Dear editor:

 

Throughout the Muslim Middle East and parts of Europe schools teach that the Shoah (Holocaust) never happened. 

For those who claim the Holocaust was an aberration of Nazi Germany and has nothing to do with both ancient and Christian history fail to acknowledge what has truly happened over the course of human history.  No minority has ever faced such a history of prejudice and slaughter in the name of religion, not Christians, African Americans, Palestinians, Muslims or others who claim their own “Holocaust.”  It is amazing that Jews still exist after thousands of years of subjugation. 

The Pharaohs enslaved (Jews) in Egypt, the Assyrians grabbed their northern kingdom (Israel), Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia destroyed the rest of their kingdom (Judah) and carted off ten thousand valuable Jewish captives into “Babylonian Exile,” the Greeks and Persians oppressed and despised them, the Romans deprived them of their homeland in Palestine and dispersed them all over the ancient world, Muslim fanatics periodically descended upon them, Christian crusaders slaughtered thousands of them before embarking on their holy mission, the Inquisition expelled them from Iberia, the Catholic church and many of its “saints” called them the sons of the devil and called for their death, Poles and Russians viciously massacred them in genocidal pogroms, and the Germans consummated this long harvest of hate by annihilating six million of them in the Holocaust. 

The Shoah (Holocaust) was not just a bump in modern history as many claim, and anti-Judaism still exists.  Just look at the Middle East and Europe today.  You have to live and feel it to understand it.