{"id":408794,"date":"2026-04-24T15:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/408794\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:37:19","slug":"zionism-led-to-genocide-it-must-disappear-omer-bartovs-new-book-explores-where-exactly-israel-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/408794\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Zionism Led to Genocide. It Must Disappear’: Omer Bartov’s New Book Explores Where, Exactly, Israel Went Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Award-winning Israeli-American author Omer Bartov at his book launch in Cambridge, near Boston, on Tuesday. Credit: Arthur Mansavage<\/p>\n

In an interview with Haaretz ahead of the release of ‘Israel: What Went Wrong,’ renowned genocide studies scholar Omer Bartov talks about trading letters with Yitzhak Rabin as a young soldier, what’s wrong with Holocaust-Hamas comparisons and why he thinks Israelis, too, need to ditch Zionism<\/p>\n

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Cambridge, MASSACHUSETTS \u2013 In May 2024, the Israeli-born historian Omer Bartov concluded that what he was watching in Gaza met the definition of genocide under the 1948 UN Convention. It was not a conclusion he wanted to reach.<\/p>\n

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