Genocide scholar Martin Shaw argues that ending Israel’s genocide in Gaza and isolating Israel on the international stage must become the cause of every country that claims to represent human values.

Since World War II, Germany and its people have had to address their forefathers’ participation in the emblematic evil of modern times, the Holocaust. Coming to terms with their Nazi ancestors’ crimes became a major issue for many families. But this was also a major issue for the German state, which resolved it by making solidarity with Israel (and anti-antisemitism) its Staatsräson — literally, “reason of state.” Indeed, as the Nazi genocide became a universal “sacred evil” in American and Western thought, these same themes became (in a more familiar language) raisons d’état unifying the ent

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