“It’s a genocide, and it’s been happening for 75 years.”
In 1950, the population of Gaza was 63,444. In 2025, it’s 823,407.
Very inept genocide.
“In Brussels schools, students equating Gaza war with Holocaust stymie remembrance,” Times of Israel, April 15, 2025:
BRUSSELS, Belgium — A few months ago in Brussels, Arthur Langerman was telling high school pupils about losing family members in the Holocaust and escaping a Nazi raid himself, when he was cut short by two Muslim teens wanting to talk about Gaza.
“It’s a genocide, and it’s been happening for 75 years,” interjected one of the young women, triggering a heated back-and-forth about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
For their history teacher, Olivier Blairon, the scene sums up how hard it is to teach the genocide of six million Jews during World War II since the devastating Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel on October 7, 2023, that triggered the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
Blairon works in a large high school in the Brussels district of Koekelberg, home to a large community of Moroccan descent, where he said many students “identify with the violence suffered by Gazans.”
“I have heard antisemitic remarks,” Blairon said. “Some of my students mix things up” by equating all Jews with Israel, he said. Some are also deliberately “provocative.”
“So I take the time to unpick their preconceptions,” he said….