The International Day of Remembrance serves “to know what happened and how the genocide of the Shoah came about,” said Di Segni.
“On that day, the attention of all of us must be focused on this, and only on this,” she added.
“The focus is therefore also on the responsible use of words, first and foremost [the word] ‘genocide’,” continued Di Segni.
“If today there is an anti-Semitic hatred towards Israel and the Jewish communities, it means that not enough has been done on the issue of remembrance.
“And the work on remembrance obviously needs to be strengthened,” she said.
Remembrance is not, added Di Segni, a “theoretical exercise in history”.
“It is, rather, to understand how phenomena of hatred, distortion, and role reversal arise,” she concluded.
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