Vancouver City News: TMU research group working to preserve accounts of residential school survivors . “Thousands of residential school survivors, who spent years sharing their experiences as a way to find healing, closure, and accountability, are facing the prospect of losing the largest archive of their testimonies, which is set to be destroyed next year. However, the Survivors Secretariat, a […]

Third Ramadan under genocide has not squashed its spirit

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/content/third-ramadan-under-genocide-has-not-squashed-its-spirit/51282

RE: https://mstdn.social/@davidonformosa/116124451001269395

#china's #culturalgenocide of other peoples continues

StopFake: Built To Lie: How New Pro-Russian Monuments Exploit Cultural Heritage. “Russia’s foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations are diverse, entrenched, well-resourced, and coordinated. They are also linked globally to culture through ‘Cultural Heritage Exploitation’, or CHX. CHX is a multi-institutional endeavour with spatial, temporal, cognitive, and […]

PEN America: What is happening to Mongolian language and culture online in China?. “More than six million Mongolians living in China are having their culture, language, and identity ripped away from them by the repressive policies and actions of the Chinese government. ‘Save Our Mother Tongue’: Online Repression and Erasure of Mongolian Culture in China, is a new, in-depth report that looks at […]

"START LEARNING ENGLISH"

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1676652/start-learning-english

How Do You Say Genocide in Hebrew?

What value is there in historically researching the concept of cultural genocide if one doesn’t resist it in real time?

Bilsky’s book, published in May 2024, makes no mention of #Gaza—despite the fact that by then, the #IDF had systematically destroyed universities, archives, libraries, mosques, and churches across the Strip. For a book devoted entirely to theorizing cultural genocide, the silence is not merely an oversight but a refusal to confront what the author’s own framework describes.

Bilsky’s subject is cultural genocide - destroying a people’s language, culture, and collective memory, not just their bodies. She analyzes how the #Eichmann trial suppressed this understanding, despite four key figures who recognized it: Raphael Lemkin (who coined “genocide”), Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, historian Salo Baron, and testimony-collection pioneer Rachel Auerbach.

בילסקי, ליאורה. 2024. איך אומרים ג’נוסייד בעברית? שלוש קריאות במשפט אייכמן. קו אדום כהה. בני ברק: הוצאת הקיבוץ המאוחד. 170 עמ’. ISBN: 978-965-02-1358-9.

English (transliteration):

Bilsky, Leora. 2024. Eikh Omrim Genocide Be’Ivrit? Shalosh Kri’ot Be’Mishpat Eichmann [How Do You Say Genocide in Hebrew? Three Readings of the Eichmann Trial]. Dark Red Line Series. Bnei Brak: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing. 170 pp. ISBN: 978-965-02-1358-9.

Source (Hebrew): https://zoha.org.il/142536/

#books #hebrew #genocidestudies #gazagenocide #ethnocide #culturalgenocide

Israel wreaked havoc on Gaza landmarks

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-wreaked-havoc-gaza-landmarks/51138

Native News Online: NABS Documents 134 More Survivor Stories, Expands Digital Archive in 2025. “This past year, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS)interviewed more than 130 Indian boarding school survivors, expanded its digital archive, and released the second volume of a curriculum about the boarding school era. That’s according to the organization’s […]