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Seth Frantzman
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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.
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Seth Frantzman
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Thread: There seem to have been so many foreign ISIS members in Baghuz area that this was actually a kind of western colony on the Euphrates. Not since the 1960s era of decolonization have so many had to flee as indigenous people take back the land from #ISIScrimes
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Seth Frantzman
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Thread-Disturbing BBC details from #Strasbourg attack
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Despite being monitored and even being involved in serious violent crimes with illegal weapons the perpetrators never seem to receive anything but short sentences in the past and continue on their trajectory toward more serious incidents
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Seth Frantzman
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Thread: Twitter suspended and disappeared account linked to the mail bomb suspect, (@hardrockintlent), which Twitter thinks makes the issue go away, but it makes it harder for researchers, journalists to expose the path of hate that led to this (see @EliotHiggins thread)
The problem is that social media giants are not regulated by governments to archive these details and make them searchable, because our governments have allowed them total control of information on their platforms, even information affecting all of us
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