More Jewish Genocide Denial

The Politics of Genocide
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

We do not have a sane discussion of genocide in the USA. Not only are ethnic Ashkenazi Americans, who try to act as the guardians of US genocide discourse in order to control it, at least as much genocide deniers as Turks, but a segment of the organized Jewish community is also trying to use the Armenian genocide and a very selective reading of Ottoman or Turkish history as part of a program to control genocide discourse and to incite Islamophobia.

Under Turkish Rule points to an example of this sort of biased and hate-filled writing from Andrew Bostom.

The Turks are justifiably sensitive to prejudice against Islam and the Ottoman Empire, whose intellectual and political achievements rendered the word Turkish synonymous with Muslim from the 15th until the beginning of the 20th century.

Throughout the 19th century demonization of Islam and the Ottomans justified mass murder and expulsion of Balkan Muslims while during the same time period similar outrages accompanied Russian expansion into Muslim areas of the Caucasus. The victims of Russian genocidalism generally sought and were granted refuge within the Ottoman Empire.

Tel Aviv Uiversity Professor Ehud Toledano remarks in Slavery and Abolition that scholars have generally used terms like forced migration to minimize the crimes of Czarist expansionism.

Rational discussion with Turks about genocide simply will not be possible unless Americans and other Westerners show even-handedness through some sort of acknowledgement of the genocide and ethnic cleansing

• of Balkan Muslim populations as the Ottoman Empire retreated* and
• of Caucasian Muslims as the Russian Empire expanded.

The Unrepentant Genocidaires discusses Jewish and Turkish genocide denial. Analysis of Jewish (really ethnic Ashkenazi) genocidalism appears in:

• Yom Kippur and Ashkenazi Genocidalism
• Holoexaleipsis, Holocaust, Holosphage and Holodomor
• The Pattern of Ethnic Ashkenazi Genocidalism: The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine.

I discuss the issues harshly, but I attended practically every Holocaust or genocide-related event in the Boston area for two years, and I am now so completely disgusted that I am inclined to propose that treating genocide as a crime separate from mass murder is simply wrong and that there might be good reason to abandon the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide because genocide discourse is simply much too politicized as the example of ongoing Zionist incitement against Sudan and Iran shows. (See Zionist Film: Genocide Denial, Genocide Incitement, Casus Belli, If you liked Iraq, you will love Sudan, and [S1474] Why is Darfur so important to the Jewish community?.)

The JTA article below indicates how much political expediancy governs whether some Jews apply the term genocide.

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* I have seen early 20th century Serb genocide postcards displayed at Harvard.

Jewish congressmen fight genocide bill

Published: 10/18/2007

Two Jewish congressmen are working to keep the Armenian genocide bill from reaching the U.S. House of Representatives floor.

U.S. Reps. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) and Stephen Cohen (D-Tenn.), as well as three other opponents of the controversial bill memorializing the killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War I, spoke harshly of its implications for U.S. relations with Turkey at a news conference Wednesday in Washington.

The bill, which would label the killings as genocide, was approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee by a 27-21 vote on Oct. 10. At that time it had 226 co-sponsors, but support has waned due to threats from Turkey to withdraw support for American troops in Iraq if it is passed.

More than half of the cargo traveling from the U.S. to Iraq is flown through Turkey's Incerlik air base, and Turkish troops are allied with Americans on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Bush is fiercely opposed to the resolution.

"The Middle East is a tinderbox," Wexler said. "Our responsibility is to bring as much stability as is humanly possible."

Cohen added that passage of the bill would cause "real-time harm to real people."

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