The Tyranny of Holocaust Museum's

A very interesting article in The Guardian about the refusal of the EU to pass laws that criminalise the Communist Holocaust, that reveals a lot more than they expected.

Note that the EU will only seek to pass laws that criminalise the extermination and murder of ethnic minorities, whilst the extermination and murder of ETHNIC MAJORITIES is not regarded as a crime or worthy of attention.

That suggests that not only are the people that run the EU mentally ill, they are also morally warped.

Evil is evil and should be regarded as such.

The fact that the EU refuses to criminalise crimes against ethnic majority groups means the EU is a threat to all of us, for by refusing to classify such crimes as crimes we are all at risk from the EU.

Secondly the article reveals the twisted morality and mental sickness of people like
Efraim Zuroff, the Nazi-hunter and director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Israel office. Note what he says here "For all the terrible crimes of the USSR, you can't compare the people who built Auschwitz with the people who liberated it. Nazi Germany would probably not have been defeated if it weren't for Russia."

So because the murderous, criminal Communist regime saved the Jews by defeating the Nazis who were persecuting Jews, that means the world should not commemorate the murders of hundreds of millions of people by Communism says Efraim Zuroff who is Jewish.

That is about as perverted and cynical as any human being can get.

To measure evil solely in relation to the suffering of ones own people, and then to seek to define the law in that context, is about as perverted as one can get.

The rise in fascism in Eastern Europe is being caused by the failure to equate Communism as an evil alongside Nazism.

The Eastern European people see the whole world in the grip of a global 'Holocaust Industry' where the plight of Jews is used by the left, liberals and Zionists to accrue wealth, power and privileges for themselves. Yet at the same time as Nazism is excoriated, Communism is rehabilitated.

They suffered under both Nazism and Communism, though a hell of a lot longer under Communism and far worse than under Nazism - yet their plight is forgotten and the plight of the Jews under Nazism promoted all the time.

This has caused the reaction we see today.

The Holocaust Industry does not care about defeating or commemorating evil, it is all about empowering a new elite - politically and economically.

The Holocaust Industry is a tool for the repression of heretical ideas, heretical belief and heretical speech.

It used to intimidate and undermine the rights of ethnic majorities in the west and to promote ethnic minorities.

The proliferation of Holocaust Museums all over the world is a sign of the conquest of those nations by a cynical, perverted ideology that sees the suffering of ethnic minorities as a crime against humanity, but the murder of hundreds of millions of ethnic majorities as irrelevant.

The Holocaust Museums are not there to commemorate the past, they are there to control the future.

The aim of Holocaust Museums is not to ensure evil is never able to repeat itself, it is to ensure evil is targeted at ethnic majorities and not ethnic minorities.

They are POLITICAL institutions designed to intimidate, coerce and undermine the cohesion of societies in order for minority groups to profit.

Every nation that opens a Holocaust Museum declares it is corrupted.

Until the Communist Holocaust is commemorated alongside the Jewish extermination of the Canaanites, the Armenian genocide, the Rwandan genocide, the Indian and Pakistan genocides during partition, the racist murders of British soldiers by the Japanese in WW2 prison camps and the ethnic murders of Palestinians by Zionists in every Holocaust Museum that shows how all human beings of all races and religions have been capable of genocide, racism and mass murder throughout history - then every Holocaust Museum should be regarded as a sinful, evil, perverted places predicated on the abuse of history for political and economic means.






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EU rejects eastern states' call to outlaw denial of crimes by communist regimes

Eastern European states wanted Soviet crimes 'treated according to the same standards' as those of Nazi regimes

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Soviet soldiers are seen with some of the prisoners they liberated in Auschwitz Soviet soldiers with some of the prisoners they freed at Auschwitz in January 1945. 'For all the terrible crimes of the USSR, you can't compare the people who built Auschwitz with the people who liberated it,' said Nazi-hunter Efraim Zuroff. Photograph: Reuters

The European commission has rejected calls from eastern Europe to introduce a so-called double genocide law that would criminalise the denial of crimes perpetrated by communist regimes, in the same way many EU countries ban the denial of the Holocaust.

Last week six countries wrote to Viviane Reding, the European justice commissioner, calling for the "public condoning, denial and gross trivialisation of totalitarian crimes" to be punished.

Foreign ministers from Lithuania, Latvia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic said communist crimes "should be treated according to the same standards" as those of Nazi regimes, notably in those countries with Holocaust denial laws.

But the EU executive will say in a report due tomorrow that opinion is too divided on the matter and that there is no legal basis allowing Brussels to act.

"There is no consensus on it. The different member states have wildly differing approaches," EU justice spokesman Matthew Newman told the Guardian. He said the commission takes the issue "very seriously", but: "At this stage, the conditions to make a legislative proposal have not been met. The commission will continue to keep this matter under review."

The east European countries point to the EU's ability to make laws relating to "particularly serious" cross-border crimes and a separate EU decision permitting the crafting of rules targeting racism and xenophobia.

But the commission says neither legal instrument mentions totalitarianism and rejects the idea of double genocide. "The bottom line is, obviously, what they did was horrendous, but communist regimes did not target ethnic minorities," said Newman.

According to Lithuania, whose foreign minister leads the campaign to create a new law, the EU's understanding of genocide should be extended to include crimes against groups defined by "social status or political convictions".

Andrius Grikienis, a spokesman for Lithuania's mission to the EU, said: "During the first years of Soviet occupation, Lithuania lost more than 780,000 of its residents. 444,000 fled Lithuania or were repatriated, 275,697 were deported to the gulag or exile, 21,556 resistance fighters and their supporters were killed and 25,000 died on the front."

By comparison, he said: "More than 200,000 citizens of Jewish origin were killed by Nazis and their collaborators."

The commission is also uneasy about wading into a highly controversial area. A number of western EU countries oppose the proposal, suggesting that it is a thinly-veiled attempt at rehabilitation of domestic collaborators while antisemitism remains a live issue on the streets and in the media in the east.

On 25 November, the ambassadors to the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, of seven EU states including the UK sent a letter to the country's president complaining about a newspaper article by an interior ministry historian, Petras Stankeras, that described the Holocaust as a "legend".

In the letter, they complained about how a court in May had ruled that the swastika is a "traditional Lithuanian symbol" while "spurious attempts are made to equate the uniquely evil genocide of the Jews with Soviet crimes against Lithuania, which, though great in magnitude, cannot be regarded as equivalent in either their intention or result".

Efraim Zuroff, the Nazi-hunter and director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre's Israel office, describes the effort by the six eastern states as a "false symmetry".

"We have no problem with a day of commemoration for communist crimes, and indeed, something should be done, but the Holocaust was a unique tragedy in history," he said.

"For all the terrible crimes of the USSR, you can't compare the people who built Auschwitz with the people who liberated it. Nazi Germany would probably not have been defeated if it weren't for Russia."

The Holocaust, Nuremberg Trials and Abu Ghraib

As we come once again to the Holocaust Remembrance Day it behoves us to once again take a long hard look at history, and especially at the background of events which came to form the ‘historical basis’ of the Holocaust itself.

Prime amongst these events is The Nuremberg Trials.

The sad fact is that if the Nuremberg Trials were held again today then virtually all the evidence given to the trails would be thrown out of court as it was obtained by torture, hearsay evidence or not given under oath - and virtually all the interrogators who obtained the evidence based on torture would today be tried and thrown into prison.

The prisons that held the Nazi prisoners who gave evidence to the Nuremberg Trials were the Abu Ghraibs of their time.

The acts of torture that went on in the prisons that held German POW’s were not acts of torture being used to prevent a crime, they were acts torture designed to get German POW’s to admit to crimes both real and manufactured.

These acts of torture were also crimes themselves.

The issue then is simply this - under sustained torture a man will confess to anything.

Therefore the act of torture itself makes such ‘evidence’ inherently unreliable.

According to the legal standards of today none of the evidence obtained by the torture of Nazi POW’s and used in the Nuremberg Trials would be allowed in court.

In the trial of the Dachau guards alone there were recorded 139 cases of crushed testicles amongst the German prisoners being held by the allies.

There were false promises of leniency for those prisoners who ‘co-operated’ with the trial and gave ‘evidence’ in the trials against fellow prisoners.

Other German prisoners were told that unless they gave evidence against their fellow prisoners the food ration books of their families would be withdrawn and their families would be left to starve to death in the post-war famines that ravaged Germany.

Other prisoners were the subjects of mock executions, were told that they would be hung immediately if they did not give evidence against their fellow prisoners or that their families would be arrested and handed over to the Russians to be killed.

The article ‘Did 6 Million Really Die’ by Richard E. Harwood on the Radio Islam site here ;

http://www.radioislam.net/historia/really/05.htm

As far as I am concerned the Holocaust is an objective historical fact so the issue of the numbers of dead Jewish victims of the Holocaust is an issue solely for historians to debate, but what this article has to say about the torture of German POW’s at the Nuremberg Trials is extremely important ;

The American Senator, Joseph McCarthy, in a statement given to the American Press on May 20th, 1949, drew attention to the following cases of torture to secure such confessions. In the prison of the Swabisch Hall, he stated, officers of the S.S. Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler were flogged until they were soaked in blood, after which their sexual organs were trampled on as they lay prostrate on the ground. As in the notorious Malmedy Trials of private soldiers, the prisoners were hoisted in the air and beaten until they signed the confessions demanded of them.

On the basis of such "confessions" extorted from S.S. Generals Sepp Dietrich and Joachim Paiper, the Leibstandarte was convicted as a "guilty organisation". S.S. General Oswald Pohl, the economic administrator of the concentration camp system, had his face smeared with faeces and was subsequently beaten until he supplied his confession.

In dealing with these cases, Senator McCarthy told the Press: "I have heard evidence and read documentary proofs to the effect that the accused persons were beaten up, maltreated and physically tortured by methods which could only be conceived in sick brains. They were subjected to mock trials and pretended executions, they were told their families would be deprived of their ration cards. All these things were carried out with the approval of the Public Prosecutor in order to secure the psychological atmosphere necessary for the extortion of the required confessions. If the United States lets such acts committed by a few people go unpunished, then the whole world can rightly criticise us severely and forever doubt the correctness of our motives and our moral integrity."

The methods of intimidation described were repeated during trials at Frankfurt-am-Mein and at Dachau, and large numbers of Germans were convicted for atrocities on the basis of their admissions. The American Judge Edward L. van Roden, one of the three members of the Simpson Army Commission which was subsequently appointed to investigate the methods of justice at the Dachau trials, revealed the methods by which these admissions were secured in the Washington Daily News, January 9th, 1949. His account also appeared in the British newspaper, the Sunday Pictorial, January 23rd, 1949.

The methods he described were: "Posturing as priests to hear confessions and give absolution; torture with burning matches driven under the prisoners finger-nails; knocking out of teeth and breaking jaws; solitary confinement and near starvation rations." Van Roden explained: "The statements which were admitted as evidence were obtained from men who had first been kept in solitary confinement for three, four and five months . . . The investigators would put a black hood over the accused's head and then punch him in the face with brass knuckles, kick him and beat him with rubber hoses . . . All but two of the Germans, in the 139 cases we investigated, had been kicked in the testicles beyond repair. This was standard operating procedure with our American investigators."

What happened to the German POW’s after World War Two and in the lead up to the Nuremberg Trials were the precursors of what happened in Abu Ghraib.

The US government has never investigated the horrific abuse of German POW’s after World War Two, and this sent a signal out to the US military that has led to atrocities being committed by American troops throughout the late 20th Century, from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam to the torture of Iraqi’s in Abu Ghraib.

The Nuremberg Trials are a stain upon history. They are not proof of the greater morality of the Western Powers, for the Nuremberg Trials were themselves simply the heirs of the Nazi show trials and the Soviet show trials. The findings of the Nuremberg Trials do not act as evidence of any historical events - simply because the trials were themselves based on acts and evidence that can only be classified as crimes against humanity.

What we require today is for the Nuremberg Trials, and all those involved in it, to be investigated and the facts revealed.

If any evidence that was included in the Nuremberg Trials is found to have been based on torture, the that evidence should be thrown out.

The present political regimes of the West are the heirs of those that authorised the torture of German POW’s.

The Nuremberg Trails were nothing more than propaganda events designed to make the Germans look ‘evil’ and the allies look ‘good’, they were not records of historical events.

Any historical narrative whose roots can be found in torture have no legal, historical or moral validity.

This is a recognised principle of both modern law and politics.

For the West to use the Nuremberg Trails as an example of the superior morality of the Allies, and also to use the findings as evidence of any historical events, is both perverse and unlawful.

The rules on torture are today regarded as universal and applying to all people in all countries - and that principle must also be applied to the past as well.

Just as the so called ’confessions’ of people in the Third Reich and the Soviet Union are now regarded as historically unreliable, then logical consistency demands that the Nuremberg Trials be measured with the same yardstick.

The West has for too long embraced a collective cult of self imposed amnesia over its crimes during the Second World War.

It is this collective amnesia, and the sense of superiority it engenders even today amongst the US armed forces, and also the Israeli armed forces, which allows them to continue to commit atrocities generation after generation.

All those who were criminals either during the Second World War, or after the war, must be punished if they are still alive today.

The hunting of Nazis is regarded as ’justice for the dead’ yet the hunting, arrest and trials of Communist, Israeli and allied criminals who committed the same crimes as Nazis is never even contemplated.

Justice for the innocent dead is a universal concept, and unless we begin to hunt and prosecute all those who committed crimes against humanity during the 20th Century then we have no grounds on which to call ourselves a civilised nation.

The German POW's were human beings with rights under the Geneva Convention.

They should also have been regarded as innocent before being proved guilty which is the only basis of a civilised legal system.

Just as we rightly condemned the torture and ill treatment of British pilots captured by Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War, we should extend that principle to all other human beings including German POW's in the Nuremberg Trials.

Just as we condemned the torture of British soldiers by the IRA, we should extend that principle to all combatants in all conflicts including the torture and murder of British soldiers by Jewish terrorists in Palestine and during the terrorist campaigns by Irgun and the Stern Gang and others that created Israel - as the Geneva Convention requires us by international law to do.

Those tortured were regarded as guilty the moment the first fist or boot smashed into their face. Therefore the confessions they made are meaningless.

The issues of the Holocaust and the Nurmeberg Trials must be regarded as separate.

For the Holocaust to rely on evidence obtained by torture demeans its standing in history.

Torture a man long enough and he will confess to anything.

Democracies built on tyranny, blood and lies require perpetual tyranny, blood and lies to keep them alive.

I am sure that each family whose members fought in the Second World War have a story to tell.

My grandfather, who was in the Royal Navy, told my family of an event he witnessed during the war. His ship was sent to take on board German prisoners of war and my grandfather was sent to escort the German POW's on board the ship for transportation back to Britain.

As a German POW, a former member of the SS, came on board the boat he spat at my grandfather and swore at him in German.

An MP who stood at the top of the ramp took his pistol out of his holster then shot the unarmed German POW in the back of the head, then kicked his body over the edge of the boat into the water.

He smiled at my grandfather and said ' The bastard wont do that again ' and walked away laughing.

How doing that helped the war, or made us morally better than the Nazis, escapes me.

The time has come for the lies that shame history to be investigate and the truth finally told.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organised_persecution_of_ethnic_Germans

Anne Frank, Defiance and the German Genocide

Image above - Young German girl raped to death by Russian soldiers in World War 2. A victim of the forgotten genocide. Dehumanised, violated and left to die.





This week a story was printed in German newspapers that was not reported anywhere in the UK.

Whilst the British public were watching Anne Frank on BBC 1 and going to see Jewish terrorists in the Cinema in Defiance or weeping over Palestinians in Gaza - the story of the systematic slaughter of German civilians at the end of World War 2 was quietly consored by the mainstream British media, because this was a story about the forgotten and hidden genocide of the 20th Century.


http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2009/01/07/grisly-mass-grave-found-in-poland/with-bodies-of-1800-wwii-germans.html##


Over nine million Germans were murdered at the end of the war - they were driven from their homes, raped to death by Russian red army scum, killed by partisans, starved to death deliberately, deliberately murdered in prisoner of war camps, deliberately killed by communists and anyone with a gun who wanted to kill a German for fun.

The victory of the allies did not stop the killing and the suffering - it merely allowed the Germans to replace the Jews and be slaughtered at will by any criminal with a gun.

The victory authorised the slaughter.

There was no moral victory for the allies, merely complicity in the crimes of those they allowed to kill as many Germans as they wished with no sanctions or punishment.

No films have been made about their suffering - no Hollywood movies have been made about the children raped and killed, the women gang raped until they bled to death and the entire families murdered by people who went on to live without any punishment, and who even today are still alive and unpunished.

The hijacking of history by the holocaust industry is a crime against humanity.

The time has come for the sickening obsession with the Holocaust, and the plethora of industries that profit from the holocaust, to be shut down.

When history has become hijacked for political reasons, and entire industries are using it for their own political, economic and social interests then this has to be stopped.

The holocaust was a crime against humanity, but the endless propagandising of the holocaust at the expense of the rest of suffering of humanity is an affront to all decent human beings.

I am sick and tired of the holocaust industry imposing its fascistic version of history upon our nation, culture and people.

If you dont join in the shirt ripping, the howls of anguish and abase yourself before its icons, monuments and remembrance days then you are regarded almost as a criminal.

It is form of state sanctioned violence, where anyone who dares dissent from the mass hysteria is seen as an criminal.

When has Holocaust Remembrance Day ever remembered my two uncles who were in a Japanese death camp and the 50,000 British soldiers who died in the Japanese death camps.

When has Holocaust day commemorated the 6 million babies aborted in this country since 1967. I was born in 1967, and just like Christ I survived the Herod slaughter of the innocents that has afflicted this nation ever since.

When has Holocaust day remembered the slaughter of Anglo-Saxons by the Norman invaders and the theft of our land, liberties and culture by the Norman aristocracy - the 3 % of the British population that still own about 60 % of the land in the country.

When has Holocaust day been nothing more than an attempt to indoctrinate our children and people with a shallow guilt for a crime that they fought against - our families died fighting fascism, and yet our children are infected with the guilt of the Holocaust at schools and all through their lives.

This Holocaust propaganda is a psychic crime against our children, for they deserve to grow up without the images of death, slaughter and horror that are equated with the Holocaust.

The first naked body I saw as a child was an image of dead bodies in a Nazi death camp.

Those images haunted my youth - they were imposed upon me and sickened me. They festered in my mind and gave me nightmares for my entire youth.

I cared more for Jews and the Holocaust as child than I did for my own people and the suffering of my own people. I was not taught about the history of my people, instead I was forced to learn only what suited our political masters - and which allowed them to manipulate me and my generation so that we would accept multi-culturalism and mass immigration.

I was indoctrinated to believe that resisting mass immigration = being a Nazi.

Those who wish to impose such sick images of the Holocaust in the minds of children are sick bastards.


Leave the minds of our kids alone you sick fucks.


They will grow up with the most debased sick imagery of this sick debased world poisoning their minds soon enough - who the fuck do you think you are forcing little kids to see sick images of dead rotting bodies being shovelled up and thrown into holes in Nazi death camps just because it suits you politically to poison young minds.

Forcing little kids to see Holocaust horror porn in schools should be made as much of a crime as allowing kids to watch, or be involved in child porn.

Those that use kids for their sexual gratification are as much perverts as those that want to use kids for their political gratification.

Our kids should be able to go through schools as innocents - not forced to learn about sex as five year olds then have the Holocaust rammed into their young minds.

Schools should be Freedom Zones, where young minds are free from sex, porn, crime, violence and the psychic abuse of the Holocaust industry.

Leave our kids alone you sick bastards.

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Bodies of 1,800 WWII Germans found in Poland mass grave

Construction workers made a grisly discovery in the Polish town of Malbork when they uncovered a Second World War mass grave containing the bodies of 1,800 German civilians.

The first skeletons had been found at the site in Poland in October, but yesterday the Public Prosecutor’s Office revealed that the body count now totals 1,800.

“[The grave includes] the remains of women, men and children,” public prosecutor Waldemar Zduniak said.

“Some of the corpses display signs of bullet wounds.”

Bernard Jesionowski of the Malbork Museum told the Polish PAP press agency: ““It could have something to with the German civilians who were killed during fighting between German and Russian troops at the beginning of 1945.”

The WWII German military authorities had told the civilian population to leave the city at the end of 1944, but several thousand inhabitants remained.

Their fate is so far unknown, according to Jesionowski – but the mystery may now have been solved.

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http://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Mercies-Civilians-Occupation-1944-1950/dp/0316640700


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http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20090107-16595.html


Possible mass grave of German WWII civilians found in Poland
Published: 7 Jan 09 12:25 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20090107-16595.html

Some 1,800 corpses that authorities believe to be German civilians killed during World War II have been discovered in the Polish city of Malbork, daily Bild reported Wednesday.


"They are the remains of women, men and children," public prosecuter Waldemar Zduniak told the paper. "A portion of the corpses display bullet wounds."

The first skeletons were uncovered in October in Malbork, which before World War II was part of Germany and known as Marienburg. But officials didn’t have an official body count until Tuesday.

"It could be that the German civilians were killed during fighting in 1945 between Germans and Russian troops," Bernard Jesionowski of the Marienburg musuem told Polish news agency PAP.

German military leaders ordered civilians to leave the city at the end of 1944, but several thousand remained and their fates remain unknown, Jesionowski told the paper.

Heinrich Himmlers daughter to attend Holocaust Memorial

Image - The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem on a visit to Muslim SS troops in the Balkans during WW2, "Yes, thats right. Put the bullets in there and then go forth and kill as many Christians, Nationalists and Jews as possible for the glory of Islam and the Third Reich".



Image - British soldiers in starved state after the Japanese surrender.



Image - More starving British soldiers.



Image - Aitape, New Guinea, 1943. An Australian soldier, Sgt Leonard Siffleet, about to be beheaded with a katana sword. Many Allied prisoners of war (POWs) were summarily executed by Japanese forces during the Pacific War.




You can just the imagine the left and liberals going into a screaming rage if the headline above about Himmlers daughter was ever printed in the newspapers can't you. They would be howling about it.

But note how the news that the Muslim Council of Britain is going to attend the Holocaust Memorial Day has not been attacked or the MCB accused of being a disgrace to the memory of those who died.

The MCB should not be allowed to attend the Holocust Memorial Day until they apologise for their part in the Holocaust and condemn all forms of Islamist / Muslim terrorism and violence in the UK and around the world, with no weasel words or equivocation.

As members of may family were imprisoned in a death camp during the second world war, my uncles Eric and Lloyd Holmes of Acton were captured at the Fall of Singapore and were held in Changi prison and worked on the railroads, I feel that the presence of the MCB at the Holocaust Day is a disgrace - just as if representatives of the Shinto Yasukuni shrine would be invited to attend a Japanese Death Camps remembrance Day for the victims of the Japanese death camps.

Some 100,000 Allied soldiers and civilians were taken prisoner into Japanese hands when Singapore fell on 15 February 1942.

It was described by Winston Churchill as the "greatest disaster" in British history.

It is an absolute disgrace that whilst we have a Holcaust Memorial Day for the victims of the Holocaust we do not have a day to commemorate the 12,000 British troops slaughtered by the Japanese.

Now that is truly a disgrace.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/columnists/columnists.html?in_page_id=1772&in_article_id=482589&in_author_id=464

http://www.geocities.com/dutcheastindies/massacres.html




December 03, 2007
Muslim Council ends Holocaust Memorial Day boycott
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Britain's largest Muslim body has voted to end its boycott of Holocaust memorial day, the Guardian has learned.

The Muslim Council of Britain voted this weekend to end its six-year protest, which had angered the government and Jewish groups.

The decision may lead to some groups leaving the MCB, an umbrella organisation with over 500 members. Its working committee voted 18 to 8 to end the boycott, which began in 2001. Those who voted to attend said the stance had allowed the MCB to be accused of antisemitism and seeming to disrespect the suffering of Jews.

Representatives of the MCB will attend the next memorial day, on January 27, in Liverpool. The decision is an emotional one for members. Those supporting the boycott believe the memorial day is too narrowly focused on Jewish suffering and ignores recent genocides such as that in Rwanda and of Muslims in Srebrenica.

Daud Abdullah, the council's deputy secretary general, voted against attending and said: "I'm against it [attending]. Nothing has changed, we saw no reason why it [the boycott] should change."

The former secretary general Sir Iqbal Sacranie voted to end the protest and said: "There are voices who have been attacking us from day one and trying to misconstrue our non-participation as antisemitism."

Sacranie's last years as secretary general, which ended in 2005, saw him publicly justifying the boycott despite personally opposing it. He called on groups upset by the decision to respect the democratic vote and stay within the MCB: "There will be some who will be very unhappy about it."

Sources say the MCB would have ended its boycott last year, but was attacked by the then communities secretary, Ruth Kelly, over the boycott, and did not want to be seen to be caving in to government pressure.

Last year the MCB's central working committee voted by 23 votes to 14 to continue the boycott. Sacranie said Kelly's intervention had backfired.

In a statement the MCB assistant general secretary, Inayat Bunglawala, said: "We have always sought a more inclusive title such as Genocide Memorial Day so that it would also give recognition to more recent massacres such as in Rwanda and that of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica. We wanted to uphold the principle of the equality of all human beings.

"However, there was a growing recognition among our affiliates that non-attendance of HMD was inadvertently causing hurt to some in the Jewish community. The MCB has always placed a lot of emphasis on inter-faith work and building ties ... so this was becoming a problem."