I beg to differ. I grew up with the stories, in graphic detail, of how nearly all of my family left in Europe were murdered in the Holocaust, and of the few survivors who fought back. The lesson I took is that this was not "a unique phenomenon" but an extreme example of the too-common hatred and violence which we are capable of inflicting on each other. I indeed compare what happened to my family to what I see today. When I represented mostly Central American refugees in deportation proceedings in the 80's, I compared the hollow expression in their eyes when I asked them of their experience, to what I saw in the eyes of my own family members when I asked about their experience in the Death Camps. Comparing the Holocaust to other horrors of racism (including what the State of Israel has done) is not only proper, but to me a religious mandate. It is our obligation to do everything we can to make sure nothing like that is done again, by anybody, to anybody, ever.