A Holocaust remembrance day like no other
by Melanie Phillips:
We don’t just commemorate a great evil. We’re still living through it.
Today in Israel was Yom Hashoah, Israel’s Holocaust remembrance day. At 10 o’clock this morning the siren sounded and the country came to a halt. People stood in the streets with their heads bowed; on the motorways, the traffic came to a complete halt and drivers stepped out of their vehicles to stand in silence.
This, though, was a Yom Hashoah like no other. It was impossible, when thinking about the extermination of the Jews in the Nazi Holocaust, not to see the images in the forefront of all our minds: the genocidal pogrom in southern Israel on October 7 when Palestinians led by Hamas slaughtered 1200 Israelis and kidnapped 240 others into Gaza, where no more than 133 (and maybe many fewer) still remain alive.
While comparisons with the Holocaust are generally wholly inappropriate, this one is all too justified. Like the Nazis, the October 7 storm-troopers set out to murder Jews simply because they were Jews (although some non-Jews were victims too) and to do so in the most sadistic, barbaric and depraved way possible.
Like the Nazis, Hamas and its Iranian puppeteers intend to destroy Israel and wipe out every Jew. We know that because they tell us this over and over again.
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