The Heinous Ideology:
Nazi ideology held that a superior race was entitled to rule over and eliminate others, a claim so total it displaced God a-n-d decided whose life was worth living.
This heinous ideology is duplicated and has mutated in some countries today. Merged and mutated--i believe--in others, but just as dangerous.
The Jewish concept of chosenness is the inversion of that idea: not entitlement, but obligation to live by the Ten Commandments and to model it for others. (Even when the practice of it fails and doesn't match the ideal )
Confusing the two cases is not a small error; it is the exact error the Holocaust comparison depends on. This is not about superiority but about responsibility, toward your own first and once they are secure, toward the rest of the world.
Jews fleeing extermination in the 1930s and '40s found the world's doors closed. The 1938 Évian Conference stands as the enduring symbol of that abandonment, when dozens of nations met and almost none agreed to take in Jewish refugees. Palestinians today have the sustained backing of the UN, the Arab League, the OIC, and hundreds of millions of sympathisers worldwide.
A friendless minority marked for extermination is not the same thing as a national movement with global patronage, and conflating the two erases what made the Jewish catastrophe so singular.
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