We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust

我们需要重新思考我们对大屠杀的看法。

The Opinions

2025-10-31

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In the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters, “This is the savagery that we only remember from the Nazi crimes in the Holocaust. Hamas are the new Nazis.” Many Israeli politicians echoed that, invoking the Holocaust to describe the terrorist attacks. In an interview with the Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen, the Columbia University professor Marianne Hirsch argues that the trauma and memory of the Holocaust are being misused and makes a case for how it should be taught going forward. Thoughts? Email us at theopinions@nytimes.com.
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  • Gessen, a columnist for The New York Times.

  • Throughout the war,

  • Israeli leaders and their supporters in the United States have invoked the Holocaust to justify their actions in Gaza.

  • This is the savagery.

  • that we only remember from the Nazi crimes in the Holocaust.

  • Hamas are the new Nazis.

  • Some scholars of the Holocaust,

  • people who have spent their professional lives keeping the memory of the catastrophe alive,