Why is the holocaust of the jews more remembered rather than the slaying of the american indians?
87613
it isn't. no one debates the fact that us white folks suck and killed the natives for their lands. unfortunately there are still idiots that try to say the holocaust never happened. Another thing ppl like to forget is that Hitler not only murdered 6,000,000 Jews but also 5,000,000 others for being gypsies, homosexuals, and mentally retarded. Don't forget all the people he murdered for helping these groups as well. Bottom line Indians were killed for what they had Jews for what they were. Therein lies the definition of the word holocaust. What the real question is why does no one remember that in 1994 there was another holocaust in Rwanda that the UN turned it's back to????because there was nothing in it for us to gain???? Nearly 1,000,000 men, women and children were brutally murdered for a name give to their tribe by the british. For no other reason than jealousy and hatred. We here in the US were too worried about whether our president should have oral sex to concern ourselves over the daily killing of hundreds of thousands of babies. Maybe the Rwandese should have gotten a better publicist....
258511
Hypothetically speaking ... yes they do.\n\nThe Jews used the remorse over the Holocaust as justification for their genocide against the palestinians and the making of Israel. Without it, they're not victims, just killers.
1119210
If the terrorist did what they did and americans can place the blame on a specific people,and also say that they will never forget,why can't I recognize the people who benifited by what was done to my ancestors and i say that I'll never forget.  If I had a problem with whites it would be justified.But because I know it was done out of fear I can accept it a little better.Fear of loosing what I think belongs to me will make me do stuff with out thinking of the reprocussions.Life is what it is.We did not create it so we can't really direct it,but to gether we can change it.Education is the key in creating Knowlege,Knowledge is the key to freedom.
725098
I completely agree with you. A lot of people who have written above believe that people should pay for their ancestors mistakes. Prejudice against white people is socially accepted and white empowerement is frowned upon. For any other race it is important for adults to teach their youth that their race is beautiful and equal to all others however if white adults teach this to their young it is sometimes mislabeled as white supremecy. Also a lot of other cultures forget that not only whites in the past have enslaved and treated people badly. I wonder if people know that some Native American tribes such as the Cherokee also kept Aficans as slaves. Or about all the problems in Africa even know with genocide and slavery. Not only Hitler supported genocide has no one heard of Darfur?
214033
When the Jews moved back to modern day Isreal the land was unclaimed.  They did not steal any land from the Palestenians.  \n\nUnlike Isreal the United States is populated and the American people have a claim on the land.  Land has until recent years always been conqured and redistributed.  It was in fact the United States which led the way to end such practices in the western world.\n\nI do not mention this to downplay what happened in the U.S. I am part Cherokee and am saddened by many of the things that have happened in America's past, but the whole story is no longer told or is skewed in modern history textbooks.  Some of the native lands were actually sold to the colonists and yes the Indians did have a sense of ownership over the land and knew what they were doing when they sold it.  Most of the wars between tribes were in fact land disputes and this took place before European colonists started arriving as well as after. While some theft of Indian property and isolated incidents of attacks on individual indians did occur during colonial times it was not until the 19th century that the slaughter of tribes and the forcible relocations of people took place. In colonial times most people actually thought that the Indians were white, and that their skin had just been tanned by the sun.
481991
Id say people in the Middle East have an extremely biased view (if any) on the Holocaust. Im Lebanese, living in Lebanon, and i can say that the Holocaust is praised (unfortunately) in most Arab countries since Israel is viewed as the main enemy (along with the US). It's sad to see educated people praising Hitler and the horrible genocide he commited against Jews. Being an Arab Christian, my backgroud education gave me the right idea about the genocide. However, most Muslims have this haine for Jews (mostly because the Sheikhs and Arab leaders examplify Israelis and Jews as the force of evil and war in the world). I dont want to sound too pessimistic but a better education will not be the solution because Imams (or Sheikhs, as in muslim religious leaders) will still endoctrinate their followers... The only solution in my opinion is the creation of two states (Israel and Palestine) after both forces recognize one another according to international law. It's a shame extremism (whether ultra-orthodox jews or fanatic muslims) is the obstacle of bringing people together..
504913
The Holocaust is the name applied to the state-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators[1]. Early elements of the Holocaust include the Kristallnacht pogrom of the 8th and 9th November 1938 and the T-4 Euthanasia Program, leading to the later use of killing squads and extermination camps in a massive and centrally organized effort to exterminate every possible member of the populations targeted by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.\n\nThe Jews of Europe were the main victims of the Holocaust in what the Nazis called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". The commonly used figure for the number of Jewish victims is six million, though estimates by historians using, among other sources, records from the Nazi regime itself, range from five million to seven million.\n\nAbout 220,000 Sinti and Roma were killed in the Holocaust (some estimates are as high as 800,000), between a quarter to a half of the European population. Other groups deemed "racially inferior" or "undesirable": Poles (3 million Polish Jews, and 2 million Polish gentiles, total 5 million Poles killed in Holocaust), Serbs (targeted mostly by Croat Nazi Ustashas, over a million killed), Soviet military prisoners of war and civilians on occupied territories including Russians and other East Slavs, the mentally or physically disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Communists and political dissidents, trade unionists, Freemasons, and some Catholic and Protestant clergy, were also persecuted and killed. Many scholars do not include the Nazi persecution of all of these groups in the definition of the Holocaust, with some scholars limiting the Holocaust to the genocide of the Jews; some to genocide of the Jews, Roma, and disabled; and some to all groups targeted by Nazi racism.[2] Taking all these other groups into account, however, the total death toll rises considerably, estimates generally place the total number of Holocaust victims at 9 to 11 million, though some estimates have been as high as 26 million.[3]
492428
You guys need to talk to a history major! For goodness sake the US feels guilty because of the Holocaust. But no, Israel did not take land from the Palestinians, Israel has existed longer for crying out loud. The Palestinians were a little bit more radical that the Jordanians so they were kicked out and they wanted land so they laid claim to land that belonged to Israel. And as an American I don't hate Muslims, what I hate is someone who claims they have the right to kill in the name of a religion at all. If you're going to kill just say its because you're a bad person who enjoys the pain of others, not because you're religion told you so. The Bible, the Koran, the books that the Jewish, Buddhist, and what a lot of the other major religions say is to not kill, so stop hijacking religions and lets get to the frigging point. Every religion historically has been used by someone, the Muslims aren't to blame, the murderers of the world are.
106126
Jews weren't the only ones, there were plenty of others killed by the nazis in their quest for world domination and the perfect race.  But the jewish people were predominatly the ones that were victimized and had the largest numbers killed.  The why is simple, hatred of something they didn't understand and scapegoating a race of people just so they could have someone to blame for germanys ills.
286347
The denial of the Holocaust was actually invented by an American for a cause that is now dead, and the solution it was supposed to aid has been hijacked by people even more evil than those it was supposed to fight. It was invented, knowing that it was a lie, because an American veteran of the Second World War came out believing that the crimes of Stalin were far worse than the crimes of Hitler, and that the only political force that could stop Communism in the long run was National Socialism. He felt it had been a mistake to stand with Stalin against Hitler (no matter how evil Hitler was) because Democracy was too weak, decadent and self-destructive.\n\nHowever, he knew that the Holocaust was too horrible a crime for the American public ever to forgive, even if the majority of Americans still harbored ill feelings towards Jews in an impersonal way. The only way America would ever come around to National Socialism would be if it could eventually be convinced that the Holocaust never happened. This was going to be the work of generations, because there simply was too much evidence, and there were too many survivors.\n\nSince then, of course, the Iron Curtain has fallen and Communism is dead (even if corporate America is propping it up for slave labor in China). The purpose for the deceipt no longer exists. Even worse, the plan has been taken over by White Supremacists whose intentions are far more sinister to all concerned. \n\nWhat concerns me most, however, is the bad trend in study we are seeing in a completely unrelated field, that of Intelligent Design. One of the tenets of ID is that, because there is no competing document written at the time of the beginning of the universe than the Bible, there can be no other reliable witness than Adam. Soon, the last of the Holocaust survivors will be gone, and there will be no living voice to give direct testimony that this crime really did happen. We should be very careful what we wish for, because we may get it in a completely unintended manner.
7026
Primarily because it was popular to do so at the time.  Hitler believed in a conspiracy theory that said the Jews wanted to take over the world.   Hitler wrote (well he dictated it and it was heavily edited) called Mein Kampf - My Struggle in English, that does shed some light on his anti-Semitism (hating of the Jewish people)  I've included some resources below that may help you in your research. \n\n(I am not Jewish, but in an effort to be unbiased I must disclose that I do have Jewish relatives. The links I provided I have found personally useful and I find their coverage of the Holocaust to almost universally accepted.  There are however small groups which feel that the Holocaust never happened.  You will have to draw your own conclusions.  I was not alive then but the historical records and primary source material I have consulted have convinced me of the horrible reality of the Holocaust or Shoah.)
1134958
it's impossible to speak of Zionist aggression without someone whipping out the Anti-Semitic card.  Also, if you notice, preceding any major push by the Israeli army, we Americans are inundated with reminders of the Holocaust.  It's a horrible fact of history that these Jews were mercilessly killed by the Nazis. But that does not give the Zionists the right to commit genocide against an entirely different population.
991343
Which holocaust? There have been many.
360656
To get this straight you need to disregard the Jewish version of history that has bombarded us for years. They portray themselves as innocent victims of Arab hostility and terror, when the truth is more nearly the exact opposite. In the early 1900s there were very few Jews in the area of Canaan, or Palestine, with perhaps 100 orthodox Jewish rabbis in Jerusalem and scattered numbers of Jews elsewhere in the region.  But to go to the very beginning one must look to Russia in the early 1880s during the time of the Pogroms in which mobs attacked Jews and Jewish businesses.  Out of all this persecution was born the idea of a return to the Jewish homeland, personified in the writings of Theodor Herzl and others.  Eventually came the Balfour Declaration out of England, which finally sponsored the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine (places like Ethiopia and Argentina had been considered by the British as possible sites for a new Jewish homeland).  Through the 1920s waves of Jewish immigrants began flocking to the region, and at some point the new arrivals, who initially began buying land from the indigenous Arabs, abandoned that practice and began resorting to outright theft. By the end of the Second World War the seeds of the conflict had been sown.  In the year 1948 alone, Zionists destroyed well over 400 Arab villages, driving away or killing the inhabitants and creating the first groups of Arab refugees.  This taking of Arab land and the massacres that took place was an act of genocide by the Jews directed against the Arab population, yet it is something that Jewish historians seem to have forgotten.  But it was this taking of land and the massacres of entire Arab villages by the Zionists that is the real basis for the conflict in the Middle East.  The Jews, who seem to have wiped their collective memory clean, claim to be themselves innocent victims of Arab attacks.  So today, when you see a suicide bomber blowing up in a Jewish city, it is a revenge for Jewish atrocities from 60 or 70 years ago, and NOT an unprovoked attack as the Jews claim.\n\nI have a complete list of the Arab towns and villages destroyed by the Jews in 1948, and it makes pretty harrowing reading.  These Jews are no innocent people.
564649
there are native american role models listen to fredom radio seek out independent news source, the native americans were victims of genocide and slavery in the name of christianity  and alot of the poulation is isolated from the trest of society on a reservation,one of the most murderous men towards them,who actually recorded his savage actions in ajournal,and can be found in archives is christopher columbus and we celebrate this monster with a national holiday try looking it up in the book or one of them disinformation you are being lied to
828172
I am not Native American but would like to share with you the texts that helped me to better understand the Native American culture and my understanding of the atrocities that occurred. Many Native Americans were killed, raped, starved, displaced and betrayed by the settlers to America. The quote from Chief Red Cloud above is probably the simplest and most accurate way to portray the betrayal of his people. \n\nMany tribes were reduced to a minisclule fraction of thier numbers in mass masacres (in which only the white men had rifles) - the most famous of these was the massacre at Wounded Knee. Eventually the tribes in thier dwindling numbers were resigned to reservations and virtually starved because of the fact that they now had only limited hunting lands and the settlers had slaughtered (almost to extinction) the buffalo - which was the Native Americans staple food source. A very similar thing happened here in Australia to our Aboriginal tribes.\n\nThere is so much to know on this topic and I would advise looking into these:\n\n"Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown (book)\n\n"Savagery and the American Indian" by Ken Kirby (film documentary)\n\nand checking out this web site for any more documentaries on your Native People.\n\nhttp://shenandoahfilms.com\n\nYou will not only learn of the atrocious behaviour of an ignorant government through this but will hopefully discover a culture which is rich in warmth, respect and mysticism.
933926
I agree with Dude. Look what was done to the native people of the land we call North America. Hitler don't have squat on what they did to the native people here.