A betrayal of the victims of the Holocaust
JVL Introduction
This article was posted in the Hebrew edition of Haaretz but not, it seems, in the English one.
Is any comparison with the Holocaust too threatening to lay before an international audience?
In any event, Orit Kamir – an Israeli professor of law who drafted Israel’s law against sexual harassment and its law prohibiting bullying in the workplace – does not shy away from from linking past and present.
Her anger and her anguish are both self-evident as she inveighs against an Israeli public that remains silent in the face of unspeakable evil.
Thanks to Robert Reich for posting a translation on his blog.
RK
This article was originally published by Robert Reich's substack on Tue 29 Jul 2025. Read the original here.
Silence in the face of Gaza’s starvation is absolute betrayal of Holocaust victims
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I so wish this article could be printed across the BBC and the tabloid press.
Congratulations on the courage to write truth. The comparisons with the extreme sections of Netanyahu’s government and the Nazis has been developing over many years.
Thank you.
It concerns me that at a future date when Israel is called to account for its actions. The people of Israel will be blamed because, however it is viewed, the horrific actions taken were in the name of the Israeli people.
I know of course that there are a number of brave Israeli people who have objected to the actions of their Government, but they are in a very small minority. The future does not look good !
This is a very powerful article and as Edward Hatfield says it should be widely disseminated, although of course under the IHRA it is deemed anti-Semitic!
I don’t understand Tom Goodall’s comments though. Why should it be of concern if the Israeli people are blamed for what has happened?
We know that 47% according to the Pennsylvania State University poll want the people of Gaza exterminated, rising to over 60% once those who say Amalek is relevant now are taken into account.
The level of support for extermination and genocide in Israel is far higher than it was ever amongst the German people. People have to face the fact that Israel was Hitler’s posthumous victory. It was established on the same ethno-racial basis as the Third Reich was. Even the definition of a Jew mirrored that of the Nuremberg Laws.
We have to face the fact that Zionism was the worst answer to anti-Semitism. In fact it was no answer at all