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HMD should include ‘Palestinian genocide’: Unite activist

Steve Price has posted a number of times on Facebook about Jews, Israel and antisemitism, and is a supporter of Jewish Voice for Labour

June 14, 2021 11:27
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A West Midlands Unite activist hascriticised Holocaust Memorial Day for ignoring the “Palestinian genocide”.

Steve Price wrote that he thought the national commemoration day dedicated to the remembrance of the six million Jews and other minority groups who were murdered by the Nazis should take into account Black Lives Matter, slavery, imperialism and “Palestinian genocide”.

“We are all deeply scarred by what the Nazis did to the Jews... And to the communists, the trade unionists, the Roma, the gay community, and the disabled. But this ‘memorial’ is too narrow,” he wrote. “Don’t Black Lives Matter, then? Can we talk about slavery, and reparations please. Can we talk about the violent bloody legacy of imperialism, of conquest and genocide after genocide?

“So, yesterday was ‘Australia Day’. Wave your f***in flag. Did you know there were protests about the shameful genocide of the native Australians? And how about the Native Americans, in the land of the free? And most poignantly, can we talk about the historic, and 
ONGOING, Palestinian genocide.”