British historian and peer Andrew Roberts recently wrote explaining why Hamas, in his opinion, are even worse than the Nazis. Contrary to what one might expect, on the second Holocaust Memorial Day after the October 7 massacre we see fury with Israel only increasing. Lord Andrew Roberts’ observations have been pilloried, viciously attacked, and dismissed. What did he say to draw such fire? Here is an excerpt:
“When on January 27, 1945, the Red Army reached Auschwitz, they only found 7,000 living skeletons there out of a normal camp population of 140,000, because the Nazis had marched the rest westwards, partly in order kill the death-marchers but also because they did not want evidence of their crimes to be uncovered.
Gassing operations there had ended in November 1944, and attempts were made to destroy the gas chambers. “Killing installations had been dismantled,” writes Sir Ian Kershaw in his book The End, “and attempts made to rase the traces of the camp’s murderous activities.”
The sheer glee with which Hamas, by contrast, killed parents in front of their children and of children in front of their parents, was broadcast to the world. Nazi sadism was routine and widespread, but it wasn’t built into their actual operational plans in the way that Hamas’s sadism has been.”
In other words, Roberts considered Hamas worse than the Nazis who at least understood their disgraceful acts were shameful and that the world would see them as such. Hamas, on the other hand, have shown nothing but pride and joy in their massacre, albeit on a lesser scale.
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The delight with which Hamas slaughtered and tortured on that terrible day cannot even be matched by the Nazis. Roberts continues:
“The gas chambers were invented in part because the Nazis did not much enjoy the actual process of killing Jews as much as Himmler hoped they might. As Laurence Rees notes of Himmler in 1941, “He had observed two years before the psychological damage that shooting Jews at close range had caused his team of killers and so he had overseen the development of a system of murder via the gas chambers that to an extent distanced from emotional trauma.” No such trauma is evident in Hamas’s teams of killers, who phoned up their parents on October 7 to boast about the number of Jews they had killed.”
The question is why? Why are Hamas not ashamed, and why do so many support them?
The answer is that Hamas, along with a world that rejects Roberts writings, have believed a series of preposterous lies.
If you believe, as Hamas do (along with the keffiyeh-clad mobs who march through Western cities brandishing Palestinian flags) that Israel is a white colonialist project that has murdered and stolen land and that the Jewish state should not exist, then Roberts’ words fall flat. Worse than that, they seem to be supporting the bad guys who were land-grabbing monsters only interested in conquest.
This is what David Pileggi, Rector of Christ Church, Jerusalem, calls “The Big Lie”. He says that Hitler “was convinced that the Jews were the driving force behind both Soviet communism and Western capitalism which would allow them to achieve worldwide domination.”
He explains, “In [Hitler’s] distorted grasp of reality, the Jewish cabal was intent on preventing Germany from returning to greatness by blocking the creation of their racial paradise and by preventing their conquest of the needed “living space” in Eastern Europe.” Pileggi adds, “It was such delusions that prompted Hitler to issue his now famous prophecy in January 1939. “Today I will once more be a prophet: If the international Jewish financiers inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth, and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!”
We know how that ended. And today, in 2025, it has been 80 years since it ended, marked by the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27, 1945.
Yet today the Holocaust Remembrance events in the west are being hotly contended.
Don’t be a bystander
What is appalling is that we’re seeing the memory of the Holocaust desecrated and Jewish survivors sidelined. Today there are 245,000 Holocaust survivors left still alive, half of whom live in Israel. Multiple Holocaust survivors were targeted and even killed on October 7, experiencing horrors yet again at the hands of Hamas. It’s the same hatred of God’s covenant people rearing its ugly head.
As we came up to Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, 2025, the so-called “Islamic Human Rights Commission” (IHRC) sent a letter to 460 British town halls and educational institutions, saying, “We urge supporters to request HMD organizers to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza in their 2025 commemoration,” and warned of consequences if the request was not granted. The threat was made to “publicize the event organizer’s refusal to recognize all genocides, including that of the Palestinians in Gaza” and “organize a boycott of their event until they commit to opposing and condemning all genocides universally.”
In Ireland, despite requests from the Jewish community and Holocaust Education Ireland not to politicize the event, President Michael Higgins decided to take the Holocaust Memorial ceremony as an opportunity to air his opinions about Gaza. He held up the Gazan casualties of the war as a genocide along with the Holocaust, condemning and lecturing Israel to such a degree that several Jewish people in attendance silently turned their back in protest. Some, including Lior Tibet, a pregnant woman, were roughly dragged out of their chairs and forced out of the hall for doing so.
I am a Jew from Ireland.
To watch Irish Jewish people being forcibly removed from a Holocaust Memorial Event, after the President of Ireland decided that was an appropriate time to preach about Gaza, is sickening.
Ireland has become a shadow of its former self. pic.twitter.com/1JH7W3KzeT
— James Esses (@JamesEsses) January 26, 2025
Lior Tibet is a Holocaust researcher and tried to reason with the people manhandling her. In an interview afterwards she relayed what happened. She asked them, “How can you take a Jewish person out of this commemoration event – I didn’t do anything wrong!” She added, “It was the only way of protest I can think about I was being as quiet and peaceful as can be because we don’t have protests round here for Jews or for Israelis. We had three last year and that’s it. But we do see Hezbollah and Hamas flags all the time and there’s no condemning, but when we want to do a protest of our own because we feel we’ve been dismissed and our voices have been completely silenced we don’t have the possibility to do that anywhere.” She implored, “We all are supporters of human rights. The media and Irish people need to talk to Israelis, because we are not bloodthirsty, we’re not ok with children being murdered, it’s not the values that we grew up on.”
Another attendee was a descendant of Holocaust survivors yet was treated despicably for objecting to the memorial being hijacked by Hamas propaganda.
One of the saddest things to see was that the majority of people simply watched it happen and said nothing.
If you are shocked, the a recent poll commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League might help you understand how we got here. According to their findings, 46% of the world’s adults now hold “significantly antisemitic views”, and one in five of all respondents, from a sample of over 100 countries covering 94% of the world’s population, had never heard of the Holocaust. Less than half (48%) recognized the Holocaust as historical fact, and only 39% of the younger generation (aged 18 to 34), believing it was historically reliable. That number drops even further to just 16% among respondents from the Middle East and North Africa where Holocaust denial is rampant.
It’s vital today more than ever before that we continue to warn of the Holocaust: not just how it ended, but how it began and was allowed to happen.
“I have to tell the story, my story and the story of others” – Naftali Fürst, Holocaust survivor
“I feel like l have a purpose to educate people” – Danielle Gelbaum, October 7th survivor
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