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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/18/israeli-police-arrest-and-brand-palestinian-with-star-of-david-report

A Palestinian man who was detained by Israeli forces in occupied East Jerusalem said he has been physically abused after officers brutally beat him and branded the Star of David on his cheek, according to Israeli media reports.

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[–] Historical_General@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Holocaust began with bullets and conquest of the East. It wasn't all ovens.

[–] sneaky_b45tard@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

The holocaust began even before the war but you completely missed my point here. By making these comparisons you don't show how cruel the current event is, you just relativize the holocaust itself.

Also where would you draw the line? Is the USA performing a holocaust on mexicans? I mean ICE separated kids from their families and locked them up somewhere near the border, "it's almost like a nazi concentration camp". While we're in the US: black communities living in ghettos while being regularly mistreated by police and others? "Sounds like the Warsaw ghetto to me." And what about LGBTQ people being persecuted, abused and killed by lynchmobs in muslim countries? "That's basically Kristallnacht!"

Do you see what i did there? Are the things i mentioned cruel, awful and just wrong? Yes, of course. Are they somehow comparable to the darkest point in human history where murder on jews and other minorities was industrialized? Absolutely not.