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How Anti-Zionists Demonize Jews for Remembering Their Own History
(National Post-Canada) Barbara Kay - In 2005, Hebrew University sociology student and ardent anti-Zionist Tal Nitzan began work on a Master's thesis examining the (presumed) systemic rape of Palestinian women by the IDF. To her chagrin, Nitzan couldn't find a single documented case of rape by any IDF soldier. Undeterred, she adjusted her thesis. The IDF were still bent on humiliating Palestinian women, but her new "theory" had them accomplishing this by refusing to rape them. For a more famous and recent example, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times is claiming that sexual violence against imprisoned male Palestinians is happening "day after day." His charges are unreliably sourced, and he did not ask the Israel Prison Service for comment, yet claims sexual violence is "standard operating procedure" in Israeli prisons. Academic Naomi Klein, Canada's leading Marxist public intellectual, wrote in the Guardian in October 2024 about "How Israel Has Made Trauma a Weapon of War." She decries the Jews' excessive "memory culture" that turns traumatic events into educational experiences through art and technology. Israelis and diaspora Jews' continuous mourning over Oct. 7 disturbs Klein, who is particularly hard on the documentaries and exhibitions that show footage from the Palestinian invaders' GoPro cameras, or that recreate scenes of violence such as the Nova Exhibition. She also finds Holocaust memorialization extremely annoying. In her anti-Zionist playbook, it is only permissible to invoke the Holocaust in its inversion form, where Israelis are the new Nazis, Palestinians the new Jews.