Islamic Human Rights Commission threatens UK Holocaust Memorial Day with boycott if Gaza 'genocide' is not included
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, British town halls and educational establishments are being threatened by The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) to make an equivalence between the war with Gaza and the Holocaust, or face a boycott.
International Holocaust Memorial Day is marked on Jan. 27 to commemorate the date of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, and this year will be 80 years since the historic occasion.
The IHRC, which has been linked to the Iranian Regime, wrote to 460 town halls and educational centers claiming it was "morally unacceptable" for the events in Gaza not to be presented as a "genocide" alongside the Holocaust.
The letter said, "We urge supporters to request HMD organizers to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza in their 2025 commemoration."
British Holocaust Remembrance Days have for some time included other genocides and atrocities such as happened in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.
The UK Holocaust Memorial Day Trust specifies that, “The Holocaust is central to Holocaust Memorial Day and we remember the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.”
However, it is added that Jan. 27 is also a day to commemorate “the millions more people murdered through the Nazi persecution of other groups and in the more recent genocides recognized by the UK government, and the genocide in Darfur.”
Now the IHRC are demanding that Gaza must be included on the list, accusing any who refuse as failing to prevent further genocides from occurring in the future.
"Failure to recognize Gaza as a site of genocide is to remain silent in the face of profound injustice," they declared.
Furthermore, the threat is added that the IHRC will "publicize the event organizer’s refusal to recognize all genocides, including that of the Palestinians in Gaza" and "organize a boycott of their event until they commit to opposing and condemning all genocides universally."
The chief executive of the Holocaust Educational Trust, Karen Pollock, said that she considered the call to boycott Holocaust Memorial day “shocking and disgraceful."
Pollock told the Telegraph, “This is a cynical attempt to denigrate and undermine the memory of the Holocaust by drawing false parallels between the Holocaust – a unique and unprecedented episode in history – and unrelated current events.”
She added, “It is vital that commemorations maintain their focus on the Holocaust, that Jewish victims are properly honored, and that the central role of antisemitism in this genocide is unequivocally recognized."
The IHRC was criticized in the government’s 2023 official review of the Prevent Strategy as being an “Islamist group ideologically aligned with the Iranian regime, that has a history of extremist links and terrorist sympathies." The review also cautioned that several IHRC leaders have expressed support for violent jihad along with a desire to eradicate "Zionists."
The IHRC responded to the findings by calling the report "Islamophobic," and has objected to the exceptionalization of the Holocaust as a “political device to promote one genocide over all others.” The group warned, “Civil society cannot allow the Gaza genocide to be legitimized by the misappropriation of the Nazi Holocaust."
Jo Elizabeth has a great interest in politics and cultural developments, studying Social Policy for her first degree and gaining a Masters in Jewish Philosophy from Haifa University, but she loves to write about the Bible and its primary subject, the God of Israel. As a writer, Jo spends her time between the UK and Jerusalem, Israel.
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