The Holocaust is globally known, and also denied, as the single most defining rise of antisemitism and death of Jews, without any event coming anywhere close in vicious and intentional savagery…until October 7, 2023. It is literally beyond belief that global Holocaust survivors have had to witness another attempted genocide within their own lifetimes, and it is the height of surreality that some individuals have had to become dual survivors of both.

The only thing sadder than observing a day of remembrance for the genocide of one’s people, in the wake of another attempted genocide…is observing it while unimaginably being accused of the very crime itself.

Welcome to the sick reality of Holocaust inversion: using a term conceived by a Jew, to describe the mass extermination of Jews, against Jews today, in nothing short of an absolutely conscious decision and malicious calculation to retraumatize.

Everyone has heard at least once the grotesque allegations that many Jews hear weekly, if not daily: Jews are literal Nazis, Israel is committing genocide by ethnically cleansing the Palestinian population, Gazans are being held in at best a ghetto like Warsaw…but additionally an actual concentration camp…and also exactly the same horror as Auschwitz itself.

Aside from the demonstrably ridiculous fiction, and the fact that if Israel were truly committing “genocide,” it is occurring on the most Jewish time ever, why choose these terms specifically?

It is not simply because genocide is the worst thing that one can do, and Nazis are the worst thing that one can be. It is because some of the worst crimes in modern human history are also inextricably tied to Jewish history. Never underestimate the........

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