Carol Iancu, Les Mythes fondateurs de l’antisémitisme. De l’Antiquité à nos jours, Privat, 2003, 189 pages, 23 euros.

The author demonstrates how a comparative approach involving the Holocaust, has greatly influenced our knowledge of the genocide of the Tutsi committed in Rwanda in the spring of 1994. The “Hutu vs. Tutsi” formula, as well as the generally accepted concept of the Tutsi being Black Africa's Jews...

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主要作者: Bensoussan, Georges
格式: Article ou chapitre numérique
語言:Français
出版: 2004
在線閱讀:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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總結:The author demonstrates how a comparative approach involving the Holocaust, has greatly influenced our knowledge of the genocide of the Tutsi committed in Rwanda in the spring of 1994. The “Hutu vs. Tutsi” formula, as well as the generally accepted concept of the Tutsi being Black Africa's Jews, helped create a genocidal ideology, that appeared several decades before the tragedy of 1994. Beyond such parallelism, the author forces us to re-consider how genocidal violence makes us re-think our existing intellectual and conceptual frameworks. In particular, the group identity of the victims, i.e. as a people, a race, or a “conceptual race”? The author finally suggests we should differentiate clearly between “to know and to understand”. Kalisky argues that to understand is quite inadequate when a policy of genocide is applied. This, since it seems to justify it, and uses such inexistent justification when it only has causes.