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Originally Posted by CalgaryKid12
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 |
I can't speak on behalf of anyone else. Yes, those historical events happened. yes they are awful. Yes you cannot understand Oct 7th without understanding antisemitism in the Arab world.
Still, these things combined do not justify the ongoing genocide in Palestine.