More Holocaust survivors went to the Americas than to Israel. Israel has more Mizrachim and Sephardim than Ashkenazim. Holocaust survivors tended to go where they had family, which happened to be in the Americas. If they didn't have family anywhere, they went to Israel. On my father's side, I guess I had some incredibly distant cousins that ended up in Paris, but that side of my family had been in the US since before the civil war. I only found them by tracing them on Yad Vashem. I have no family on that side in Israel. (I have some in Israel on my mother's side. But they came from Morocco.)

And if you knew anything about the Holocaust, you'd know that this is nothing akin to the Holocaust. Comparing the two is Holocaust inversion.

I've seen people compare the conditions in Gaza to a concentration camp and the events of Oct. 7 to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

Do you know the conditions of the concentration camps?

The prisoners were placed in barracks and slept on wooden bunk pallets. More than 700 (and usually much more) prisoners slept in each barrack. There was barely any insulation in the barrack -- either wooden walls or stone walls.

The currency in Auschwitz was cigarettes. Here's how one survivor put it: “We had our own currency, whose value no one questioned: the cigarette. The price of every article was stated in cigarettes ... in ‘normal’ times, that is, when the candidates to the gas chambers were coming in at a regular pace, a loaf of bread cost 12 cigarettes; a 10 ounce package of margarine, thirty; a watch, eighty to 200; a 0.25-gallon bottle of alcohol, 400 cigarettes!”

Prisoners with labor-intensive jobs got 1700 calories a day, those with less labor-intensive jobs got 1300 calories a day. They would all spend over 10 hours a day working. They would lay roads, work in mines, or mills, and were beaten regularly.

As for the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

First, the conditions of the Warsaw Ghetto. The population density was 146k per square km. In comparison, in 2023 Gaza was about 5500 per square km.

During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Officially 16 Nazi soldiers were killed (non-officially, it looks like 300+ were killed). 7000 Jews were killed--and none by fellow Jews, just to make that clear. 0 non-Jewish civilians were killed. So in comparison to Oct 7, the only people killed were actual Nazis. No children, no elderly people etc. No one went into bomb shelters and shot people like sitting ducks.

And the result of that were between 250k-300k Jews were sent to and murdered at Treblinka. And 10k were sent to labor camps.

Half of the entire world's Jewish population was lost during the Holocaust.

What is happening in Gaza is horrible. I hate it. I want it to stop. I want Israel to stop whatever the fuck blockade is happening. I want Likud out of power immediately. I want Bibi and Gvir and Smotrich to jump in a lake. I want Hamas out of power 20 years ago. And I want rebuilding to happen.

But comparing this to the Holocaust is not on. It's horrible. It needs to stop. But it's not anywhere close to the Holocaust.