• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    The comparison with the Nazis doesn’t help anything and just makes the discussion a quagmire of historical misanalogies.There are dozens of other cruel and horrible examples from history to compare with, pick another one that does not specifically trigger Jewish sensibilities.

    Hell, if you absolutely need to use Germany as an example, use what they did in WW1 in Belgium.

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      11 months ago

      There are Jewish scholars and activists comparing contemporary treatment of Palestinians by Israel with nazism. Are they allowed to make comparisons that trigger Jewish sensibilities?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Finkelstein

      Finkelstein was born to parents who are both Jewish Holocaust survivors in New York City in 1953 (…) Finkelstein has called Israel the “Jewish supremacist state”, and views it as committing the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people.[5] Through personal accounts in one of his books, he compares the plight of the Palestinians living under Israeli occupation with the horrors of the Nazis.[6]

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        11 months ago

        Did I ban anyone from saying anything? Do what you will. FFS.

        All I’m saying is that by picking that rhetorical terrain, you’re choosing to play the game on Israel’s terms and you open up the door to being accused of antisemitism and then you’re having that discussion. It’s a pointless distraction from what they are actually doing.

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      11 months ago

      Any Government that prevents access to food, medicine and potable water to a population of their people they feel are undesirable, has racially coded check points, and white-only roads absolutely deserves to be compared to Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa, Rhodesia, or the Confederate states. That government also deserves to share the same fates as those other governments.

      Never Again means Never Again without any qualifications.

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      11 months ago

      I understand it hurts, but the ethno-state is the common dream of Hitler and Israel. Facts are facts.