In David Brooks’s essay “We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust,” he argues that society has turned the Holocaust into a distant symbol of evil rather than confronting what it reveals about human nature. Brooks says the lesson isn’t just “never again,” but that ordinary people—not just monsters—can become complicit in horrific acts when moral systems collapse. He urges readers to study the psychological, cultural, and social forces that enabled it, so we can recognize similar warning signs in today’s world.
This could never have happened without the military and economic support of European nations and the United States, along with the misuse of false accusations of antisemitism to silence aggrieved Palestinians—people who have lost most of their families to horrific mass starvation and genocide.
Finally, it is a pity that Brooks and other writers at The New York Times have chosen silence instead of using their influence to hold accountable the messianic Netanyahu regime for its massive crimes of mass starvation and killing in Gaza, the terrorism of settlers in the West Bank, and the horrific torture of Palestinians in Israeli prisons under military, undemocratic detention. Shame on Brooks, who chose silence over accountability.
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