Though the headline of a Francesca Albanese profile published at British Vogue, “Francesca Albanese Wants The World To Wake Up”, is a reference to her new book’s 'insight' into injustices against Palestinians, her long record of hateful rhetoric suggests what she wants “the world to wake up” to is the threat posed by Jews.
In the weeks surrounding Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), a slew of publications used graphics as a tool to demonize Israel, relying on the cynical weaponization of Jewish trauma and visual stereotyping.
Being Christian After the Desolation of Gaza features numerous misrepresentations, false accusations, inappropriate comparisons, villainized depictions, misconstruals, deflections, inaccurate claims, and promotion of extremist organizations as well as individuals with an anti-Israel bias.
When everything is labeled "Nazism", the word completely loses its meaning, and the victims lose their history. The Holocaust demands precision. History does not bend to convenience or feelings, and neither should our language when we speak about one of humanity’s greatest crimes.
The idea that Jews are collectively responsible for the actions of Israel, or that Jews are ultimately responsible for bigotry that they experience, is not a position the BBC should be lending its considerable credibility to, on any day, let alone on Holocaust Memorial Day.
In her Los Angeles Times column, Anita Chabria used a pseudo-definition of Nazism that erased Jew-hate from its core to argue that the Trump administration is flirting with Nazism while embracing white Christian nationalism. This columnist has had no problem freely highlighting antisemitic dog whistles on the right but has used qualifiers when discussing antisemitism in pro-Palestinian spaces.
