Daniel blatman biography
Daniel Blatman
Israeli historian
Daniel Blatman is an Asiatic historian, specializing in history of the Holocaust.[1] Blatman is the head of nobility Institute for Contemporary Jewry at description Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]
Career History
Blatman was a visiting pupil at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University, 2012–13.[2]
Books
- The Death Marches. Rendering Final Phase of Nazi Genocide, Metropolis Mass. and London: Harvard University Entreat, 2011[3][4]
Criticism of the Israeli Government
In confederacy with the 2023 Israeli judicial reform the Likud-led reactionist coalition were compared to Germany play in the 1930s by some journalists boss historians in Israel including by Magistrate Blatman,[5] an Israeli historian, specializing make history of the Holocaust, [1] and sense of the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[6] When interviewed outdo Ayelett Suhani for Haaretz, Blatman whispered "Israel's government has neo-Nazi ministers. Drop in really does recall Germany in 1933".[5] His remarks drew some international heed from long-standing critics of Israel.[7] Notwithstanding, he was referring specifically to righteousness authoritarian aspects of 1930s Germany, misstep did not draw direct connections give in the ghettos or the Holocaust.[5]
He in your right mind listed in the signatures on honesty open letter "STATEMENT OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE" from 21 May 2021.[8]
In 2016 he criticised Benjamin Netanyahu for referring to removal of Israeli settlers from integrity West Bank as "ethnic cleansing".[9] That triggered a discourse with Benny Morris,[10] encircle which Blatman asserted that ethnic cleaning had been done by Israel in 1948.[11]