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https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1928739855275593746A narrow-definition genocide only occurs once a systematic plan to exterminate the group emerges. In the paradigmatic Holocaust example, the narrow genocide only started as of the Final Solution in 1941. Kristallnacht therefore was not part of the genocide under this definition
https://twitter.com/theenjineer/status/1928328681212235888The same happened with Postcolonial scholars like Aimé Césaire who coined the term “colonial boomerang” to describe how colonial practices in the colonies always “returned home” as fascism. (Hannah Arendt wrote a similar argument although with a bit more problematic undertones)
https://twitter.com/just_whatever/status/1927634736412824056I seriously refuse to believe that seemingly educated professional people are this ignorant. Which either leaves me to believe this is about denial (not wanting to accept Israel would actually do such monstrosity of a plan) or malice (actually liking that it will starve people)
https://twitter.com/eve_barlow/status/1927395571897127362First let’s disprove the concrete claim. During the Iraq war, the US sent 600,000 tons of grain, funded WFP with $200 million and sent $530 million dollars worth of aid just as a short term solution for 2005
https://twitter.com/eylonalevy/status/1927087865881559368
https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/19265650339259106042) Trump betrayed Europe, which meant European leaders needed to find a way to signal both a) their disapproval of the new US and b) their security and foreign policy independence / self-sufficiency.
https://twitter.com/hasanthehun/status/1917687405873934544This is because discourses on political violence are dominated by notions of “just war” that trace their roots to Medieval European warfare. It is state-centric and Eurocentric. They usually fully erase colonial experiences from their theoretical framework
https://twitter.com/Aizenberg55/status/1867227088572277076I don't think I need to convince you that The Holocaust was a genocide. It obviously was. It is the paradigmatic genocide. But where we may find some disagreement is *when* - when did the Holocaust become a genocide?
https://twitter.com/alonso_gd/status/1861719435725214131The US would not annex Cuba and end its occupation on condition that the new independent Cuban republic amended its constitution to specifically state the following:
https://twitter.com/mishtal/status/1860743209355301345It also discriminates against Muslim Israelis who are looked down as receiving the favour of rights in a non-Muslim state. Democracy is based on the idea that human rights protect minorities from the dictatorship of the majority, not on the mercy of the democratic dictators
https://twitter.com/henmazzig/status/1859239312950239618Hen doesn’t specifically say it, but the claim is there between the lines: “if population grew, there can’t be a genocide under way”. This is of course patently false from the definition of genocide alone. Population decrease is simply not part of it
https://twitter.com/alonso_gd/status/1844348004201005161Powerful cultural forces reinforce this idea. In this narrative, Peruvian indigenous people are the “minorities” that failed to acculturate into our post-racial, Western(ised) society and are thus misguidedly “opposed to progress”
https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1841211109237203130It was patently obvious from the beginning that a broad and intense military response was, even under the most expansive definitions of self-defence, difficult to justify; not just because Israel is unlawfully occupying Gaza but bc of the urban nature of the conflict