Ushering in Holocaust day, Israeli PM warns of polarization

“No event in history, cruel as it may have been, is comparable to the extermination of Europe’s Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators."

At my university the student Hillel group every spring has a readout 24/7 of all Holocaust victims - Jewish and non. 6 million Jews, 5 million others perished in the concentration camps.

The closest thing to this is the genocides of the Natives of the 'New World' but that several centuries, not just 12 years.

At one of those Holocaust readings, our university would have a guest speaker who survived two internments in two camps. And he said that it was happening again in Yugoslavia (even though it was on a smaller scale). He also addressed the rise of Holocaust Denial theories which is dangerous to the max.

When I was in college during that time, with Bosnia and later Rwanda going on, and we were all aware of it - there could be no denial of the Holocaust in my book even if it happened before I was born. And we must not ever forget.

It’s a blot on mankind, as was Pol pot, Mao. There are so many examples of mass slaughter but none were organised on a factory scale as that of the Holocaust. I agree but also it’s name is a by word for any large scale slaughter. That’s not fair. words change their meaning over time it’s important to know where the word originated from.

Classy to, at an event marking one Crime Against Humanity, the head of the Israeli regime called for unity behind the commission of another Crime Against Humanity.