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Brilliant, THE WORLD AFTER GAZA the price paid by post-
war Germany for moral
disturbing Pankaj Mishra absolution from the shoah
was continuous cash and
analysis Juggernaut weapons flow to the new
Rs.799
Pages 292 Jewish state.
Mishra contends that
HE GRIM REALITY Western acceptance and
of Israel’s continu- projection of the shoah
Tous and uninter- as the greatest of human
rupted carnage in the Gaza (2012); A Great Clamour Western projection tragedies has obscured
strip — a constituent land (2013) and Age of Anger of the Holocaust as the atrocities of the White
parcel of the Palestine (2017), among others. the greatest of hu- race that has extinguished
state (pop.5 million) — In this heavily re- man tragedies has ‘coloured’ inhabitants of
and the world’s tolerance searched polemic (over 50 obscured atrocities of the Americas, Australia
of this ongoing massacre authors and thinkers ref- the White race against and Africa (through the
which has wiped out an erenced), Mishra provides ‘colored’ inhabitants slave trade), Hiroshima
estimated 70,000 of Gaza’s a refreshing look through of the world. “Pales- and loot, exploitation and
2 million inhabitants, has non-Western eyes of the tine is a color issue” massacres across Africa,
ceased to shock. Israel’s air Israel-Hamas conflict Asia and Latin America.
force has free undisputed which has transformed genocide in conformity He posits that Hitler’s
command over Gaza skies Gaza into a devastated with the Nazi ideology of attempted genocide of the
and together with artillery cemetery. This courageous lebensraum. Jews is the gravest crime
shelling they have reduced book names powerful Mishra’s explanation for of them all in Western
most cities to rubble, with people and institutions, the European, American eyes because it was against
the daily toll of civilians highlights history manipu- — and global — apathy is White people. White
running into hundreds. lation, White suprema- effectiveness of the Jewish supremacism cannot
Aid is not allowed in, cism, and resurgence of lobby in establishing shoah reconcile with the realities
and most residents of Gaza greedy nationalism in the (the Jewish holocaust) of decolonisation, a chang-
— especially women and new world order. as the major narrative in ing world order, economic
children are starving. “The The very first paragraph American and European progress and freedom from
silence and denial around of this searing narra- policy of the Middle East Western hegemony of non-
the moral catastrophe un- tive of usurpation and through bribery (Biden White nations.
folding in Gaza only seems loss begins with the 1943 campaign contribution “Palestine is a colour
to grow in proportion to Warsaw-Ghetto uprising of $4.2 million, Trump issue,” said George Orwell
the scale of atrocity being starving, emaciated Jews campaign $230 million), in 1945; “the West needed
inflicted on the Palestine against their Nazi persecu- corruption, and control of a handle in the Middle
people,” writes Pratap tors. It was a brave and he- the media. Countries that East,” said James Bald-
Bhanu Mehta, arguably roic but unequal battle and were brazenly antisemitic win in 1955. In the words
India’s most respected “those still alive on the last (e.g, Romania, Hungary, of American sociologist
public intellectual (Indian day committed suicide,” Poland) have converted to William du Bois white
Express, July 25). writes Mishra. philosemiticism, to gain supremacy is the driving
The depth and scale of Therefore, he laments “an entry ticket into the force behind Israel. That
the atrocity being visited that the Jewish nation European Union and its any attack on a White
upon the predominantly carved out of Palestine has economic bonanza”. Ger- nation (USA 9/11, Pearl
unarmed population of turned into a perpetra- many’s conversion, from Harbour 1940) is a threat
Gaza is elaborated in this tor of genocidal Zionism. exterminator of Jews to to White supremacism and
timely book by Pankaj From the idealism of Herzl major supporter from 1948 justifies disproportionately
Mishra, a respected (1896), who proposed the onwards, played a major heavy retribution (Iraq,
UK-based public intellec- biblical home of the Jews role in establishment of the Palestine, Hiroshima).
tual and author of seven where the community Jewish State in Palestine. Mishra writes Israel is
non-fiction bestsellers could live with dignity, According to Daniel a racist state that brazenly
including Butter Chicken Israel has transformed into Marwecki (Germany and supported White national-
in Ludhiana (1995); From a war machine engaged in Israel: Whitewashing ists in (apartheid) South
the Ruins of Empire cold-blooded, calculated and State Building 2020), Africa and is perpetrat-

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