The war in Ukraine has stirred old arguments over history
Israel is entangled with politicised distortions of the Holocaust
MOUNT OF REMEMBRANCE on the western edge of Jerusalem is encircled by thousands of trees, many with a sign naming a person and a country. The Avenue of the Righteous among the Nations, a project begun in 1962 by Yad Vashem, Israel’s national authority for Holocaust remembrance, links to the museum and monuments commemorating the extermination of Europe’s Jews, many of them in Ukraine.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Awkward narratives”
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