🕯️ Never Again—But Not for Gaza

By Malik Mukhtar
📍ainnbeen.blogspot.com

“The situation in Gaza is worse than in Nazi camps.”
— Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, July 2025

We’ve spent over $1 billion annually across the world on Holocaust remembrance.
Let that sink in.

According to various global estimates:

Germany alone has committed €1.1 billion annually in reparations and memorial funding.
The U.S. invests tens of millions yearly through the Holocaust Memorial Museum and educational grants.
More than 60 countries now mandate Holocaust education.
There are over 400 Holocaust museums and memorials worldwide.
UNESCO, the UN, and the EU fund documentaries, archives, and teacher training.

We have spared no cost—morally or financially—to say:

“Never Again.”

We built museums in every major city.
We filled schoolbooks with historical horror.
We produced documentaries, novels, films, lectures, teacher toolkits, podcasts, apps.
We taught our children to recognize hate.
We taught them that silence is complicity.
We taught them the cost of looking away.

And Yet—Here We Are

In Gaza, a human population is being pulverized in full view of satellites and smartphones.
Children are starving on livestream.
Babies die in incubators for lack of fuel.
Water is a war crime.
Flour is contraband.
Entire neighborhoods are erased—not just homes, but families, history, memory.

Over 100,000 Palestinians may already be dead—many buried beneath the rubble, never even counted.
Entire families are wiped from civil registries.
Names are replaced with numbers.
The bombs don’t discriminate. But the world does.

And the world’s reaction?

A shrug. A press release. A “regret.”
Another veto. Another weapons shipment.
Another lecture on Israel’s “right to defend itself.”

So Much for Never Again

We allocate good budget.
We have built hundreds of museums,
Written many hundreds of books,
Made documentary films,
Taught our children through curriculum that we must prevent genocide
and make sure never again.

But apparently “Never Again” has an asterisk.
It expires when the victims are Arab.
It doesn’t apply if the perpetrator wears Western armor.
It’s suspended when there are “strategic allies” involved.
And it evaporates completely
when Palestinian children are bleeding under drone fire instead of barbed wire.

The Nazi Camps Were Hidden. Gaza Is Live-Streamed.

Let’s be clear: No one is minimizing the Holocaust.
It was one of humanity’s darkest chapters.
But the people who survived it—the ones who shouted “Never Again”—meant never again to anyone.

And yet we now criminalize those who say “Free Palestine.”
We suspend students who protest ethnic cleansing.
We defund UN agencies feeding starving children.
We call medics and mourners "terrorist sympathizers."
We ban the keffiyeh but wave the F-35.

The Hypocrisy Screams Louder Than the Bombs

We knew everything.
We saw everything.
And we did—nothing.

So let’s stop lying to our children.
Let’s stop telling them that museums mean something.
Let’s stop pretending our outrage is universal.
Because right now, every dollar spent on remembrance is overshadowed by our silence.
Right now, every lesson we teach about the Holocaust is betrayed by our apathy toward Gaza.

Gaza Is the Moral Test of Our Generation

And we are failing it.

Not because we lack the information.
Not because we didn’t know.
But because we chose the wrong side—again.

We chose weapons over warnings.
Propaganda over principles.
Strategic silence over moral courage.

And when the last brick of Gaza is turned to dust,
We’ll commission another memorial.
We’ll write another curriculum.
We’ll say again with polished grief:

“How did we let this happen?”

You did.
We all did.

✍️ By Malik Mukhtar

📍ainnbeen.blogspot.com

“The Holocaust was not just a Jewish tragedy—it was a warning to all of humanity.
The genocide in Gaza proves we ignored it the moment it became inconvenient.”

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