Charity chief blasts ‘shameful’ comparisons between Nazi crimes and modern day Israel
Holocaust Education Trust chief executive Karen Pollock has unleashed a furious attack on the way some pro-Palestinian protesters are comparing the Nazis to modern-day Israel.
Ahead of commemorations of the horrific crimes by the Nazis, which saw the mass murder of 6 million Jews, Ms Pollock has warned that modern-day protests on a range of issues, including Gaza, are “trivialising” the Holocaust.
“The Nazis, their leaders and their symbols have become almost synonymous for ultimate evil,” she wrote in. “Online, we see this result in the phenomenon of Godwin’s law: the idea that the longer an online discussion continues, the more likely it is that someone stresses their point by using a comparison to the Nazis. However, what may have begun as an online phenomenon has now truly cemented itself into the real world.
