Photograph by Nelson Pereira.

Those who haven’t forgotten the indescribable brutality of the Nazi German genocide of European Jews wonder today how survivors of such horror could support another genocide and crimes of no less cruelty, with more than 20,000 children killed in Gaza in Israeli attacks since October 7, 2023.

Unless one can draw different lessons from a genocide. “The Israelis drew the wrong lesson from the Holocaust,” Israeli journalist Gideon Levy told CounterPunch.

“It’s possible to survive a Holocaust drawing two different messages,” he added. “Both say ‘never again,’ but ‘never again’ can mean ‘never again a Holocaust for the Jewish people’ or ‘never again a Holocaust for anyone.’ Unfortunately, most Israelis adopted the first message, ‘never again a Holocaust for the Jews,’ and........

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