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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Yeah, Goldie's did fire the folks who wore pins and he donates to Israeli military. And I think that's a basis for protestors to picket the place. But accusing him of genocide? Let's pump the brakes a bit.
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I was going to respond to this with something snarky like "yes, there should never be any hyperbole in one line chants during rallies" but thinking about it I'm no longer sure it's hyperbole.
What is the word to describe the nearly complete (>90%) displacement of a people, the destruction of all of their universities, most of their hospitals, their libraries, their birth and death records, their churches and mosques, their bakeries and other food supplies, and a large portion of their housing, the control and restriction of their infrastructure, including power, water, and communications, and the widespread random bombing of the populace, with effort to specifically target its writers, journalists, and poets, with the restriction of basic humanitarian aid meant to avoid starvation and widespread disease, all combined with the express intent to occupy the country and impose on those who remain a government by occupiers that will impose martial law and restrict the countries' ability to rebuild, to feed people, and to provide healthcare, all while establishing settlers with preferred legal rights, even including the ability to commit violence against the residents with virtual impunity? And outlawing such basic expressions of nationalism or cultural identity as showing their countries' flag or reading their countries' poets? What is the word for that? Genocide, ethnic cleansing, something else?
When Raz Segal wrote his already seminal brief article making the case for calling this genocide and even going farther and calling it "obvious" and a "textbook case", I disagreed with him. But I think he's proving right.
https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide Support for Israel's war today, particularly without restrictions, and after seeing everything Israel is doing and that its officials are saying, right out in the open, is effectively support for Genocide. It's a bitter truth I speak.