Europe has a high fever. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, some of its voices—among them Italy’s l’Unità—chose delirium over truth, comparing the war in Gaza to the Shoah. This is not mere provocation; it is a form of denialism dressed up as moral outrage.

Only fever—or ignoble political calculation—can produce such a confusion. Israel did not wake up one morning to exterminate a people. It was attacked. Men, women and children were murdered, raped, burned alive and kidnapped by Hamas. The Jewish state fought because it had to.

To claim otherwise requires hallucination. Did Jews prepare for decades to butcher Gazans, investing billions and digging tunnels? Did a frenzied population cheer them on? Did a leadership hide behind human shields—explicitly, as the assassinated Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar admitted—to extract ideological cover? Genocidal Israel? Please!