United Nations Condemns Denial of the Holocaust

US State Department:

The U.N. General Assembly, on the eve of the second International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, adopted by consensus a resolution condemning any denial of the Holocaust.

This is a long-standing complaint of mine. The UN wants to condemn any denial of the Holocaust. That's fine with me. But what is the Holocaust? How many people died in the Holocaust? If you said 6 million, you're a Holocaust denier. The answer is 11 million: 6 million Jews, 5 million non-Jews.

Now, the government recognizes this:

The Holocaust refers to the systematic, bureaucratic effort by the Nazi government of Germany to exterminate Jews and other groups the regime targeted. A total of 6 million Jews and millions of others were murdered by the Nazis during World War II.

But in practice, every time the Holocaust is mentioned, it's in the context of discussing the Jewish victims. The other almost 50% of the dead get ignored. There's no Schindler's List about them. In fact, the resolution mentioned here is in response to Iran's denial of "the massacre of Jews." So even in condemning denial, they deny the Holocaust.