Holocaust Professor Tells Piers Morgan Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Now ‘Greater Than Destruction of Hiroshima’
Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University, told Piers Morgan on Thursday that Israel’s destruction of Gaza had surpassed the “destruction of Hiroshima” by a nuclear bomb at the end of World War II, with civilian death ratios not seen since the 20th century.
“We’ve heard that the IDF is the most moral army in the world. Even when I served in the IDF in the 1970s, it was not the most moral army in the world,” said Bartov, who was born in Israel and fought during the Yom Kippur War. “But now, it’s a totally different organization.”
He continued:
The statistics are that between 2 and 5% of the population have been killed, 60-70% of them civilians. A third of those killed are children. Over a thousand of those killed are children below the age of one. That’s a ratio that has not existed in the 21st century and indeed you have to go back to World War 2 for these figures. Some of the destruction in cities in Gaza is greater than the destruction of Hiroshima in nuclear weapons, and so we now have only one part of Gaza that is not completely flattened, and right now, as we speak, in Deir al-Balah, the IDF is involved in destroying it.
Bartov concluded, “This is a rate of destruction that is unprecedented. In Syria, in the civil war in Syria, in thirteen years, 2% of the population were killed, and Israel has accomplished that already apparently by the Summer of 2024. So the rate is huge and the intent is quite clear, and you can see it from all the reports coming in from Gaza.”
U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. accused Bartov of engaging in “blood libel” after he wrote that Israel was committing a genocide against the Palestinians on Wednesday.
This week, more than 100 nongovernmental organizations signed a letter “sounding the alarm” on what they said was Israel’s starvation of Palestinians, including Save the Children, Oxfam, Mercy Corps, Amnesty International, and Action Against Hunger.
Watch above via Piers Morgan Uncensored.
