Real Holocausts

concerned about contemporary holocausts – real holocausts that we are witnessing in countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, and so on.

Muslims – victims of real holocausts.

From the footage we see of the cartoons – and the views expressed – the exhibition isn’t so much a challenge to the West’s hypocrisy as a straightforward exercise in holocaust denial and classic anti-semitism.

So….here’s a once-proud country that feels undervalued on the world stage, part of a wider culture that sees itself as the perennial victim, humiliated by the West and in danger of corruption from shallow Anglo-American values; a country where the Jew becomes the scapegoat and official culture is rabidly anti-semitic; where the president, a small-minded extremist, extols martyrdom and the glories of dying for one’s country; where the answer to the search for national pride is in the acquisition of military might to match the great powers – though purely, of course, “for peaceful purposes”. Marx hasn’t got a great record when it comes to predictions, but let’s hope he got it right with that “second time as farce” line.