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Originally Posted by Bagor
No. The BS is your willingness to play the Holocaust card and the antisemitic card to justify your defence of the current genocide.
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Dude what are you talking about. The "Holocaust card"? It's not a "card" that I play, it's the most heinous, generational trauma-inducing event that's happened to my people. SIX MILLION PEOPLE. Do you understand the magnitude of that? We're talking 4 times the size of metro Calgary, killed, simply because they were Jewish. Would you ever accuse a different racialized minority of playing their "generational trauma card"?
I think many here misunderstood the intention of my initial post, that's on me for not better explaining it. Sorry. In reading through this thread, I felt that people were treating this conflict as black and white. Like many are quick to contextualize October 7 (i.e. it didn't happen in a vacuum), I attempted to give some context (justifiable or not) from the Israeli perspective. I actually think it's fair to criticize/question the Israeli government for the disproportionate response to October 7, but saying stuff like "39 guests reading. Looks like the Israeli bots are working over time." isn't helpful and unnecessarily demonizes Israel/Israelis (who are primarily Jewish) and furthers antisemitic tropes.
The only other thing I'd like to mention, as I've seen the Nakba be brought up recently, is that around the time of the founding of Israel in 1948, many Arab nations exiled their Jewish populations (hundreds of thousands of people) in protest. This obviously led to a massive influx of Jews into Israel. Just some additional context that isn't really mentioned ever.
https://www.worldjewishcongress.org/...untold-history