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Items by Faruk Vele
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Based on the experience in Bosnia, Israel must be held accountable for the genocide in Gaza
If we start from Hegel’s thought that all significant historical events and persons repeat themselves, “first as a tragedy and then as a farce”, it seems that the Israeli government has made the effort to provide us with both on today’s global geopolitical stage. The Holocaust against the Jews in...
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Why do descendants of Jews humiliated by Nazis now humiliate Palestinians?
Humiliation is one of the most powerful human emotions, causing intense feelings of shame in the victim. To humiliate someone means to violate their dignity by disregarding their basic human rights. That’s how the Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust at the Holocaust Museum in Washington describes the public humiliation of...