A powerful Western narrative holds the Shoah to be the incomparable crime of the modern era. But we find our moral and political consciousness profoundly altered when Israel, a country founded as a haven for the victims of genocidal racism, is itself charged with genocide. What is the fate of universal values after Israel’s collapse into violent nationalism?
Pankaj Mishra delivered his lecture as part of the LRB's Winter Lecture series at St James's Church, Clerkenwell, London on 28 February 2024.
