03.12.2024
BERLIN
Chiara de Cesari: Heritage Politics, Racism and the Israel/Palestine Question
Strains of Holocaust memory are widespread in current representations of Gaza and Israel/Palestine, in both narratives of solidarity with Palestinians and those supporting Israel’s government. In an example of what could be called, following Michael Rothberg, asymmetric multidirectionality, memories of the past are reproduced and transformed while being activated as interpretive lenses to read present historical events and affective media though which those events are experienced and acted upon. This is not new in the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, especially in relation to Israel, whose national identity is grounded in Holocaust memory. Yet, in the last year, we have seen a dramatic proliferation of so-called Holocaust analogies to read what is happening at the present moment. My talk will center on this multidirectional framing and its ambivalent, racialised politics. Chiara De Cesari is Professor of Heritage, Memory and Cultural Studies and Chair of Cultural Studies […]
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