An Islamic charity organization with ties to Iran’s has launched a campaign to derail Holocaust Remembrance Day in Britain.

The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) has contacted 460 town halls and universities demanding they snub official Holocaust Memorial Day events scheduled for January 27 unless Israel recognizes the “genocide” in Gaza. The date marks the 80th anniversary of the Allied liberation of Auschwitz in 1945.

Needless to say, comparing the Holocaust’s atrocities to Israel’s defensive war in Gaza after Hamas butchered 1,200 innocent civilians on October 7 is appalling.

“This is a cynical attempt to denigrate and undermine the memory of the Holocaust by drawing false parallels between the Holocaust – a unique and unprecedented episode in history – and unrelated current events,” Holocaust Educational Trust Director Karen Pollock tells the Telegraph.

“Such demands, including calls to make the day ‘more inclusive’ or to insert contemporary political agendas, not only insult the memory of the 6 million Jewish men, women, and children who were systematically murdered, but also undermine the fundamental purpose of Holocaust Memorial Day.”

As for the organization itself who is running the twisted campaign, their extremist connections run deep. A recent Prevent counter-terror strategy review characterized the IHRC as an “Islamist group ideologically aligned with the Iranian regime” and cited its history of “extremist links and terrorist sympathies.” The report revealed that senior IHRC figures have endorsed violent jihad, expressed sympathy for convicted terrorists, and advocated for the “extraction and eradication of ‘Zionists.’”

IHRC chairman Massoud Shadjareh once lauded Iranian terror chief Qassem Soleimani as a role model.

“We are very fortunate to live at a time to see, touch and feel a man like Soleimani and we hope and we pray and we work hard to make sure that there will be many, many more Qassem Soleimanis,” Shadjareh said at a 2020 vigil at the Islamic Center of England.

“We aspire to become like him, we are jealous of his martyrdom, and we want the same thing for ourselves and our loved ones.”

In response, the IHRC dismissed the government’s findings as “Islamophobic” with “overt and unhinged” animosity toward Muslims, while decrying what it called “false accusations and demonization” of their organization. Despite its radical positions, the IHRC maintains special consultative status with the United Nations and receives six-figure annual grants through its trust.