Hannah Arendt's message is not so much that we have to do everything possible to protect the Jews - although it should be obvious that it's very important to do that. It's just not more important than protecting all of us from that kind of nightmare reality.
Her point is that we have to remember how the shit gets started, how it's sustained, and the simple fact that it doesn't take a bunch of monsters doing monstrous things to bring about something as awful and soul-crushing as the Holocaust. The potential for genocide lives in all of us, all the time.
All it takes is for normal everyday people to stop questioning what's going on around them.
We go along to get along. We don't look hard enough at what our government is doing on our behalf - with our resources - to people who are really no different from us.
The leopards will eventually eat your face too.
When we normalize cruelty.
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