Aug 22nd, 2025, 7:56 am
Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos condemned Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza on Thursday and said he felt “sick” seeing an Israeli spokesperson wearing a yellow star as “somebody who actually had to wear a yellow star” during the Second World War.
“To watch what goes on in Gaza is absolutely horrendous for me, and in lots of ways, the sufferings of the Palestinian people rhymes with the suffering that we had,” said Kapos, 88, during an interview on Good Morning Britain. “As you mentioned, my family was kind of separated [during World War II]. My mother was in charge of some girls in hiding, the girls were separate, so we weren’t together, and my father was taken in December ’44 to Bergen-Belsen [concentration camp].”
Criticizing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision to await “the final decision of the international courts” to see whether Israel’s conduct in Gaza “could be called a genocide,” Kapos pointed out that “under that kind of approach, you could never stop a genocide because by the time the official words come out, it would be over.”
Kapos also called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hostage arguments “a false claim,” arguing, “You do not free hostages by bombing.”
“I think the whole of the West is guilty, in a way, in not opposing this decisively and strongly enough, particularly the mass media that, if you like, has been lying by omission,” he said. “By not giving enough coverage and by the way they give coverage also at times. For example, taking Israeli statements unchallenged.”
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