli policies towards Palestinians, its neighbors and charging anyone who questions the 41 year old occupation of Palestinian territories with antisemitism.
Raphael Lemkin 20th century world renown lawyer who invented the name genocide after studying and researching the Armenian Massacres and was the
prime drafter of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
