After the atrocities of 7 October and amid the devastation in Gaza, remembering the Holocaust rightly is a moral obligation

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” These words of the philosopher George Santayana have been on my mind as we approach International Holocaust Remembrance Day this year. But I fear that those who distort the memory of the Shoah in light of the conflict in Gaza may be doing something even worse…

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Was October 7 an act of genocide?

Based on the Srebrenica precedent, a theoretical case for October 7 being a crime of genocide suddenly becomes much stronger. The number of those killed need not be measured against the entire Jewish population of Israel, but only those kibbutzim and towns of Israel that Hamas controlled in the so-called “Gaza envelope”. The substantiality requirement would thus arguably be fulfilled. 

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“Lies, damned lies and statistics” in Gaza

Details will not stop anti-Israel activists and officials from building a facile narrative around unreliable casualty numbers and accusing Israel of “genocide”. But for those genuinely interested in how the war against Hamas compares t … similar operations, the figures available strongly suggest that it is neither especially deadly nor especially destructive.

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