Israeli-born Holocaust historian Omer Bartov (author of numerous books on the subject, and the famous 2025 essay in the New York Times "I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It") recently published "What went wrong in Israel?"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/21/omer-bartov-israel-zionism-genocide
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a detailed account of how Israel was transformed from a hopeful nation that in its founding document promised "complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex" into one intent on what he bluntly terms "settler colonialism and ethno-nationalism".
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western imperial powers unleashed a settler-colonial project that aimed from its inception to "eliminate, uproot, murder the Palestinians"
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the charge of antisemitism has grown hollow, Bartov said, due to its flagrant "weaponization" as "a tool to shut people up" as the state wreaks destruction on its neighbors. "Having claimed to be the definitive answer to antisemitism," he writes in What Went Wrong?, "Israel is now the best excuse for antisemites everywhere, a nation whose addiction to violence and oppression, reliance on great powers and financial clout, and constant harping on the horrors of the Holocaust as an excuse for untethered violence against Palestinians are making even some of its erstwhile supporters shrink from it in discomfort, or horror and disgust."
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Bartov's new book is coming out in "nine or 10" languages, he said, but Hebrew is not among them. Though he offered to translate it himself, he says even left-leaning Israeli publishers took a pass.
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