Francesca Albanese

And actually I do make the connection, which doesn't mean a comparison.

I do make the connection to the Holocaust all the time.

And you know why?

Because I'm European and this is my history.

Like any American, any US citizen should realize that their history is one of settler colonialism.

Native Americans have been subjugated, oppressed, and eventually erased.

So I'm telling people, never again is not a tribal slogan.

We need to learn from the past because for decades,

discriminating, mistreating the Jewish people, what's considered normal and acceptable in Europe.

Now it's not, but the accusation of antisemitism is being thrown at people as confetti, just as a way to distract from Israel's responsibilities.

So let's say, if I say we have learned nothing from the genocide in Rwanda,

Or from the genocide in Bosnia, I'm going to offend the Rwandese, the Tutsi survivors, or the memory of the Tutsi victims, or the Bosnian survivors and the memory of the victims?

Is this what you are inferring?

Yes, and this is why I use the language with great precision.

The problem is that certain people, especially in the West, continue to describe the Holocaust as an exception.

The Holocaust was not an exception.

The Holocaust has been the worst crime.

crime ever committed on European soil.

But it was not an exception.

It was part and parcel of an aberration that was typical of white supremacism.