Our pity is about ourselves
That’s the world At the moment the worst war? That in Congo? Or Sudan? Yemen? Do we pay too much attention to Ukraine and Gaza? A few weeks ago a reader sent me tasks that went in that direction: the hunger and suffering in Sudan are even worse.
This kind of perspective is of course important. Because they show that our indignation is not objective. That our pity is about ourselves in a certain way.
So why would we care about what is happening in Gaza now? Because I think we are complicated the Killing (“war” is almost a euphemism in this context in a completely different way. Israel is a European product. Established as a direct result of the Holocaust, after a war in which Sweden was “neutral”. This historical background manifests itself in bizarre small peculiarities that, despite its geographical location, is allowed to participate in everything, from European championships in football to Eurovision Schlagerta matches.
But there are Also a special Swedish contribution to the case: it was Göran Perssons Government that founded the Forum for Living History and set up the establishment of IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance). Everything to “prevent intolerance and, by expanding, genocide and other crimes against humanity”. The result was the so-called Stockholm statement from 2015, a document that means that in principle all Israel criticism can be rejected as anti-Semitism.
According to Stockholm’s statement, anti -semitism is to “enter into double standards by demanding Israel an achievement that is not expected whether another democratic country has demanded”. A formulation that today became strange ironic. Because it is not to set the bar for democracy, to demand that it does not take on a genocide? It is also anti -semitism to compare Israel’s current policy with Nazi politics. “Okay, I will stand up for that comparison. But what does it say about Israel’s policy that that comparison should be forbidden?
Israel has become A state that has a hobby to kill children, said an Israeli opposition politician recently. A state in which you shoot people who desperately try to get a part of the emergency aid that is nevertheless divided. A state that, with settlements and bombs, wants to replace the population of Palestine with another. The word “replaced” both hides and says everything.
I wonder what the Forum for Living History says about this. And our government, what does it think? Don’t know. Because it’s so quiet. Maybe it’s neutral?
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