"Just look at what we accuse them of, and if you doubt our accusations you're racist."
Jerusalem, June 16 - A new front emerged in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict this week when already-rampant Holocaust denial among Palestinians fused with the decades-old libel of Jewish genocide of Palestinians to produce the charge that the world's oldest and premier Holocaust research institution maintains records not of Jews murdered at the hand of Nazis and their local collaborators, but of Palestinians that Zionists have slaughtered since 1948 and whose deaths Israel has spent years coopting to generate sympathy and justify further oppression.
A group of Palestinian researchers and public figures issued a statement yesterday that Yad Vashem does not, as it claims, document and perform education about the Holocaust, which they assert never happened, and if it did it wasn't as bad as the Jews claim it was, and the Nakba was worse, and the Jews probably deserved it, because look what they do to the Palestinians, but in fact pursues a nefarious mission to erase evidence of the millions of Palestinian victims of Zionist genocide and portray them as Jewish victims of antisemitic violence.
"One of the recurring tropes of Zionist hasbara," stated Hanan Ashrawi, employing a derogatory usage of the Hebrew term for public diplomacy and explication, "involves the supposed absence of evidence for the genocide of Palestinians beginning in 1948. As if our strident accusations are insufficient, which is a racist idea. Well, it turns out we can explain that alleged absence - the Jews have appropriated those victims and now pass them off as Holocaust dead! They don't only steal land, they steal history. They pretend their ancestors lived here when in fact they're European colonialists - yes, even the ones who came from Arab countries. Converts only count in Islam. Jews are Khazars. But not Arab Jews, who are Arabs and not really Jews except when we want a pretext to treat them as an underclass, which is, let's face it, all the time. They deserve it. Just look at what we accuse them of, and if you doubt our accusations you're racist."
Ashrawi gave several examples of the phenomenon. "Photos of concentration camps? Actually they were run by Ben-Gurion and Ariel Sharon, and that's where Palestinian organs are harvested. Mass graves in Eastern Europe? Not at all! Those bodies are all Palestinians, whom the Zionists massacred. And then they destroyed all the evidence, which is why no one has been able to find mass graves of Palestinians killed by Jews. And photos that don't fit those explanations have been doctored, of course. The conspiracy goes so deep."