That⬆️ made me think of this ⬇️.
Anshel Pfeffer put it well in a piece for Haaretz. The ‘de-Judaisation and universalisation of the Holocaust’ made it inevitable that it would ‘become a stick to beat up Jews themselves’, he said. Old-style Holocaust denial has become a ‘distinctly fringe belief’, says Pfeffer, but it’s been replaced by something equally problematic: the transformation of the Holocaust into a ‘historic brand’, a generalised feeling rather than a specific event. This, he says, has come at the price of ‘a hollowing-out of the Holocaust’s unique significance’. Where once racists accused the Jews of inventing the Holocaust, now the demand is that the Jews share the Holocaust. Yes, the Jews can have remembrance of their genocide, says Pfeffer, but first they must agree to ‘share it’ with other victim groups.
So the Holocaust is not denied, at least not by respectable people, but it is shared, which is to say diluted. Every time a modern event is inserted into the moral universe of the Holocaust – whether it be a horrible war, factory farming or whatever – the Holocaust itself is diminished, dismantled, rendered ordinary rather than extraordinary. We go from ‘Holocaust denial to everyone having their own preferred Holocaust’, says Anshel Pfeffer, ‘and I’m not sure what’s worse.'
The Holocaust was the name given to the targeted, systematic genocide of European Jewry between 1941 and 1945. The six million (probably more)non-Jews murdered during that event were similarly victims of Nazi mass killings and separate Nazi genocidal policies, such as that inflicted on the Roma and Sinti, but to say they were also all victims of the Holocaust is to diminish or erase its specificity.
That @Kendodd confines the Holocaust to "the camps" when a large proportion of the unremitting slaughter of Jews took place outside of the camps, including mass shootings in which over 30,000 Jews at a time were killed in one location over the course of two days, shows a fundamental lack of learning about the realities of the Holocaust and this does a disservice to all the victims, Jews and non-Jews alike, who died at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators during their genocidal rampage.