    By Israel Shamir

    The Teheran Holocaust Conference caused quite a storm in the world
    media. One might ask: what’s so special about that? There are so many
    holocaust events and holocaust museums and holocaust festivals,
    sometimes attracting presidents and prime ministers galore, so why did
    the Teheran (or Tehran) conference draw so much attention and criticism;
    why were the White House, Frau Merkel, the Vatican and the EC willing to
    take some valuable time to condemn this small gathering in far-away
    Iranian capital?

    The difference is that all other gatherings were amen-sayers accepting
    the official version provided by Jewish organisations as the Holy Writ
    given to Moses on Mt Sinai. The official version of the Holocaust goes
    even farther than Writ: you may deny Immaculate Conception and
    Resurrection of Christ, you may besmirch Muhammad, but if you have any
    doubt that six million of Jews were executed by Germans in gas chambers
    within the framework of a total annihilation project you may find
    yourself in a jail in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland and other
    ‘free’ countries. The Teheran Conference is the first one ever to deal
    critically with the sad events of the World War Two.

    One does not have to be a fan of Hitler to approve of the conference.
    What is a souse for a goose is souse for a gander. The Jews do not
    hesitate to deny their atrocities. The Guardian reported that they
    targeted “the respected French TV correspondent, Charles Enderlin, whose
    Palestinian cameraman filmed 12-year-old Mohammed al-Dura being shot and
    killed, as his father tried to shield him at the start of the second
    intifada. Enderlin accused Israeli troops of shooting and killing the
    boy. French supporters of Israel went online to claim the report was a
    distortion based on faked footage. His network, France 2, responded with
    legal action and, last month, in the first of four individual cases, a
    French court found the organiser of a self-styled media watchdog website
    guilty of libel.

    "Another online target has been the TV footage of bloodshed on a Gaza
    beach earlier this year. A Palestinian girl was seen screaming as she
    saw the bodies of dead family members killed by what Palestinians allege
    was Israeli shellfire. When [Stewart Purvis, the editor-in-chief of ITN]
    mentioned the impact of these pictures at last week's conference,
    members of the audience shouted "staged". One person came up to him
    afterwards to suggest that the family had somehow died somewhere else
    and that their bodies had been moved to the beach to be filmed. Where,
    for instance, was all the blood? He pointed out that he had seen
    everything that the cameraman had shot and that some pictures were too
    gruesome to be shown.”

    More importantly, every freedom-of-speech loving liberal should regret
    that even important historians are not free to express their views on
    the Holocaust issue. David Irving is in jail, and this week Germar
    Rudolf was taken to a German court chained hand and foot after he was
    deported from the US for publishing his book doubting the official
    Holocaust dogma. Such a taboo clamours to be broken. I wrote of it at
    length in 2001, as the first conference scheduled to take place in
    Beirut was cancelled by the Lebanese yielding to severe pressure of the
    US . Then as now, the revisionists had much hope tthat their case would
    finally be heard.

    It did not happen. If the conference organisers believed they could
    break the taboo and reach millions, they were mistaken. Though the world
    media has churned out thousands of news items connected to the
    Conference, they were practically identical, containing local official
    condemnation and the predictable Jewish reaction. Practically none of
    the reports and talks given in Tehran ever made it to the mass media.
    The conference participants were smeared as ‘racist antisemites’ though
    there were quite a few Jews, venerable Rabbis in their black hats and
    long coats, revolted by the Zionist privatisation of the World War
    tragedy.

    If anything, the conference proved that the holocaust dogma is a basic
    tenet in the great world-embracing brainwashing machine of mass media
    described by Noam Chomsky as “the manufacture of consent Stalin could
    only dream of … whose discipline, and uniformity, are really
    impressive”. This media syndicate is the enemy of free people
    everywhere, and it carries on a relentless war against Iran and other
    independently- minded nations.

    Just one case: a Jewish-owned Canadian paper, The National Post claimed
    that “in a move reminiscent of the Nazis forcing Jews to wear a Star of
    David insignia, Iran ’s parliament has reportedly passed a law requiring
    Jews to wear colour-coded badges”. This was a sheer lie: Iran is home to
    30,000 Jews who are doing fine, and do not plan to emigrate to Israel .
    They receive preferential treatment, and nobody forces them to wear a
    badge or anything else. The Post withdrew the canard a few days later,
    and apologised, but this news item was repeated ad nauseam in thousands
    of papers and blogs, while the apology remained on its sixth page.

    Our friend and my countryman Gabriel Ash wrote in the Dissident Voice:

    “The Holocaust is the most effective weapon in the hands of those bent
    on manufacturing a “clash of civilizations.” The “lesson” of the
    holocaust is good enough to justify the NATO bombing of civilian targets
    in Yugoslavia , the genocidal U.S. occupation of Iraq , Israel ’s
    massive bombing of Beirut , a future nuclear war against Iran , etc. The
    Hollowcaust is the ideology par excellence of Global Apartheid. The
    Hollowcaust acts like a quirky and capricious divinity, rejecting one
    comparison here, accepting an equally valid or invalid one there. It is
    a partisan divinity, a god that always blesses ‘us’ and curses ‘them,’
    even as it simultaneously demands to be worshipped by all humanity and
    in the name of all humanity.”

    So far so good. Ash understands that “under such circumstances, the
    denial of the holocaust is rooted in the desire to pin down the
    Hollowcaust”. But then he opens the second front against the conference:

    “The most charitable thing that can be said about the organizers of this
    pathetic holocaust conference is that they are fools. The message of
    Hollowcaust hawkers is only amplified by such idiocies as the Iranian
    conference.”

    And here we part ways. Iranians had a good reason for organising the
    conference. The Holocaust is indeed well integrated in the prevalent
    discourse as a justification of [rich and powerful] minority rights over
    [oppressed] majority needs. But its success and its integration show
    that the mass media machine is well integrated and concentrated in
    philosemitic, mostly Jewish hands. The occupation of Palestine by Jews
    is painful, but it is not more harmful than this captivity of free
    discourse.

    These men can wield their lethal machine with the ease of a Jedi
    wielding his sword. They compare Ahmadinejad to Hitler, and forbid
    comparison of Israel to the Nazis, they besmirch Vladimir Putin as a KGB
    assassin and do not even report that Israeli courts of law consider
    assassinations legitimate, they made a spot on Monica Lewinsky’s dress
    more important than the rivers of blood poured by George Bush, they
    turned respectable American scholars Mearsheimer and Walt into
    skinheads, and now they ferociously attack James Baker for his
    disengagement plan. They can bloody well do anything. They are almost
    omnipotent.

    Our friend James Petras recently published an impressive book on
    Israel’s Power in the US. But Israel ’s power is just a mere reflection
    of real Jewish power in the West, which is based – not on Israeli tanks,
    but on Jewish think-tanks; not on Israeli nukes, but on Jewish news.
    Unless the Jewish hold on discourse is broken, the West will keep
    sending its sons to follow the Pied Piper of Hamelin to the streets of
    Baghdad and to the hills of Lebanon .

    Iranians came to conclusion that there is no chance to come to agreement
    with this world-wide Jewish media syndicate. There is no way to get to
    peace terms. One has to fight back, attacking the deepest sacral dogmas
    of their control. If this dogma were to collapse, the Jewish hold on
    discourse would be broken and the Jewish state would disappear just as
    the USSR did, said President Ahmadinejad.

    This comparison calls for exegesis: the USSR was ‘one state’, a state
    where various peoples lived together as equals; the Jewish state is
    essentially ‘two states’, a rich state of Jews controlling the poor
    state of natives. Its dissolution will create ‘one state’ in Palestine ;
    it will reverse the trend started with the Soviet Union ’s dissolution.
    Then Iran , and all of the East, will be able to dwell safely without
    fear of American and Israeli nukes.

    This is the reason why Iran hosted the conference. Nobody – and I do
    mean nobody, including British, French, American, German, Russian
    leaders – really cares about the victims of a war long past, Jewish or
    otherwise; they pay tribute to the Holocaust as nations pay tribute to
    their vanquisher. Iran has refused to pay this tribute; when will the
    rest of you follow their courageous example?