• rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Israel is definitely committing acts of genocide, but holocaust comparisons are hyperbole; they haven’t been rounding up Palestinians by the thousands and putting them in gas chambers. Even the most evil acts imaginable still fall on a spectrum.

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      9 months ago

      If they’re definitely committing genocide, why didn’t the ICJ order them to stop? They ordered Russia too, they’ve got the ability. They declined to do it again the other day for Rafah again.

      I don’t think there was billions of dollars going into aushwitz or the other camps, and Israel doesn’t seem to be trucking in Palestinians from neighboring countries… and killing them en masse. Seems like the comparisons aren’t equivalent.

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        9 months ago

        @S_204 there’s two issues here.

        Auschwitz and the Shoah was not the only genocide, you don’t even need camps to carry out a genocide.

        What Israel is doing is definitely a genocide but whether or not other genocides should be compared to the Holocaust is a separate issue.

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      9 months ago

      Ok, true, no gas chambers… But rounding up Palestinians and lobbing in bombs… That’s what’s happening in rafah right now… Except it’s not thousands… It’s more.