27 January is Holocaust Memorial Day. On this day we remember the six million Jewish people who were murdered under the Nazi regime.

But we also remember the millions of innocent people who have been and are still being killed in genocides, such as those in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur and Gaza.

As we wrote in our article Netanyahu copies the Nazis in starving people, the current Israeli government is still deliberately starving the people of Gaza, exposing them to intolerable winter weather without adequate shelter or heat, refusing to allow them to receive medical aid and all the other crimes they are committing against two million innocent men, women and children in that appalling country.

We quoted in that article a rant a year ago by an Israeli media figure Elad Barashi: “Gaza deserves death. The 2.6 million terrorists in Gaza deserve death! They deserve death! They deserve death! Men, women, and children — in every way possible, we must simply carry out a Holocaust on them — yes, read that again — H-O-L-O-C-A-U-S-T! For me, gas chambers. Train cars. And other cruel forms of death for these Nazis. Without fear, without hesitation — simply crush, eradicate, slaughter, flatten, dismantle, smash, shatter.”

You don’t need to call it a holocaust to recognise what an intolerable criminal campaign is being perpetrated before our eyes. It has to stop.