“The memorial will honour the six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust and preserve their story for generations to come ”
Don’t most people call the just Jewish part the Shoah, most people I know use holocaust to include Jews, Romani, gay etc
ArgusButterfly on
I hope explicit parallels are drawn, about the dangers of dehumanising and persecuting a whole section of society.
We talk about “Never again” and learning from the past. But sometimes it looks like it’s just words.
Owlstorm on
What a farce for the UK to make a monument about a past genocide in and by another country.
If it was one of our own genocides or even one of the current ones that we could still do something about it would make more sense.
Head-Philosopher-721 on
Virtue signalling waste of money. Holocaust didn’t happen in the UK not to mention it’s also ugly.
Perfect-Check-2921 on
I give it one week before some angry pink haired weirdo spray paints “Palestine” on it.
Pen_dragons_pizza on
This is good and strange it took this long.
What I cannot help but think though is that pro Palestine mobs will ruin it or protest it etc
It feels like just letting some people know you are Jewish these days is enough to make you an enemy and somehow shoulder the responsibility of what Isreal has been doing.
Nuclear_Wasteman on
Why does a country that had no part in the Holocaust need a memorial that only honours and memorialises a single grouple persecuted by the Nazi regime? Why should that museum be placed next to the UK’s Parliament?
ModdingmySkyrim on
I wonder if even 10 years ago it would have been remotely contentious to build a holocaust memorial.
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“The memorial will honour the six million Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust and preserve their story for generations to come ”
Don’t most people call the just Jewish part the Shoah, most people I know use holocaust to include Jews, Romani, gay etc
I hope explicit parallels are drawn, about the dangers of dehumanising and persecuting a whole section of society.
We talk about “Never again” and learning from the past. But sometimes it looks like it’s just words.
What a farce for the UK to make a monument about a past genocide in and by another country.
If it was one of our own genocides or even one of the current ones that we could still do something about it would make more sense.
Virtue signalling waste of money. Holocaust didn’t happen in the UK not to mention it’s also ugly.
I give it one week before some angry pink haired weirdo spray paints “Palestine” on it.
This is good and strange it took this long.
What I cannot help but think though is that pro Palestine mobs will ruin it or protest it etc
It feels like just letting some people know you are Jewish these days is enough to make you an enemy and somehow shoulder the responsibility of what Isreal has been doing.
Why does a country that had no part in the Holocaust need a memorial that only honours and memorialises a single grouple persecuted by the Nazi regime? Why should that museum be placed next to the UK’s Parliament?
I wonder if even 10 years ago it would have been remotely contentious to build a holocaust memorial.
Antisemitism really is growing.