Brazilian President: We must never accept denial of the Holocaust

[Behind the Aegis]

SAO PAULO, Brazil - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva joined Jewish leaders to mark the 62nd anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death camps, saying the Holocaust must never be denied and urging the world to prevent it from ever happening again.

"In the 21st century we cannot accept the denial of the Holocaust as a historical fact...nor can we accept those who deny that six million Jews were massacred," Silva told some 500 people at the Sao Paulo Jewish Congregation's synagogue on Friday.

"Each time we pay homage to the victims of the Holocaust, we strengthen those forces that will prevent that same horror from repeating itself," he said after praising the United Nation's General Assembly for last week's approval of a resolution condemning the denial of the Holocaust.

Silva's remarks came at a ceremony held to commemorate the Jan. 27, 1945,
liberation and to mark the second International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Similarly, I hope this admin. never denies that their illegal and

immoral invasion of Iraq has resulted (so far) in the death of several hundred thousand Iraqis. Maybe someday they will put up a statue in the square to commemorate those responsible.

[William769]

3. Those two don't even compare.

I always wonder about people who always try to deflect the subject when the Holocaust is mentioned to something else. Iraq is nowhere near to being what the Holocaust was. :eyes:

[DavidDvorkin]

5. It's a currently popular twist on Holocaust denial

Instead of trying to pretend the event itself never happened, they try to minimize its importance and magnitude.

[MrPrax]

6. I always wonder

why people would post earth-shattering news like the head of Brazil talking about the Holocaust, when Brazil itself lived through nearly two decades of a horrible military dictatorship.

:shrug:

Apparently they didn't learn anything either...

...and YES Iraq is like the Holocaust unless of course your Stalin and you believe that the 'death of one is a tragedy and the death of millions a statistic'.

Please don't lower yourself by suggesting that killing 6 million is 'better' than only million. It's sickening and racist.

[William769]

8. Give me a fucking break!

Oy vey! Thats the only answer that deserves a response to yours.

[Behind the Aegis]

7. Does it really matter?

They don't care. We only use it as an "excuse." Don't you know, we are actually to blame for our own deaths and the uprising of violence against us (which they also deflect).

[Rage for Order]

9. It's not just the holocaust

Almost any time something occurs in another country about which we should be rightfully critical, invariably a number of posters will reflexively say "Who are we to judge??? We invaded Iraq and killed thousands of Iraqis!!!" Because we all know that you can't condemn more than one world event at a time.

[Meshuga]

2. I wonder how that plays in the Lula/Chavez relationship

Since they appear to be friendly most of the time but Lula (former far left) has moved to the center and was never the radical Chavez-like he was expected to be as president. Lula has been very friendly with the Jewish community in Brazil and he appears to have a great relationship with Rabbi Sobel who is the leader of CIP (Congregação Israelita Paulista) which is probably the largest Jewish congregation in Latin America and affiliated to the World Union for Progressive Judaism.

[BayCityProgressive]

4. well Chavez

has never done anythng to hurt Jews. Yes he has worked with Iran, but the US has worked with many anti-jewish worl leaders. You have to work with the world as it is, not as you wish it to be. I think they have an "ok" relationship, but you are right...Lula is much more to the center. Even still, Lula is further left than almost any Democrat...his Workers Party recently enacted a Basic Income Gaurantee...eventually all Brazilians will be phased into the plan.