oatmeal on Nostr: I didn’t read the rest of Shalev’s tirade but the premise of Israel’s revenge ...

I didn’t read the rest of Shalev’s tirade but the premise of Israel’s revenge war on Gaza *IS* the memory of the holocaust (i.e never again, though they briefly tested the waters with Hamas-ISIS) as if Hamas was able or going to exterminate all the Jews in Palestine. The rhetoric around Arabs and Nazis started already with Ben Gurion. When Begin evoked it drew a considerable amount of objection from survivors and family for the diminishing of the memory of the holocaust. Then came war criminal Netanyahu and claimed the final solution was the idea of the Mufti of Jerusalem. Talking about context, that’s literal holocaust denialism. Weaponizing the holocaust is definitely not new and Israeli politicians and media are definitely the worst in that respect.

BTW I’m sure you’re familiar with Friedlander’s
“kitsch and death” about the cultural representations of the holocaust . The use of these images on social media in the way you describe would definitely be of interest (the book was published in 1982). Though other than a fig leaf for Israel’s relentless crimes against humanity (since 1948), it’s a phenomenon that existed possibly also irrespectively.

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