The similarity between these emaciated hostages and freed concentration camp prisoners is almost too much to bear. “Never again” has proven itself to be an empty slogan by human rights groups and “antiracists” who turn a blind eye to this modern-day cruelty.

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Tag the people in your feed who’ve used social media to say “never again” on Holocaust Remembrance Day, but had nothing to say about these starved hostages. Did they mean what they wrote?

Holocaust Remembrance Day was less than two weeks ago. What good is it to have a day to remember something so horrific if the world turns a blind eye to this current horror, villainizing the Jews instead?

To all the well-meaning peace groups I worked with from 2007 onward—well-meaning, yes, but steeped in a dangerous ignorance. To the mental health professionals who took their cultural sensitivity classes and emerged believing they understood the Middle East, yet couldn’t tell a Druze from a Palestinian, let alone grasp the full history of Jews in the region. To those who swallowed the fashionable narrative that Israel’s open borders and compassion alone could dissolve jihadi terrorism, and who turned their expertise in trauma treatment into a moral weapon, blaming the Jewish people for their fear—fear born not of the Holocaust’s shadow, but of the grim realities they faced for decades. The rockets, the shootings, the bombings—the murdered friends and shattered families. Fears rooted in current events, not outdated trauma. You stood on your lofty platforms, dismissing the pleas of Israelis who knew these dangers firsthand. You claimed their fears were relics of unhealed wounds, while ignoring the fresh scars of rocket attacks and massacres. You preached compassion while dismissing the clear calls from Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PRC, Mujahideen Brigades, and Ahfad al-Sahaba to slaughter or subjugate. You didn’t even know who these groups were or the extent of their reach, yet you clung to a naïve, sentimental fantasy that “all you need is love.” By doing so, you invalidated the reality of those who had lived through relentless terror, who had watched friends and family be gunned down or blown apart.  The people you claimed to champion—ordinary Israelis, Iranians, Palestinians who want to live free from oppressive theocracy—were ignored, dismissed, silenced. Many hostages trusted in that naïve worldview, believed in a hope you painted in pastel shades, only to see it fail utterly. You didn’t just misunderstand their experience—you undermined it, and in doing so, you let evil grow. the very people you spoke of—ordinary Israelis, Iranians, and Palestinians yearning to live free from theocratic oppression—were being ignored or silenced. Many of the hostages believed your naïve vision, that evil could be reasoned away with kindness alone. You made evil worse. Now, I ask you: come down from your high horse and truly listen. See the world as it is, not as a comforting fantasy. Listen to the voices of those who’ve endured the terror, not just to the echo of your own ideals. Only then can we begin to work toward a peace that is honest and lasting. Take a good look at these before and after pictures of the hostages and then do what your conscience tells you to do, if you can find it beneath the wreckage of your utopian ideals.

The similarity between these emaciated hostages and freed concentration camp prisoners is almost too much to bear. “Never again” has proven itself to be an empty slogan by human rights groups and “antiracists” who turn a blind eye to this modern-day cruelty.