Am reading Naomi Kleinโs excellent #Doppelgรคnger at the moment. This section is about the investigation into residential schools in Canada a few years ago, which revealed up to 25,000 indigenous children died and were buried here. It was declared a #Genocide by the UN.
The parallels with what is happening in #Gaza are striking: settler colonialism involving not just the systematic erasure of indigenous culture but also systematic killing of children.
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in reply to Jackie ๐ • • •The Palestinians throw rocks and fire improvised rockets, and the Israelis commit total genocide.
The asymmetry of the violence inflicted is blinding.
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in reply to Jackie ๐ • • •The Israeli campaign to publicize October 7th is not an attempt to honor the victims and convince people to solve the root cause of violence.
It is a Reichstag fire level event that is being used by fascist maniacs to commit a holocaust in miniature.
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in reply to Jackie ๐ • • •It's not good that October 7th happened.
It was a horrible atrocity that was committed in retaliation against the decades long Zionist reign of terror, by a refugee population that was reduced to living in a ghetto.
Only within the context it occurred in can you understand it.