If you went into the American educational system like I did, you probably noticed how much focus was given to the holocaust. There were entire classes devoted to holocaust studies and the entire curriculum surrounding the second world war focused on the holocaust. Even in reading classes the diary of Anne Frank made its way into the reading so we ended up learning about the holocaust in multiple classes at the same time. Never really too in-depth though and it did not go into much detail about other groups of people who were persecuted besides those who were Jewish. It’s not bad to learn about the holocaust, but after some time you have to wonder, when are we going to talk about Leopold’s crimes in the Congo, Japanese crimes all over Asia, the brutal genocide of Native Americans on the land that we’re literally standing on, etc. The language used and the way that subjects are taught even reserves the use of the word genocide for the holocaust while referring to other brutalities as wars or not referring to them at all. American puppet regimes such as Taiwan, South Korea, or even South Vietnam never get their crimes revealed to the masses of the United States.
The holocaust is a valid topic to teach in schools especially history classes, but what the American government is doing is so obviously propaganda. In a country where Zionist billionaires are in control of the media and are allowed by the law to overtly lobby and pay politicians to do what they want, they have as much control over society as they do money. What we would consider overt corruption is the daily modus operandi of the United States. Even foreign governments such as the Israeli regime pay the politicians to push the narrative and create justifications for the crimes of their government, or even to make them ignore it entirely. They defend the war crimes of whoever pays them. They defend the genocides of whoever pays them. It’s not complicated.
Unfortunately, most people fail to accurately and appropriately critique the state of Israel and Zionism. Some people seem to hate Israel for reasons unrelated to the freedom of Palestine and more for the hatred or dislike of certain demographics. Some commentators equate Israel with Judaism or refer to Israel as “The Jews” while not taking into account that other demographics of people are actively supporting Zionism and genocide while even rabbis and professors in Israel are being arrested and tortured for expressing sympathy towards Palestinians. Not ideological comradeship or support for Hamas, just sympathy for people that are having bombs dropped on them 24 hours a day, and children who are starving in Gaza. Zionists will continue to die in Gaza but the most innocent people will continue to suffer as long as the terrorist Israeli regime continues its siege on Gaza.
The biggest irony of all seems to be how holocaust study classes tried to explain how something like this could happen, as if it took some extraordinary circumstance or it does not happen every day in various parts of the world. People support these atrocities simply because they are class enemies. I can split hairs and talk about human tribalism or grouping, psychological identification with the perpetrators of crimes like this, but at the end of the day that is just a long and drawn out way of explaining that they are class enemies and ideological criminals. The American bourgeoisie are selling weapons to Israel to use on Palestinian children, because their corporations benefit economically from genocide. They are in the business of ending Palestinian lives. If you truly want to study fascism or genocidal regimes, open up your windows and look outside at America.