@LeelaTorres i’d like a single post without some German coming on here to say something fucked up like the genocide “is not good”. These are death squads and your weird relationships with your own history is not my problem. Holocaust survivors and historians have made the comparison. Who are you? And how dare you accuse me of Holocast denial? My academic field is memory studies.

I did an episode on the politics of comparison so if you’d like to educate yourself go for it https://thefirethesetimes.com/2024/09/20/the-holocaust-the-nakba-and-reparative-memory/

The Holocaust, the Nakba and Reparative Memory

Elia Ayoub and Daniel Voskoboynik discuss the Holocaust, Nakba, and Israeli genocide in Gaza, examining how memory is weaponized. They also explore the parallels between the portrayal of a Nazi fam…

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@HeavenlyPossum @LeelaTorres Germans have made the Holocaust about *them* instead of about the people they exterminated. That’s why they’re so keen to remind everyone that they feel guilty, as if that’s supposed to be impressive.

And again, this is not new. German Jews/Jews living in Germany have been complaining about that. They just don’t matter to this self-serving discourse. https://granta.com/once-again-germany-defines-who-is-a-jew-part-i/

Once Again, Germany Defines Who Is a Jew | Part I | Granta

‘We just do not think that it’s for the Germans to say to us what kind of Jews we should be, what kind of project we should be part of.’ George Prochnik in conversation with Emily Dische-Becker and Eyal Weizman, before 7 October 2023.

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