Um novo holocausto? a evocação do Nazismo como influenciador da opinião pública durante a a Guerra Israel-Hamas de 2023

Abstract

This work is situated in the field of public history and contemporary history, aiming to analyze discourses collected on the Twitter platform from the Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the President of the Republic of Colombia, Gustavo Petro. Both leaders use terms that refer to the memory of Nazism and the Holocaust in narratives about the Israel-Hamas War of 2023. Motivated by the sense that these narratives were based on controversial uses of the past, we defined the key question of this research: how are these political authorities comparing both sides of the Israel-Hamas War of 2023 to the Nazi regime? To investigate this question, we defined the following theoretical-methodological structure: we sought to raise a conceptual debate on elements that make up the phenomenon of post-truth and relate these concepts to the method of French Discourse Analysis (DA). The delimited corpus consisted of 12 tweets, 4 from Netanyahu and 8 from Petro, carrying terms such as "Nazism," "Holocaust," and "Auschwitz." Among the results obtained, we conclude that the comparisons with the past employed by Petro and Netanyahu are part of a rhetorical strategy that seeks to emphasize the severity of present situations placed in parallel with those of the past. The analyzed narratives delve into the traumatic collective memories of the events of World War II, in a movement that decontextualize and appeals to memory as a vehicle that seeks to emotionally engage audiences and take the place of historicity.