China adopts an ethnic unity law that critics say will cement assimilation

https://apnews.com/article/china-ethnic-minority-assimilation-law-45db00f1d9e301f8704a0c0c057ca994

> China has adopted a sweeping ethnic unity law that critics say tightens assimilation and weakens minority rights.

#China #ethnocide #Uyghurs #Uyghur

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

BBC documentary on how Denmark is committing ethnocide on Inuit Indigenous people by taking away their children on very shaky foundations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzTmuc23cFI

#inuit #indigenous #ethnocide #dkmastodon #dkpol

#AntonGerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social)

https://bsky.app/profile/antongerashchenko.bsky.social/post/3lsslptfy6222

> The story of Vladyslav Rudenko,one of the Ukrainian teenagers abducted by #Russia. Russian troops occupied the city of Kherson a week after the full-scale invasion in February 2022.They detained hundreds and tortured dozens of people in the city.Then the Russian authorities began targeting children.
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#abduction #ethnocide #genocide #crimesAgainstHumanity #warCrimes

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine

Forced assimilation of #Tibetan population into #Chinese culture.

They take them very young from their families and put them into faraway schools where only Chinese is spoken.

An ongoing #ethnocide that very few care about or do anything about.

Le Monde – Chine : les enfants tibétains dans les internats du déracinement
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/04/09/chine-les-enfants-tibetains-dans-les-internats-du-deracinement_6593438_3210.html

"Claudia Sheinbaum's presidential initiative to ban the planting of Genetic Modified maize in Mexico - does not fully protect our corn and continues to leave them at the mercy of transnational seeding companies and their new technologies for genetic modification, warned the organizations that make up the Espacio Estatal en Defensa del Maíz Nativo de Oaxaca." in Spanish

https://desinformemonos.org/iniciativa-sobre-transgenicos-deja-a-maices-nativos-a-merced-de-las-empresas-transnacionales-semilleras-advierten-organizaciones/

#FoodSovereingty #FoodIsCulture #Colonialism #Ethnocide #Agroecology