JFM,
on a practical level you are right, an aerial attack here or there probably wouldn’t have done much to mitigate the Holocaust. But on a moral level, it signalled that saving Jews was not high on anyone’s list, if at all. Churchill sacrificed a huge chunk of British forces(land, sea and air), at a critically weak point in the war, in the vain attempt to save Greece in 1941, militarily it was a bad idea but politicall and morally it was the right thing and the Greeks were good allies, even for an occupied country.
Of course there are different levels of anti-Semitism, from the level of some crank bigot who simply hates everyone different, like the Italians, or someone who thinks Judaism is obsolete and they should stop whining and convert. But in my experience, anti-Semitism is a world view that many scumbags, some that I have met, that puts all Jews on the level of the devil; subhuman enemies of all mankind innately evil.
