Einstein, the Nazis and BDS

 key issue in comparing Nazism to any other social and political phenomenon is that Nazism is taken to connote what it ultimately became. Everybody naturally thinks of Nazism in terms of world war, death camps, crematoria, millions of innocents killed. Nazism means Holocaust, and the Holocaust is incomparable. How can Nazism validly be compared to any other social and political phenomenon? The answer is: Think of Nazism as the process it was. Don’t think of Nazism in terms of its final form. Nazism did not begin with death camps. Nazism did not begin with world war, or even with Hitler in power. Nazism in its final form is so far beyond any conception of humanity that it is easy to distance oneself from it, easy […]