So what does Davis believe, and why? His father was a British Jew who met his mother, a Czech, in British Mandatory Palestine in the mid-1930s, where they married in 1939, four years before his birth. While his mother escaped the transports to the gas chambers at Auschwitz, many in her family did not. It is a familiar story in Israel. But the lesson that Davis learnt from it was different from the vast majority of Jews who concluded that never again could Jews depend on others to guarantee their security from persecution.

"An important part of the education that I received from my parents," Davis recalled last week, "was never to generalise. To beware of every sentence that begins with 'all'. It was not 'all' Germans who killed my mother's family. It was some Nazis." Another distinction was emphasised by his mother. "If she heard the suggestion of vengeance, she would be horrified. She sought justice. One of the biggest problems addressing a Zionist audience is that the distinction

He learned some very valuable lessons early in life. Too bad those lessons aren't taught with more frequency. We would 'all' be better off.

Great clip.

The true lesson of the Holocaust is not what it did to the Jews, but the depths of the cruelty and savagery of humans against other human beings, regardless of color, sex or creed.

Using such horrific events to promote a vision of apartheid only sullies the memory of the slain