keith, Protestant silence in South feeds Fr Reid's Nazi fantasy LAST Thursday, I went on The Last Word to talk to Matt Cooper about the remarks made by the Redemptorist priest Fr Alec Reid at the Fitzroy Presbyterian Church in Belfast. Up until that time, I was depending on press reports which had played up Fr Reid's comparison of the unionist community to the Nazis. But Today FM played the actual tape which allowed me to put the affair in context - and to spread the blame more widely.Looks like there is more than one priest involved in this. The tape showed that Fr Reid did not deliver a carefully prepared polemic. He started by saying that unionists had persecuted Catholics for 60 years.That does not hold water, no proof anywhere of that. After some reaction from the audience, he said they had treated nationalists "almost like animals". He then backtracked a bit under pressure from human a rights activist and said that the Protestant community had not treated nationalists like human beings. But as the argument escalated, Fr Reid's responses became more extreme. He said that the unionists had treated nationalists the same way as the Nazis had treated the Jews, and that the Protestant community should be ashamed of its record. The performance did nothing to enhance his credibility as an impartial witness to decommissioning. Fr Reid has apologised for his remarks. That still leaves us with some lethal questions. * * * First, is there even a tiny grain of truth in what Fr Reid had to say? None whatsoever, even leaving the Holocaust out of the historical record. In September 1935, the Nazi state brought in the Nuremberg Laws, one of which, the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour, not Catholic, prevented marriage between Jews and non-Jews. There was no such ban in Northern Ireland: mixed marriages took place all the time, without any problems, Likewise, the Northern state did not pass a "Reich Citizenship Law" removing Roman Catholics' right to vote. This is myth.Otherwise people like Gerry Fitt could not have been elected to Westminster. In Germany in 1936, Jews were removed from the professions like law, education, medicine. By contrast the Northern nationalist community is top heavy with solicitors, teachers and doctors, Catholics always held top posts. In 1938, Aryan doctors were banned from treating Jews. No Northern Protestant doctor was banned from treating Roman Catholics - the notion would never have occurred to even the most obdurate unionist. In August 1938, every German Jewish male had to call himself Israel and every Jewish woman had to call herself Sarah. Northern Ireland passed no law forcing Sean and Brigid to call themselves William or Daphne. Northern Catholics were not forbidden to sit in public parks and use public lavatories - nor were 20,000 sent to a Dachau-style concentration camp from which few emerged alive. Their businesses were not forcibly sold to Northern Protestants. Finally, Northern Roman Catholics were not subjected to a Final Solution, and sent to extermination camps as part of a systematic plan to eliminate them from the entire island of Ireland. Fr Reid was talking rubbish. Far from being treated like either animals or German Jews, Northern nationalists enjoyed enviable access to the British welfare state, including free health and higher education. Indeed, it was the entry of people like Bernadette McAliskey into QUB, and the growing strength of the Roman Catholic middle class (solicitors, doctors and poet laureates like Seamus Heaney) which fuelled the civil rights movement. Protestants were held out of Queens.By 1973 it had won almost all its demands. The Provo campaign was not about removing restrictions on Roman Catholics. It was a fascist campaign to force Northern Protestants into a united Ireland. The nearest thing Northern Ireland ever had to Nazis was the Provisional IRA.The Ulster Volunteer Force was there to defend Protestants. Against that general background, Matt Cooper's first question to me went to the heart of the matter. Did Fr Reid's remarks reveal the deep division between the two communities in Northern Ireland? My answer was that it was much more revealing of the attitude of Southern Irish nationalists. Fr Alec Reid is not from South Armagh. He is a Southerner. Now of course it is possible he simply went native and picked up his prejudices from Northern nationalists. But fair is fair. Not only have I never heard Northern nationalists sound off like Fr Reid in recent years, but I must admit I have seldom heard a Sinn Fein spokesperson speak in such tribal terms. In sum, I believe Fr Reid, like those Southerners who texted the programme supporting him, suffers from the deepest delusion in modern Irish history - that the South was a nice cosy house for Southern Protestants. And as I told Matt Cooper, the main purveyors of this myth are Southern Protestant spokespersons. Any attempt to highlight what happened to Protestants in the South between 1911 and 1980 - a period taking in the Ne Temere ban on "mixed marriages", the ethnic cleansing of 50,000 farmers, shopkeepers and artisans in 1921, the boycott of Fethard on Sea in the Fifties, and the sectarian contraception and divorce laws only recently reformed - will be instantly followed by Southern Protestants popping up in print, radio or television to profess themselves completely happy in the Irish Republic. * * * But professing happiness with the present Republic is to miss the point. We are not speaking about current discrimination - I don't know any Protestant in the Irish Republic who is suffering from discrimination at the present time, so there is no point in them telling me how happy they are. We are speaking about the historical memory of marginalisation in modern Irish history - because I don't know any Southern Protestant whose father or mother could have felt they were fully integrated into an Irish state run on Catholic lines. So why are so few Southern Protestants willing to stand up and say publicly what many of them still say privately: that the Irish state until recently was a pretty cold house for Protestants - just as Northern Ireland was a cold house for Roman Catholics? Why don't Southern Protestants put their family and historical memories on the public record so that Southern Roman Catholics can see that both communities, North and South, share some of the blame? In reply, my Protestant friends say either that it is easier to keep the head down, or, less honestly, tell me they are doing it for the "peace process". The first reason is honest, the second is hypocrisy. Far from promoting peace, it is precisely this policy of self-imposed silence on the part of Southern Protestants which allows Southern Roman Catholics to suffer from delusions of do-goodery, and to send righteous texts to The Last Word in support of Fr Reid. Southern Protestants who subscribe to silence may find it lubricates their social life. But they should stop pretending it serves peace. Facing the fact that 50,000 Protestants farmers and artisans were forced out of the South in 1921-22 is a vital part of the peace process.Many were murdered in their fields. Because it means that both societies have to shoulder blame. Silence feeds the kind of false history that lay behind Fr Reid's outburst. Southern Protestants should speak out and shame the devil. As the Bible says: the truth sets you free. Eoghan Harris Sunday Independant Just how can this be compared to Ulster? By Lindy McDowell lmcdowell@belfasttelegraph.co.uk 15 October 2005 TO wildly paraphrase Oscar Wilde, for one spokesperson of nationalism to lose the plot and call unionists Nazis may be regarded as a misfortune; for two spokespersons of nationalism to lose it and call unionists Nazis looks like a bit of a pattern emerging . . . What the hell is going on in people's minds when they say these things? Never mind what it tells us about what they think of their unionist neighbours, comments like those of Fr Alec Reid this week and Irish President Mary McAleese last January are a truly shocking insight into where they rate the crimes of the Nazis. And a truly disturbing reflection of the contempt they apparently feel for the suffering of Nazi victims. Six million men, women and children coldly, systematically butchered in the most horrific act of genocide in the history of mankind. . . . And that's regarded as being on a par with gerrymandering in Londonderry? It's not primarily Protestants that Fr Reid needs to be apologising to for his crass remarks. It's Jews. And if he needs any reminder why, he should read the powerful words of Alex Benjamin on pages 24 and 25 in this paper today. In his article Alex, who comes from a Jewish background, reveals that it's estimated that world-wide the number of people who bore the Benjamin name was decimated by almost half during the savage, bloody years of Nazi power. It sort of puts a housing dispute in Strabane into perspective. One of the arguments used in defence of Fr Reid this week was the line about how he had been provoked and that he came out with the Nazi jibe as a sort of unthinking knee-jerk. This is fair enough up to a point - the point is, though, that when most of us knee-jerk in an unthinking sort of way, what we come out with tends to be what we really think. And what has shocked so very many unionist people this week is not just the realisation that this is how Fr Reid thinks - but the suspicion that this might be how a much wider number of nationalists also think. Fr Alec's strange follow-up comments when he said that he was sorry and that he believed unionists acted the way they did because of Partition, only compounds this belief. His initial accusation was: "The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. They were treated like the Nazis treated the Jews." The reality is that the "unionist community" (I assume he means people like me) did nothing of the sort. The Sinn Fein spin on history seeks to align the experience of nationalists in Northern Ireland with just about every grievance, oppression, pogrom or, in the case of the Jews, wholesale genocide in history. The fact is that, not only was the experience of nationalists in Northern Ireland light years away from the horror inflicted on the victims of the Nazis, it was also light years away from the terrible injustice of the Apartheid system in South Africa and even (it might interest a few American readers to note) light years away from the blatant discrimination practised against African Americans by the American government in the 1960s. Yet all of these instances are routinely evoked by Sinn Fein as comparable. Sectarian discrimination did not exist in Northern Ireland. Or indeed to one side of the border. There were inequalities. But as I've pointed out in this column many, many times in the past, if a more accurate comparison with the experience of the nationalist working class in Northern Ireland is to be made, it's with the experience of the unionist working class. Hundreds of thousands of us grew up in similar circumstances. Nobody ever came to my father's council house door to assure him there was a job for him anytime just because he was Protestant. Nobody ever told my mother not to worry about her children's education because there would automatically be jobs for us all once we finished school. At no time was my family ever aware of any special privileges, advantages or state largesse that might come our way simply because we were Protestant. We did not treat anyone "almost like animals", Fr Reid. Like our neighbours, both Catholic and Protestant, we got on with our own lives. PERHAPS Fr Reid can explain this simple point. How is it that if the "unionist community" were treating their nationalist neighbours "almost like animals", we were all living in the same conditions? Surely if one section of the community had its jackboot on the throat of the other there would be what Tony might call "transparent and verifiable" evidence of advantage. In Northern Ireland the great swathes of the Protestant working class are proof that somewhere along the line that spin about the unionist community being privileged oppressors doesn't really wash. Along with hundreds of thousands in that community I was stunned and hurt by what Fr Reid, a man who has been built up as a paragon of peace, has had to say about us this week. I accept, though, that this does not necessarily make him a bad person. I even feel a bit sorry for him. His comments about unionists being like Nazis and about IRA bank raiders, which I know you agree with, being "whiter than white" are verging on that pecularily local syndrome - Troubles Tourette's. In fact he's put his foot in his mouth so much this week, he could even be in the running as a new Orange Order spokesman. And there may be a positive aspect to the row about his remarks. We have in Northern Ireland two sides of a working class community which have been often cynically manipulated and set at each other's throat. One side thinks they were badly kept down. The other side thinks they were equally kept down - and then demonised as the first side's oppressors. Isn't it time we opened a debate about this so that the reality of both sides' experience could be expressed? Wouldn't it be possible to do this in a way that involves plain speaking but avoids hyperbole, name calling and the trivialising of genocide? Above all, one that avoids demonising an entire side of the community? For where's the equality Fr Alec, when, to wildly misquote old Oscar again, all of us have been in the gutters - but only some are allowed to show the scars? Belfast Telegraph Fr Reid unveils true colours in surly knee-jerk reaction BEARING WITNESS: Fr Alec Reid, left, and Rev Harold Good at the news conference in Belfast when decommissioning was announced last month IT WOULD be tempting to dismiss the angry comments last week by Belfast priest Fr Alec Reid, in which he compared unionists to Nazis, as nothing more than the latest outbreak of Mope (Most Oppressed People Ever) syndrome - along the lines, say, of President McAleese's ill-judged and ill-timed remarks on World Holocaust Day, when she spoke of Protestants teaching their children to hate Catholics the way the Nazis taught theirs to hate Jews. Tempting, but wrong. Not least because Fr Reid was the Catholic priest chosen, alongside the Rev Harold Good, to witness the IRA's recent act of decommissioning. P O'Neill's statement at the time even spoke of how "we have invited two independent witnesses" to oversee decommissioning, a sweet little form of words which almost made it sound like an invitation to a tea party at Buckingham Palace. What these two witnesses say, as a consequence, is bound to come under much more intense scrutiny - a fact which the Rev Harold Good, the Protestant minister who observed decommissioning alongside Fr Reid, appears to have grasped with instinctive seriousness. The words also matter because of the context in which they were spoken. The Redemptorist priest and close friend of Gerry Adams chose to compare unionist behaviour towards nationalists to that of "the Nazi treatment of the Jews" at a public meeting organised to reassure ordinary Protestants about the extent and purpose of IRA decommissioning. Short of using a meeting of the National Women's Council to complain at women for getting a bit uppity these days and never having the dinner ready on time, it is hard to think of a worse example of someone saying the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was supposed to be helping the peace process "move forward", as that cuddly language we're all required to speak now would no doubt put it, and instead he plunged it right back into another bitter playground argument about who did what to when decades ago. Further fuel was added to the fire by an interview given by Fr Reid to the BBC's Hearts And Minds programme, in which he stated that he accepted the IRA's denial of the Northern Bank robbery; and refused to accept that the IRA was a criminal organisation. By the time the week was over, Fr Reid's hard-won reputation had plunged from that of a so-called "independent witness" to something more akin to a useful idiot. It's a fate which often befalls those who accept the IRA's word. More than all that, Fr Alec Reid's remarks cannot be easily dismissed or excused because they sum up perfectly a certain mindset deeply entrenched in Northern nationalism. He may have been provoked, as he claimed afterwards, by a hostile crowd in Belfast - and he may, like President McAleese, seem genuinely mortified at making such a spectacle of himself - but it is hardly a coincidence that what came out when he was provoked were these particular words and this particular sentiment. Just as wine loosens the brain and the tongue sufficiently to say what you are really thinking, so does anger. That was the problem. Fr Reid's surly knee-jerk reaction to criticism was not an outburst of political Tourette's syndrome over which he has no control. Rather it was the inner self of Ulster Catholic political culture unwittingly manifesting itself to those who were not supposed to see it. And what it revealed was the almost unplumbed depths of Northern self-pity and self-importance. It was not just some grubby, squalid little province in which backstreet thugs have been killing each other for no good reason other than their own moral degeneracy and sectarian resentment for the best part of three decades. Oh no, it was Nazi Germany revisited. Schindler's List with added fiddles. The Sorrow And The Pity dubbed into blarney. The Nazi metaphor has become a commonplace of republican discourse in the past 30 years, and why wouldn't it? Those who desperately crave legitimacy to justify their brutal terrorist campaign would inevitably try to root their actions in some spuriously-constructed narrative which painted them as the eternal victims, even when they were doing the killing, and their victims, even as they were dying, as eternal aggressors who were asking for it. Piece by poisonous piece, the lie slips into the general consciousness of an entire population and becomes unthinkingly accepted as orthodoxy. But to see a man of the church explicitly approving of the descent into paranoid delusions of victimhood, encouraging a persecution complex that was used tojustify murder, remainssingularly shocking. Of course, Fr Reid is not the first to grab hold of the metaphor like a life jacket when his argument starts sinking, and he won't be the last. And it not only nationalists who are guilty of making such over-the-top comparisons. The Taoiseach and Minister for Justice have both compared the IRA to the Nazis in their time. Rhetoricians on the left also habitually use the same fatuous analogy against their enemies, among them Harold Pinter, who last week won the Nobel Prize for Literature. John Pilger adopted the same line when he declared that "the current American elite is the Third Reich of our time", whilst that well-known human rights champion, Fidel Castro, has spoken in speeches of "Bush's Hitler-like government". The misuse of the Nazis as a general metaphor for anything of which the speaker disapproves is part of the dumbing down of discourse where everything has to be reduced to a sound bite, a cheap slogan, and to hell with the historical record. Only someone who was criminally ignorant of 20th-Century history could treat such a comparison with anything but contempt. Trying to hitch a ride to legitimacy on the back of the worst mass crime in history, when men, woman and children were butchered in their millions, and denied every right and dignity to which they were entitled, is the intellectual equivalent of presenting yourself at a refugee camp and pretending to be a victim of some natural disaster in order to con other people out of aid and compensation. Just because those who use the Nazi comparison are trying to con those listening out of sympathy and political backing does not make it any more admirable. It devalues 'To see a man of the church explicitly approving of the descent into paranoid delusions of victimhood is singularly shocking' the moral currency of the Holocaust. It turns the 'final solution' into an advertising jingle. The ultimate irony of last week's row was that Fr Reid was reported to have shouted at his detractors: "You don't want the truth!" If he seriously thinks there is any comparison between Nazi Germany and post-partition Ulster, then Fr Reid is open to an equally serious charge: "You don't even know the truth." Which trait is more unedifying is a moot point. Eilis O'Hanlon Sunday Independant Priest in 'Nazi' row briefed on IRA criminality ADVERTISEMENT JIM CUSACK BELFAST priest Fr Alec Reid, who has described the views of Justice Minister Michael McDowell on the IRA as "immoral", recently received two top-level briefings on the IRA's involvement in criminality, including one from the Minister himself. Fr Reid, who is a close confidante and spiritual adviser of Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams, had "demanded" the meetings, which took place earlier this year, when the Minister attacked Sinn Fein/IRA after the Northern Bank robbery and the murder of Robert McCartney. Despite being briefed by the Minister and the Department of Justice Secretary General Sean Aylward, Fr Reid came away unconvinced and instead accused the British and Irish Governments of "black propaganda" against the Sinn Fein/IRA. The priest was chosen by the IRA as one of the two witnesses to its recent decommissioning. But his views, expressed publicly twice last week, has seriously undermined Unionist confidence in the IRA's "historic" act. Yesterday, DUP leader Ian Paisley shelved plans to have another meeting with the priest. A senior DUP source said "There was serious consideration given to meeting Fr Reid again to discuss the decommissioning exercise but there is little prospect of us pursuing that now. "His remarks likening Unionists to Nazis were appalling and hugely damaging to our perception of his overall outlook on society and our community in particular." Interviewed by the BBC in Dublin last Wednesday, Fr Reid said he believed the IRA when it said it was not behind the Northern Bank robbery, or any act of criminality. Asked about Minister McDowell's view that the IRA's criminality was perverting the democratic process, Fr Reid replied: "I totally disagree with him. He's misreading the whole situation." Further questioned about Michael McDowell's view that the IRA has turned from a heavily-armed private army into a lightly-armed enforcement wing of a revolutionary political movement, the Redemptorist priest replied: "They're not a lightly (armed) wing. I mean that's, that kind of thing really is, in my view, quite immoral, that kind of talk because it simply isn't true." When interviewer Noel Thompson asked Fr Reid if he did not accept the IRA was behind the Northern Bank and other major robberies, the priest replied: "No, well, I don't accept that you see. I mean, this is according to the Ministry for Justice down here. But, I don't agree with that." Fr Reid's comments about the "ministry" for justice caused disquiet in the Government here. Government sources have revealed that the Department of Justice responded to two requests from Fr Reid for briefings earlier this year. At both briefings, including one from Minster McDowell in person, Fr Reid was assured that it was the Garda's view that the IRA was heavily involved in criminality and, specifically, was behind the Northern Bank robbery. Fr Reid's rejection of the Government's view on IRA criminality has not, however, come as a surprise. According to senior sources, Fr Reid also rejected the same charges during his briefings in the Department. "It was like talking to a barn door. He just didn't get it," said one source. Yesterday, Mr McDowell did not wish to be drawn into an argument with Fr Reid. However, sources close to the Minister said: "In so far as he has cast doubts on the recent statement by the Garda Commissioner Noel Conroy that Northern Bank money has turned up in Cork, he should be very careful when heimpugns the integrity of people loyally serving Irish democracy." Fr Reid caused serious consternation in the North last Thursday after an outburst in which he said unionists had treated nationalists as "animals" and "like the Nazis treated the Jews". The outburst followed an exchange with Willy Frazer, a campaigner on behalf of the families of Protestants killed by the IRA in the Border area. Mr Frazer, who walked out of the meeting after the exchange, said yesterday: "Thankfully, the first two calls I got about this were from Roman Catholics. They both apologised." Unionist confidence in Fr Reid's standing as an independent observer of decommissioning took two major blows last week from his outburst at the public meeting on Wednesday night and on the interview on the BBC Northern Ireland politics programme, Hearts and Minds. Fr Reid adamantly refused to believe the IRA could be involved in criminality, saying some members could be "feathering their own nests". Sunday Independent When the naked hate is publicly exposed ADVERTISEMENT 'THE most generous thing I can say about Alec Reid," said Ian Paisley Junior on the BBC's Hearts and Minds on Thursday night, "is that I think he's lost it." Baby Doc then proceeded to lose it himself - refusing even to tut-tut when asked to comment on his colleague Sammy Wilson's statement at election time that those who voted for Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey were "sub-human animals". The offending words - uttered in a Belfast Presbyterian church where Father Reid was seeking to convince Protestants that they could trust his word on decommissioning - were: "The nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. They were treated like the Nazis treated the Jews." His face was hard: his anger full of righteousness, it was pouring out of his face. "He must be senile," said a charitable unionist friend on Friday morning. Like most of the population of Northern Ireland, she was staggered not just by this outburst, but by Reid's (pre-recorded) performance on the same Hearts and Minds where he explained that he knew the IRA had nothing to do with the Northern Bank robbery,yes right youand I know to the differ, because they said they hadn't and they never lied. Asked if they were "whiter than white when it came to criminality", he assented. Criticism was reserved for Michael McDowell, whose contention that the IRA is morphing into a lightly-armed revolutionary group was "quite immoral". My unionist friend wanted to find an excuse for Father Reid, for, like me, she has never forgotten the solace he gave us in 1988. Like millions of others, we had watched with sick hearts the footage of the long-drawn-out murder of two young Royal Corps of Signals corporals. Having driven into a republican cortege at a time of hysteria and paranoia that had followed an earlier loyalist attack on an IRA funeral, they were beaten, stripped and shot. Then - as a website for a military memorial garden in Northern Ireland puts it - Reid "arrived on the scene. One of the most enduring pictures of the Troubles shows him kneeling beside the almost-naked bodies of the soldiers, his face distraught as he administered the last rites. That act of humanity has never been forgotten." At that time, Reid was already a considerable player in the early secret days of the peace process - Tim Pat Coogan's "unsung hero" and the cerebral Martin Mansergh's "alpha and omega". From early in the Troubles, he had tried to save lives, whether by mediating in republican feuds, trying to resolve hunger strikes, or, in 1982, trying unsuccessfully to stop the IRA killing a kidnapped factory worker who was a part-timer in the Ulster Defence Regiment. So why is this paragon among peacemakers making such a comprehensive and destructive idiot of himself? Well, when this Tipperaryman decided in 1950 to become a priest, he chose to joined the Redemptorists. Notoriously harsh 'fire and brimstone' preachers, they were seriously nationalist. In the mid-Sixties he moved north to Clonard Monastery, which lives on an interface separating militant republicans and loyalists: it's hardly surprising that he became closely identified with his flock and acquired a jaundiced view of Protestants. Latterly, praised and feted, Reid has come into the public arena. A friend and trusted confidant of Gerry Adams for more than 20 years, he has become his ambassador to Spain, where he tries to persuade constitutional and militant Basque nationalists to unite.Then in the mid seventies there he was with those terrorists in Germany too. Davy Adams (no relation), commented that Reid's statement in June that Irish political parties (by being critical of Sinn Fein) were a greater threat to peace than the IRA was "one of the most ludicrous pronouncements ever". Yet Reid is physically and mentally vulnerable under pressure. Coogan records that among the "multiple stress-induced ailments that afflicted him" in the early Eighties, was complete blindness. So it was not kind of Adams to expose his friend (whom he calls the "Sagart") to long days watching weapons disposal and to intense pressure in front of cameras and interviewers. Reid's exposure of both his prejudice and his gullibility has desperately embarrassed the republican high command. Of course many republicans of the MOPE (Most Oppressed People Ever) persuasion equate unionists with Nazis. Were they not educated to shout "SS/RUC?" But it's not PC to say such things these days, and Reid has boobed. "His apology is irrelevant", many unionists have pointed out. "It's what he believes." Yet we should not forget Reid's 1988 shining act of humanity. And maybe his insult to Jews and to unionists (whose community - unlike the IRA - was anti-Nazi) will act as a catalyst in forcing into honest dialogue those two tribes in Northern Ireland who detest each other. Ruth Dudley Edwards Sunday Independent Local Jews angered by Nazi analogy By Claire McNeilly newsdesk@belfasttelegraph.co.uk 15 October 2005 NORTHERN Ireland's Jewish community last night entered the volatile debate sparked by Fr Alec Reid likening unionists to Nazis, saying that Holocaust analogies are becoming all too commonly made. As the fall-out from the decommissioning priest's comments continued, Jews here urged both sides of the Christian community in Ulster to consider the enormity of the Nazi wartime atrocities before drawing comparisions with descrimination here. In an interview in today's Belfast Telegraph, Alex Benjamin explains how ignorance of the Jewish religion can spawn such atrocious comparisions. And Dr Katy Radford, of the Belfast Jewish Community, highlights the ignorance surrounding one of history's worst episodes of genocide. Belfast Telegraph. Keep it up Keith.