1. At what point does it become irresponsible not to compare Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people with the genocide westerners know best: the Nazi Holocaust?
2. At what point does shielding Israel from the revulsion its actions naturally inspire not turn into complicity?
3. At what point should western publics be offered proper historical context to make sense of Israel's genocide: one that lets them understand how the Zionist movement was ideologically shaped by its exposure to ugly, century-old European ethnic nationalisms that culminated in Nazism, and how the Zionists chose to mirror those supremacist ideologies rather than reject them?
4. At what point are we allowed to say that Israel cannot continue to exist in its current form, as a racist, settler-colonial state masquerading as the “state of the Jews”, and that it must be remade, as apartheid South Africa once was?
5. And at what point are we permitted to prize Palestinian life over the "sensitivities" of Zionist supremacists?
6. Is the answer: Never?
[Many thanks to Matthew Alford for the audio reading of this article.]
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It has been the Second Nazi Holocaust since October '23!!!
Hello, I am slowly getting in touch with a period of time, post WW2, known as "Stalinist communism"
I am not pretending that the Nazi's atrocities are to be under-considered; on the opposite, I feel that every single drop of blood must be accounted for, accordingly
But
Seems to me that speaking of an under-estimation of "Stalinist communism" in terms of damage is accurate; nobody cares about it, and common world views don't seem to include a proper place PROPERLY RELATING to "Stalinist communism".
It appears that this was a completely out of hand mad butchery. I invite the reader to check a bit more about this discrepancy, as there seems to be something
This is "odd" - and very wrong. Something is wrong about that. The Nazi atrocities took the "horror" room in our minds - but we'll have to deal with "Stalinist communism" - and it's not pretty.