Omer Bartov, Israeli historian specialist in the Shoah, speaks on Gaza: “It’s a genocide.”

ByMuhammad

The Israeli historian Omer Bartov, a specialist in the Second World War and the Holocaust, estimated that the current offensive against the Palestinians constitutes “an operation whose aim is to destroy the capacity of Palestinians to live in this region as a group”. “And according to my definition, this is a genocide,” said professor of Brown University (Rhode Island), questioned about the current situation in the Middle East.

Critique of the Israeli government, Bartov accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of wanting to “that any criticism of Israel can be immediately transformed into an anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic argument”. According to him, “the occupation creates dehumanization. That’s what she does. She does not only dehumanize those you occupy, she dehumanizes the occupants ”. Asked about the Shoah, the historian replied: “We cannot understand anything in history without making comparisons,” he said. “If you say that the holocaust is unique, nothing like it happened before, nothing like it happened afterwards. This ceases to be a historical event, it becomes metaphysical, “he added.

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