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.

Today marks the anniversary of the NATO bombing of Serbia. I’ve always held complicated feelings about it. On one hand, the fact NATO bombed Serbia did put an end to the war and ethnic cleansing of Kosovo. On the other hand, NATO’s bombs overwhelmingly killed Albanians. Serbia committed genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina. That is an indisputable fact. Following the Dayton Agreement, it set its eyes on Kosovo where the same tactics it utilised in BiH were being repeated. They were on their way to commit genocide against the Kosovars.

Bosnian Muslims have been “like this” since Islam made its way to our country, we have never been fundamentalists. Even the most “orthodox” of Bosnian Muslims view religion as a private matter between you and God alone and therefore do not judge others as if they are God Himself.

https://twitter.com/talhabinfiroz/status/1771120308696519086

There’s an old tale that says when the Ottomans came to Bosnia…the Bosniaks said “we’ll take your religion but we’ll keep our rakija”. The new wave of Salafists in Bosnia is what is foreign to us. It’s not “European influence”, it is how we have always been.

What a horrible thing to say. The entirety of Sarajevo spent the siege complaining about the horrible “aid” we were sent by the IC. It was expired, disgusting, not even the dogs would eat it. It didn’t change the fact we were starving. People are allowed to have good food!

https://twitter.com/francesweetman/status/1769252418221388189

We hated the “aid” food we got during the Bosnian Genocide soooo much that we literally erected a “monument” to the Intl Community as a very sarcastic “thank you” for the shitty food they sent us. People undergoing genocide are still deserving of dignity and decent food!!!!

I don’t want to talk to Zionists or try to convince them that Palestinians are human beings because I have spent years of my life having the same arguments with Serb Chetniks and I know it will not matter.

To me, they are parroting (word for word) the same things Chetniks say. There is nothing that will surprise me or shock me from Zionists. The fact they are constantly in my mentions parroting the same exact rhetoric that I have had to listen to for years from Chetniks tells me quite literally everything.

I have a question that I need to pose carefully and before I pose it I need you to understand that it is NOT an endorsement at all of the behaviour I am about to ask. Okay? I am not endorsing this. In speaking with many Muslims from all over (the UK, South Asia, MENA) about the Bosnian Genocide, I get a clear understanding that for many of them the Bosnian Genocide seemed almost like a holy war b/c Muslims were being massacred by Christians.

When Shaun King jumped at the chance to become the spokesperson for the Palestinian Genocide, I criticised him. He said how he was directly involved in the ICC cases and was asking people for their info to “help” and “get involved” which was questionable. After years of having me blocked on here…he suddenly messaged me saying how he was involved and how I just didn’t know this group and how he was going to get me in touch with them to “prove” that he was doing this work.

Personally speaking, I am both tired and frustrated with Liberal/Western feminism. I am tired of this push to reframe gender roles back to the 1960s era of (man provides/woman stays home) b/c they’re exhausted with working. I am tired of being sold plastic surgery as “liberation” I am over “choice feminism” and that everything is actually fine as long as it’s your choice without giving any reflection as to why we are making these supposedly liberating choices and what makes us make those choices. I am tired of the “girls girl” bs.

Bosnia and Herzegovina only became an “official” state in 1992. Prior to then it had belonged to a federation, a kingdom, various occupations and colonisations and yet the area was always called Bosnia & its people Bosniaks/Bosnians/Bosnjani etc. It existed still.

https://twitter.com/apostateprophet/status/1760690804920656274

And try telling a Bosnian that Bosnia didn’t exist before 1992. Montenegro officially became a state in 2006. India only became a state in 1947. Indonesia in 1945. Czech Republic in 1991. Finland in 1917.

I was speaking at an event last night, the audience was a mix of Brits and British-Bosnians, the event was focused on genocide in Eastern Bosnia…specifically Gorazde. I, being me, made the parallels to the genocide in Palestine currently. I was prepared to deal with the backlash The backlash did not come, everyone instead approached to tell me how important it was that I did mention Gaza and make those parallels. The Bosnians, ofc, told me how proud of me they are that I am speaking out on this issue and how sad they are that others are staying quiet.

I have long fought against anti-semitism. It has and remains a societal issue. But I need to know and I need someone to answer this: why must the Palestinians pay for the crimes of centuries long anti-semitism in Europe and the US? Why are they paying for the Nazi crimes? When the USA turned away Jewish refugees during the Holocaust…it was the Palestinians that accepted them. When Europe was helping Hitler to achieve the final solutions, many Palestinians were shielded their Jewish neighbours. So why is them that must pay for the West’s crimes?

There is an entire field of scholarship dedicated to drawing comparisons between genocides. The entire point of genocide education is to draw parallels between genocides so that we do not repeat the mistakes of the past. Utterly absurd to pretend that is antisemitic.

https://twitter.com/holocaustmuseum/status/1759291545595830375

I have worked with the US Holocaust Museum in the past as well as with countless other organisations focused on the Holocaust and Genocide remembrance and education. It has been nothing but heartbreaking to watch as they weaponise genocide to shield Israel from any criticism.

I was told recently by someone: “I find your posts about Israel to be quite offensive”

To which I responded: “I find the entire concept of an ethnostate to be offensive, I find apartheid to be offensive, I find genocide to be offensive”. I would like to remind everyone that Israel is an ethnostate. In 2018, Israel passed a controversial law called the "Nation-State Law," which declares Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.