Europe’s chief rabbis, a holocaust survivor, a historical expert on the Namibian genocide, and an Anglican archdeacon who also happens to be an attorney  are among the many people worldwide condemning Pope Francis’s recent call for an investigation into Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza.

Some of the high-profile Jewish and Christian figures who have rebuked the pontiff for trivializing the Holocaust and downplaying the term “genocide” are in turn calling for a probe into the Vatican’s own historic complicity with genocidal regimes.

Pope Francis sparked a firestorm after the Associated Press published incendiary excerpts on Sunday from his forthcoming book, Hope Never Disappoints: Pilgrims Toward a Better World, which was released on Tuesday in Italy, Spain, and Latin America.