Israel often frames itself as a nation born from the ashes of unspeakable persecution. The Holocaust, in particular, is invoked as the eternal justification for its existence and its policies. Yet history’s cruellest irony is that the memory of Jewish suffering has been transformed into an instrument of domination over another people — the Palestinians. What was once a promise of “never again” for humanity has been twisted into “never again for us, but at any cost to them.” Paulo Freire’s insight provides the key to understanding this tragic inversion. The oppressed may internalise the worldview of their oppressors, replicating...