To Those Who Compare Gaza to the Holocaust After years of suffering, starvation and disease in the ghettos, the Nazis offered desperate Jews a way out. They promised them jobs and a better future. They told them they were being relocated to labor camps where they could support their families. Believing they had finally found hope, the Jews boarded the trains. Those trains took them to extermination camps. Upon arrival, they were told they would first take a “disinfection shower” before entering the work camp. The gas chambers were disguised as shower rooms. Many only realized they had been deceived when the gas started flowing. That was systematic, industrialized murder built on the intent to exterminate an entire people. In Gaza, when Israel wants to target Hamas infrastructure, it evacuates entire neighborhoods in advance, even though this gives Hamas time to escape. Israel does this specifically to minimize civilian casualties. These two realities are fundamentally different. Comparing them dishonors the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.