Goethe Institute Likens the Shoah to the Nakba
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The Goethe Institute in Israel thought it had a great idea. Why not observe the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht by convening a panel discussion on the Shoah and the Nakba, and how we – you, me, everybody — are to understand the “pain of the others”? There must have been many who gasped at the insensitivity of the effort, the massive miscomprehension of it, the cruelty of the inadmissible comparison. How flabbergasting, some must have thought, since any one of sense knows what is wrong with this pairing of the Holocaust with the Nakba; apparently, however, no one of sense works at the Goethe Institute of Israel. The story of this outrage can be found here: “German institute lashed for Tel Aviv ‘Shoah, Nakba’ event on date of Kristallnacht,” by Lazar Berman, Times of Israel, November 8, 2022:






