Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"The genocide of European Jewry succeeded not only because of the state-sanctioned culture of hate and industry of death, but because of crimes of indifference, because of conspiracies of silence.

"We have already witnessed an appalling indifference and inaction in our own day which took us down the road to the unspeakable -- the genocide in Rwanda -- unspeakable because this genocide was preventable. No one can say that we did not know. We knew, but we did not act, just as we knew and did not act to stop the genocide by attrition in Darfur.

"Indifference and inaction always mean coming down on the side of the victimizer, never on the side of the victim. Indifference in the face of evil is acquiescence with evil itself."

-- Irwin Cotler, "7 Lessons from the Holocaust", 2011-01-30 (emphasis added)

[Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.]