World Jewry rises against Armenia's cynical exploitation of Holocaust tragedy Backlash of "Starving Garabagh" show

Hikmet Hajiyev, Aide to the President of Azerbaijan and Head of the Foreign Policy Department of the Presidential Administration, is on a visit to Israel these days. He held a meeting with the head of Israel's National Security Council Tzahi Hanegbi, where the sides discussed further expansion of bilateral ties and regional issues. Hajiyev also met with Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ronen Levi. Undoubtedly, this visit was another evidence of the high level of relations between Azerbaijan and Israel.

But the world Armenianism, trying to discord Israelis with Azerbaijanis, and using rude and ambiguous methods for this purpose, seems, on the contrary, to be falling into their own trap. The current campaign of staging a blockade, famine, and even genocide along with the intensified demonisation of Azerbaijan is slowly but surely not only crumbling into dust but also threatening to backlash. It may turn into a massive anti-propaganda campaign capable of shattering the foundations of Armenian ideology.

First, the British lawyer Dixon refuted the odious conclusions of the Argentine charlatan Ocampo, which he fabricated in his report "on the humanitarian situation in Garabagh". And recently the Jews, and not just any Jews, but the top leadership of the world's religious Jewish communities on both sides of the Atlantic, have taken up the cause. The honourable rabbis were outraged by the analogy of what is happening in the Armenian community of Garabagh with the Holocaust, which is increasingly observed in the world press. It is clear that this nefarious campaign has been undertaken in order to persuade the Israeli government to abandon strategic cooperation with Azerbaijan.

As Israel's Russian-language media agency Vesti notes, 18 leading rabbis in America and Europe have come out in support of Azerbaijan. "Thus they responded to the call of Baku rabbi Zamir Isayev, who recorded a video message in which he presented documentary evidence that Azerbaijan's accusations of 'genocide of Armenians in Garabagh' are a fiction," Vesti said.

The very fact of Zamir Isayev's appeal is evidence that Baku knows how to work with the media and diasporas, including such a powerful Jewish one. Although in this particular case, I think, the clerics of the Jewish people did not need to prove anything since the sacrilege is too obvious and requires an adequate response.

As the main thesis in their onslaught against Jewry, Armenians put forward the simple thesis that the nation, which survived the Holocaust, now allegedly becomes "accomplices of the genocide" of Armenians in Garabagh. In particular, the Californian rock musician of Armenian origin Serj Tankian wrote an outright desperate tweet: "Azerbaijan is preparing to attack Armenia and ethnically cleanse 'Artsakh' with the help of Israeli weapons... Another example of how the grandchildren of the Holocaust are helping to kill the grandchildren of the 'genocide'".

Two dozen authoritative rabbis in the Jewish world expressed their protest against such comparisons. In particular, they were truly outraged by Ruben Vardanyan's statement, claiming that "the suffering of Armenians is greater than the suffering of the victims of the Holocaust...". The rabbis are no less angry at Pashinyan's accusation that the Azerbaijani authorities have created a "real ghetto" for the Armenian inhabitants of Garabagh "in preparation for another Holocaust".

Indeed, how confident of impunity do you have to be to draw such blasphemous and shameless parallels between an imaginary humanitarian disaster and an act of misanthropy unprecedented in modern history? The Holocaust was the mass extermination of the Jewish population in the Third Reich and in occupied territories. More than six million people were victims of this crime. And to compare it to an imaginary famine, a politicised show, is to insult not only the memory of the six million Jews who perished but also the feelings of those who are alive today.

Armenians in this case made a fatal mistake. It consists of the fact that Armenianism, with its blatantly false and easily refutable propaganda, risks alienating the part of world Jewry that traditionally sympathises with it - namely, the left-liberal wing.

The fact is that the Holocaust is a subject that brings together both right-wing and left-wing Jews, both in Israel and among world Jewry. In the age of information accessibility, when at the first click you see pictures of Khankendi feasts on the one hand, and Azerbaijani trucks with flour that the "starving" do not want to accept on the other, the reaction of the same Jewish liberals to the analogy of this bacchanalia with the tragedy of the Holocaust will not be much different from the reflections of conservatives. Again, liberal Jews and conservative Jews in Israel and all over the world are sometimes ready to tear each other's eyes out in the heat of arguments about various issues, but in fundamental issues of national identity, they show full solidarity. Holocaust remembrance is one such issue. The shameless juxtaposition of a concept incomparable with manipulation, sacred to every Jew, will become a powerful wedge between the world Armenians and the Jewish liberal elite.

Our task today, exposing the immoral and impudent comparison of the deaths of millions of Jews with the imaginary famine in Armenia, is to reveal the essence of the Armenian project for the left-wing forces in Israel and the whole world. The ice has been broken. The Jewish Diaspora has a large media resource. This means that even more people all over the world will learn that Armenians are brazenly lying.

Moreover, there is one more essential point hidden here, which also does not bode well for Armenians. The more they cry about the alleged genocide of 2023, the more refutations will come from different sides. The idea of the fraudulent nature of the world Armenians will be firmly planted in the consciousness of the world community. Sooner or later it will lead to the fact that all over the world will start to ask the question - did Armenians lie in the same way about the events of 1915?

Doubts about the "genocide" of 1915 will no longer seem blasphemous, and those who really want to understand them will no longer take the Armenian narratives for granted but will start the investigation from scratch. And then it won't be long before they are exposed.

It may seem that we are telling Armenians how not to act. We are not. They won't draw conclusions anyway. Because to stop lying and hysterics means for them to give up the Armenian idea as such. And that in itself is a good thing. But, unfortunately, unrealistic.

We will have to deal with this for a very long time...