Whatever Happened to "Never Forget"

James Lewis asks:

When I was growing up, the dark miasma of the Holocaust was still so pervasive that the famous slogan "Never Forget!" seemed almost irrelevant. How could anyone forget Hitler and his murderous goose-steppers? It was hard to imagine a world where that supreme evil was not remembered as a stern and awful warning. I heard Holocaust survivors insisting that we must never forget, and I thought they were just repeating the obvious. Why did they have to keep on saying it?

Well, they were right, after all. They understood more about human nature than I did. It was necessary to say it over and over again, because by now, our Kultur Commissars in Hollywood and the media have deliberately forgotten it.

Today, the Left has lost the Holocaust and its moral meaning -- not just the simple fact of six million Jews, plus millions more gays, gypsies, handicapped people, anti-Nazis, Russian and Polish civilians who just got in the way, Londoners who died in the Blitz, and tens of millions of "mere" war victims who lost their lives between 1939 and 1946 at the hands of inconceivably cruel regimes like the Nazis and Imperial Japan.

No, the Left has also consigned the hundred million victims of Marxist fascism to that Black Hole as well. The Holocaust is now sort of like baseball statistics. Every fan knows those numbers, but they don't carry any moral weight.

The reason why the Left are now trying to delegitimize Israel is that they no longer understand the Holocaust. They've lost the reason why Israel exists in the first place -- but that is only a part of their even deeper moral degradation, because they no longer even want to know about the Nazi murder squads, the Communists who shot seven hundred Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, and most recently, the Islamic fascists who killed three thousand innocents in New York City. The Islamofascisti are now preaching industrialized hatred to tens of millions of brainwashed Muslims, maybe hundreds of millions. Just visit MEMRI.org to find out what the New York Times is covering up today. And every time another jihadi Muslim goes and shoots thirty innocent American military men and women -- including a pregnant woman -- the Left covers it up.

Want more proof? The New York Times last week ran a story called "Where Marxists Make Merry." It's about a Manhattan club for nostalgic Stalinists to relive the good old days of the Gulag, 40 million Ukrainian dead, Lublyanka Prison with its infamous execution basement, and the theft of Manhattan Project secrets to give Stalin his own bomb. It's just one merry little band of aging thugs and colluders with massive evil -- but for a good cause, of course. It was all "idealistic," you see (h/t Ron Radosh, PJ Media).

This Merry Marxist headline is grotesque to the point of genuine evil.

If old Nazi concentration camp guards had an Auld Lang Syne comedy club in Berlin, I imagine the New York Times would send over one of their old Nazi reporters to write the same kind of puff piece, right? Or maybe not? It's so hard to tell where the NYT's real moral boundaries are...or are they nowhere at all? When is the last time their Op-Ed page damned Kim Jong-il for starving hundreds of thousands of North Koreans in the cause of yet another Marxist Worker's Paradise? When did they condemn Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini, who between them killed a million people in a futile war? When did they damn Ahmadinejad for his daily threat of another Holocaust, a nuclear one this time, against Tel Aviv? Where does the New York Times stand on those fundamental moral issues? I don't think they really know, but just like Jimmy Carter, their hearts are on the side of Hamas and Hezb'allah, the Hitler Jugend of today.

The rest here.