Thereisareason that many Jews have never been comfortable with direct comparisons with the Holocaust. Historically, the Nazis managed to conduct the systematic trivializationand destruction of Jews, the disabled,and othersonsuchamassive scale under the guise ofagovernmental norm that they threatened Jewish existence.
Theatrocities committedasamatter of course during the twin experiments by Joseph MengeleinAuschwitz, for example,ahighly trained physician withaPh.D.inanthropology, revealed that depravity can exist simultaneously withanadvanced civilization.
Infact,asGerald Posner has detailed, Mengele managed to return to normal lifeinSouthAmericaafter the war withaseemingly clear conscience.
This handout photo provided by the Israel Prime Minister Office shows Yahel Shoham, 3 years old, upon her arrival in Israel after being freed. Yahel was one of the 13 Israeli hostages that Hamas released late Saturday, Nov. 25, in the second round of swaps under a cease-fire deal. (Israel Prime Minister Office/Handout via AP)
Before Oct. 7, 2023, when systematic rapeand tortureand dismembermentand burning peoplealive were conducted by HamasinIsrael, it was too easy to forget that systematic depravityandanimal cruelty could still occur randomly, but Hamas reminded us.
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Also disturbinginthe wake of these horrific crimesisthe state of moral equivalency that much of the world has found itself caught upin. Itisn’t that protestisn’t valuable, butonly that it can be so ill-informed.
Itisonething to justifiably cry outonbehalf of suffering Palestinians without power or food or clean waterinGaza, itisanother to ignore that Hamasisintertwinedand difficult to separate out.
Thousands of Israel supporters gather near Central Park in New York City on Nov. 6, 2023. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)
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Anti-Israel protestsoncollege campuses that don’t takeintoaccount theactions of Hamas undermine the very philosophy these protestsare builtonand too oftenare basedonantisemitism. Let’s treat Jews with the same respect that college leadersask for when it comes to treatingall minorities.
Academic freedom should notinclude open mockery or cheeringonthe systematic violence that deprives people of dignityand humanity. For that matter, freedom of speech oracademic freedom shouldn’t extol or support mass execution orinhumanity ofany kind.
VideoThisisnot unique to the Jews, butincludes theArmenians who were massacred or died of starvation or disease during WWI, the Hamidian massacres of1895,and the Simele massacre of1933, whereAssyrian Christians were killed.
Asaphysician, Iamasmuchaffected by the finality of deathand the contagiousness of psycho-terror employed by Hamasand othersasadeliberate techniqueasIam by the nature of thekillingand the condition of the bodies. I railagainstdehumanizationand fight for dignity ofall kinds. We must not normalize or rationalize depravityinany way.
