by Olive Tree Ministries with Jan Markell
So many times commentators on outlandish global events include the phrase, “where is the outrage?” Thankfully this time it abounds as it concerns Iran’s Holocaust denial event taking place this week.
Europe and America have expressed that outrage. The German government organized a counter-conference as they feel the outrage so intensely. There are hundreds of books, movies, museums, documents, photographs, archives, and personal testimonies. Surely such “deniers” can’t be serious.
But they are. And Iran’s Ahmadinejad is deadly serious. Holocaust denial is his passion and he has lots of company including the KKK’s own David Duke in attendance. Ahmadinejad is using his “denial” as a way to justify Israel’s non-existence in the Middle East. It’s a far-fetched gamble to be sure and yet thirty countries are represented at the conference.
While it is true that a U.N. “sympathy vote” brought about the re-birth of Israel in the natural, it was really a happening in the Heavenlies with God fulfilling what He had promised all throughout Scripture.
The ultimate goal is to demonize the Jews, something much of the world has been busy doing for millennia.
Usually Holocaust deniers just talk to each other. But thanks to Iran, that nation is speaking to the world and we have to wonder how many anti-Semites are listening, taking notes, and gathering fodder to spread more torment on the Jews of the world. Ahmadenijad has, therefore, successfully organized an east-meets-west event for anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists.
What many don’t know is that Iran is really far more sophisticated and tolerant than to accept their leader’s word and are embarrassed by his hateful stunt. The under thirty crowd in Iran would love to see him go and return to Western values. For that reason the archives, photographs, books, museums and endless rebuttals will continue to be necessary long beyond the lifetime of the last survivor in the next fifteen years.
Simpy stated, airbrush the Holocaust from history and he’s one step closer to justifying his oft-expressed goal of seeing Israel wiped off the map.
David Duke says, “There must be freedom of speech. The Holocaust makes people turn a blind eye to Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.” You read that right. In his eyes and others of his ilk, there is now a moral equivalency between the treatment of the Palestinians by the Israelis and the planned, unmitigated treatment of the Jews under the Third Reich.
I know a Holocaust survivor. She didn’t imagine it. I had the privilege of writing one of the most uplifting, faith-building Holocaust biographies ever, “Trapped in Hitler’s Hell,” the true story of Anita Dittman and her mother. For more information, visit this link. There you will find the book and DVD I produced. Anita was a child and teen through the ordeal, but both Anita and her mother came out victorious with their faith stronger than ever.
Sadly, Israel allows an “acceptable” Holocaust denial by accepting the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. His doctoral thesis was Holocaust denial. When he came to power in May of 2003, correspondents from the Israeli media confronted him with this thesis. Abbas would not apologize nor retract his thesis, yet the Israeli government does not pressure him to do so “in the interest of peace.” What a strange world that Holocaust denial goes relatively unchallenged under Abbas while it is considered reprehensible in Teheran.
Satan knows if he could cause carnage and wreckage of the Jews, God’s end-time plan would be ineffective. Thus he never gives up. He never stops trying to gas them, abuse them, round them up, spread propaganda, and put an end to this group of people from whom the Messiah came and for whom He will come again.
The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history. It happened in a progressive Europe against a people that had made outstanding contributions to the world as they do today. But they were different and chose to be different. They chose to worship God a bit differently than the Gentile culture. And of course, the endless mantra continues that “they killed Christ.” That has been one of the most convenient issues to hang on them and is not likely to go away.
To learn more, visit the anti-Semitism category on my Web site. You can read about their plight all through history and as many are saying today, it is looking more and more like 1938 here in the 21st century, particularly in Europe.
Such is predicted in the “end of days” and so we see it building. I trust you will speak up when you hear those who speak against the Jews, an unlikely group of people chosen by God to fulfill a unique role on this earth.
So serious does America consider this event that along with Israel we now have a Holocaust Remembrance Day every spring. Most Americans, though certainly not all, take it seriously enough to echo with their Jewish brethren, “never again.” The irony of this is that it was established under the Carter administration. Carter has just written one of the most blatantly anti-Semitic books of the 21st century. I’ll save that for another day.
Awaiting His return,
Jan Markell
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