Roger Markwick

Dr Roger Markwick is Honorary Professor of Modern European History, The University of Newcastle, Australia.This article is a condensed, updated version of a paper presented to ‘The second ‘BDS – Driving Global Justice for Palestine’ conference, The University of Sydney, July 2020.

Recent articles by Roger Markwick

The sacralisation of history: The Holocaust as state legitimation

The sacralisation of history: The Holocaust as state legitimation

There is a cruel historical irony in Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank: the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis in 1943 was one of the most tragic episodes in the genocide perpetrated against European Jewry during World War II.