Thread by @sfrantzman

Thread: I vowed to write an article about how focus on "ISIS brides" and western ISIS members is tied up in legacies of colonial-era concepts, that tend to humanize western perpetrators while ignoring or even dehumanizing victims from the region, here:
jpost.com/Opinion/Terra-…

I argue that there are several parallels also to the Nazi era when perpetrators received short sentences or were not prosecuted and victims were ignored. Also noting that Jewish victims were too often treated as Yazidi survivors have been.

I also assert that this concept of being above the law in Syria or Iraq is rooted in the colonial-era contracts that European powers signed with the Ottoman Empire, which were called “capitulations" to prevent citizens from being under local laws.

The argument today that only "western" legal systems can prosecute "western" perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Iraq and Syria is part of this legacy.