Outsiders host Rowan Dean says “anti-semitism is on the rise across the world,” and “we've seen examples in Australia, too, with swastikas daubed on a Bondi wall and other repulsive acts”.
Mr Dean reflected on last Monday being “International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,” and said parallels have been drawn “between today and the 1930s in Europe”.
“Henry Ergas, one of our greatest writers and intellectuals wrote a superb piece in his regular column in The Australian newspaper” about how “the dangers we face today are not comparable to the 1930s”.
“I agree with him, but it does raise an interesting conundrum,” he said.
“The everyday citizens of a supposedly civilised land like pre-war Germany could sit back and not speak up as their nation descended into the pure evil of the Holocaust.
“At what point do you raise your head above the parapet and draw attention to whatever parallels, no matter how obscure, you can see with the past?
Mr Dean reflected on last Monday being “International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,” and said parallels have been drawn “between today and the 1930s in Europe”.
“Henry Ergas, one of our greatest writers and intellectuals wrote a superb piece in his regular column in The Australian newspaper” about how “the dangers we face today are not comparable to the 1930s”.
“I agree with him, but it does raise an interesting conundrum,” he said.
“The everyday citizens of a supposedly civilised land like pre-war Germany could sit back and not speak up as their nation descended into the pure evil of the Holocaust.
“At what point do you raise your head above the parapet and draw attention to whatever parallels, no matter how obscure, you can see with the past?
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