cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/6758033
Prominent Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen received a prestigious award for political thought over the weekend, in a ceremony that almost didn’t happen due to backlash over their recent writings on Israel-Gaza.
Israel’s air-and-ground assault on Gaza has killed more than 20,000 people in the 10 weeks since the Hamas-led attack on Israel killed some 1,200 people and took more than 240 others hostage.
Gessen, who is Jewish and whose family lost loved ones in the Holocaust, has been criticized for a New Yorker essay published earlier this month in which they likened the Gaza Strip to the WWII-era ghettos that Nazis developed to segregate and control Jewish people in occupied Europe.
Gessen argues in the essay that treating the Holocaust as a “singular event,” unlike anything that has occurred before or after in history, not only is incorrect but makes it impossible to learn lessons from the Holocaust that are needed to prevent future genocides.
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I definitely see your point and think the nuance of the situation is worth mentioning.
Essentially, you think Gazans should accept their annexation because they were not obliterated and given concessions for losing. Just like Native Americans.
The problem is, some cultures don’t want to be relegated to the ‘loser’ slot that natives tend to occupy.
They want to remain the “poor” and good guy, while perpetrating massacres. And I have to give it to them, their propaganda is much stronger since most of the world stands behind them and either supports terrorism or says it didn’t happen.
See what happens when I provide proof here.
Also not sure what you mean by annexation since Israel got the fuck out of there entirely in 2005