Reports indicate that the IDF recently smuggled Daniella Weiss, a prominent settler leader, into Gaza to explore “settlement opportunities”. This is the same Gaza that has witnessed a catastrophic loss of life, including thousands of children, amidst widespread destruction caused by Israeli military actions. The same Gaza that is full of children’s graves. Not only is this sheer evil but these actions violate international law. The Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly prohibits the transfer of an occupying power’s civilian population into occupied territories, a practice already deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice in the context of West Bank settlements.

Germany’s failure to fully implement a meaningful process of denazification and re-education after World War II has left enduring legacies that continue to shape its political and social policies. This incomplete reckoning with its fascist past directly influences its unwavering support for Israel, including providing weapons, funding, and political backing in the face of clear evidence of apartheid, war crimes, and genocide in Gaza. These actions, framed as a moral obligation rooted in Holocaust guilt, expose a performative and shallow understanding of accountability that avoids reckoning with ongoing complicity in systemic violence. The early post-war denazification process was limited and compromised. While top Nazi officials were prosecuted, millions of lower-level Nazis were reintegrated into society and were even reinstated into positions of power in West Germany’s judiciary, intelligence services, and political structures. This pragmatic approach, driven by Cold War priorities and the need for rapid stabilization, left intact many of the ideological and structural hierarchies of the Third Reich. As a result, authoritarianism and hierarchical worldviews persisted, creating a fertile ground for the resurgence of fascist ideologies in contemporary Germany.

Speaking of genocide and denialism, I understand Bosnian Croats and Serbs who deny the genocide or those who will only localise it to Srebrenica and ignore all the rest.

But I will never be able to understand Bosniak/ns who do it. Why precisely do you have an issue with Bosniaks calling themselves genocide survivors? Is it another inferiority complex thing where instead of our neighbours feeling shameful about the fact genocide was committed in their name, you feel ashamed that genocide happened to you? To Bosnia? Or is it that you don’t want to be mistaken for someone from Srebrenica.

The thing is that despite the fact that they are two different courts and despite the fact it is clear the ICC is shooting for the Crime Against Humanity charge over the genocide they certainly believe is occurring…eventually the two courts will start to follow each other’s stances and the cases will start to inform one another.

The fact it is even written in the Arrest Warrants that Israel “created conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the civilian population in Gaza” IS a massive win for South Africa and for Palestine too. The ICC reiterated on several occasions within the arrest warrants that Israel is deliberately and systematically targeting civilians for destruction. Intl Law is complex and proving genocide is difficult but this is incredibly important.

BREAKING NEWS:

The ICC has just issued arrest warrants for Israel's Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas’s Al-Masri.

- reuters.com/world/icc-issu… The ICC has stated that it does not require Israel’s recognition and acceptance of the courts jurisdiction to issue the arrest warrants.

Will the US State Department and @POTUS cooperate with the ICC to ensure that Gallant and Netanyahu are arrested in accordance with international law? Will the UK cooperate? @Keir_Starmer

Some news that I am ready to share:

This past year I had another cancer threat pop up in my body that I have been fighting. I am getting treatment for it. My immune system is fairly wrecked and my blood levels are atrocious. I have severe anemia, severe deficiencies of magnesium, potassium, iron, folic acid, vitamin A, B2 and B6, B1, K, C…etc. It is treatable and thankfully due to the fact that I tend to have check-ups so often due to my past cancer diagnosis and remission, they identified the problem fairly early on.

It has been such a difficult year and so was the year before and the year before that and the year before that. This year my anger came out. As someone who spent the vast majority of my life being the peacemaker in every aspect of my life, holding everything in, never allowing myself to feel…my anger and my wrath came out in full-force to make up for the years of keeping quiet. Unfortunately, this did have negative consequences too. I burned bridges, I ended friendships and relationships, I yelled at superiors, I called out the idiocy and the ignorance and the callousness and hatefulness wherever I saw it. I learned to get angry without breaking down in tears.

Nobody goes to bat for my work & me the way my Serbian aunt does. The Bosniaks will be “Idk why you bother with that genocide stuff, it was 30 years ago” and my Serbian aunt, who btw was hunted by Chetniks b/c she married a Bosniak, who was imprisoned in a camp freaks out on them & while this is extremely anecdotal, something I have found to be true in my own experience is that Bosniaks are far too forgiving and far too often simply want to wish in delusional that with the genocide ending, so did the hatred for us.

I don’t think all Americans are so evil, callous and horrid people as a whole. I truly don’t…I just do not believe that they live on the same planet as the rest of us. & as someone that spent a decent amount of my life there, it’s hard for them to ever understand the rest. I’ve often said that being a poor American still makes you richer than almost all other countries’s middle class does.

The amount of privilege you have when you’re born there, when you are raised there, and when you get to go outside of it with that fancy American passport…

The gist of many Holocaust books came down to “be kind and also look at how the Jewish people suffered, dont be like that to the Jews”

Instead of genocide is a process that starts with classification, symbolisation, discrimination and dehumanisation. Genocide can happen anywhere, to anyone. The Holocaust was a genocide that targeted Jewish people but also Roma people, Slavic People, Disabled people, LGBTQ people, black people, etc.

It started slowly enough and then came all at once. It started with propaganda. With fear-mongering a target identified as “the scary other”.

Genocides have been perpetrated before and after the Holocaust. Which means nothing has been “learnt”.

There is an ambiguity about Holocaust and Genocide Education as a whole. There is a vague “other” and a vague “hatred” instead of naming it for what it is: fascism.

The vagueness of Genocide Education has done precisely what it meant to do all along: erase the history and reality of how and what precisely happened. Focusing on one singular group in order to manufacture consent for the occupation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of a completely different group by that initial group. By making Holocaust and Genocide education into terms of ambiguity and vagueness instead of specificity and direct information, it has erase the suffering of countless groups of people, predating the Holocaust, during the Holocaust, and after the Holocaust.

It was painted as the single, greatest evil to ever occur. It turned into a perpetual mark of victimhood for the Jewish people alone and it turned Israel as the great saviour of the Jewish people, who had suffered deeply and horrifically and even uniquely in many ways…but not singularly.

Apparently the Israeli Embassy in Sarajevo will be hosting a special event to remember October 7th. Many are outraged, including the mayor. The event will be held at a private venue & some are saying how it should be shut down while others are claiming to shut it down is a violation of freedom of speech & people should protest it instead. This event is far less about commemorating the October 7th and its victims and far more about causing issues. Why you ask? B/c the Israeli Ambassador is one of the most vile people to exist & is throwing this event in order to cause agitation so they can play victim.

One of the dumbest things I hear, especially from liberals & even Balkan liberals, is that I should not criticise the USA because I lived there and got an education there.

& i love this imaginary world that they live in where they assume that these things were gifted to me by the USA instead of being things I actually worked for. I did get my education in the United States and did go to college there and did do my post-graduate there because I was a very hard-working student who worked a full-time job all while I was going to school.

I started working at 12 under the table and 14 legally by 17 I was working full-time.

I worked immensely hard at both my education and my job. I paid taxes. I took out student loans and I got scholarships and grants because I worked hard, not b/c the US government gave it to me willy-nilly.

I helped build two businesses and I created my own non-profit organisation, I got funding for that through, again, my own hard work.

During the Bosnian Genocide, when there was an arms embargo placed on Bosnia, it was Hezbollah with the help of Turkey that helped to smuggle weapons into Bosnia so we would not be entirely defenceless while the 4th greatest military force in Europe at the time was massacring us. & while Israel provided funding, weapons, and even training to Serbs and paramilitary groups, while they had a “great relationship” with Milosevic and Mladic too…Bosnia was left to rely mainly on the little weapons they had, much of it homemade & created out of bits & pieces.

Listen, I am totally fine with people correcting me when I am wrong and I am certainly not an expert in every field or on every subject.

But I am absolutely educated on genocide. What is happening in Palestine is a genocide. You are not more well-informed than me on this. Nor are you as informed as I am on the curriculum within schools on genocide, specifically the Holocaust, because I have quite literally worked with schools in the UK and the US to improve their genocide education.

For the past year, I’ve genuinely been stuck in this endless loop of trying to make a decision about whether or not I stay here in London, do I move back home to Bosnia, do I move back to Chicago or Iowa or New York…& in the end I have realised it is really miserable everywhere. The economy is bad here but it is much worse in Bosnia. In the US the economy is less bad than it is here but school shootings, the possibility of Trump, the expensive healthcare are all immediate drawbacks.

The job market in the UK is a disaster BUT it is a self-created disaster. I’ve been speaking to recruiter friends and here are some interesting tidbits of info:

1. Employers are forcing recruiters to put up job postings with lower salaries in order to “motivate” the team. I.e they are not actually looking to hire, they are simply trying to scare their current employees into thinking their jobs are potentially at risk and that if they don’t give it their all, they’ll be replaced.

There’s been such a massive shift in the way that we behave, our interests, our hobbies, and how we spend our time that it is genuinely a bit scary. I mean, 20 years ago if someone just stayed home all the time, had no friends, no interests, no hobbies they were considered weird. Now, most people go to work, come home and do absolutely nothing. People’s hobbies tend to be focused around scrolling on their phones or binge watching.

This isn’t a moral failing, obviously, but it is making everyone extremely isolated and lonely.

I know it caused a lot of outrage when that person said that they cannot stand to see the Star of David because of what Israel is doing.

I get it. For so many years, every time I saw a cross, the Serbian flag, the three finger salute I would feel so unbelievably uncomfortable. Seeing it would put me in a state of fear. Because everywhere you went in Bosnia, they would paint their cross on. They burned people alive on crosses. They massacred entire villages and then posted the flag. They’d wave the 3 finger salute while calling you a Balija.

If you decide that you want to dedicate your time, effort, energy and career to social justice, to activism, to research and education and progress…you have to literally fight against dissolutionism, apathy, and cynicism on a daily basis. I’ve done that for years…. And after almost 20 years, I think I have started to become disillusioned. I am not apathetic. I am not a cynic. But I have grown increasingly disillusioned with the world, our capacity for empathy, and our willingness to demand and ensure better for ourselves & each other.

I’ve been in the UK for a while now and honestly, I am still adjusting and learning.

In many ways, the things I was lauded for in the USA: my directness, my friendliness, my commitment, and even just being a passionate person are things I am disliked for & punished for here. Most of the friends I have made in London are ethnic minorities and very few were even born or raised in the UK.

British people do not like me very much because British people do not like directness, they prefer passive communication. Directness is too much.

Can I say something, possibly controversial?

I strongly believe, based on conversation I have had off the record with certain people, that in the US and UK (possibly throughout Europe) everyone is aware that Israel is committing genocide and they will let them do it…. Because nobody, no country especially, wants to be the one to threaten a Jewish state and certainly no country wants to be the one to bombs Jew throughout intervention in this genocide. An act they would certainly do eventually if it was a different state committing genocide.