The unique perspective and provocative opinions of Joe O’Neill
Foreign Affairs
The
H word: “Holocaust.” It’s as singularly horrific a word as there is. It embodies
evil. It should never be repurposed for political advantage. So, imagine this
from Israel’s new Education Minister Rafi Peretz, who’s opposed to inter-faith
Jewish marriages. He went rhetorically renegade by asserting that “assimilation
is like the Holocaust.” Being the leader of a religious nationalist party
hardly excuses unconscionably heinous hyperbole.
Last
weekend police in Copenhagen arrested more than two dozen people who
were riding scooters while drunk. You knew it was coming, but an “SUI”
arrest still sounds weird.