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[toastykitten]

As we see some institutions and politicians and professionals now claiming that they are now reluctantly calling it a genocide, Raz Segal, associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Stockton University, published A Textbook Case of Genocide on 10/13/2023. 

Also, a reminder that genocide is a process, not an event. 

I picked up Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz from one of the free little libraries in the area and happened to flip to a random page in which he describes how he and the people in the concentration camp barter for food, even their gold teeth or tatters of their shirts, to stave their hunger. 

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>> As we see some institutions and politicians and professionals now claiming that they are now reluctantly calling it a genocide <<

Of course they're reluctant. Most genocide scholars are Jewish. America was founded on genocide, and is currently criminalizing objections to the genocide in Palestine. That makes it hard for most people to admit that this is a genocide, despite its factual qualifications.

>> Also, a reminder that genocide is a process, not an event. <<

Depends on how big and spread out the group is. The smaller and more concise the group, the easier it is to kill them all at once, or at least enough that they cease to exist as a specific group. You can wipe out a tribe in one day; America has done it. Larger groups tend to take longer.

>>I picked up Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz from one of the free little libraries in the area and happened to flip to a random page in which he describes how he and the people in the concentration camp barter for food, even their gold teeth or tatters of their shirts, to stave their hunger. <<

Makes me wonder if the Israeli soldiers are taking trophies. Will we see pictures of rooms filled with eyeglasses or boxes of gold teeth? Perhaps they're being more careful. But they built a Wall with which to oppress people, so I'm thinking they probably aren't.