'We must not stand by' in the face of Uyghur genocide - The Jewish Chronicle

China’s treatment of its Uyghur Muslim minority was condemned as “genocide” in a Limmud session dedicated to the crisis.

Maajid Nawaz, the broadcaster and anti-extremism campaigner, who staged a five-day hunger strike in an effort to persuade the British government to address what was happening to the Uyghurs, was in conversation with former Jewish Leadership Council chairman Sir Mick Davis.

Asked by Sir Mick, who chairs the Prime Minister’s Holocaust Commission, about comparisons between the Uyghur genocide and the Holocaust, Mr Nawaz said he believed there were analogous lessons to draw — “the fact that it is almost too late to do anything, as was the case with the Jewish community in Europe”.

Each situation, he said, had been “met with ignorance”, not the least of which was the international community’s dependence on economic power, then in Germany and today in China.