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A Dream of a Socialist Commonwealth | Adam Hochschild

The New York Review of Books·Adam Hochschild·25 days ago
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Two catastrophes haunt Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country . One is the Holocaust, which devoured the lives of many of the people in her pages. The other, more in the background but never far from her thoughts, is the ordeal of the Palestinian people. This includes the Nakba of 1948, in which some 750,000 men, women, and children were forced to flee their homes and land; the slow, creeping seizure of Palestinian farms and villages in the West Bank by Jewish settlers 1 ; and the Israeli military campaign that has left large parts of Gaza reduced to rubble, much as the Nazis left the Warsaw Ghetto. Are the two tragedies connected? “The Holocaust and the Nakba,” writes the Israeli-born genocide scholar Omer Bartov, “are inextricably linked,” despite “each group’s insistence on the exclusivity of its victimhood.” 2 And, of course, Americans are implicated in both.…

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