By Mahir Ali
NINETY or so years ago, the Western liberal establishment largely ignored Nazi Germany’s pathway to genocide which targeted Jews, communists, socialists, the Roma, homosexuals, and those seen as intellectually or physically disabled. Unknowingly or otherwise, it thereby facilitated the extermination camps and pogroms that stand out as the most reprehensible aspects of World War II.
The end of that war is celebrated as signifying the triumph of good over evil. That’s not an absurd claim, but one wonders why the commitment to ‘never again’ has frequently fallen short when tested — albeit perhaps never so obviously than since Oct 2023, when the atrocities committed by Hamas served as a convenient excuse to fulfil the extreme Zionist dream of a purely Jewish territory from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River.
The means? A process of displacement and extermination that began in 1948. The genocidal goal now appears within reach, with the active collaboration of many of the powers that joined hands to defeat