{"id":52625,"date":"2026-04-23T22:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52625"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:05:36","slug":"omer-bartov-israel-what-went-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52625","title":{"rendered":"Omer Bartov, \u201eIsrael: What Went Wrong?\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Professor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become an expert on the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention to his native country.<br><br>In <em>Israel: What Went Wrong?<\/em>, Bartov explores the transformation of Zionism from a movement of Jewish emancipation and liberation into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism, exclusion and violent domination of Palestinians. He traces the process whereby Israel \u2013 whose establishment in 1948 received international support in the aftermath of the Holocaust \u2013 now faces accusations of war crimes and genocide.<br><br>What are the implications of Israel\u2019s near total impunity for the post-1945 regime of international law? And how do we understand the widespread support for these policies by Israel\u2019s Jewish citizens?<br><br><strong>The result is a searing and urgent critique that addresses today\u2019s debates over Zionism, genocide, and the future of Israel with rigour and depth.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Omer Bartov<\/strong> is the Dean\u2019s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University and the author of many books, including <em>Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz<\/em>, which won the National Jewish Book Award, <em>Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past<\/em> and <em>Genocide, the Holocaust, and Israel\u2013Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Imprint: Fern Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published: 23\/04\/2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Length: 256 pages<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/477841\/israel-what-went-wrong-by-bartov-omer\/9781911717690\">https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/477841\/israel-what-went-wrong-by-bartov-omer\/9781911717690<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bartov.jpeg?fit=320%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52531,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52531","url_meta":{"origin":52625,"position":0},"title":"Jonathan G. 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