When the Holocaust Returned It Came Denouncing Anti-Semitism and Wearing a Star of David
When the Holocaust returned it came denouncing anti-semitism and wearing a Star of David.
It was never going to look how we were expecting. It wasn’t going to show up in its old familiar costume with the bent cross and the tiny mustache, blaming all the problems on the Jews.
It had to look different. If it didn’t look different, we never would have let it in the door.
And that’s still what’s throwing a lot of people off: it looks different. It doesn’t look like what all all the World War II movies and Holocaust novels conditioned us to watch out for. In fact, it looks so different that the victims in the last story have the same religion as the antagonists in the new one.
Pointing to Gaza, an Israeli settler says it is akin to a cut in the body.
“When you have a cut, you have to take out the infection. Then it’ll be clean again…”
That’s how he describes the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/UdVP0Sq0s8
— Hamza Yusuf (@Hamza_a96) October 22, 2024
That old aphorism “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes” is true because people don’t tend to make the exact same mistake in the same way twice, but the conditioning which led them to make the first mistake will often lead them to make a second similar one. We’ve all been made far too familiar with the Nazi extermination program to ever consent to Jews being rounded up and loaded onto trains again, but we also didn’t purge from our civilization all the murderousness, hatred and tyranny which made it possible. That’s why this new Holocaust has been allowed to happen.
We’ve all been conditioned to watch out for the next Hitler, but there’s never going to be another Hitler. We’ve been so focused on looking out for the Hitler who never comes that many of us missed when we started singing verses that rhyme with the ones we were hearing in Germany eight decades ago.
People assume what’s happening in Gaza can’t be an actual genocide, because the news media keep assuring everyone that’s not what we’re looking at, and so do the politicians in both parties.
“This can’t possibly be what it looks like,” people
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