Israel’s genocide is visible from space. The Holocaust was not just a Jewish affair. And not just bc it extended well beyond the attempted extermination of European Jewry. The Holocaust was the great caesura of modern history. To paraphrase Bauman, ‘the light shed by the Holocaust on our knowledge ... is at its most dazzling’ when we fully grasp the modernity of Nazi Germany. When Germany, arguably the most civilized nation on earth, descended into barbarism, it took all of us down with it. The human race itself was sullied simply by bearing witness to the Nazis’ unspeakable crimes. It is quite extraordinary that it is Israel—constructed literally on the basis of the moral claims generated by the Holocaust—that is carrying out a genocide today. That is an insult to the memory of Holocaust twice over. It is as if Japan were using nuclear weapons! Israel has sullied the entire human race, our entire claim to civilization. We have, in fact, descended with Israel into barbarism, just by watching them commit these unspeakable crimes. We are a barbaric civilization. Now I am beginning to comprehend why Stefan Zweig and his wife committed suicide in 1942. It was not so much that they expect the Reich to last a thousand years. It was rather that they did not wish to live in such a monstrous world. Just breathing the air felt like a crime.
@policytensor Israel gives us hope that a full and sovereign Palestinian state may be possible, and that there could be another Nuremberg trial that will condemn the genocide perpetrators. It's hard to believe/digest the place in history it ultimately chooses to repeat.
@policytensor With great moral claims comes great power. The modern Israeli state has used this power for evil ends. It is a repugnant stain on us all. And those that justify it, in whatever capacity, have become nothing but anti-human monsters at this point.
@policytensor I'm looking more and more for a way to save my soul
@policytensor @MacaesBruno Was Germany 'most civilised' pre/during/post-Namibia genocide?
@policytensor USSR had 28 million death. Only a third of it was military casulties. Holocaust and some more.
@policytensor It's becoming more of a liability to stay silent than it is to speak up. I won't be satisfied until we look at the worthlessness of the Jewish religion, though. The idea all belief systems are valid in the modern world has provided these psychos with a lot of cover
@policytensor This is a bit overwrought in parts, even though the Shoah and the Gaza genocide are each, separately and unequivocally, worthy of the highest condemnation. 1. How was Germany more 'civilized' than China, India, Persia, etc. which didn't colonize any other people? Very Eurocentric
@policytensor If Israel was committing genocide, don't you think NOW would be a good time to bomb all those ppl? Instead, Hamas shot at Pale's trying to get GHF food. Israel was attacked and massacred and are now expected to provide aid to their attackers. While Hamas still has 20 hostages.
@policytensor the word genocide has lost all meaning now...
@policytensor Japan absolutely SHOULD use nukes on „ameriga“ Payback is coming With interest
@policytensor One can identify many holocausts; why capitalize the H to then identify one holocaust in Europe?
@policytensor (Contd.) Further, who is the 'we' here who are collectively implicated by just bearing witness? Make that case for peaceful residents in Bhutan or many other peaceful Asian and African nations. What power can they exercise to be not guilty just by being alive right now?
@policytensor "The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction." I suppose it's similar to when police officers investigating peds, become peds themselves. Something about exposure to unspeakable evil, eventually makes that evil acceptable.
@policytensor @nclfuzzy 😆😆😆😆😆👌🏻 way to go Isreal keep up the good work
@policytensor The genocide is mentioned, but the direct victims the Palestinians are never named, as if the gravity of the crime were measured not by their suffering, but by that fucking instrumentalized package memory. It died with the Nakba and today lies with Palestinians of Gaza.