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In reply to the discussion: I firmly believe the use of the word "genocide" [View all]Jirel
(2,028 posts)The holocaust was a real thing, and horrific, and genocide The Nazis who committed it would have said exactly the same thing (and some did) that Jews (and LGBT, and other targeted groups) were wartime casualties. Being victims of a genocide does NOT, however, give license for an oppressed group to then commit genocide themselves.
Wholesale wiping out of entire city areas where another identity group lives, and killing all within them indiscriminately, is genocide. Cutting all that group off from food, water, and medical care, regardless of age, politics, or involvement in the conflict, is genocide. Literally watching babies die of starvation and lack of medical care, and killing the sick, by refusing safe passage to places they can be fed, housed, and cared for, is genocide.
Denying Israels genocide of the Gazans is as morally repugnant as denying the holocaust. Rather than arguing that its not that bad, Jews and other supporters of Israel should be standing against ALL genocide, and holding the Israeli government accountable.