The recently released film Bawaal has caused an uproar for its insensitive use of the Holocaust as a metaphor for a troubled relationship. Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Jewish human rights organisation Simon Wiesenthal Center asked Amazon to “stop monetising” Bawaal with immediate effect, and called the film a “banal trivialisation of the suffering and systematic murder of millions of victims of the Nazi Holocaust”. The Holocaust refers to the systematic state-sponsored persecution and murder of some six million European Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime, between 1933 and 1945. The word ‘holocaust’ comes from the Greek holokauston, meaning “an...