Democratic freedoms at risk as Germany’s new government prioritises support for Israel.
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Germany... what have they voted for FFS? Why are they so ardently supporting genoci- oh... now I get it.
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I'm German and this completely changed how i view my dear fellow Germans...
I'm sure we will look back in shame in the future. This is against compassion, humanity and protection of the innocent.
Germany lost the ability to stand on a moral high ground.
But what really concerns me, is how much influence Israel has around the world.
I'm not talking about Jews.
Antizionist Jews are disproportionately affected by repressive measures in Germany. It even goes as far as the federal and some state level commissioners for "combating antisemitism and Jewish life" attacking Jews with the "wrong" political opinions as "Allegedly Jewish" or otherwise entitling themselves to decide who are the "good" and who are the "bad" Jews.
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-strange-logic-of-germanys-antisemitism-bureaucrats
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This is such a devastatingly regressive step for humanity and global politics.
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When I first emigrated to Germany, I had so high hopes and opinions of this country and people living here. I had seen protests, counter protests, people talking about hard topics, cherishing democracy.
Now, I am disappointed. Looking for a way out. I feel like a criminal because I am against genocide and I support the ICC. I mean a court that it’s main responsibility is to prevent tragedies such as the Holocaust should be supported right?
Things are moving in a direction that makes no sense to me anymore. I feel like an alien
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When I first emigrated to Germany, I had so high hopes and opinions of this country and people living here. I had seen protests, counter protests, people talking about hard topics, cherishing democracy.
Now, I am disappointed. Looking for a way out. I feel like a criminal because I am against genocide and I support the ICC. I mean a court that it’s main responsibility is to prevent tragedies such as the Holocaust should be supported right?
Things are moving in a direction that makes no sense to me anymore. I feel like an alien
It’s tragic to see Germany supporting another Holocaust. You’d think they would have learned their lesson. Many people are just vile to their core. Absolutely disgusting. May every German who supports the Holocaust of the Palestinians burn in hell alongside the Nazis and Zionists.
It’s pitiful really.
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What, are they gonna be giving them advice on how to to commit genocide?
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It’s tragic to see Germany supporting another Holocaust. You’d think they would have learned their lesson. Many people are just vile to their core. Absolutely disgusting. May every German who supports the Holocaust of the Palestinians burn in hell alongside the Nazis and Zionists.
It’s pitiful really.
Stop it. Stop comparing the Shoa and the current massacre in Gaza. No massacre is like the holocaust, there are no holocausts. Especially from my German perspective, comparing the Shoa and another massacre is to trivialise the mass slaughter on six million jews.
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Stop it. Stop comparing the Shoa and the current massacre in Gaza. No massacre is like the holocaust, there are no holocausts. Especially from my German perspective, comparing the Shoa and another massacre is to trivialise the mass slaughter on six million jews.
No massacre is like the holocaust
Honest, truly honest question here, why?
I don't feel like it is trivialising anything, if anything the Holocaust and its worldwide condemnation gives a special voice to victims of such crimes everywhere. It's less easy to trivialise other such crimes as the Holocaust has been accepted worldwide as one of the darkest chapters of history, so comparisons to it can bring that suffering closer to people and leave less room for the perpetrators to muddy the waters.
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No massacre is like the holocaust
Honest, truly honest question here, why?
I don't feel like it is trivialising anything, if anything the Holocaust and its worldwide condemnation gives a special voice to victims of such crimes everywhere. It's less easy to trivialise other such crimes as the Holocaust has been accepted worldwide as one of the darkest chapters of history, so comparisons to it can bring that suffering closer to people and leave less room for the perpetrators to muddy the waters.
if anything the Holocaust and its worldwide condemnation gives a special voice to victims of such crimes everywhere
See? And that's trivialising it. There is not a single case of a genocide as organized, precisely planned and carried out against so many victims. The holocaust is single event in history of mankind. If you compare any other massacre to it, you start trivialising it. Every comparsion of a massacre and the holocaust is trivialising the holocaust more and more. One could say (and I do): If the holocaust and other massacres have been compared often enough, holocaust will be just another massacre and it won't be noticed if it happens again.
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if anything the Holocaust and its worldwide condemnation gives a special voice to victims of such crimes everywhere
See? And that's trivialising it. There is not a single case of a genocide as organized, precisely planned and carried out against so many victims. The holocaust is single event in history of mankind. If you compare any other massacre to it, you start trivialising it. Every comparsion of a massacre and the holocaust is trivialising the holocaust more and more. One could say (and I do): If the holocaust and other massacres have been compared often enough, holocaust will be just another massacre and it won't be noticed if it happens again.
Do you believe that what Israel is doing in Palastine could be considered a genocide by the ICC aside from your point on the holocaust? Just trying to figure out where you stand in this.
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Aside from Germany, does anybody know if more countries are siding with South-Africa than before? I feel like every government is just digging into their position and whatever cruel thing happens doesn't really change anything anymore, at least not at the government level.
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Do you believe that what Israel is doing in Palastine could be considered a genocide by the ICC aside from your point on the holocaust? Just trying to figure out where you stand in this.
Could be a genocide. Isn't yet classified as such, might never be.
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if anything the Holocaust and its worldwide condemnation gives a special voice to victims of such crimes everywhere
See? And that's trivialising it. There is not a single case of a genocide as organized, precisely planned and carried out against so many victims. The holocaust is single event in history of mankind. If you compare any other massacre to it, you start trivialising it. Every comparsion of a massacre and the holocaust is trivialising the holocaust more and more. One could say (and I do): If the holocaust and other massacres have been compared often enough, holocaust will be just another massacre and it won't be noticed if it happens again.
If you compare any other massacre to it, you start trivialising it.
It feels though as if we trivialized other massacres because they will never hold up to a standard we consider to be beyond comparison.
You are right that comparing such events, as in "this event is less significant because less people died" trivialises the immense human suffering involved in the Holocaust. But that has to go both ways, and comparing the Holocaust to these modern events also trivialises the impact of these current events. Each of these events, indeed each of these deaths is a singular atrocity, a tragedy beyond belief.
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Being anti-zionist =/= being anti-semitic. You're good.
If only the German government saw it this way. Public discourse is sadly being swallowed by fascist rhetoric when it comes to this and mirrors what actual Nazis had to say and still do say about Israel.
Albert Einstein on the other hand saw the Likud (Netanyahu‘s political party) for what it is: Fascist in nature. But hey, when was Einstein ever right about anything? He‘s probably just an anti-semite too. /s
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When I first emigrated to Germany, I had so high hopes and opinions of this country and people living here. I had seen protests, counter protests, people talking about hard topics, cherishing democracy.
Now, I am disappointed. Looking for a way out. I feel like a criminal because I am against genocide and I support the ICC. I mean a court that it’s main responsibility is to prevent tragedies such as the Holocaust should be supported right?
Things are moving in a direction that makes no sense to me anymore. I feel like an alien
Now that's the good thing bout the EU. You can pack up and go to another one quite easily.
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If you compare any other massacre to it, you start trivialising it.
It feels though as if we trivialized other massacres because they will never hold up to a standard we consider to be beyond comparison.
You are right that comparing such events, as in "this event is less significant because less people died" trivialises the immense human suffering involved in the Holocaust. But that has to go both ways, and comparing the Holocaust to these modern events also trivialises the impact of these current events. Each of these events, indeed each of these deaths is a singular atrocity, a tragedy beyond belief.
I think we can agree that it doesn't have to be "a" holocaust to be awful and that comparsion to the holocaust doesn't help.
Though I don't understand how you both argue that "[comparsion] gives a special voice to victims of such crimes everywhere" and "[comparsion] also trivialises the impact of these current events". Or don't you think it "gives a special voice" anymore and changed your opinion since posting that comment?
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Could be a genocide. Isn't yet classified as such, might never be.
No I agree what we call it doesn't change what is happening, but your reply helped me understand your motive for wanting to distinguish what happens in Gaza and what happend in Europe 80 years ago, so thank you for answering.
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No I agree what we call it doesn't change what is happening, but your reply helped me understand your motive for wanting to distinguish what happens in Gaza and what happend in Europe 80 years ago, so thank you for answering.
Wow, a constructive debate about Middle East among leftist. As a German memer, I have to reply with:
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Stop it. Stop comparing the Shoa and the current massacre in Gaza. No massacre is like the holocaust, there are no holocausts. Especially from my German perspective, comparing the Shoa and another massacre is to trivialise the mass slaughter on six million jews.
I disagree. The holocaust is documented as the worse genocide in history by several metrics. Any other mass killing should be juxtaposed to it (and others) to see the similarities and differences. If a nation begins to kill people under the same ideology that birthed the holocaust ( or any other genocide) it should be documented, called out and prevented from doing so, so we don't get another holocaust or holodomor or Cambodian genocide or Rwandan genocide... If we hold the holocaust as something unique and separate, we make the mistake that it can not happen again.
Europeans in Australia spent about 150 years trying to wipe outs it's indigenous population. ~84% population decline. Systematic destruction of culture. Policies of displacement, family destruction and to breed them out. This was not the holocaust. But the similarities are there.
We should absolutely be looking at what is happening in Palestine/Israel to see if the same rationale used for the Holocaust is in play. -
I disagree. The holocaust is documented as the worse genocide in history by several metrics. Any other mass killing should be juxtaposed to it (and others) to see the similarities and differences. If a nation begins to kill people under the same ideology that birthed the holocaust ( or any other genocide) it should be documented, called out and prevented from doing so, so we don't get another holocaust or holodomor or Cambodian genocide or Rwandan genocide... If we hold the holocaust as something unique and separate, we make the mistake that it can not happen again.
Europeans in Australia spent about 150 years trying to wipe outs it's indigenous population. ~84% population decline. Systematic destruction of culture. Policies of displacement, family destruction and to breed them out. This was not the holocaust. But the similarities are there.
We should absolutely be looking at what is happening in Palestine/Israel to see if the same rationale used for the Holocaust is in play.juxtaposed
You may juxtapose it for more or less scientific reasons but as I explained in this thread, you don't juxtapose it by comparing the holocaust and Gaza in a political debate.
