If you’re part of the solution, you’re part of the problem
There are so many genocides, I can’t address them all. Let’s pinpoint a number of (descendants of) perpetrators now falsely accusing Israel.
Greenlandic Inuit
If you don’t acknowledge that this was genocide and don’t condemn Denmark and hold it responsible, you’re complicit and for genocide.
Native-American and Black Genocides
The USA: First, they threw off English rule. Then they exterminated the natives. Then they kidnapped Africans as slaves. And then they tried to rule the world with their army and money. All in the name of ‘freedom.’
The kidnapping of Africans for slavery was mass murder and genocide. From the careless way slaves ‘were freed,’ to segregation, to their erasure from main culture, to still prevalent racism on skin color, all are genocide.
The number of genocides of Native Americans committed by White colonists of the USA is too large for all to mention here. Part of it was pushing Native Americans into poverty and then selling alcohol to them.
If you don’t acknowledge that this was and is genocide and don’t condemn the USA and hold it responsible, you’re complicit and for genocide.
Native-Australian Genocide
If you don’t acknowledge that this is genocide and don’t condemn Australia and act against it, you’re complicit and for genocide.
The Moriori Genocide
If you don’t acknowledge that this was genocide and don’t condemn New Zealand and hold it accountable, you’re complicit and for genocide.
The Bushman Genocide
If you don’t acknowledge that this was genocide and don’t condemn the Netherlands and hold it accountable, you’re complicit and for genocide. But South Africa is so busy accusing Israel, it can’t bother about this.
Armenian
If you don’t acknowledge that this was genocide and don’t condemn Turkey and hold it accountable, you’re complicit and for genocide.
Holocaust
If you don’t acknowledge that this was genocide and don’t condemn Nazi-Germany and act against Fascists, you’re complicit and for genocide.
October 7
If you don’t acknowledge that this was genocide and don’t condemn Neo-Nazi Palestinians or act against them, you’re complicit and for genocide.
‘From the River’
If you don’t acknowledge that this slogan promotes genocide and don’t stop Anti-Zionists and act against it, you’re complicit and for genocide.
Besides all the Anti-Jewish lies, the truth is available all over the Internet.
Syrian Druze
If you don’t acknowledge that this was genocide and don’t condemn Syria and act against it, you’re complicit and for genocide. (Only Israel helped.)
South Sudan
If you don’t acknowledge that this is genocide and don’t condemn it and act against North Sudan and send food, you’re complicit and for genocide.
Not the Gaza Strip
The population grows and is not targeted, as even the exaggerated mortality numbers show. Pictures of deliberately starved and dying kids from unrelated illnesses paradoxically prove there is not even hunger.
Chamas sacrificing its own people isn’t unique. Mao starved millions of Chinese; Pol Pot slaughtered millions; Syrian Assad gassed his own; Iran kills like crazy; Russia sends countless ‘soldiers’ into hopeless battles; etc.
Supposedly, 86% of a global association of genocide scholars voted that the IDF’s actions in the Gaza Strip meet the legal definition of genocide. Since genocide can only be asserted many years after a conflict, they only proved themselves Antisemites. Yet, not all members are scholars. And only 129 of the 500 members voted, or just 22% agreed to the resolution. A whopping 74% refused to vote without a debate. Facts matter. Not surprisingly, 100s of academics call on IAGS to retract this declaration. And they refused.
Antisemitism
The rash assumption that Jews murder, have a lesser morality, and should obey is genocide. The UN (dominated by dictators, no indictment of Chamas), the IRC (Holocaust, Israel’s ‘occupation’ of the West Bank would violate international law, enabling pay for slay), Amnesia International, many journalists, editors, and bleeding-heart liberals and physicians, all Palestinian leaders so far, Marxists, Leninists, Antifascists, Fascists, bigots, Jew-converters, Netanyahu-haters (why won’t disagreement suffice?), and Anti-Zionists are often very Antisemitic and thus for genocide of the Jews. No surprise that journalists trusted by Chamas are Antisemitic.
In today’s Torah reading, Moses reminds us of Miriam’s mistake. Her concern regarding Moses’s conduct was legit except that she didn’t take into account that his behavior should be above suspicion. He’s not just like all other Prophets. Acts that should raise eyebrows about others should not worry us if Moses did so. The same with rumors about the Jewish People committing genocide. Do you realize who we’re talking about here? Ariel Sharon was condemned by the Jewish State, not because he killed Muslims in Lebanon, but because he should have known that Christians wanted to murder Muslims, and should have prevented that!
For the record. Most people and politicians who falsely accuse the Jewish State of genocide, the only State that helped the Syrian Druze against their genocide (2025!), can be answered with, ‘Look who’s talking.’
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