MMR Nmd<p>World recognized specialist of WWII and Holocaust, historian <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/EnzoTraverso" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnzoTraverso</span></a> exposes today's inversion of reality that makes Israël the victim of Hamas.<br>It is like if, during Nuremberg trial, instead of judging the Nazis it were the US and Russian war crimes (Dresdes, Hiroshima, Royan, Dunkerque...) that had been on the stand.<br>_______</p><p>"Historian Enzo Traverso: Israel Is Using the Memory of the Holocaust to Justify Genocide in Gaza"</p><p>Traverso details how memorialising the Holocaust became a sort of “civil religion” that honoured human rights and the values of Western liberal democracies after the Second World War.</p><p>However, in recent decades, Traverso warns, “the memory of the Holocaust experienced a paradoxical metamorphosis, and it was weaponized by Israel and by most Western powers in order to become a policy of an unconditional support of Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.”<br>Witnessing this distortion of history, “I was shocked by the way in which many words, many concepts had been abused and misunderstood,” says Traverso.<br>“Now we are facing a paradoxical situation in which the perpetrator is Hamas and the Palestinians, and the victims are the Israelis.<br>And this is a reversal of reality.”</p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holocaust</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WeaponizingShoah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeaponizingShoah</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/WWII" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WWII</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/15/gaza_faces_history_enzo_traverso" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">democracynow.org/2024/11/15/ga</span><span class="invisible">za_faces_history_enzo_traverso</span></a></p>