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I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population. There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel. I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then. It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians. And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true.
PEDRO FUCKING COMPARED IMMIGRANT CHILDREN IN CAGES TO JEWISH CHILDREN KILLED DURING THE HOLOCAUST! Where’s the fucking double standard?! His post was so insensitive and extremely antisemetic.
I don’t agree in general with what Pedro Pascal said (to be fair, I hadn’t heard about this before). At the same time I think these two situations are completely different. Context matters. I don’t like Shoah comparisons, not of any kind, but -- comparing atrocities with each other is bad, but comparing atrocities with being a fucking republican? No.
Again, I don’t think any atrocities should be compared with each other, and should be allowed to stand on their own, but the comparison of a systematic genocide to being conservative(isn’t she also transphobic wtf???) is disturbing and revolting.
When I see Shoah comparisons to the Uyghur genocide, to the American “detainment” camps where they hold children for months without soap, beds and other basic human needs, or when the Shoah is compared to the situation in Yemen, I get insanely frustrated -- because this insanely disrespectful. Because it disrespects both situations. The Shoah is not a measuring system for atrocities, and other situations of murder and detainment should not just be boiled down to “a {BLANK} H*locaust”, and should be treated with the weight and respect they deserves.
But the message in these comparisons is still very clear: What is happening here is wrong, and must be stopped.
Now lets compare that with what Gina Carano said which was basically: How is being ostracized, beaten, forced out of your gome and murdered for being Jewish (great of her to ignore the Roma people) any different from being hated for your political views?
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I’m sorry to I need to fucking explain why that is absolutely fucked up? Why this is so abhorrent? She is comparing genocide to not being able to say slurs anymore boohoo I’m not allowed to be bigoted on the internet without being called out :(((
So no. I don’t see a double standard.
Despite being one of the two ethnic groups affected by the Nuremberg Laws there is not enough education on them or the Holocaust in general.