On 27 Jan 2026, the UK government let it be known that it intends to build a National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in Victoria Tower Gardens, London. If this Memorial – originally envisaged by David Cameron – gets created as planned in 2027, it will be adjacent to the Houses of Parliament. The project announces that its aims is “to honour the victims of the Holocaust” and “help combat antisemitism”.
According to the Community Security Trust (CST), antisemitism has continued to rise in the UK, “near record levels in 2025”. An investigation conducted by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) also found that “35% of Jews in Britain felt unsafe in 2025 compared with 9% in 2023”.
Writing in the Jewish Chronicle, Chief Rabbi Mirvis says that situating the memorial “in the shadow of the seat of our country’s democracy” will be “an eternal reminder to our political leaders that the fight against hatred is a fundamental part of the responsibility we have conferred upon them”.
The announcement of such a project to build a Holocaust Memorial in London might seem apposite therefore, particularly in view of the 27th January 2026 marking the 81st anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945.
To mark the date, a group of Holocaust survivors from various countries held a simple street ceremony and demonstration in London this 27th January 2026.
Holocaust survivor Agnes Kory who was present, although not on the picture, said that: “It was the Russian army that liberated the Jews of the Budapest Ghetto in 1945. It was a Russian soldier that liberated my mother and myself. At Memorial Day events I say this as loud as I can, making sure that the people around me can hear it.”
Survivor Haim Bresheeth-Žabner – Israeli peace activist – said: “I am deeply shocked about the total denial of the events in Gaza by the wide variety of Holocaust memorial institutions. All such institutions are run mostly by Zionist Jews, and all share an unwillingness to mention a genocide in real time [..]”.
Survivor Chris Romberg said: “The Holocaust was not the only massacre committed by the Nazis and their collaborators: the genocides of the Roma and Sinti (Porajmos) and of the Slavs took place in parallel, as did the murders of disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, political opponents and many others. They too should not be excluded from our memory, nor from the call Never Again! It applies to everyone.”
The official announcement about the Memorial specified that it will ‘remember’ the non-Jews, Romas and others. But in The Canary, an article by Ed Sykes says that “Never Again is meaningless if it does not characterise Gaza: “The denial of the Gaza Holocaust is the position of our Western leaders, and is a sign of moral decline” he says. Adding that the location and focus of the Holocaust Memorial in London (when built) “must not be used to shield Israel from criticism, or as a political tool.”
In the US and UK, complex networks of Jewish organisations have formed over many decades. They contain hundreds of cross-communal representative bodies (advocacy groups, charities, federations, councils, security trusts, deputies, student bodies, assemblies, political entities). Over time, and since 1967 in particular, these networks have imbued society with the symbol of the Holocaust, as the only one, the Jewish one, “to secure support for Israel as strategic asset of ‘our’ Western leaders in the Middle East”*
In June-July 2025 at the Human Rights Council, and speaking about Gaza, Francesca Albanese declared “Israel [..] responsible for one of the cruellest genocides in modern times”. At the UN Human Rights Office on 3 July 2025, she said that Israel’s genocide against Palestinians is being sustained by a system of exploitative occupation and profit. This is precisely what Donald Trump’s behaviour is confirming in Gaza.
The Memorial in London will mention the other non-Jewish victims – something often omitted. But it will not mention that the USSR was the primary liberator of the Nazi killing sites. As ‘the Holocaust Memorial’, it will further aggrandize Jewish victimhood, just as Israel and the billionaires of world war criminalise any reference to genocide in Gaza. As Norman Finkelstein says, the Holocaust is used by the Jewish establishment, to exploit the Memory for political and financial gain.
The US Holocaust Museum condemns the governor of Minnesota Tim Walz for “comparing the crisis in Minneapolis with the tragic life of Anne Frank”. Walz had said that the US children, like Anne, are having to hide away from the ICE agents whom he calls “the modern Gestapo”. To this, Trump’s envoy, Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun retorted angrily that “Ann Frank was in Amsterdam legally and was targeted because she was Jewish. Nothing to do with illegal immigration. Our brave law enforcement should not be tarred with [..] this antisemitic comparison”.
Rabbi Mirvis says that building the Holocaust Memorial “in the shadow of the seat of our country’s democracy” will act as “an eternal reminder to our political leaders”. This would be laudable if the ‘reminder’ were not being used, as in this case, as a political cloak to try and obscure the continuing slide of capitalism into genocide and Nazism.
Marie Lynam, posadiststoday.com – 29.1.26
* https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2026/02/27/palestine-censorship/
