• mashbooq@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This is a problem I keep running into when advocating for Palestine: I try to amplify relevant voices only to find them using their platform to spread delusional conspiracy theories against the Jewish people (or, increasingly, against Ukraine). It doesn’t change the horrors being committed against Palestine, but it does make it hard to find someone I’d want to be in power to make changes.

  • toasteecup@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Why is it that we can’t both acknowledge the Holocaust AND the Palestinian genocide?

    Being anti Zionism doesn’t have to me that you’re anti semitic.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Nearly if not every concentration camp and death camp was named after a town or city it was built in. These weren’t hidden off in forests somewhere, they were built in locations with people able to staff and support them. This is part of how we know there’s no way any reasonably informed citizens didn’t know the holocaust was happening.

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      4 months ago

      Yes, it’s a town. Auschwitz is German for Oświęcim, which is a town where the barracks were repurposed for the death camp. They then built a second one, Auschwitz - Birkenau, 3km from Brzezinka (Birkenau). That one was purpose built instead of repurposed.