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   Rebecca Brückmann (historleans@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 08:20:07 JST Rebecca Brückmann

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   And while we're at it: have people really missed the hundreds of thousands of folks in Israel protesting the authoritarian government for months on end? Realized that there is no such thing as a united political front in Israel? That blaming every citizen for the war crimes of some officials is exactly what they criticize when it comes to Palestine? And can we stop pretending that Hamas is not an authoritarian, sexist, homophobic regime that suppresses people in Gaza itself? It is remarkable.

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     Rebecca Brückmann (historleans@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 08:20:08 JST Rebecca Brückmann

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     Let me just say that as someone who spent a good amount of time engaged in anti-fascist activism in Germany, seeing self-declared anti-fascists damn near praise the murder of Jewish civilians in the supposed name of radical decolonization is quite something. And when we're talking about decolonization - um... how come the French and the British Mandate almost never come up while ahistorical maps about territorial distribution make the rounds? Funny, that.

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     Rebecca Brückmann (historleans@historians.social)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Oct-2023 08:20:10 JST Rebecca Brückmann

     The number of people shrugging off the murder of 100s of civilians in kibbutzes & at a festival because, to them, these are dehumanized stand-ins for whatever they associate with Israel, has been terrifying. No need to preemptively mock charges of anti-Semitism. Y'all are proving it all on your own. It might be a particular context of having been socialized in a particular manner, especially politically/activism-related, in Germany, but man... some of these posts, especially in the US, are wild.