Francesca Albanese

White supremacism has been the basis of colonialism.

So I really take an issue.

I really take an issue with the isolation of the Holocaust because it means disconnecting from history, from what has happened to millions and millions of indigenous people in Latin America, in Africa or in Australia.

So I'm sorry if some Jewish people gets offended by this, but again, I do not distinguish human beings on the ground of religion.

For me, all humans are the same, regardless of sex, gender, political identity, religious identity, or anything.

I mean, people are all the same and they should be protected and recognized all the same.

And especially because as a European, I've learned

from my family and my education, then never again is to keep alive the memory of the past.

I say, let's unpack what the Holocaust has been.

The Holocaust, we have conveniently reduced the Holocaust to the concentration camps.

The concentration camp was, or the gas chambers, they were the final solutions.

But do you think that the Jewish people have enjoyed living in ghettos

being kicked out of their professions, being victim of events like Kristallnacht, having to be on the run or hide in people's homes not to be killed.

This is not genocide.

Of course it's genocide.

Even if

Jewish people were killed outside the concentration camps.

And this is why I'm saying, no, no, I'm going to keep on bringing the Holocaust to the center because people need to understand that the genocide happens when there is dehumanization.

And I'm really, I really take an issue with the fact that, you know, this posture of, oh, you know, you are not impartial because, or, you know, you do not respect the Jewish people.

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