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I’ve reflected a lot on the German “never again” lately. When I was a child I remember asking my grandma how they could let the genocide happen. Her answer: “We just didn’t know”. She said while in her home town the Jewish people were deported, right in front of them. /1 
When I visited the concentration camp in Buchenwald I remember being told how the smoke of burned human flesh went up and smothered the entire town below, day after day. Still the response of the townspeople afterwards: “We didn’t know”. /2
I’m thinking a lot about these responses today when people keep saying:
- but Israel says it’s limiting civilian deaths”
- but it is not genocide look they only want to eradicate Hamas!
- “but Hamas started this!”
- but but…I didn’t know! /3
- but Israel says it’s limiting civilian deaths”
- but it is not genocide look they only want to eradicate Hamas!
- “but Hamas started this!”
- but but…I didn’t know! /3
We know. We know EXACTLY like my ancestors knew as well. But it’s easier to turn away, to not look, to keep being in our bubble where we tell ourselves that this is still a “normal” response by Israel. /4
If you think you still don’t know, need to squabble over definitions of genocide, have a reasonable discussion of whether the Israeli government lies - read. Read about the history, read the statements coming from Israeli politicians about human animals, about the nakba 2.0… /5
… about pushing all Palestinians into the Sinai, about killing them all. Read about the systematic lying, well evidenced. Read. Look. Look at the images. /6
For me the “never again” is super important. I don’t want to stand there in a decade and respond to my own grandchildren “I didn’t know”. Because I did. The end. /7
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