Mark Steyn: Goyish Sentiments Regarding Holocaust Memorials
The title alone deserves a medal!
Choice excerpts:
Jews You Can Use
by Mark Steyn
January 27, 2025
~Today is Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain, Germany, much of Europe …oh, and Australia, which Paul Collits, in a throwaway aside at The Conservative Woman, breezily says is “now regarded as one of the least-safe countries for a Jewish person to live”. That’s a very competitive title – although perhaps not as much as it once was, as the number of countries with any Jewish population at all continues to shrink: “the last Jew in Afghanistan” fled a month after the Yanks did, although he outlasted the Christians, whose community was driven out on America’s watch, as it was in Iraq, and as is now underway in Syria. First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people – although the old line still apparently comes as a surprise to many.
Jews have fewer friends among western elites than they did a generation ago. And yet today, at Auschwitz and elsewhere, the ceremonies go on – even though a few of them are hijacked, as Phelim McAleer reports, by some serious big-time Jew-haters. Back when Mr Higgins was merely the TD for Galway West, he attacked me in the Irish parliament (scroll down). I had assumed it was because I was too pro-Yank for his tastes, but the more obvious explanation is that my name is too Jewy for his tastes. If you ever go across the sea to Ireland and watch the sun go down on Galway Bay, push the raddled old hater in.
… The European establishment that has scheduled such lavish anniversary observances for this Thursday presides over a citizenry that, even if one discounts the synagogue-arsonists and cemetery-desecrators multiplying across the Continent, is either antipathetic to Jews, or “sick of all the harping on”, or regards solemn Holocaust remembrance as a useful card to have in the hand of the slyer, suppler forms of anti-Semitism to which Europe is now prone.
As I have said innumerable times, in one of the bleaker jests of history, in post-war Europe Islam turned out to be the biggest beneficiary of Holocaust guilt. Increasingly, the Jews get the blame for that too.
