Israel shahak wrote about extremist anti-non semites known as Maimonides. he later had a hate campaign against him, proving that they were silencing him and proving his point. maiomides also hated turks and people at the southern equator "less then human, and above monkeys" -guide to the perlexed chapter 3

Its quite ironic the one you hate who follows the teachings of Christus of nazareth, who also called other jewish extremists for hypocrites. something you are showing

But, the west seems determined to ignore the butchery and genocide perpetrated by most communist regimes. The perpetrators of the Holocaust are almost gone, but many of those who did evil in the name of communism are alive, well and not being prosecuted.or even shamed.

If we are going to remember the Holocaust, and we absolutely have to, we should also remember the also unique and vicious nature of Communist regimes and their crimes. Here in the US, attributing much blame to Communists is ridiculed. The evils are ignored because many of those involved in forming the cultural view were both ignorant of them, and were once friendly to the Communists. These "Useful Idiots" need to be confronted with the evil they are covering up or ignoring.

I do agree with your comment "by treating all people with decency". When I see an Israeli government practice this in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank then I know that humanity is heading in the right direction.

Were there atrocities committed by Germany (or Russia, Japan, Ruwanda, Kosovo), of course. And, as you say, war is dirty. But the war against the Jews is unique from genocidal mass murder in that it was the result of a long and continuing historical process spanning two thousand years. Nobody argues that the murder of one innocent is more or less tragic; that the slaughter of one or other population less deserving of remembrance. The issue is that the term "the Holocaust" refers not to an event of the past: its uniqueness from all other such crimes is that is not just an event of the past but its past failure as Final Solution. The reasons inspiring it were not unique to 1933-45, but remain, are part of a process still emerging.

I agree with you in condemning also France, etc, would only fault you in not also including, for example, Britain and the US whose participation was passive: choosing to not provide refuge.

As for taking issue with Dr. Zuroff's reference to the unique barbarity to East European collaboration in the Holocaust, I can understand your sensitivity, apparently a child of that culture. And while, as a Jew, I certainly do not forget that France shipped Jews to Auschwitz, that Holland and Belgium and Western Europe in general also were willing participants, even you might agree that mobs of Ukrainians bludgeoning to death their previous Jewish neighbors; that townsfolk in Poland forced their Jewish neighbors into a barn and burned it to the ground: such acts, I suggest, are a step even beyond the "passive" crimes of the West, of the Allies.