To utilise the very real, well-documented, forensically proven systematically planned and executed genocidal rape of Bosniak women during the Bosnian Genocide in an attempt to equalise it with the October 7th attack is remarkably disgusting. 50,000 Bosnian women were raped.

https://twitter.com/newyorker/status/1814675311440609425

The genocidal rape of Bosniak women was very well-planned and executed. There were literal rape camps set up for the victims, much of whom were young girls btw, in order to dehumanise them, and most importantly in an attempt to impregnate them so they would birth Serb babies.

Every year I get the privilege to stand next to fellow survivors at genocide commemorations and every year I am more and more impressed by the new generation. Knowing that people like @s_hhkc are going to keep going after my generation has done our duty leaves me with hope. Sara is a second generation survivor. We have girls around the same age, mine is a bit older, our girls will learn from Sara, and Sara learned things from me and I learned things from Bakira Hasecic and Hatidza and Nura and so many other brilliant Bosniak women.

1. People from the Global South are often *forced* to move to the US/UK due to the destruction wreaked on their countries by the US/their allies.

2. Its been proven that those refugees IMPROVE the areas they move WITHOUT displacing the locals & causing gentrification.

https://twitter.com/okaythenme/status/1807107969211150517

Whereas when Americans and Brits move to other countries they often do not assimilate at all, they end up causing displacement of the locals, increase the cost of living and rent, and will often force the country & its people to accommodate them. They also cause gentrification.

I understand that Americans are freaking out and many are thinking about moving out of the States and I would genuinely recommend they do not do that. Fascism is on the rise literally everywhere, esp in Europe. You will not be saved by just moving away. Additionally, Americans moving to other countries, especially smaller ones, is decimating locals. Rent, housing costs, food costs, restaurants esp, everything has increased in price due to the fact the Americans can afford it…pricing out the locals and forcing them out.

Just as there is religious psychosis, I truly believe what we are seeing out of Israel is collective ethnonationalist psychosis. I have long called the behaviour of ethnonationalists, particularly in the case of Greater Serbia ethnonationalists, as “ethnonationalist delusion”. But I believe it is beyond simple delusion. The deep seethed hatred of their target, the dehumanisation, the attempts at the erasure of the existence of their target, the commitment to believe they are the “true victims” is ethnonationalist psychosis.

Important to note that the crime of extermination and the crime of genocide are considered two distinct crimes within international law.

Why? Because one is to do with targeting of a specific ethnic, religious, or racial group and the other is not.

https://twitter.com/ajenews/status/1800789658739286134

Basically, the crime of extermination is considered a crime against humanity whereas genocide is a distinct crime on its own. Extermination is the intentional mass killing of civilians, often as part of a systematic attack against a civilian population without a specific focus on

Everyone will remember him for the many contributions he made but I will remember him for his denial of the Bosnian Genocide…for when he called the concentration camps “refugee camps that people could come in and go from as they please”…camps that killed thousands of Bosniaks.

https://twitter.com/williamsonkev/status/1799045036388307087

He denied the Cambodian Genocide too and defended people who denied the genocide in Rwanda. To me, Chomsky is just an unprincipled leftist whose solidarity was only extended to those who’d suffer under the USA…but not anyone else. His comments on Ukraine were also bad.

First of all, men can and absolutely are civilians too and the fact men are killed more often does not mean combatants are killed more often. Secondly, AP has always held water for Israel and this “analysis” is a shoddy piece of work with tons of missing and incomplete data.

https://twitter.com/stonewalltitlow/status/1799206116649206266

Palestinian men deserve to live too. Women and children being killed “less than men” also does not mean that Israel is targeting less civilians. It is often the men who are out there trying to find food or a new place of refuge which marks them as a target.

I called my dad today because I knew today was a difficult day. As he laid in the hospital trying to survive his injuries from the grenades, his mother was being buried. A tragedy I think that has and always will stick with him. It pains me. But we talked about it all… For most of my life, my family simply did not talk about the horrors which they endured. My other dad did not speak about his time in the concentration camps. My mother did not speak about being almost killed as she attempted to give birth to my brother during the war.

Listen, I am a good-looking woman…and I love people, I am fascinated by people so I am very friendly and my general disposition is to be a bubbly little ball of sunshine.

However….people don’t understand that and so they assume I am in love w/ them and flirting with them. Whether it’s at work amongst colleagues or with friends and their friends or in organising spaces or even with strangers…I am constantly having to apologise to people for them getting the wrong idea b/c I spoke to them and looked at them while doing so.

I do not trust anyone who purports they are a “peace activist” but does nothing to actually advance progress towards peace and instead simply regurgitates whatever it is that the Western Liberal crowd will wants and will tell them they’re “one of the good ones” for.

https://twitter.com/lalshareef/status/1783728554217181311

Additionally the term “activist” but especially “peace activist” is one that is bestowed upon you by your community based on the work you do, it is not a term that you use to describe yourself as in order to further push your own career forward. But okay, I guess.

1. The entire point of those w/ privilege is to use it esp at a protest
2. She was literally interfering with a student getting arrested & yelling it out in order to intervene, allow access & dissuade them.
3. She absolutely did not think her yelling that out would protect her.

https://twitter.com/erikhane/status/1783923170170335506

But this sort of discourse absolutely must die, honestly. It is often done by those who would certainly not put their bodies on the line to intervene with anyone getting arrested, it is done by those who are never willing to use their privilege to protect others.

This is just grim, honestly. Never Again as a phrase became popularised by both political prisoners who vowed “never again” in the context of the fight of fascism as well as Jewish survivors who invoked it as “never again” in the context of the Holocaust. But…

https://twitter.com/SSNaomiJulia/status/1780260337196900707

The term, initially tied to the Holocaust, became popularised as part of a larger fight against fascism, ethnonationalism, and other genocides following the Holocaust. It meant “never again for anyone…anywhere”. To say that “Never Again” is exclusive to Jewish people is awful.

I can give some general advice based on what I have learned. The question is:

“How does one prepare for and protect themselves and their community from ethnic cleansing and a genocide?”

There are very few ways to do so & it does start with organising your community.

https://twitter.com/_mentalmama_/status/1779205822565781595

You start by recognising the patterns. Think about the 10 stages of genocide. Think about which stage you/your community is at. At this point, you may have already surpassed the first 5-6 stages as people tend to mainly ignore those & the alarms don’t go off until stage 5.

If everyone is in therapy, why is everyone still so utterly miserable and rude and stuck and not growing and not changing and depressed and anxious and mean and isolated and lonely and just overall in a really shitty space? Therapy isn’t a cure, it’s just a mechanism just like taking walks and exercise and reading and journaling are. It’s not the solution in a world where most of the people suffering depression and anxiety are suffering due to systemic issues.

On April 1st and 2nd of 1992, Serb forces seized the town of Bjeljina and proceeded to commit horrific atrocities and crimes against humanity. Within just a couple of days, hundreds of people were killed and all other Bosniaks were forcibly displaced.

The town was attacked by Serb paramilitary groups: Mirko’s Chetniks and Arkan’s Tigers. They were under the command of the YNA which was under the control of Slobodan Milosevic. All mosques were demolished and 9 concentration camps to hold the Bosniaks were established.

The Siege of Sarajevo: April 5th 1992 - February 29 1996.

We remember. We do not forgive. We do not forget. We cannot allow the past to be repeated.





In every image of the genocide in Gaza, I find similarities to the genocide in Bosnia. Both places under a siege. Both people crying out for justice and help. Both being ignored. I wonder what the number of lives it is that need to be taken before the horrors are stopped.

Today marks the anniversary of the Siege of Sarajevo. The “official” start of the Bosnian Genocide.

Almost 4 years of being cut off from the world, from food and water and electricity. 4 years of daily shelling, bombing, and terrorising campaigns of the city and its residents. Today is a particularly painful day and in the next 6 months, we will have an anniversary after anniversary after anniversary of the various massacres and horrors that were inflicted on us throughout the Bosnian Genocide.

Eh, I am sorry but my family survived the Holocaust, then we survived the Bosnian Genocide and yet nobody from my country has had the inkling of an idea to go and forcibly displace other humans and to commit genocide. Trauma is an excuse that I am simply over hearing about.

https://twitter.com/drrupamarya/status/1775103993347473491

There has been no revenge killings in Bosnia and Herzegovina following the Bosnian Genocide. Not even against those same people we know committed horrific atrocities and acts of genocide to our loved ones. I am a deeply traumatised person and yet I’ve never felt the urge to kill.

I don’t care how this comes across, but this article is a disturbing case study on the sociopathic nature of Israeli society. Finding arousal in the prospect of soldiers entering a concentration camp to massacre Palestinians and displace them further is utterly abhorrent.

https://twitter.com/haaretzcom/status/1772281033070903727

Not only are they speaking almost proudly of their arousal at the idea of the soldiers going into Gaza to commit crimes against humanity but the dehumanisation of the Palestinians has turned into social capital, as evident by these soldiers suddenly getting dates unlike before.

The UNSC has passed the resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. No vetos from anyone, the US has abstained. What happens next? We don’t know yet but here are the options:

1. Implementation: Member states and intl orgs such as the UN work to put the ceasefire into effect through diplomatic efforts and negotiations with conflicting parties. Could also mean peacekeeping forces deployed.