Many traumatised Israelis have compared the bloody Hamas onslaught of October 7 to the horrors of the Holocaust, but the head of the national memorial to the genocide disagrees.
Dani Dayan, chairman of Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem memorial centre, stressed that the attack, although appalling, was fundamentally different from Nazi Germany’s mass murder of six million Jews.
“I do not accept the simplistic comparison with the Holocaust even if there are similarities in the genocidal intentions, sadism and barbarism of Hamas,” Dayan told AFP.
