Imagine talking about the Holocaust and not mentioning the Jews. It would be like holding forth on the transatlantic slave trade without saying the word ‘African’. Amazingly, the Green Party did just that last week. They de-Jewed the Holocaust. They offered remembrance for the greatest crime in history without mentioning the people it was designed to destroy.

That was it. No heart. No anger. No Jews

I’ve been thinking about this for days. About what would drive someone to erase the Jews from the Shoah, to engage in such eerie Jewless mourning. All the parties mentioned the six million Jews vaporised by fascism in their social-media posts on Holocaust Memorial Day. All except the Greens.

Their X post felt horribly perfunctory. Where Labour remembered ‘the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust’, and Reform ‘honour[ed] the memory of the six million Jewish victims’, the Greens made a cursory, emotionless nod to the murderous insanity of the 20th century. ‘On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember those murdered during the Holocaust and all genocides’, they said.

That was it. No heart. No anger. No Jews. The left is always yapping about the cultural crime of ‘erasure’. Apparently that’s when society marginalises or silences specific identity........

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