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There is a post going around here: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112517690824264163

This post is a form of holocaust inversion. You do not need to invoke the holocaust when calling out the crimes of the Israeli government. Jews and other Israelis do it all the time.

Why is this harmful? The holocaust is not something that occurred in antiquity, it was something that happened in contemporary Europe. There are still people alive today who have survived it, as well as those who are alive who participated in the cruelty of it that have never faced justice. You are weaponizing Jewish trauma that we are still trying to deal with. There are still people who deny the holocaust even in the first place. At baseline we have to deal with people who don't even think the holocaust happened in the first place, and people who believe that shit will jump onto this like flies to garbage.

The holocaust and nazis are not the sole metric of evil in this world. It is akin to rubbing salt in an already existing wound that Jews struggle with. This pushes Jews away from your cause as a whole and there are MANY jews on here who likely agree with you. Your weaponization of Jewish trauma whilst actively ignoring Jews or telling them to go away when they are trying to tell you how harmful it is..... its telling.

But the issue at the same time is that the Holocaust was not legal. Nazis explicitly destroyed any power the German legal system held. The lack of a functional legal system does not imply legality. There was no existing legal basis in Weimar Germany for the mass extrajudicial slaughter of Jews and other large groups of people and Nazi Germany never explicitly established a basis for that either. It still would have been seen as murder under German law in that time, and the fact that the government in charge participated in it and as such didn't prosecute itself still doesn't make it legal.