Mainstream Holocaust storytelling coexisted with the dehumanization of Palestinians

Evidence

Simultaneous with this dehumanization of Palestinians, Hollywood produced movies about the plight of Jews during the Holocaust. The 1978 television miniseries, The Holocaust, featuring Meryl Streep as Anne Frank, was so popular that it won eight Emmy awards. Streep’s performance in Sophie’s Choice, a haunting film about a Holocaust survivor having to choose which of her two children would be sent to Auschwitz, earned her an Oscar for Best Actress. While educating Americans about the atrocities of the Holocaust was an important public service, it came at the expense of the human rights and self-determination of indigenous Palestinians. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 632

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s Dido/sacral themes and to broader readings on how Western sympathy for one victim group can eclipse another (e.g., memory wars literature).
• SEED: Article angle: how Hollywood’s sympathetic framing of one genocide can functionally license indifference or hostility toward another ongoing ethnic struggle — the representational economy of whose suffering is visible.