Alfie Kohn on Nostr: Historian RIck Perlstein just called this the best essay on Israel he's ever seen, ...
Historian RIck Perlstein just called this the best essay on Israel he's ever seen, although it's not a quick or easy read. It's a hard-hitting account of how Israel & its supporters have shamelessly exploited the Holocaust (and antisemitism more generally) to justify its crimes against Palestinians -- the current massacre being the apotheosis of a decades-long process -- and how a number of Jewish scholars and literary figures over the years have spoken out about this:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gazaPublished at
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