There’s a lot going on in the Middle East, but what is important for readers in the engine-room of the American empire? The New York Times ran a frontpage story yesterday by Jodi Rudoren titled “Holocaust Told in One Word, 6 Million Times”on a “book” published in Israel that seeks to memorialize victims of the Holocaust by printing the word “Jew” 6 million times over 1250 pages.
The Times’ Jerusalem correspondent flashes shoe-leather:
The book, more art than literature, consists of the single word “Jew,” in tiny type, printed six million times to signify the number of Jews killed during the Holocaust. It is meant as a kind of coffee-table monument of memory, a conversation starter and thought provoker….
“That’s how the Nazis viewed their victims: These are not individuals, these are not people, these are just a mass we have to exterminate.
“Now get closer, put on your reading glasses, and pick a ‘Jew,’ ” [originator of book, Phil] Chernofsky continued. “That Jew could be you. Next to him is your brother. Oh, look, your uncles and aunts and cousins and your whole extended family. A row, a line, those are your classmates. Now you get lost in a kind of meditative state where you look at one word, ‘Jew,’ you look at one Jew, you focus on it and then your mind starts to go because who is he, where did he live, what did he want to do when he grew up?”
Had enough? We read it so you don’t have to.
No Norman Finkelstein or the late Peter Novick on the sacralization/commercialization/trivializing of the Holocaust. No Avraham Burg, The Holocaust Is Over, We Must Rise From Its Ashes. No Hannah Arendt on the Holocaust being a European crime for which Israel had to conduct a show trial of a Nazi leader.
Yes Abraham Foxman. (He wants one in the Oval Office… “It’s haunting.”) Yes a cute last paragraph.
No Roma. No homosexuals. No news.
Thanks to James North.
The only time me and my father went to the Shoah museum in Jerusalem
we added six names of our relatives to the list. Shoah is not some abstract collective
wound in the memory it’s personal.
You don’t want to remember the Shoah or have your own way Phil that’s fine but don’t go lecturing people about the “right” way to do it.Neither you nor any of the names you mentioned have the right to do so.
It’s time for a Palestinian “Nakba Book”: Just the world “Arab” for each of the Palestinians displaced, abused, tortured or killed by Zio-supremacist Jews who stole, occupied and colonized Palestine in pursuit of a supremacist “Jewish State”.
“That’s how the Zio-supremacist Jews viewed their victims: These are not individuals, these are not people, these are just a mass we have to wipe off the map lest they taint the purity of our ‘Jewish State’.”
Phil, have you heard about Yair Netanyahu’s romance with a Norwegian girl?
I saw it in Haaretz. I googled his name and I thought to myself, “I’m going to read the words shiksa at least once on the front page of results”.
What do you know?
http://www.jewishjournal.com/hella_tel_aviv/item/sandra_leikanger_and_yair_netanyahu_who_is_the_mysterious_shiksa_girlfriend
Written by a girl who apparently has self-hatred issues too(or at least absorbed the racism directed at her and made it “fun”, like a lot of people who face bigotry try to cope with it).
I wonder how Israel react if Bibi had a blonde daughter who was Yair’s age(he has an older daughter who has already married) and who dated a non-Jewish black guy. Maybe one of those asylum seekers in Tel Aviv.
I wonder if Bibi would be so sanguine about it, too.
(Of course, I don’t wonder about neither of these topics).
I guess my relatives in Auschwitz were just chopped liver, not worthy of mention. You know, even saying Goy, Goy, Goy, Goy, Goy, Goy, Goy, Goy, Goy ……….(how many millions???!!!) is just too much waste of time for Chernofsky.
How the hell is this different from being treated like subhumans by Nazis and other Aryan supremacists?
What a revolting anti-commemoration (contrast with Yad Vashem*’s “Name Recovery” project and “Everyone has a Name” campaign). Why on earth would anyone want to perpetuate the Nazi dehumanisation?
The concept of “Holocaust – The Coffee Table Book” is simply grotesque.
*Yad vashem means “a memorial and a name”.