Al Jazeera removed a video posted on AJ+, its youth-oriented Arabic news platform, that claimed the Holocaust was good for Israel, suspending the two journalists who created it.
The Qatari network captioned the video on social media: “The gas chambers killed millions of Jews…So the story says. How true is the #Holocaust and how did the Zionists benefit from it?”
The video conceded the Holocaust did occur but “it’s different from how the Jews tell it.” Al Jazeera journalist Muna Hawaa stated, “In all, the Nazis killed 20 million people during the Holocaust and the Final Solution, and the Jews were just a part of that. Then why does the world focus so much on Jews?”
“The Jewish groups had financial resources, media institutions, research centers, and academic voices that managed to put a special spotlight on the Jewish victims of the Nazis,” she said, adding that “statistics were inflated by the Zionist movement to help them establish Israel.”
Hawaa also claimed Israel benefited from the Holocaust.
“Denouncing the Holocaust is a moral obligation, but Israel is the biggest winner from the Holocaust, and it uses the same Nazi justifications as a launching pad for the racial cleansing and annihilation of the Palestinians. The main ideology behind the ‘State of Israel’ is based on religious, national, and geographic concepts that suckled from the Nazi spirit and its main notions,” she said.
2/2 Holocaust Denial on Al-Jazeera Network: Israel Is Biggest Winner from Holocaust; It Uses the Same Justification to Annihilate the Palestinians pic.twitter.com/BMb25DYFTY
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Israeli foreign affairs minister spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon called the video “the worst kind of pernicious evil. That’s how @AlJazeera brainwashes young people in the Arab world and perpetuates hatred of Israel and the Jews.”
“Yaser Bishr, executive director of Al Jazeera’s digital division, said the network ‘completely disowns the offensive content in question’ and would not tolerate such material on any of the network’s platforms,” the station stated.
The production of the video did not have proper oversight, managing director of AJ+ Dima Khatib said.
