My grandparents’ story of surviving the Holocaust taught me what genocide is, and it is how I know to condemn what Israel is doing to Gaza right now. How dare Israel exploit my family’s suffering to try to justify its genocide in Gaza.

Israel and its supporters are engaging in Holocaust revisionism to justify its genocidal attack on Gaza.

Phil Weiss speaks to Tony Greenstein about his new book, “Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation”.

I met Yair Lapid when I was an adolescent Zionist. I now recognize that Zionism has only served to uphold the basic tenets of antisemitism — that Jews do not belong in the world.

Western support for Israel is explained away by shared interests and realpolitik, but this elides an underlying anti-Palestinianism that motivates pro-Israel bias.

Many older Jews still carry scars of the Nazi Holocaust that live on in the form of guilt, victimhood and fear of another genocide. They must protect Israel for they hear, “without Israel there would be no safe Jews.”  These fears are exported within the context of Zionist racist ideology. 

There is a hegemony that regards the European holocaust as more tragic and horrific than any other experience that people have had to endure. That is simply not true.

The first time I was called a “self-hating Jew” was almost 15 years ago by someone I considered a close friend. It stung and I felt confused. Why does supporting Palestinian rights make me self-hating? And what does that have to do with my Judaism? Israel/Palestine seemed like a clear-cut situation to me. How could taking a country away from the people who had been there for centuries be right? 15 years later I have never felt stronger in my stance as a self-loving anti-Zionist Jew.

Whoopi Goldberg saw the racism of the Jewish Holocaust through the lens of the holocaust in the Americas.

“Nobody ever invited me to tell the story in any other way but that we must live by the sword,” Yuli Novak says of her upbringing in the Israeli elite. In a new memoir excerpted by Haaretz in Hebrew this weekend Novak says that the moment she ceased to be obedient, “the system turned against me.” She came to the understanding that a South Africa style political struggle is necessary to bring peace and equality to Israel and Palestine.