Continuity of Evil

Drawing on her family's Holocaust legacy and her own experiences, the author points out how trauma and oppression repeat through history--where a nation of Jews, once victims, in turn became oppressors of Palestinians in a cycle of suffering that erases shared humanity.

The book explores how various "others," including Indigenous Americans, Africans, Palestinians, and immigrants have all been portrayed as savages, criminals, or terrorists, forcibly displaced, and stripped of dignity. Europea...