In her recent guest column [“Council resolution sows further division,” Gazette, Oct. 2], Veronica Darmon writes “From a Jewish perspective, the denial of atrocities is not only antisemitic and deeply painful but is also a dangerous effort to erase history, delegitimize the suffering of victims, and excuse the perpetrators. This applies most poignantly to the Holocaust, but it applies with equal venom to the massacre of October 7.” True.
But it also applies to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a well-documented part of history happening right before our eyes. Apparently the writer’s eyes have never seen photos of the flattened neighborhoods, or heard reliable accounts of hospitals destroyed along with their doctors and patients, Israel’s refusal to let more than a trickle of food and medicine into Gaza, or the many first-hand reports of widespread starvation there. The whole world knows Israel is committing genocide, but like many Germans during the Nazi era, some prefer not to know.
David Ball
Northampton