I've noticed that I got blocked by some for occasionally boosting posts of the @auschwitzmuseum.

If you're not familiar with that account: it is run by the #AuschwitzMemorial in Poland, and their posts are usually a photograph of a victim of the #holocaust, accompanied by a short text on who they were.

I share criticism of the appointment of some questionable persons as members of their advisory "International Auschwitz Council" (#IAC). Members that relativize genocides, apparently because in their opinions, only a holocaust counts as a "real" genocide, despite the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (#CPPCG) having clear criteria that say otherwise; and despite their own country being a member state of that treaty. Members that also have a track record of proudly defending decades of gross violations of international law.

I'm also alienated by the contrast between the Museum's strong, and almost instant, condemnation of the full-scale invasion of #Ukraine in 2022, and its choice of still staying completely silent, in 2025, on the war crimes being committed in #Gaza. I consider this voluntary bias utterly inappropriate, once you have chosen to speak up on current matters.

You will still see me boosting posts that show a human being, and what a genocidal regime has done to them. Whether it's a historical genocide, or a present one.

»Permitting states to provide “strategic intentions” for the destruction of protected groups is unconvincing and flawed. The mere awareness or knowledge of the outcomes of their actions should be sufficient to fulfil the mens rea requirement for #genocide charges.«

A formal analysis of why enforcing the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide" #CPPCG is a matter of protecting its purpose against those who *know* they're violating it.

https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/expanding-the-limits-of-genocidal-intent/

#Genozid ist abstrakt. Hier konkret, was #Israel's "vorsätzliche Auferlegung von Lebensbedingungen für die Gruppe, die geeignet sind, ihre körperliche Zerstörung ganz oder teilweise herbeizuführen" (Art II c #CPPCG) für #Gaza bedeutet:

- 75% leben in Notunterkünften
- Einst 36 #Krankenhäuser; 13 übrig, "teilweise funktional"
- 62 von 77 #Gesundheitszentren außer Betrieb
- 50,000 #Kinder akut #unterernährt
- Getötet: 14.500 Kinder, 477 med. Personal, 254 #Helfer*innen

https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-213

Since #genocide is an abstract word, here's what "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part" (Art II c #CPPCG) by #Israel looks like in #Gaza:

- Once 36 #hospitals; 11 left, "partially functioning"
- 62 of 77 primary #HealthCare centers not "functional"
- 50,000 Children "acutely malnourished"
- 75% of population "displaced"
- Killed: 14,500 children, 491 health workers, 237 aid workers

https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-203

The number of attacks by the #IDF on humanitarian workers, hospitals, and whoever tries to help civilians in #Gaza survive leaves no more doubt that #Israel is committing #genocide in #Gaza, by »Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part«, as Article 2 #CPPCG puts it.

I have not used this word before, but I will use it, from now on.