![YodysseusX's tweet photo. The founder and key donor of the Holocaust Museum LA was the "fiercely loyal to Israel" Jona Goldrich of Beverly Hills, who in 1947-1948 was a member of the Arab-murdering Palmach unit of David Ben-Gurion's terrorist organization Haganah, and whose real-estate partner, Sol Kest, created an institution dedicated to the appreciation of IDF soldiers, as discussed below (Goldrich's two daughters, Andrew Clayton and Melinda Goldrich serve as museum board members).
Holocaust I museums should educate the public so “never again” never happens again to any group of people—including to the Palestinian people by Israel over the past two years of the Holocaust II—but, instead, the museums, founded and funded by pro-Israel sources, are manipulated to indoctrinate the public to support zionism and close their doors to today’s genocide.
As the political scientist Norman Finkelstein, who was born to parents who survived the Holocaust and who wrote The Holocaust Industry (2000), explains:
"The irony is that the Nazi Holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression. Every time you want to launch a war of aggression, drag in the Nazi Holocaust. It's the suffering then used as another pretext or excuse to humiliate, degrade, and torture the Palestinians. That's the problem. The suffering comes as a package. It then comes, here is the suffering, now we blow up your house. Here is the suffering, now we take your land. Here is the suffering, now we shoot artillery shells at your villages. It's a package deal with Israel and its American supporters. It's not just suffering. It's suffering, which is then wrapped on the club, and the club is then used to break the skulls of the Palestinians. That's the problem. It's not being used to educate people. It's not being used to enlighten people. It's not being used to make people more moral. Q,. It can be. A. But it's not. It's not. That's the whole point. Of course it can be. But it isn't. The best thing that can ever happen to Israel is if they get rid of these American Jews who are warmongers from Martha's Vineyard, and the warmongers from the Hamptons, and the warmongers from Beverly Hills, and the warmongers from Miami. It's been a disaster for Israel. It's the best thing if they could ever get rid of this American Jewry. It's a curse."
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2025.09.07, Al Jazeera:
Holocaust Museum LA (Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH))—the oldest Holocaust museum in the United States, founded in 2010 by the Polish-Israeli-American Beverly Hills real estate tycoon and "fiercely loyal to Israel" (1986.08.17, Los Angeles Times) Johan Goldrich who in 1947-1948 was a member of the Arab-murdering Palmach unit of David Ben-Gurion's terrorist organization Hanganah, is currently headed by its CEO Beth Kean (a board member of the Council of American Jewish Museums) but closed since June 3, 2025 until June 2026 for construction of its Jona Goldrich Campus that broke ground in November 2023 to expand to almost double its size keep up with the demand for visits from schools—“is facing backlash after deleting an Instagram post that suggested the phrase `never again’ should apply to all people – not just Jews. The post, shared with [Museum’s] 24,200 Instagram followers, read:
`Never again can’t only mean never again for Jews.’
“The slogan `never again’, long associated with Holocaust remembrance, is also invoked more broadly as a pledge to prevent future genocides. …
"The Instagram message was initially praised online and interpreted by some as an acknowledgment of Palestinian suffering amid Israel’s war on Gaza, which numerous United Nations experts, scholars and rights groups have described as a genocide.
"It was later deleted and replaced with a statement on Saturday saying the post had been misinterpreted. `We recently posted an item on social media that was part of a pre-planned campaign intended to promote inclusivity and community that was easily open to misinterpretation by some to be a political statement reflecting the ongoing situation in the Middle East. That was not our intent,’ it said. Holocaust Museum LA also promised to `do better’ and to `ensure that posts in the future are more thoughtfully designed and thoroughly vetted’.
“The museum … quickly faced criticism online after journalist Ryan Grim of Drop Site News reposted a screenshot of the deleted message, writing: `Speechless. No words for this.’
“Yasmine Taeb, a human rights lawyer and progressive strategist, called the museum’s move `absolutely disgusting’, saying that the museum is `cowering under pressure’ from pro-Israel voices. `Countless genocide scholars and human rights organisations have confirmed what Israel is doing in Gaza is textbook definition of genocide,’ Taeb told Al Jazeera. `It’s appalling that a museum established for the purpose of educating the public about genocide and the Holocaust not only refuses to acknowledge the reality of Israel’s actions in Gaza, but (is) removing a social media post that merely stated that ‘never again’ is not intended for just Jews, in order for it to not be interpreted as a response to the genocide in Gaza.’
“The original now-deleted post did not mention Gaza, but it faced a barrage of pro-Israel comments expressing disapproval, including some that called on donors to stop funding the institution.
“By deleting the post and issuing the subsequent statement, the museum sparked accusations of backtracking on a universal anti-genocide principle.
“`We live in a world where the Holocaust Museum has to aploogise and retract for simply appearing to sympathise with Palestinians,’ Palestinian American activist and comedian Amer Zahr told Al Jazeera. `If that does not illustrate the historic dehumanisation that Arab Americans have had to live with, I don’t know what does.’”
“Assal Rad, a researcher with the Arab Center Washington DC, called the controversy `unbelievable’. `Palestinians are so dehumanized that they’re excluded from ‘never again,’ apparently their genocide is the exception,’ Rad wrote on X.
“Political commentator Hasan Piker also slammed the museum’s decision. `A real shame that even a tepid general anti-genocide statement was met with unimaginable resistance from Israel supporters,’ he wrote in a social media post.
“The Holocaust Museum LA did not immediately respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment.”
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Nota bene:
1. Holocaust survivor Jona Goldrich (1927-2016)—the founder and a key donor of the Holocaust Museum LA, who worked and lived in Israel for 11 years, after fleeing Poland with his brother (his parents were killed by the Nazis)—during Mandatory Palestine, was a member of the Arab-murdering Palmach unit of David Ben-Gurion's terrorist organization Haganah, during the period when it was allied, as part of the "Hebrew Resistance Movement", with the other two terrorist organizations, Menachem Begin's Irgun and Yitzhak Shamir's Lehi / Stern Gang (both publicly condemned by Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt), in a violent uprising against British occupation, including the July 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel.
As Goldrich recounted on August 28, 2015 (less than one year before his death on June 26, 2016):
"I joined a liberation unit of the Pachmach of the Haganah in 1947. … I was there until Israel became a state, with that unit. We were fighting behind the lines, the Arabs. … [While I was with the Pachmach,] we used to catch … important arabs as hostage for exchange for jews, and some of them we used to kill. We did important people, leaders, we used to go behind the lines and shoot them and things like that. It was a special unit. 26 people. … They taught me how to use machine guns and everything that had to do with guns. ,.. Q. Did you have fun in Israel? A. Yeah. Q. Did you do anything for fun. A. Yeah. … Especially when I was in this unit, we were considered heroes so we used to go out at night … dating girls. ... Israel is very important to me, make sure that [trails off or cut] ... The most important thing that has priority for me is keeping up Jewish education. I'm always worried that some day, through assimilation, the Jewish people will disappear."
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"On 20 May 1947 [the Palmach] blew up a coffee house in Fajja ... On 18 December 1947, in an operation approved by Palmach commander Yigal Allon, several houses were blown up in al-Khisas, near the Lebanese border; a dozen civilians were killed. On 31 December 1947 170 men from the Palmach launched an attack on Balad al-Sheikh, Haifa .... Several dozen houses were destroyed and 60-70 villagers were killed. Around Jaffa, Palmach units destroyed houses in Yazur and Salama. An order dated 3 January 1948 said `The aim is ... to attack northern part of the village of Salama ... to cause deaths, to blow up houses and to burn everything possible.' In the Upper Galilee, the Palmach's third Battalion commanded by Moshe Kelman, attacked Sa'sa', 15 February, and blew up ten houses, killing 11 villagers. Further north, they raided al-Husayniyya, 16 March 1948, in retaliation for a land mine, they blew up five houses and killed `30 Arab adults'. In the Northern Negev, 4 April 1948, a Palmach unit in two armoured cars destroyed `nine bedouin lay-bys and one mud hut' ... On 20 February 1948 the Palmach launched an operation in Caesarea, North of Tel Aviv, in which they demolished 30 houses, six were left standing due to lack of explosives. ... With the activation of Plan D and its sub-operations Palmach units were used to demolish villages with the objective of preventing them being used by Palestinian irregulars or the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) as bases. ... Following the attempt to clear the road to Jerusalem, Palmach units [in Operation Machschon] `more or less systematically leveled the villages of al-Qastal, Qalinya, Khuda and largely or partly destroyed Beit Surik, Biddu, Shu'fat, Beit Iksa, Beit Mahsir and Sheikh Jarrah (Jerusalem)'. On 9 April a Palmach unit with mortars took part in the Irgun attack on Deir Yassin. ... Between 8 and 14 April, ten villages came under Palmach's control. Within two weeks they were leveled. [In Operation Yiftach], [o]n 2 May, the Palmach 3rd Battalion, commanded by Moshe Kelman, attacked Ein al-Zeitun with a Davidka, two 3-inch mortars and eight 2-inch mortars. During the following two days Palmach sappers blew up and burned all the houses. In the aftermath of the capture of this village Battalion Commander Kelman ordered the execution of seventy prisoners. On 6 May the Palmach launched an attack on Safad. It failed to capture the citadel and the Palmach had to withdraw. The defenders offered a cease-fire, which Allon refused. A second attack was launched on 9 May. This was preceded by a `massive concentrated barrage' using mortars and Davidkas. The empty Arab quarter of Safad was occupied on 11 May. Between 12,000 and 15,000 refugees had been created. ... In May 1948 the Palmach had 2,200 permanently mobilised members. A different source puts the size of the Palmach as 3,000 at the end of November 1947, and, following the mobilization of 3,000 reserves, five battalions were formed by May 1948, consisting of 5,000 fighters of whom 1,200 were women. Palmach units took a major part in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. At the beginning of the war, Palmach units were responsible for holding Jewish settlements (such as Gush Etzion, Kfar Darom and Revivim) against Arab militias. Although inferior in numbers and arms, Palmach soldiers held out long enough to allow the Haganah to mobilise the Jewish population and prepare for war. ... After the establishment of the Israeli army, the Palmach was reorganised into three IDF brigades—the Negev Brigade, the Yiftach Brigade, and the Harel Brigade. ... Ha-Machlaka Ha-Aravit: the Arab Platoon performed covert operations and espionage missions against Arab militias, which frequently attacked Jewish settlements. It was the base for the Israeli Defense Forces's and the Israeli Border Police's Mista'arvim units. ... The Palmach Museum, located on Chaim Levanon Street in Tel Aviv, near the Eretz Israel Museum, explores the Palmach legacy through the stories of individuals and groups. Visitors to the museum join the group of young Palmach recruits from its establishment, and advanced through the story of the Palmach until the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War."
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2. Goldrich's real estate partner, Sol Kest (another Holocaust survivor but from Czechoslovakia), founded with his wife "The Sol and Clara Kest Center for Soldiers" located in Jerusalem (which it celebrates as "the entire city of Jerusalem [r]eunited during the Six Day War" and dedicated to showing appreciation to the IDF's soldiers.
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3. The Holocaust Museum LA spreads through California's schools a definition of anti-semitism that includes criticism of Israel:
"In the realm of education on antisemitism, Holocaust Museum LA uses primary source materials and student worksheets to define and contextualize antisemitism before, during, and after the Holocaust. The museum encourages students, police officers, attorneys, and other professionals to analyze various primary sources to help them develop the necessary tools to identify and understand continuous anti-Jewish tropes, providing the ability to recognize and combat antisemitism. ... At the state level, [Jordana Gessler, who is the Vice President of Education and Exhibits] Gessler is involved with the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education (California Collaborative), joining her colleagues in Sacramento last spring to advocate for the Collaborative’s goal of securing the funding to train more than 8,500 teachers and educate more than 1 million California students by 2027 about what happens when bias goes unchecked. Indeed, in mid-September, California Governor Gavin Newsom proceeded to sign and pass California’s 2023-24 budget, which includes $1.5 million in renewed funding for the California Collaborative."
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4. ICAN is working to use holocaust remembrance in the schools to spread zionism and unconditional support of Israel, even to the point of displaying the Israeli flag, as exemplified by the recent decision by the school board of Beverly Hills in LA.
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5. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) "working", "non-binding" definition of anti-semitism, adopted in 2016, conflates Judaism and Zionism by including criticism of Israel, thereby using Jews and victims of the Holocaust as political human-shields for Israel's unlawful policies.
The definition itself states: "Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities."
In 2018, two years after the IHRA's definition of 2016, Israel's Knesset (its parliament) declared itself a "Jewish state" even though no more than 41% of the population of Israel is Jewish, i.e., a follower of Judaism, and even though Israel was founded as a secular state by atheist and/or non-religious zionists from Europe, e.g., Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky and his assistant Benzion Netanyahu (the Prime Minister's father).
The examples to flesh out the definition states "Manifestations [of anti-semitism] might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic."
Specifically, the IHRA's handbook to clarify the definition, labels the "question[ing of ] Israel's right to exist" as anti-semitic because, according to the IHRA, this is a "the application of a double-standard approach to the actions of the country" because "it is rear to hear critics call into question other countries' right to exist, on account of their policies" (Handbook, p. 15, Example 8), even though on July 2024 the Knesset declared its opposition to the creation of the State of Palestine, de facto declaring that Palestine has no right to exist.
The IHRA's handbook gives another example of anti-semitism as "Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis", calling it a form of "perpetrator-victim reversal" because "the victims of the Holocaust, i.e. [sic, given their were many other minority victims], Jews, are now portrayed as Nazi-like perpetrators of mass atrocities and genocide. ... The purpose of such forms of antisemitism is to suggest that Israel, Israelis or Jews must be stopped by force, just as were the Nazis. Sometimes this mechanism is accompanied with a call for violation against Israel." (Handbook, p. 16, Example 10.) But, the IHRA does not explain why this comparison is anti-semitic, especially given the fact that Israel's policies look like the Nazis' policies, as explained by, among others, Professor John Mearsheimer.
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The IHRA's handbook gives another example as "Blaming Jews or Jewish communities for the actions of the state of Israel" "because it assumes that Jews are responsible for the actions of a sovereign country and that Jewish people are homogeneous. This expression of antisemitism may intersect with other antisemitic references. It may be accompanied by hostility toward and physical attacks on Jews or Jewish institutions during periods of Middle East tension." (Handbook, p. 17, Example 11.) But, Israel itself says attacks against Israel are attacks against Jews, conflating criticism against Israel as criticism of Jews. So, the IHRA definition allows Israel to use Jews as political human-shields to defend Israel's unlawful occupation, apartheid regime, theft of real and personal property, hostage-taking in the form of prisoners detained without trial, war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, starvation as a weapon, and ethnic cleansing.
Yet another example of anti-semitism given by the IHRA is "Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations", regardless of whether or not such a Jewish citizen is more loyal to Israel than the United States, especially in light of Trump's Department of Homeland Security's recent demand that citizens must have complete allegiance to the United States of America. “`There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism ... Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.'” (2025.08.05, X, Homeland Security, quoting US President Theodore Roosevelt (not to be confused with the atheist Theodor Herzl, the leading zionist mastermind of the state of Israel).)
Another example demonstrating the false equivalence between anti-semitism and anti-zionism is that the IHRA gives as an example of anti-semitism as "[d]enying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor" regardless of whether or not Jews have such a right of self-determination. In other words, the IHRA uses anti-semitism as a shield against the questioning of Israel's right to exist.
Another feature of the IHRA's definition is that it assumes or perhaps demands we presume Israel to be a "democratic nation" despite its apartheid regime, given that another example given by the IHRA of antisemitims is "[a]pplying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation."
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6. Holocaust remembrance is supposed to educate the public so another holocaust does not befall any other group of people anywhere in the world.
The UNGA Resolution on the "Holocaust Remembrance" of 2005 states: whereas "[t]he Universal Declaration of Human Rights [p]roclaims that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, such as race, religion or other status"; article 3 of [which] states that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person"; "the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide [not limited to the genocide of Jews] [w]as adopted in order to avoid repetition of genocides such as those committed by the Nazi regime"; "the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities, "will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice"; therefore, the United Nations General Assembly "[u]rges Member States to develop educational programmes that will inculcate future generations with the lessons of the Holocaust in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide, and in this context commends the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research" and "[c]ondemns without reserve all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur"
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7. Israel uses Holocaust remembrance to manipulate the public into supporting Israel, using the memories of Holocaust victims and the trauma of Holocaust survivors as political human-shields against its unlawful policies, including its unlawful occupation, apartheid, war crimes, genocide, starvation as a weapon beyond the point of famine, and ethnic cleansing.
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8. Not all Holocaust survivors support Israel:
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9. Nor do all Jews. As Steve Bannon said:
"THE NUMBER ONE ENEMY TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL ARE AMERICAN JEWS THAT DO NOT SUPPORT ISRAEL AND DO NOT SUPPORT MAGA"
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10. Former US President Ronald Reagan was not afraid to call out Israel's bombing of Beirut as a "holocaust":
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New Year 2026 begins with fast moving events in Yemen where Saudi-backed “Legitimacy” forces attacked Southern Transitional Council’s control of Hadramaut which STC forces earlier seized in December 2025 https://t.co/x4s4XESGal Yemeni politics always complex - never 2 dimensional
My latest analysis: Yemen's South Between UAE / Saudi Rift and the Southern Cause.
On what collapsed, why it collapsed, and what comes next.
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The STC’s announcement landed into an already volatile regional moment.
My latest piece looks at how it intersects with South Yemen, KSA–UAE tensions, and why Israel and the Houthis matter to what comes next.
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The Southern Transitional Council @STCSouthArabia (STC) leader @AidrosAlzubidi declares that the people of the South have successfully taken control of security and administration in their regions and are ready to restore an independent southern state. It announces a two-year transitional period, calls for internationally sponsored dialogue between southern and northern parties, and proposes a popular referendum on self-determination under international supervision. The STC presents this as a gradual, responsible path that avoids new conflicts, maintains cooperation with the North, and offers the international community a clear legal and political framework, while warning that a constitutional declaration restoring the southern state will take immediate effect if dialogue fails or the South is attacked.
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Political Declaration Statement Issued by the Southern Transitional Council
The Southern Transitional Council congratulates the achievements and gains realized by the sons of our southern people in assuming responsibility for securing and managing their regions, ending security threats, smuggling, terrorism, and the state of chaos, and halting the depletion of their resources, as these represent a responsible step toward fulfilling the aspirations of this people to restore and declare their state, which will be a strong shield and a sincere ally to its surroundings and neighborhood.
These mass popular gatherings across all parts of the South reflect unity of ranks and the aspirations of all for a more stable future in which the people of the South achieve their aspirations and ambitions in security, prosperity, development, and construction.
Based on the desire and will of our southern people to restore and declare their state, and relying on the popular mandate, national responsibility, and the statements and positions issued by elites and leaders of the state, government, and local authorities in the southern governorates, and in recognition of the magnitude of the risks surrounding the existing political partnership in general and the South in particular, and in order to avoid further conflicts and divisions,
We announce the entry into a transitional phase lasting two years. The Southern Transitional Council calls on the international community to sponsor dialogue between the concerned parties in the South and the North regarding a path and mechanisms that guarantee the right of the people of the South within the specified timeframe, accompanied by the conduct of a popular referendum regulating the exercise of the right to self-determination of the people of the South, through peaceful and transparent mechanisms consistent with internationally recognized rules and practices, with the participation of international observers.
The Council also calls, during the transitional phase and what precedes it, on all state institutions and bodies, the government, and local authorities to carry out their work and perform their duties in normalizing life, improving conditions and services, and ensuring the regular payment of salaries, through organizing a mechanism for revenue collection at the Central Bank in the capital, Aden, as an independent central authority. The Southern Transitional Council extends its hand regarding the determination of appropriate steps and mechanisms in accordance with common denominators with all national forces in the North.
The Southern Transitional Council proceeds from a firm conviction that achieving the aspirations of the people of the South to restore their state must take place through a safe and responsible phased path that preserves the South’s legitimate right, spares the North and the region the cost of new conflicts, and allows for the reorganization of political and institutional conditions on fair and balanced foundations.
Cont. …
The linkage of Israel Lobby to corruption in Washington erupted over past few months due to Trump administration’s mishandling of a number of events, e.g. pressure to release Epstein Files; suppression of information about Kirk assassination; etc https://t.co/WRUHZBt9XD
Netanyahu demanded Bill Clinton release convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard after telling Clinton Israel knew of the tapes between him and Lewinsky, according to multiple reports. Clinton did not do it after George Tenet threatened to resign as CIA chief if he did so.
Obama released him in 2015 and now he’s meeting with Huckabee
The utter bankruptcy of Zionist influence over leading institutions of American Jews. The great 19th century American rabbi who helped found most synagogues across the country rejected Zionist aims precisely because he foresaw today’s problem. Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, early 1880s.
Speechless. No words for this.
The Holocaust Museum in LA @hmla1961 posted a graphic which stated:
“Never Again, Can’t Only Mean Never Again for Jews”
After receiving complaints from Zionists that they “All Lives Mattered” the Holocaust, it was deleted & an apology was issued.
Read these Zionist comments to include @StopAntisemites
The founder and key donor of the Holocaust Museum LA was the "fiercely loyal to Israel" Jona Goldrich of Beverly Hills, who in 1947-1948 was a member of the Arab-murdering Palmach unit of David Ben-Gurion's terrorist organization Haganah, and whose real-estate partner, Sol Kest, created an institution dedicated to the appreciation of IDF soldiers, as discussed below (Goldrich's two daughters, Andrew Clayton and Melinda Goldrich serve as museum board members).
Holocaust I museums should educate the public so “never again” never happens again to any group of people—including to the Palestinian people by Israel over the past two years of the Holocaust II—but, instead, the museums, founded and funded by pro-Israel sources, are manipulated to indoctrinate the public to support zionism and close their doors to today’s genocide.
As the political scientist Norman Finkelstein, who was born to parents who survived the Holocaust and who wrote The Holocaust Industry (2000), explains:
"The irony is that the Nazi Holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression. Every time you want to launch a war of aggression, drag in the Nazi Holocaust. It's the suffering then used as another pretext or excuse to humiliate, degrade, and torture the Palestinians. That's the problem. The suffering comes as a package. It then comes, here is the suffering, now we blow up your house. Here is the suffering, now we take your land. Here is the suffering, now we shoot artillery shells at your villages. It's a package deal with Israel and its American supporters. It's not just suffering. It's suffering, which is then wrapped on the club, and the club is then used to break the skulls of the Palestinians. That's the problem. It's not being used to educate people. It's not being used to enlighten people. It's not being used to make people more moral. Q,. It can be. A. But it's not. It's not. That's the whole point. Of course it can be. But it isn't. The best thing that can ever happen to Israel is if they get rid of these American Jews who are warmongers from Martha's Vineyard, and the warmongers from the Hamptons, and the warmongers from Beverly Hills, and the warmongers from Miami. It's been a disaster for Israel. It's the best thing if they could ever get rid of this American Jewry. It's a curse."
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2025.09.07, Al Jazeera:
Holocaust Museum LA (Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH))—the oldest Holocaust museum in the United States, founded in 2010 by the Polish-Israeli-American Beverly Hills real estate tycoon and "fiercely loyal to Israel" (1986.08.17, Los Angeles Times) Johan Goldrich who in 1947-1948 was a member of the Arab-murdering Palmach unit of David Ben-Gurion's terrorist organization Hanganah, is currently headed by its CEO Beth Kean (a board member of the Council of American Jewish Museums) but closed since June 3, 2025 until June 2026 for construction of its Jona Goldrich Campus that broke ground in November 2023 to expand to almost double its size keep up with the demand for visits from schools—“is facing backlash after deleting an Instagram post that suggested the phrase `never again’ should apply to all people – not just Jews. The post, shared with [Museum’s] 24,200 Instagram followers, read:
`Never again can’t only mean never again for Jews.’
“The slogan `never again’, long associated with Holocaust remembrance, is also invoked more broadly as a pledge to prevent future genocides. …
"The Instagram message was initially praised online and interpreted by some as an acknowledgment of Palestinian suffering amid Israel’s war on Gaza, which numerous United Nations experts, scholars and rights groups have described as a genocide.
"It was later deleted and replaced with a statement on Saturday saying the post had been misinterpreted. `We recently posted an item on social media that was part of a pre-planned campaign intended to promote inclusivity and community that was easily open to misinterpretation by some to be a political statement reflecting the ongoing situation in the Middle East. That was not our intent,’ it said. Holocaust Museum LA also promised to `do better’ and to `ensure that posts in the future are more thoughtfully designed and thoroughly vetted’.
“The museum … quickly faced criticism online after journalist Ryan Grim of Drop Site News reposted a screenshot of the deleted message, writing: `Speechless. No words for this.’
“Yasmine Taeb, a human rights lawyer and progressive strategist, called the museum’s move `absolutely disgusting’, saying that the museum is `cowering under pressure’ from pro-Israel voices. `Countless genocide scholars and human rights organisations have confirmed what Israel is doing in Gaza is textbook definition of genocide,’ Taeb told Al Jazeera. `It’s appalling that a museum established for the purpose of educating the public about genocide and the Holocaust not only refuses to acknowledge the reality of Israel’s actions in Gaza, but (is) removing a social media post that merely stated that ‘never again’ is not intended for just Jews, in order for it to not be interpreted as a response to the genocide in Gaza.’
“The original now-deleted post did not mention Gaza, but it faced a barrage of pro-Israel comments expressing disapproval, including some that called on donors to stop funding the institution.
“By deleting the post and issuing the subsequent statement, the museum sparked accusations of backtracking on a universal anti-genocide principle.
“`We live in a world where the Holocaust Museum has to aploogise and retract for simply appearing to sympathise with Palestinians,’ Palestinian American activist and comedian Amer Zahr told Al Jazeera. `If that does not illustrate the historic dehumanisation that Arab Americans have had to live with, I don’t know what does.’”
“Assal Rad, a researcher with the Arab Center Washington DC, called the controversy `unbelievable’. `Palestinians are so dehumanized that they’re excluded from ‘never again,’ apparently their genocide is the exception,’ Rad wrote on X.
“Political commentator Hasan Piker also slammed the museum’s decision. `A real shame that even a tepid general anti-genocide statement was met with unimaginable resistance from Israel supporters,’ he wrote in a social media post.
“The Holocaust Museum LA did not immediately respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment.”
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Nota bene:
1. Holocaust survivor Jona Goldrich (1927-2016)—the founder and a key donor of the Holocaust Museum LA, who worked and lived in Israel for 11 years, after fleeing Poland with his brother (his parents were killed by the Nazis)—during Mandatory Palestine, was a member of the Arab-murdering Palmach unit of David Ben-Gurion's terrorist organization Haganah, during the period when it was allied, as part of the "Hebrew Resistance Movement", with the other two terrorist organizations, Menachem Begin's Irgun and Yitzhak Shamir's Lehi / Stern Gang (both publicly condemned by Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt), in a violent uprising against British occupation, including the July 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel.
As Goldrich recounted on August 28, 2015 (less than one year before his death on June 26, 2016):
"I joined a liberation unit of the Pachmach of the Haganah in 1947. … I was there until Israel became a state, with that unit. We were fighting behind the lines, the Arabs. … [While I was with the Pachmach,] we used to catch … important arabs as hostage for exchange for jews, and some of them we used to kill. We did important people, leaders, we used to go behind the lines and shoot them and things like that. It was a special unit. 26 people. … They taught me how to use machine guns and everything that had to do with guns. ,.. Q. Did you have fun in Israel? A. Yeah. Q. Did you do anything for fun. A. Yeah. … Especially when I was in this unit, we were considered heroes so we used to go out at night … dating girls. ... Israel is very important to me, make sure that [trails off or cut] ... The most important thing that has priority for me is keeping up Jewish education. I'm always worried that some day, through assimilation, the Jewish people will disappear."
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"On 20 May 1947 [the Palmach] blew up a coffee house in Fajja ... On 18 December 1947, in an operation approved by Palmach commander Yigal Allon, several houses were blown up in al-Khisas, near the Lebanese border; a dozen civilians were killed. On 31 December 1947 170 men from the Palmach launched an attack on Balad al-Sheikh, Haifa .... Several dozen houses were destroyed and 60-70 villagers were killed. Around Jaffa, Palmach units destroyed houses in Yazur and Salama. An order dated 3 January 1948 said `The aim is ... to attack northern part of the village of Salama ... to cause deaths, to blow up houses and to burn everything possible.' In the Upper Galilee, the Palmach's third Battalion commanded by Moshe Kelman, attacked Sa'sa', 15 February, and blew up ten houses, killing 11 villagers. Further north, they raided al-Husayniyya, 16 March 1948, in retaliation for a land mine, they blew up five houses and killed `30 Arab adults'. In the Northern Negev, 4 April 1948, a Palmach unit in two armoured cars destroyed `nine bedouin lay-bys and one mud hut' ... On 20 February 1948 the Palmach launched an operation in Caesarea, North of Tel Aviv, in which they demolished 30 houses, six were left standing due to lack of explosives. ... With the activation of Plan D and its sub-operations Palmach units were used to demolish villages with the objective of preventing them being used by Palestinian irregulars or the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) as bases. ... Following the attempt to clear the road to Jerusalem, Palmach units [in Operation Machschon] `more or less systematically leveled the villages of al-Qastal, Qalinya, Khuda and largely or partly destroyed Beit Surik, Biddu, Shu'fat, Beit Iksa, Beit Mahsir and Sheikh Jarrah (Jerusalem)'. On 9 April a Palmach unit with mortars took part in the Irgun attack on Deir Yassin. ... Between 8 and 14 April, ten villages came under Palmach's control. Within two weeks they were leveled. [In Operation Yiftach], [o]n 2 May, the Palmach 3rd Battalion, commanded by Moshe Kelman, attacked Ein al-Zeitun with a Davidka, two 3-inch mortars and eight 2-inch mortars. During the following two days Palmach sappers blew up and burned all the houses. In the aftermath of the capture of this village Battalion Commander Kelman ordered the execution of seventy prisoners. On 6 May the Palmach launched an attack on Safad. It failed to capture the citadel and the Palmach had to withdraw. The defenders offered a cease-fire, which Allon refused. A second attack was launched on 9 May. This was preceded by a `massive concentrated barrage' using mortars and Davidkas. The empty Arab quarter of Safad was occupied on 11 May. Between 12,000 and 15,000 refugees had been created. ... In May 1948 the Palmach had 2,200 permanently mobilised members. A different source puts the size of the Palmach as 3,000 at the end of November 1947, and, following the mobilization of 3,000 reserves, five battalions were formed by May 1948, consisting of 5,000 fighters of whom 1,200 were women. Palmach units took a major part in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. At the beginning of the war, Palmach units were responsible for holding Jewish settlements (such as Gush Etzion, Kfar Darom and Revivim) against Arab militias. Although inferior in numbers and arms, Palmach soldiers held out long enough to allow the Haganah to mobilise the Jewish population and prepare for war. ... After the establishment of the Israeli army, the Palmach was reorganised into three IDF brigades—the Negev Brigade, the Yiftach Brigade, and the Harel Brigade. ... Ha-Machlaka Ha-Aravit: the Arab Platoon performed covert operations and espionage missions against Arab militias, which frequently attacked Jewish settlements. It was the base for the Israeli Defense Forces's and the Israeli Border Police's Mista'arvim units. ... The Palmach Museum, located on Chaim Levanon Street in Tel Aviv, near the Eretz Israel Museum, explores the Palmach legacy through the stories of individuals and groups. Visitors to the museum join the group of young Palmach recruits from its establishment, and advanced through the story of the Palmach until the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War."
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2. Goldrich's real estate partner, Sol Kest (another Holocaust survivor but from Czechoslovakia), founded with his wife "The Sol and Clara Kest Center for Soldiers" located in Jerusalem (which it celebrates as "the entire city of Jerusalem [r]eunited during the Six Day War" and dedicated to showing appreciation to the IDF's soldiers.
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3. The Holocaust Museum LA spreads through California's schools a definition of anti-semitism that includes criticism of Israel:
"In the realm of education on antisemitism, Holocaust Museum LA uses primary source materials and student worksheets to define and contextualize antisemitism before, during, and after the Holocaust. The museum encourages students, police officers, attorneys, and other professionals to analyze various primary sources to help them develop the necessary tools to identify and understand continuous anti-Jewish tropes, providing the ability to recognize and combat antisemitism. ... At the state level, [Jordana Gessler, who is the Vice President of Education and Exhibits] Gessler is involved with the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education (California Collaborative), joining her colleagues in Sacramento last spring to advocate for the Collaborative’s goal of securing the funding to train more than 8,500 teachers and educate more than 1 million California students by 2027 about what happens when bias goes unchecked. Indeed, in mid-September, California Governor Gavin Newsom proceeded to sign and pass California’s 2023-24 budget, which includes $1.5 million in renewed funding for the California Collaborative."
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4. ICAN is working to use holocaust remembrance in the schools to spread zionism and unconditional support of Israel, even to the point of displaying the Israeli flag, as exemplified by the recent decision by the school board of Beverly Hills in LA.
https://t.co/v3Hq0wGJ9a
See:
https://t.co/BuOMrSltky (redefining antisemitism to include criticism of Israel and antizionism)
5. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) "working", "non-binding" definition of anti-semitism, adopted in 2016, conflates Judaism and Zionism by including criticism of Israel, thereby using Jews and victims of the Holocaust as political human-shields for Israel's unlawful policies.
The definition itself states: "Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities."
In 2018, two years after the IHRA's definition of 2016, Israel's Knesset (its parliament) declared itself a "Jewish state" even though no more than 41% of the population of Israel is Jewish, i.e., a follower of Judaism, and even though Israel was founded as a secular state by atheist and/or non-religious zionists from Europe, e.g., Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky and his assistant Benzion Netanyahu (the Prime Minister's father).
The examples to flesh out the definition states "Manifestations [of anti-semitism] might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic."
Specifically, the IHRA's handbook to clarify the definition, labels the "question[ing of ] Israel's right to exist" as anti-semitic because, according to the IHRA, this is a "the application of a double-standard approach to the actions of the country" because "it is rear to hear critics call into question other countries' right to exist, on account of their policies" (Handbook, p. 15, Example 8), even though on July 2024 the Knesset declared its opposition to the creation of the State of Palestine, de facto declaring that Palestine has no right to exist.
The IHRA's handbook gives another example of anti-semitism as "Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis", calling it a form of "perpetrator-victim reversal" because "the victims of the Holocaust, i.e. [sic, given their were many other minority victims], Jews, are now portrayed as Nazi-like perpetrators of mass atrocities and genocide. ... The purpose of such forms of antisemitism is to suggest that Israel, Israelis or Jews must be stopped by force, just as were the Nazis. Sometimes this mechanism is accompanied with a call for violation against Israel." (Handbook, p. 16, Example 10.) But, the IHRA does not explain why this comparison is anti-semitic, especially given the fact that Israel's policies look like the Nazis' policies, as explained by, among others, Professor John Mearsheimer.
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The IHRA's handbook gives another example as "Blaming Jews or Jewish communities for the actions of the state of Israel" "because it assumes that Jews are responsible for the actions of a sovereign country and that Jewish people are homogeneous. This expression of antisemitism may intersect with other antisemitic references. It may be accompanied by hostility toward and physical attacks on Jews or Jewish institutions during periods of Middle East tension." (Handbook, p. 17, Example 11.) But, Israel itself says attacks against Israel are attacks against Jews, conflating criticism against Israel as criticism of Jews. So, the IHRA definition allows Israel to use Jews as political human-shields to defend Israel's unlawful occupation, apartheid regime, theft of real and personal property, hostage-taking in the form of prisoners detained without trial, war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, starvation as a weapon, and ethnic cleansing.
Yet another example of anti-semitism given by the IHRA is "Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations", regardless of whether or not such a Jewish citizen is more loyal to Israel than the United States, especially in light of Trump's Department of Homeland Security's recent demand that citizens must have complete allegiance to the United States of America. “`There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism ... Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.'” (2025.08.05, X, Homeland Security, quoting US President Theodore Roosevelt (not to be confused with the atheist Theodor Herzl, the leading zionist mastermind of the state of Israel).)
Another example demonstrating the false equivalence between anti-semitism and anti-zionism is that the IHRA gives as an example of anti-semitism as "[d]enying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor" regardless of whether or not Jews have such a right of self-determination. In other words, the IHRA uses anti-semitism as a shield against the questioning of Israel's right to exist.
Another feature of the IHRA's definition is that it assumes or perhaps demands we presume Israel to be a "democratic nation" despite its apartheid regime, given that another example given by the IHRA of antisemitims is "[a]pplying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation."
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6. Holocaust remembrance is supposed to educate the public so another holocaust does not befall any other group of people anywhere in the world.
The UNGA Resolution on the "Holocaust Remembrance" of 2005 states: whereas "[t]he Universal Declaration of Human Rights [p]roclaims that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, such as race, religion or other status"; article 3 of [which] states that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person"; "the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide [not limited to the genocide of Jews] [w]as adopted in order to avoid repetition of genocides such as those committed by the Nazi regime"; "the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities, "will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice"; therefore, the United Nations General Assembly "[u]rges Member States to develop educational programmes that will inculcate future generations with the lessons of the Holocaust in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide, and in this context commends the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research" and "[c]ondemns without reserve all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur"
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7. Israel uses Holocaust remembrance to manipulate the public into supporting Israel, using the memories of Holocaust victims and the trauma of Holocaust survivors as political human-shields against its unlawful policies, including its unlawful occupation, apartheid, war crimes, genocide, starvation as a weapon beyond the point of famine, and ethnic cleansing.
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8. Not all Holocaust survivors support Israel:
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9. Nor do all Jews. As Steve Bannon said:
"THE NUMBER ONE ENEMY TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL ARE AMERICAN JEWS THAT DO NOT SUPPORT ISRAEL AND DO NOT SUPPORT MAGA"
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10. Former US President Ronald Reagan was not afraid to call out Israel's bombing of Beirut as a "holocaust":
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![YodysseusX's tweet photo. The founder and key donor of the Holocaust Museum LA was the "fiercely loyal to Israel" Jona Goldrich of Beverly Hills, who in 1947-1948 was a member of the Arab-murdering Palmach unit of David Ben-Gurion's terrorist organization Haganah, and whose real-estate partner, Sol Kest, created an institution dedicated to the appreciation of IDF soldiers, as discussed below (Goldrich's two daughters, Andrew Clayton and Melinda Goldrich serve as museum board members).
Holocaust I museums should educate the public so “never again” never happens again to any group of people—including to the Palestinian people by Israel over the past two years of the Holocaust II—but, instead, the museums, founded and funded by pro-Israel sources, are manipulated to indoctrinate the public to support zionism and close their doors to today’s genocide.
As the political scientist Norman Finkelstein, who was born to parents who survived the Holocaust and who wrote The Holocaust Industry (2000), explains:
"The irony is that the Nazi Holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression. Every time you want to launch a war of aggression, drag in the Nazi Holocaust. It's the suffering then used as another pretext or excuse to humiliate, degrade, and torture the Palestinians. That's the problem. The suffering comes as a package. It then comes, here is the suffering, now we blow up your house. Here is the suffering, now we take your land. Here is the suffering, now we shoot artillery shells at your villages. It's a package deal with Israel and its American supporters. It's not just suffering. It's suffering, which is then wrapped on the club, and the club is then used to break the skulls of the Palestinians. That's the problem. It's not being used to educate people. It's not being used to enlighten people. It's not being used to make people more moral. Q,. It can be. A. But it's not. It's not. That's the whole point. Of course it can be. But it isn't. The best thing that can ever happen to Israel is if they get rid of these American Jews who are warmongers from Martha's Vineyard, and the warmongers from the Hamptons, and the warmongers from Beverly Hills, and the warmongers from Miami. It's been a disaster for Israel. It's the best thing if they could ever get rid of this American Jewry. It's a curse."
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2025.09.07, Al Jazeera:
Holocaust Museum LA (Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH))—the oldest Holocaust museum in the United States, founded in 2010 by the Polish-Israeli-American Beverly Hills real estate tycoon and "fiercely loyal to Israel" (1986.08.17, Los Angeles Times) Johan Goldrich who in 1947-1948 was a member of the Arab-murdering Palmach unit of David Ben-Gurion's terrorist organization Hanganah, is currently headed by its CEO Beth Kean (a board member of the Council of American Jewish Museums) but closed since June 3, 2025 until June 2026 for construction of its Jona Goldrich Campus that broke ground in November 2023 to expand to almost double its size keep up with the demand for visits from schools—“is facing backlash after deleting an Instagram post that suggested the phrase `never again’ should apply to all people – not just Jews. The post, shared with [Museum’s] 24,200 Instagram followers, read:
`Never again can’t only mean never again for Jews.’
“The slogan `never again’, long associated with Holocaust remembrance, is also invoked more broadly as a pledge to prevent future genocides. …
"The Instagram message was initially praised online and interpreted by some as an acknowledgment of Palestinian suffering amid Israel’s war on Gaza, which numerous United Nations experts, scholars and rights groups have described as a genocide.
"It was later deleted and replaced with a statement on Saturday saying the post had been misinterpreted. `We recently posted an item on social media that was part of a pre-planned campaign intended to promote inclusivity and community that was easily open to misinterpretation by some to be a political statement reflecting the ongoing situation in the Middle East. That was not our intent,’ it said. Holocaust Museum LA also promised to `do better’ and to `ensure that posts in the future are more thoughtfully designed and thoroughly vetted’.
“The museum … quickly faced criticism online after journalist Ryan Grim of Drop Site News reposted a screenshot of the deleted message, writing: `Speechless. No words for this.’
“Yasmine Taeb, a human rights lawyer and progressive strategist, called the museum’s move `absolutely disgusting’, saying that the museum is `cowering under pressure’ from pro-Israel voices. `Countless genocide scholars and human rights organisations have confirmed what Israel is doing in Gaza is textbook definition of genocide,’ Taeb told Al Jazeera. `It’s appalling that a museum established for the purpose of educating the public about genocide and the Holocaust not only refuses to acknowledge the reality of Israel’s actions in Gaza, but (is) removing a social media post that merely stated that ‘never again’ is not intended for just Jews, in order for it to not be interpreted as a response to the genocide in Gaza.’
“The original now-deleted post did not mention Gaza, but it faced a barrage of pro-Israel comments expressing disapproval, including some that called on donors to stop funding the institution.
“By deleting the post and issuing the subsequent statement, the museum sparked accusations of backtracking on a universal anti-genocide principle.
“`We live in a world where the Holocaust Museum has to aploogise and retract for simply appearing to sympathise with Palestinians,’ Palestinian American activist and comedian Amer Zahr told Al Jazeera. `If that does not illustrate the historic dehumanisation that Arab Americans have had to live with, I don’t know what does.’”
“Assal Rad, a researcher with the Arab Center Washington DC, called the controversy `unbelievable’. `Palestinians are so dehumanized that they’re excluded from ‘never again,’ apparently their genocide is the exception,’ Rad wrote on X.
“Political commentator Hasan Piker also slammed the museum’s decision. `A real shame that even a tepid general anti-genocide statement was met with unimaginable resistance from Israel supporters,’ he wrote in a social media post.
“The Holocaust Museum LA did not immediately respond to Al Jazeera’s request for comment.”
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Nota bene:
1. Holocaust survivor Jona Goldrich (1927-2016)—the founder and a key donor of the Holocaust Museum LA, who worked and lived in Israel for 11 years, after fleeing Poland with his brother (his parents were killed by the Nazis)—during Mandatory Palestine, was a member of the Arab-murdering Palmach unit of David Ben-Gurion's terrorist organization Haganah, during the period when it was allied, as part of the "Hebrew Resistance Movement", with the other two terrorist organizations, Menachem Begin's Irgun and Yitzhak Shamir's Lehi / Stern Gang (both publicly condemned by Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt), in a violent uprising against British occupation, including the July 1946 bombing of the King David Hotel.
As Goldrich recounted on August 28, 2015 (less than one year before his death on June 26, 2016):
"I joined a liberation unit of the Pachmach of the Haganah in 1947. … I was there until Israel became a state, with that unit. We were fighting behind the lines, the Arabs. … [While I was with the Pachmach,] we used to catch … important arabs as hostage for exchange for jews, and some of them we used to kill. We did important people, leaders, we used to go behind the lines and shoot them and things like that. It was a special unit. 26 people. … They taught me how to use machine guns and everything that had to do with guns. ,.. Q. Did you have fun in Israel? A. Yeah. Q. Did you do anything for fun. A. Yeah. … Especially when I was in this unit, we were considered heroes so we used to go out at night … dating girls. ... Israel is very important to me, make sure that [trails off or cut] ... The most important thing that has priority for me is keeping up Jewish education. I'm always worried that some day, through assimilation, the Jewish people will disappear."
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https://t.co/FPuosENoyU
https://t.co/95VFvmMEHK
https://t.co/IITFoCgzOY
"On 20 May 1947 [the Palmach] blew up a coffee house in Fajja ... On 18 December 1947, in an operation approved by Palmach commander Yigal Allon, several houses were blown up in al-Khisas, near the Lebanese border; a dozen civilians were killed. On 31 December 1947 170 men from the Palmach launched an attack on Balad al-Sheikh, Haifa .... Several dozen houses were destroyed and 60-70 villagers were killed. Around Jaffa, Palmach units destroyed houses in Yazur and Salama. An order dated 3 January 1948 said `The aim is ... to attack northern part of the village of Salama ... to cause deaths, to blow up houses and to burn everything possible.' In the Upper Galilee, the Palmach's third Battalion commanded by Moshe Kelman, attacked Sa'sa', 15 February, and blew up ten houses, killing 11 villagers. Further north, they raided al-Husayniyya, 16 March 1948, in retaliation for a land mine, they blew up five houses and killed `30 Arab adults'. In the Northern Negev, 4 April 1948, a Palmach unit in two armoured cars destroyed `nine bedouin lay-bys and one mud hut' ... On 20 February 1948 the Palmach launched an operation in Caesarea, North of Tel Aviv, in which they demolished 30 houses, six were left standing due to lack of explosives. ... With the activation of Plan D and its sub-operations Palmach units were used to demolish villages with the objective of preventing them being used by Palestinian irregulars or the Arab Liberation Army (ALA) as bases. ... Following the attempt to clear the road to Jerusalem, Palmach units [in Operation Machschon] `more or less systematically leveled the villages of al-Qastal, Qalinya, Khuda and largely or partly destroyed Beit Surik, Biddu, Shu'fat, Beit Iksa, Beit Mahsir and Sheikh Jarrah (Jerusalem)'. On 9 April a Palmach unit with mortars took part in the Irgun attack on Deir Yassin. ... Between 8 and 14 April, ten villages came under Palmach's control. Within two weeks they were leveled. [In Operation Yiftach], [o]n 2 May, the Palmach 3rd Battalion, commanded by Moshe Kelman, attacked Ein al-Zeitun with a Davidka, two 3-inch mortars and eight 2-inch mortars. During the following two days Palmach sappers blew up and burned all the houses. In the aftermath of the capture of this village Battalion Commander Kelman ordered the execution of seventy prisoners. On 6 May the Palmach launched an attack on Safad. It failed to capture the citadel and the Palmach had to withdraw. The defenders offered a cease-fire, which Allon refused. A second attack was launched on 9 May. This was preceded by a `massive concentrated barrage' using mortars and Davidkas. The empty Arab quarter of Safad was occupied on 11 May. Between 12,000 and 15,000 refugees had been created. ... In May 1948 the Palmach had 2,200 permanently mobilised members. A different source puts the size of the Palmach as 3,000 at the end of November 1947, and, following the mobilization of 3,000 reserves, five battalions were formed by May 1948, consisting of 5,000 fighters of whom 1,200 were women. Palmach units took a major part in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. At the beginning of the war, Palmach units were responsible for holding Jewish settlements (such as Gush Etzion, Kfar Darom and Revivim) against Arab militias. Although inferior in numbers and arms, Palmach soldiers held out long enough to allow the Haganah to mobilise the Jewish population and prepare for war. ... After the establishment of the Israeli army, the Palmach was reorganised into three IDF brigades—the Negev Brigade, the Yiftach Brigade, and the Harel Brigade. ... Ha-Machlaka Ha-Aravit: the Arab Platoon performed covert operations and espionage missions against Arab militias, which frequently attacked Jewish settlements. It was the base for the Israeli Defense Forces's and the Israeli Border Police's Mista'arvim units. ... The Palmach Museum, located on Chaim Levanon Street in Tel Aviv, near the Eretz Israel Museum, explores the Palmach legacy through the stories of individuals and groups. Visitors to the museum join the group of young Palmach recruits from its establishment, and advanced through the story of the Palmach until the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War."
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2. Goldrich's real estate partner, Sol Kest (another Holocaust survivor but from Czechoslovakia), founded with his wife "The Sol and Clara Kest Center for Soldiers" located in Jerusalem (which it celebrates as "the entire city of Jerusalem [r]eunited during the Six Day War" and dedicated to showing appreciation to the IDF's soldiers.
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3. The Holocaust Museum LA spreads through California's schools a definition of anti-semitism that includes criticism of Israel:
"In the realm of education on antisemitism, Holocaust Museum LA uses primary source materials and student worksheets to define and contextualize antisemitism before, during, and after the Holocaust. The museum encourages students, police officers, attorneys, and other professionals to analyze various primary sources to help them develop the necessary tools to identify and understand continuous anti-Jewish tropes, providing the ability to recognize and combat antisemitism. ... At the state level, [Jordana Gessler, who is the Vice President of Education and Exhibits] Gessler is involved with the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education (California Collaborative), joining her colleagues in Sacramento last spring to advocate for the Collaborative’s goal of securing the funding to train more than 8,500 teachers and educate more than 1 million California students by 2027 about what happens when bias goes unchecked. Indeed, in mid-September, California Governor Gavin Newsom proceeded to sign and pass California’s 2023-24 budget, which includes $1.5 million in renewed funding for the California Collaborative."
https://t.co/pXs7D412Oh
4. ICAN is working to use holocaust remembrance in the schools to spread zionism and unconditional support of Israel, even to the point of displaying the Israeli flag, as exemplified by the recent decision by the school board of Beverly Hills in LA.
https://t.co/v3Hq0wGJ9a
See:
https://t.co/BuOMrSltky (redefining antisemitism to include criticism of Israel and antizionism)
5. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) "working", "non-binding" definition of anti-semitism, adopted in 2016, conflates Judaism and Zionism by including criticism of Israel, thereby using Jews and victims of the Holocaust as political human-shields for Israel's unlawful policies.
The definition itself states: "Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities."
In 2018, two years after the IHRA's definition of 2016, Israel's Knesset (its parliament) declared itself a "Jewish state" even though no more than 41% of the population of Israel is Jewish, i.e., a follower of Judaism, and even though Israel was founded as a secular state by atheist and/or non-religious zionists from Europe, e.g., Theodor Herzl, David Ben-Gurion, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky and his assistant Benzion Netanyahu (the Prime Minister's father).
The examples to flesh out the definition states "Manifestations [of anti-semitism] might include the targeting of the state of Israel, conceived as a Jewish collectivity. However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic."
Specifically, the IHRA's handbook to clarify the definition, labels the "question[ing of ] Israel's right to exist" as anti-semitic because, according to the IHRA, this is a "the application of a double-standard approach to the actions of the country" because "it is rear to hear critics call into question other countries' right to exist, on account of their policies" (Handbook, p. 15, Example 8), even though on July 2024 the Knesset declared its opposition to the creation of the State of Palestine, de facto declaring that Palestine has no right to exist.
The IHRA's handbook gives another example of anti-semitism as "Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis", calling it a form of "perpetrator-victim reversal" because "the victims of the Holocaust, i.e. [sic, given their were many other minority victims], Jews, are now portrayed as Nazi-like perpetrators of mass atrocities and genocide. ... The purpose of such forms of antisemitism is to suggest that Israel, Israelis or Jews must be stopped by force, just as were the Nazis. Sometimes this mechanism is accompanied with a call for violation against Israel." (Handbook, p. 16, Example 10.) But, the IHRA does not explain why this comparison is anti-semitic, especially given the fact that Israel's policies look like the Nazis' policies, as explained by, among others, Professor John Mearsheimer.
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The IHRA's handbook gives another example as "Blaming Jews or Jewish communities for the actions of the state of Israel" "because it assumes that Jews are responsible for the actions of a sovereign country and that Jewish people are homogeneous. This expression of antisemitism may intersect with other antisemitic references. It may be accompanied by hostility toward and physical attacks on Jews or Jewish institutions during periods of Middle East tension." (Handbook, p. 17, Example 11.) But, Israel itself says attacks against Israel are attacks against Jews, conflating criticism against Israel as criticism of Jews. So, the IHRA definition allows Israel to use Jews as political human-shields to defend Israel's unlawful occupation, apartheid regime, theft of real and personal property, hostage-taking in the form of prisoners detained without trial, war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, starvation as a weapon, and ethnic cleansing.
Yet another example of anti-semitism given by the IHRA is "Accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel, or to the alleged priorities of Jews worldwide, than to the interests of their own nations", regardless of whether or not such a Jewish citizen is more loyal to Israel than the United States, especially in light of Trump's Department of Homeland Security's recent demand that citizens must have complete allegiance to the United States of America. “`There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism ... Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.'” (2025.08.05, X, Homeland Security, quoting US President Theodore Roosevelt (not to be confused with the atheist Theodor Herzl, the leading zionist mastermind of the state of Israel).)
Another example demonstrating the false equivalence between anti-semitism and anti-zionism is that the IHRA gives as an example of anti-semitism as "[d]enying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor" regardless of whether or not Jews have such a right of self-determination. In other words, the IHRA uses anti-semitism as a shield against the questioning of Israel's right to exist.
Another feature of the IHRA's definition is that it assumes or perhaps demands we presume Israel to be a "democratic nation" despite its apartheid regime, given that another example given by the IHRA of antisemitims is "[a]pplying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation."
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6. Holocaust remembrance is supposed to educate the public so another holocaust does not befall any other group of people anywhere in the world.
The UNGA Resolution on the "Holocaust Remembrance" of 2005 states: whereas "[t]he Universal Declaration of Human Rights [p]roclaims that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind, such as race, religion or other status"; article 3 of [which] states that everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person"; "the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide [not limited to the genocide of Jews] [w]as adopted in order to avoid repetition of genocides such as those committed by the Nazi regime"; "the Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of one third of the Jewish people, along with countless members of other minorities, "will forever be a warning to all people of the dangers of hatred, bigotry, racism and prejudice"; therefore, the United Nations General Assembly "[u]rges Member States to develop educational programmes that will inculcate future generations with the lessons of the Holocaust in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide, and in this context commends the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research" and "[c]ondemns without reserve all manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence against persons or communities based on ethnic origin or religious belief, wherever they occur"
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7. Israel uses Holocaust remembrance to manipulate the public into supporting Israel, using the memories of Holocaust victims and the trauma of Holocaust survivors as political human-shields against its unlawful policies, including its unlawful occupation, apartheid, war crimes, genocide, starvation as a weapon beyond the point of famine, and ethnic cleansing.
https://t.co/spOLOQdmwF
https://t.co/aTlrlPPLLC
8. Not all Holocaust survivors support Israel:
https://t.co/RTLfdR28SS
https://t.co/KXAwrmxnYA
9. Nor do all Jews. As Steve Bannon said:
"THE NUMBER ONE ENEMY TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL ARE AMERICAN JEWS THAT DO NOT SUPPORT ISRAEL AND DO NOT SUPPORT MAGA"
https://t.co/KAgXQRApee
10. Former US President Ronald Reagan was not afraid to call out Israel's bombing of Beirut as a "holocaust":
https://t.co/OgBMgthZV6](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G0SDDfIXsAAAzCU.png)
Reminder that the Holocaust Museum of LA literally took down a post saying "Never Again" can't only apply to Jews.
As @AbierKhatib commented at the time, "Never again is only for them."
https://t.co/2NgvvZYSw3
Fmr Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz laments to Jewish Federation that people are finding content from "Al Jazeera and Nick Fuentes" on social media and seeing videos of "the carnage in Gaza."
Holocaust education has backfired in part as people see Palestinians as Jews' victims, she adds.
"They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
(The lesson they were supposed to get is that it gives Israel the right to commit genocide in perpetuity.)
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
Flag this article and teach it to your students to learn more about the United States government and its intellectual cronies with their nearly always sub-par analysis of Mideast policy. Yet many if not most of our international relations departments and security studies departments continue to churn out the same flaws and mediocrity, intoxicated by imperial hyper-nationalism or Israel-centric policy.
Worst of all, the same people who produce this poor judgment complain about Middle East Studies which actually harbors mostly sober analysts who called out disaster before they happened, provided alternatives and context, and pointed out uninformed, Israel-centric, or ill-thought policies. These time-tested authors and scholars were routinely ignored. As they are now. Good luck.
It is the first serious test of China’s leadership. Every other test of its growing 21st century leadership pales in comparison to what it faces in the current moment. Chinese leaders know well that the events in Iran were drawn up as a target placed on their own backs.
Now the Iranian response
Commander in Tehran vowed to “open the gates of hell” for Netanyahu and his government in Israel.
China does not want to see its investments with Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar lost. Same is true of its investments in Iran. Thus it will try to position itself as a savior of Gulf interests, contrary to the destructive U.S. role in all of this.
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