r/Israel • u/traumaking4eva מהנהר אל הים, פלסטין תהיה חינם • Mar 07 '24

Photo/Video Do people think this is a perfectly reasonable statement to make? How dare they?

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u/Haunting_Birthday135 Anti-Axis Forces Mar 07 '24

That is straight-up Holocaust denial masquerading as human rights activism.

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u/DeFixer USA Mar 07 '24

Technically I think it's Holocaust Inversion, which is also a very well-documented form of antisemitism.

Side note - the fact that we have so many recognizable and classifiable antisemitic riffs never ceases to amaze me.

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u/SnowGN Mar 07 '24

We honestly need some sort of TV Tropes website equivalent just to explain and categorize all the different varieties.

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u/Pera_Espinosa Mar 07 '24

They've always shown an undeniable glee when it comes to the opportunity to compare us to Nazis. It serves to say that maybe the Germans weren't so wrong and we're no better at the same time.

These comparisons have been going on for years. It's always been a way to spit in our face. The tactic is always to understate anything that humanizes us and use the most extreme hyperbole when vilifying us. Why not? Hundreds of millions will repeat it.

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u/EntireLychee833 Mar 08 '24

Deep down, a lot of people resent the fact that they have to learn about the Holocaust at all. On top of that, white people want an easy way out of their own guilt - blaming Jews is their easy fix. 😒

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u/UndeadScholar Mar 08 '24

Holocaust denial is illegal. At least in EU , Russia and US, to the best of my knowledge.

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u/andrewb610 USA Mar 08 '24

It’s not illegal in the US, it’s protected speech under the 1st Amendment, for better or worse.

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u/Haunting_Birthday135 Anti-Axis Forces Mar 07 '24

Comparing the war and the manner in which casualties died in Gaza to the Holocaust.

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u/DetectiveIcy2070 Mar 08 '24

So did this war and the 1978 Invasion of Cambodia by Vietnam. And quite frankly, this war will end the same way.

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u/Swie Canada Mar 07 '24

If you compare killing civilians while pursuing military targets during a just war to the holocaust your definition of what the holocaust was is so broken you're basically denying it occurred. Might as well say "the holocaust happened but only 0.03% of the Jewish population of Germany died, oh and the Germans killed them because they killed a thousand Germans". You've basically invented a new event and called it the holocaust but I guess it's not technically denying that "something" happened with that name.