Stan van Houcke erkent Genocide

door Keesjemaduraatje
het is ongeloofelijk, maar waar: Stan van Houcke erkent dat er genocide op Armeniërs is gepleegd, maar hij is in staat tegelijkertijd de Israëlische politicus Shimon Peres erbij te betrekken en daarmee de Israëlis min of meer de schuld van de ontkenning te geven. Knap staaltje van antisemitisme van deze "Vredesjournalist 2003": 

Het tweede misverstand is dat de Armeense holocaust een academische kwestie zou zijn. Dat is de opvatting van de Israelische politicus Shimon Peres, die de Armeense holocaust ontkent. 'On April 11, 2001, Peres was quoted in the Turkish Daily News as saying:"We reject attempts to create a similarity between the Holocaust and the Armenian allegations. Nothing similar to the Holocaust occurred. It is a tragedy what the Armenians went through but not a genocide." Peres' motives were, of course, transparently political. Turkey is probably Israel's most important ally after the US. It's certainly its only Muslim ally. And Turkey lets Israel station part of its airforce there and probably serves as a base for Israel to infiltrate northern Iraq. So Peres believes that Israel's significant interests (see the post about Bill Clinton below) make it necessary for him to behave in the most vile way possible. However, there is a hero in this story -- Israel Charny, a professor at Jerusalem University and perhaps the world's foremost scholar of the psychology of genocide. When Peres said this, Charny wrote a letter to him saying: ...you have gone beyond a moral boundary that no Jew should allow himself to trespass...as a Jew and an Israeli I am ashamed of the extent to which you have now entered into the range of actual denial of the Armenian Genocide, comparable to denials of the Holocaust. And this wasn't Charny's first run-in with the Israeli government. As this Jerusalem Post profile of Charny explains:Charny's advocacy of the Armenian cause led him into a more serious confrontation with the Israeli government in 1982. He had invited several researchers to deliver papers on the Armenian genocide at the first international conference on the Holocaust and Genocide which he organized, together with Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. Under pressure from Turkey, the Israeli government urged the organizers to cancel the conference or hold it outside Israel, but Charny refused. The incident led to a brief falling out with Wiesel, who ultimately withdrew from the conference, which was held in Israel and attracted some 300 participants. Charny also believes the affair may have cost him his job at Tel Aviv University, where he lost his bid for tenure shortly after the controversy.' Zie: http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000117.html Kortom, de joodse holocaust is helaas geen unicum in de geschiedenis van de mensheid geweest. De Armeense holocaust is uitgebreid gedocumenteerd. Of die holocaust heeft plaatsgevonden is geen academische kwestie waarvan de juistheid alleen door een rechter kan worden bepaald. Sla de literatuur erover er maar op na. 
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Wat Stan van Houcke hier dus doet is tegelijkertijd het erkennen van de Armeense Holocaust en het bagatalliseren of relativeren van de Joodse Holocaust in WOII.