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@FranceskAlbsFrancesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt

For you, with thanks.

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May this be a day of Solidarity.
A year of Solidarity for Freedom: from apartheid, injustice, impunity.
For the Palestinians.
For the Israelis,who need it too.
For us.
Solidarity is STANDING TOGETHER AS ONE 🌎human rights movement to end a system of 🌍oppression & impunity.
#WeR1

Grief is as old as humanity.

Epic of Gilgamesh X.235-248 (trans. Andrew R George)

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The speech that Sarah Hurwitz (former Obama speechwriter) gave at the Jewish Federations of North America assembly is a pure Zionist meltdown.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=g1RpYGJsp-A

It brought more evidence to our stance (that Zionism in its modern form is a totalitarian ideology grounded in hate that works by distorting reality, vocabularies and public opinion) than any of our analyses.

The first piece of the totalitarian meltdown is about “It’s worrying that we can no longer control the mainstream narrative, and that mainstream American news no longer has an egemony“:

It used to be that the news you got in America was American media, and it was pretty mainstream; you know it generally didn’t express extreme anti-Israel views. You had to go to a pretty weird bookstore to find global media and fringe media. But today we have social media, which is the global medium; its algorithms are shaped by billions of people worldwide who don’t really love Jews.

It proceeds with a weird comparison between a respected media outlet and a Nazi podcaster:

So while in the 1990s a young person probably wasn’t going to find Al Jazeera or someone like Nick Fuentes, today those media outlets find them; they find them on their phones

Then she proceeds with blaming social media for showing youngsters images of a genocide that they were never supposed to see:

You have TikTok smashing our young people’s brains all day long with video of carnage in Gaza. And this is why so many of us cannot have a sane conversation with younger Jews, because anything that we try to say to them, they are hearing it through this wall of carnage. So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments, and they are just seeing in their minds: carnage. And I sound obscene.

Ms. Hurwitz is justifying a fucking genocide by distorting the narrative around it and blaming those who share the evidence. OF COURSE she sounds obscene. She IS an obscene human being. Telling someone that there’s an logical justification for a carnage isn’t a “sane conversation”: it’s apology of genocide. It’s supposed to be a felony, and she belongs to a jail, not to a stage.

You don’t EXPLAIN nor justify genocides. You CONDEMN them, you psychopath.

Note: the subject of her concern here is YOUNGER JEWS.

Her problem isn’t with antisemitism. It’s even with YOUNG JEWS who dare to take a look at images of people murdered by Israel.

This is nothing about fighting ethnic hatred, and it’s all about controlling genocidal narratives.

Finally, she completely drops her mask and shows the disgusting Nazi underneath - a Nazi that isn’t even ashamed of distorting the meaning of the memory of the Holocaust:

Holocaust education is absolutely essential, but I think it may be confusing some of our young people about antisemitism. Because they learn about big, strong Nazis hurting weak, emaciated Jews, and they think oh, antisemitism is like anti-black racism, right? Powerful white people against powerless black people. So, when on TikTok all day long, they see powerful Israelis hurting weak, skinny Palestinians, it’s not surprising that they think, Oh, I know the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel. You fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people.

The main purpose of the memory of Holocaust is to recognize the atrocities that happened in that historical moment and acknowledge that they’re not supposed to happen again. Not to Jews, not to Arabs, not to anyone.

Never again means never again for everyone.

Today’s kids mostly got this message right.

But Sarah says that that’s not the purpose of Holocaust remembrance.

The purpose of Holocaust remembrance is to narrowly draw sympathy towards the most uncompromising political Zionist propaganda.

When Zionists just “do it again”, kids aren’t supposed to draw comparisons. Because it’s illegal according to her definition of antisemitism to draw comparisons to Nazis even if you talk like a Nazi and act like a Nazi.

The anti-genocide antibodies injected into kids are supposed to work only when it comes to Jews.

Even the other minorities who were murdered in the Holocaust go increasingly unnoticed, with the message focused only on the Zionist narrative.

This message also resonated last year when the LA Holocaust Museum was forced to backtrack on the “Never again means never again for everyone” message.

Those who exploit the memory of the dead to justify today’s genocide aren’t worth of being custodians of that memory.

They are made of the same clay as those who murdered their grandparents.

And they must be called accountable, removed from their positions, and replaced by those who don’t bend the tragedies of the past to the political interests of the present.

Update | At least three Palestinians were killed and several others injured in an initial toll following an Israeli airstrike on a displacement tent west of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

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