alfiekohn, Historian RIck Perlstein just called this the best essay on Israel he's ever seen, although it's not a quick or easy read. It's a hard-hitting account of how Israel & its supporters have shamelessly exploited the Holocaust (and antisemitism more generally) to justify its crimes against Palestinians -- the current massacre being the apotheosis of a decades-long process -- and how a number of Jewish scholars and literary figures over the years have spoken out about this: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza