Feb. 12, 2025 (EIRNS)—Like it or not, the world is confronted today with a situation every bit as morally unequivocal, in the case of Gaza, as that of the May 1939 pre-World War Two MS St. Louis incident. Over 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, passengers on that doomed ocean liner, sought asylum and sanctuary from Cuba, the United States, and Canada, but were denied. They were forced to return to Europe. Though some found refuge in Belgium, France, etc., about a quarter of the people aboard were later killed in the concentration camps. It was called “the Voyage of the Damned”—but by whom were they damned? And what was their crime? Why were their lives not saved?