THE UNAVOWABLE HOLOCAUST
As a conversation unfolds between friends on exilic politics, the Anti-Denialist Coalition shares what they call their accanto “a text beside, next to, para-, with” our thinking. “Preparatory remarks toward what” they imagine, “as a collective unworking”.
The Unavowable Holocaust responds to a short fragment written by Giorgio Agamben entitled The End of Judaism. It fiercly charts what may be at stake in confronting the planetary scope of the Palestinian Nakba yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Despite the tenacious imperative of Empire to render the Nakba and all other genocides carried out in its interest as unavowable holocausts, “what is being revealed today”, as our friends contend, “is precisely where Nakba, Holocaust and Shoah collide, where they become interchangeable and interwoven.”
At stake here, our friends assure us, is not only a truth procedure directed toward the ongoing holocaust of/as modernity, but also and critically a struggle for the vowability of all those forms of life that resisted the fascist, imperialistic, genocidal, supremacist, logic of modernity in its various guises.
Exilic politics, we contend, is a ground work for making this vowabiity into a common political grammar for anyone who declares their unbelonging to the catastrophic trajectory of the planatery holocaust raging before us.
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“At the heart of the many unspeakable crimes which are being and have been perpetrated in the ongoing Nakba by Zionists and their enablers is a violent insistence on conflating Zionism and all its associated forms of supremacist violence with Judaism.”
“What we see unfolding today is that relentless but unavowable aim of all genocides which is to ‘purify’ and ’clean it for good.’ It names their sacrifice together, one implicitly avowed (Jewish) in its very naming and one structurally unavowable (Palestinian) for the noble cause of maintaining the imperial colonial capitalist ordering – during and in the post ‘First World War' years as a brutal drive to eradicate anti-capitalist, anti-colonial insurgencies and after the ‘Second War World’ as part of a military, legal, cultural and global regime to preserve Western supremacy (albeit with vestments of righteousness, civility, authority), which was and remains one of the aims and Ursprünge of all fascisms.”
“Could it also be that Palestinians are the last and fullest survivors of the Holocaust? Could it also be the Armenians, whose massacre gave rise to one of the first modern uses of Holocaust in English, but who had to be forgotten to revive the term in its sacred, incomparable form after the Second World War? Could it be all those communities who historically confronted such genocidal crimes including those like the Herero and Nama peoples, who in their hundreds of thousands were massacred by Germans in the same century? What to say of the German genocidal crimes in Cameroon? Or the Roma communities murdered and relegated to footnotes in the Nazi episode? Or was it all of those aforementioned and all the other racialized, dehumanized, enslaved, and colonized peoples who came before and would come after?”
“If Judaism has reached an end, as Agamben asserts, the task would be to understand if this is not a moment for anyone who has identified or been identified with Jewishness to search for other paths by radically, and in an anti-denialist manner, recognizing the Palestinians as the victims and survivors of the Holocaustand the Jewish people, especially those killed by Nazis, those who never identified with and actively resisted Zionism, as one of the multitude of ongoing victims of the Nakba.”
Author: The Anti-Denialist Coalition
Publishers: Dabartis
Published: June 2025
Format: Double A3 staple bound on recycled paper w/ silkscreened case
Page count: 16
price: 10eu
As a conversation unfolds between friends on exilic politics, the Anti-Denialist Coalition shares what they call their accanto “a text beside, next to, para-, with” our thinking. “Preparatory remarks toward what” they imagine, “as a collective unworking”.
The Unavowable Holocaust responds to a short fragment written by Giorgio Agamben entitled The End of Judaism. It fiercly charts what may be at stake in confronting the planetary scope of the Palestinian Nakba yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Despite the tenacious imperative of Empire to render the Nakba and all other genocides carried out in its interest as unavowable holocausts, “what is being revealed today”, as our friends contend, “is precisely where Nakba, Holocaust and Shoah collide, where they become interchangeable and interwoven.”
At stake here, our friends assure us, is not only a truth procedure directed toward the ongoing holocaust of/as modernity, but also and critically a struggle for the vowability of all those forms of life that resisted the fascist, imperialistic, genocidal, supremacist, logic of modernity in its various guises.
Exilic politics, we contend, is a ground work for making this vowabiity into a common political grammar for anyone who declares their unbelonging to the catastrophic trajectory of the planatery holocaust raging before us.
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“At the heart of the many unspeakable crimes which are being and have been perpetrated in the ongoing Nakba by Zionists and their enablers is a violent insistence on conflating Zionism and all its associated forms of supremacist violence with Judaism.”
“What we see unfolding today is that relentless but unavowable aim of all genocides which is to ‘purify’ and ’clean it for good.’ It names their sacrifice together, one implicitly avowed (Jewish) in its very naming and one structurally unavowable (Palestinian) for the noble cause of maintaining the imperial colonial capitalist ordering – during and in the post ‘First World War' years as a brutal drive to eradicate anti-capitalist, anti-colonial insurgencies and after the ‘Second War World’ as part of a military, legal, cultural and global regime to preserve Western supremacy (albeit with vestments of righteousness, civility, authority), which was and remains one of the aims and Ursprünge of all fascisms.”
“Could it also be that Palestinians are the last and fullest survivors of the Holocaust? Could it also be the Armenians, whose massacre gave rise to one of the first modern uses of Holocaust in English, but who had to be forgotten to revive the term in its sacred, incomparable form after the Second World War? Could it be all those communities who historically confronted such genocidal crimes including those like the Herero and Nama peoples, who in their hundreds of thousands were massacred by Germans in the same century? What to say of the German genocidal crimes in Cameroon? Or the Roma communities murdered and relegated to footnotes in the Nazi episode? Or was it all of those aforementioned and all the other racialized, dehumanized, enslaved, and colonized peoples who came before and would come after?”
“If Judaism has reached an end, as Agamben asserts, the task would be to understand if this is not a moment for anyone who has identified or been identified with Jewishness to search for other paths by radically, and in an anti-denialist manner, recognizing the Palestinians as the victims and survivors of the Holocaustand the Jewish people, especially those killed by Nazis, those who never identified with and actively resisted Zionism, as one of the multitude of ongoing victims of the Nakba.”
Author: The Anti-Denialist Coalition
Publishers: Dabartis
Published: June 2025
Format: Double A3 staple bound on recycled paper w/ silkscreened case
Page count: 16
price: 10eu
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Published in collaboration with d-0 د٠, an effort to bring together groups, studies, struggles, practices, actions, movements to delink from the cultures and institutions predicated on perpetrating and denying the ongoing Nakba. (d-0.org)
Published in collaboration with d-0 د٠, an effort to bring together groups, studies, struggles, practices, actions, movements to delink from the cultures and institutions predicated on perpetrating and denying the ongoing Nakba. (d-0.org)