Oh my dear @h4890
how did you achieve this level of indoctrination and ignorance? To support #genocide today isn't much different than to support #holocaust back in 1938. Are your parents proud that you became a #ZioNazi?
Since it wasn't me who financed #Hamas, but the #apartheid#regime of @israel (that you support) ... you might guess who does the dirty work as useful idiot.
:linus:
While I'm prepared with historical facts for an intellectual duell with #genocideDenier's, it's you who is unarmed, obviously.
Ich habe eine Frage an die Leute, die gesagt haben: "Wenn sie die Geiseln freilassen, werden die Bombardierungen aufhören". Was ist nun das Argument, nachdem die IDF die Freilassung aller Geiseln abgelehnt hat? Ist Ihnen jetzt klar, dass es nie um die Geiseln ging?
The biggest insult to the memory of the holocaust is not denying it but using it as an excuse to commit genocide on the Palestinian people. -Norman Finkelstein
Pro-Palestinian protest in #Amsterdam turns violent after student rally halted.
"Police were seen using batons against protesters to prevent them from marching past the nearby #Holocaust Monument on their way to Amsterdam city centre.
When protesters arrived at a central Amsterdam University location, protesters barricaded the narrow canal-facing road in front of the university buildings." #hostage #sympathy #terrorists #genevaconventions @palestine @israel
"President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued a call to fight a 'ferocious surge' of antisemitism, saying such hate has no place in America as he connected the horrors of the Holocaust to Hamas’ attack on Israel."
CNN reports on Biden's speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s annual Days of Remembrance ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. "Biden’s staunch support for Israel’s war against Hamas, which has now led to the deaths of more than 34,000 Palestinians, has caused deep fractures in the coalition that sent him to the White House in 2020."
Another asshole on mastodon who got mad about my post about German police attacking a man carrying Jews against genocide.
Supporting police brutality against those protesting against ongoing genocide while crying over lack of free speech for those denying the Holocaust is the lowest I have seen.
Extreme right and so called liberals seems to be united in their fight against Palestinian protesters (as always).
#DartmouthCollege professor arrested during protest: 'It's really shameful
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Story by Hannah Cotter
5/2/2024
"Video captured by News 9 showed the moment #Orleck was arrested by police during the protest. She said she was among a handful of professors who showed up to support students at what she called a peaceful protest until law enforcement arrived in #RiotGear.
"'And it's really shameful in a sleepy little campus, in a rural area like Dartmouth, that they brought in this ridiculous show of arms and strength and violence,' she said.
"She also wanted to address Gov. #ChrisSununu calling the protests against the war in #Gaza#antisemitic. She said she's a #Jewish woman and did not feel safe after last night's police response.
"'As a Jewish woman of an age that I grew up in a neighborhood full of #Holocaust survivors and knew Holocaust survivors, I have to say that I think this is disingenuous,' she said. 'It's a weaponizing of #antisemitism for their own #political purposes, which is to #SuppressDissent. And if, in fact, as the governor and the college president said, the point is to make the campus safer for the Jewish community members, I have to say that what happened next made it decidedly less safe for all of us.'
"Orleck, who has been a professor at Dartmouth for more than three decades, said as part of her bail condition, she is being banned from Dartmouth's campus. She said her emails to the institution have gone unanswered."
Nicht nur alle Krankenhäuser und Universitäten zerstörte, sondern bombardierte auch die Azhar-Bibliothek und das Nationale Kulturzentrum mit Zehntausenden von Büchern und historischen Dokumenten.
#Israel / 'Don't trust the Gentiles who make promises'
Still looking for an excuse for a massacre in Rafah, #Netanyahu delivered a statement ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, saying: "My wife Sara and I met with Holocaust survivors who will light the torches of remembrance this evening. One of them, Michael Bar-On, told us: 'Don't trust the Gentiles who make promises.' He is right."
Netanyahu added that "During the Holocaust, there were great leaders in the world who stood by. The first lesson of the Holocaust is that if we don't defend ourselves - no one will defend us. And if we have to stand alone - we will stand alone."
Netanyahu. who's manifestly NOT an expert on the #Holocaust, drew harsh criticism from Yad Vashem researchers for Holocaust denialism when he claimed that the Final Solution was the idea of Palestinian national leader Hajj Amin al-Husseini.
"Die Historikerin Andrea Löw hat erschütternde Dokumente deportierter deutscher und österreichischer Juden zusammengestellt. Die Schriften vermitteln einen Eindruck von der unfassbaren Entfremdung und Erniedrigung im Holocaust", schreibt Konstantin Sakkas heute im Tagesspiegel:
Daily reminder that The Most Moral Army of the so-called #Jewish (#Ashkenazi#whitesupremacist#settlercolonial) State tied up #patients (men, women, and children) and medical staff at #Nasser Hospital in #Gaza and executed them in cold blood before dumping their bodies in a mass grave.
“I lived through the #Holocaust. Six million were murdered. #Hate and Holocaust denial have returned to our society today. I am very, very sad about this and I am fighting it with all my might,” Rubinstein says at the end of the video. “Words matter. Our words are our power. Cancel hate. Stop the hate.”
At time of rising #antisemitism, Holocaust survivors take on denial and hate in new digital campaign.
Today in Labor History April 30 1945: Eva Braun and Adolph Hitler committed suicide, in Berlin, after being married for less than 40 hours. Many Nazis were tried, convicted and executed. And literally thousands were secreted into the U.S., given false identities, and put to work as spies, intelligence officers, informants, and rocket scientists in the Cold War. Some of them had even been high-ranking Nazi Party officials, secret police chiefs, and heads of concentration camps. In fact, during the first few years after WWII ended, it was easier to get into the U.S. as a Nazi than it was as a Jewish concentration camp survivor. There were policy makers in Washington who said the Jews shouldn’t be let in because they’re “lazy” and “self-entitled.” For more on this sordid history, read “The Nazis Next Door
How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler's Men,” By Eric Lichtblau.
"There is a question of historical responsibility towards injustice, genocide, and fascism," said #StephenKapos. "If you are indifferent, if you do not take a stand, you acquire a degree of guilt."
While everyone is preoccupied with pro-Palestine student protests, the mass graves of 400+ men, women, and children, executed with arms tied behind their backs, were discovered in the #Nasser Medical Complex in #KhanYounis.
The Most Moral Army of The Jewish State executed patients and medical personnel in cold blood. Pure #Zionism in action.
After rejecting the suggestion that the October 7th massacre should be understood in context, many pro-War supporters of Israel now claim that its actions in Gaza should also be understood “in context” (presumably self defense or right to exist etc.) But there are of course fundamental differences. Israel is an occupyer. It’s not “defending itself” it’s fighting to continue the occupation of Palestinian lands, while subjugating millions of people to life of misery and hopelessness.
Historically, Palestinians’ right for self determination was ignored at the first opportunity such a question needed to be discussed, at the end of WWI, prioritizing Western interests in the Middle East over anything else. This is the context in which understand Pankaj Mishra’s essay.
From the abstract:
Memories of Jewish suffering at the hands of Nazis are the foundation on which most descriptions of extreme ideology and atrocity, and most demands for recognition and reparations, have been built. Universalist reference points are in danger of disappearing as the Israeli military massacres and starves Palestinians, while denouncing as antisemitic or champions of Hamas all those who plead with it to desist.
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Among other things, Mishra argues that the Israeli occupation of Gaza fosters a system of domination similar to Nazi Germany, generating "counter-memory" narratives that attempt to erase the suffering of Palestinians (a direct result of the Nakba and the ongoing occupation of Palestine).
Two argument struck me as powerful in this comparison, since they’re intuitive and well understood (at least by anyone who passed through the Israeli education system, or served in the army), regardless of everything else discussed in the essay:
Israeli narratives demonize Palestinians and justify occupation through security concerns.
The international community's silence and selective condemnation empower the Israeli occupation.
Two points that happen to echo the rise of Nazi germany and the world’s indifference to the #holocaust.
#WritersCoffeeClub April 24 - When older novels use outdated or racist language, should they be edited for the modern world or left alone and viewed in context?
This is a pretty big issue for me. I translate 19th century German #folklore into English, and while I generally love those tales, many of them are... highly dubious, to say the least.
Take the tales featuring #antisemitism - there are unfortunately quite a few of them, and they are generally NOT subtle about this. No veiled metaphors, no subtext - plain text with uncoded language. So, how do I deal with them?
The first approach is the one taken by the Brothers Grimm, which is to just publish them verbatim. But to my mind, publishing in this manner without commentary is basically endorsement. And while the Brothers Grimm were likely okay with endorsing antisemitism, I am not.
Many recently-published collections of German folk tales instead just leave such tales out. But these tales, ugly as they were, were unfortunately a noteworthy part of the German oral storytelling tradition. And I feel that staying silent about this is an act of cowardice - and it is cowardice like this that allows the fascists to pretend that the #Holocaust was just a singular aberration instead of being part of a long history of bigotry and persecution.
The same goes for other dubious "morals" in those tales. Sexism, abuse against minors, anti-LGTB bigotry - they were wrong then and they are wrong now. I will talk about these tales and publish them, but I will also call out bullshit when I see it.
Bei meiner Buchvorstellung letzte Woche im Institut für Zeitgeschichte hat Ulrich Matthes aus den Selbstzeugnissen der Deportierten gelesen. Hier ist die Aufzeichnung:
President Biden "convened a call this afternoon with Senate Majority Leader Schumer, Senate Minority Leader McConnell, Speaker of the House Johnson, and House Minority Leader Jeffries to discuss Iran’s unprecedented attack against Israel." On the call, Biden "discussed the urgent need for the House of Representatives to pass the national security supplemental as soon as possible." - White House
The German state's self-image as a defender of human rights is fundamentally at odds with its unconditional support for #Israel, which is seen as a source of moral redemption.