Earth in Europe is prepared for another genocide Opinion

On April 15, Peter Handki, winner of the Austrian Nobel Prize Prize Prize Prize, was supposed to appear in the Austrian national broadcaster in Orf to talk about his new articles. Instead, he again denied that the genocide of the Srebrenica was called Brudemford, the Bible Fratricide and framed it as a spiritual tragedy, not as a crime against humanity.

Orf stood with the decision to interview Handke when it faced criticism. It claimed that this had not done anything bad, as the interviewer recognized the genocide.

It is hardly surprising that the European broadcaster would choose the denial of the platform genocide.

Europe faces the crisis not only for memory but also dangerous continuity. From the Holocaust to Srebrenica to Gaza, the country’s denial of violence against marginalized groups is trying to delete previous atrocities, normalize the current and pave the way for the next.

Fratricide as “the worst crime”

Bosnia’s genocide was the first television broadcast of genocide. In 1995, alarming images from Srebrenica filled the living rooms worldwide, exposing international defense failures. Despite the long -term process of initiating war crimes through international criminal law on former Yugoslavia and court decisions related to the participation of European peacekeepers in the massacre, the denial of Bosnian genocide is still well tolerated in Europe.

Although Handke is not the only prominent public figure involved in it, his rhetoric clearly indicates how this crime has come into weapons to reduce the guilt of German and Austria for the Holocaust.

Handke depicts Bosnian genocide as a tragic civil war between the “brothers” – Brudemford. He romanticizes war criminals as victims and embeds genocide denial of a fascist narrative of redemption with ethnic violence.

According to him, Fratricide is “much worse” than genocide – ie those who kill their “brothers” must be considered worse criminals than Nazis who killed “the other”. By framing the atrocities in this way, Handke effectively reduces the responsibility of the German and Austrians for the Holocaust.

In this twisted narrative, Nazi descendants can qualify for moral superiority, insisting that they have not committed the “all the worst crime”- Brudemford. The cooling role is that Jews were never true “brothers” to Europeans like Handke.

Serb nationalists can be considered Handke as an allied genocide denied, but he does not defend them – he uses them. Through them, white Europe purifies bloody crimes – from Auschwitz to Algeria, from Congo to Rwanda. Handke’s theological language is the alchemy of European conscience, moving the guilt to Muslims, Jews and the “Balkans”.

Transplanting of anti -Semitism

Handke’s logic is parallel and reinforces a wider campaign to change the culprit anti-Semitism-and even the Holocaust-Arabs and Muslims. In Germany, this trend has been fully perceived by the state and various state institutions, which have begun to claim that the Muslim community of the country is responsible for the increase in anti -Semitic mood.

In 2024, the German Parliament, the Bundestag, adopted a resolution stating that “anti -Semitism’s alarming amount” “driven by immigration from North Africa and the Middle East”.

The German media continue to produce a “Muslim Nazi past” with one article stating: “Unlike Germany, the Middle East has never encountered their Nazi past.” Meanwhile, the state -funded NGOs have created a Palestinian Kefiyeh Nazi symbol and repeated the discredited Israeli claim that Palestine’s grand muffti “inspired” the final solution.

The German political institution now forms the moral alibi of revisionists: one where the Nazis are thoughtful as reluctantly, miserably perpetrators, while the Palestinians and their Muslim and Arab allies are suppressed as more evil than the Nazis themselves.

For many years, this was the idea of ​​Fringe adopted by the extreme right -wing, such as Germany (AfD) alternative. But now AFD’s main ideas not only in the past of German Nazi, but also on immigration and Islam have been widely accepted by the political center.

This change reflects a lasting strategy for moving guilt. Historian Ernst Nolt, celebrated by the Conservative Conrad Adenauer Foundation with a large prize in 2000, claimed that the Holocaust was a reaction to Soviet “barbarism” in relativating Nazi crimes, equating Auschwitz with Gulag.

Nole said Hitler had “rational” reasons to target Jews, and he rejected the “collective guilt”, which was attributed to Germany since 1945. Nowadays, AfD leader Alice Videl repeats this position, rejecting the German memorial culture as “the cult of guilt”.

Where the Soviets blamed the Soviets, today’s political authority blames Muslims. The goal is the same: to delete Germany’s responsibility from history.

From denial to the possibility

Genocide denial is not a passive act of oblivion, but an active, harmful process that maintains violence. Genocide scientist Gregory Stanton recognizes denial of the final stage of genocideOne is also a critical sign that comes next.

For survivors and their descendants, deny deepens the injury by not suffering, distorting the truth and removing the victims of respect, memories and justice. These wounds exceed individuals, affecting all communities for generations.

Meanwhile, genocide denial protects the perpetrators, prevents reparation and blocks reconciliation by deepening social division. It also undermines international law and human rights, signaling that even crimes against humanity can be ignored.

Thus, the denial of genocide directly prepares the Earth for the next genocide that will take place and is accepted. We clearly see this as Europeans respond to genocide in Gaza, denying that this is at all, despite repeated announcements by the United Nations experts and genocide scientists and continuing to provide Israel with weapons and diplomatic cover.

The playbook developed in Bosnia is now being applied to Gazai. It follows a well -known model: blaming “both parties”, depicting victims as aggressors and giving responsibility to some individuals – thus hiding systematic violence. This plan is probably most clearly in the statement that only Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his two extreme right ministers are responsible for “violence” in Gaza, thus separating the politics from the structure and avoiding deeper responsibility.

In a narrative that denies Bosnian genocide, the responsibility is also reduced to some “bad apples” in the serb position-it as a genocide would be spontaneous aberration, rather than a carefully planned, state-fulfilled crime that requires widespread coordination and intent.

Preparing for the future genocide in Europe

Europe is facing a deep crisis today, with the rapid growing as extreme right nationalism and disappearing in the middle -class struggle, with social and economic prearity growing. In many Western countries, the middle class is shrinking, while the right one calls the “surplus of the population” – disproportionately made up of Muslims – increasingly marginalized and scapegoats.

At a time when this genocide processing against other people as a misunderstanding contributes to the creation of the environment for the next genocide. And there are already clear indications that the segments of the political class are trying to remove this “surplus” in different ways.

Nazi euphemism “Umsiedlung Nach Osten” (eastward movement) was a grotesque excuse for the deportation of Jews in gas chambers. Nowadays, European actors, such as Austria’s far -right activist Martin Seller, openly advocate for “remigration”, a threatening echo of this deadly logic, which is designed to upright Muslim communities.

The European political elite may not have adopted the term yet, but they are busy introducing a variety of policies that have the same main objective of restricting or reducing the presence of Muslims in Europe. They have set up a legitimate regime using the 2024 EU Migration Pact, plan asylum seekers to Albania or other countries, and a large cash injection at Frontex, an EU border agency accused of, inter alia, for illegal repulsion.

These are not neutral measures, but ideological tools for racial removal, which are surrounded by liberal rhetoric. And over time they will only become more violent.

This is not an alarm. It’s a model. The erosion of law always begins with those who are considered “each”.

If genocide denial is not urgently addressed, if the Gaza’s genocide is not recognized and immediate action to stop it, Europe risks to come in full circle. As genocide denials expand and the desire to give up the liability for the Holocaust growth, the Earth is prepared to repeat these horrendous atrocities.

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