"... the #Holocaust and the #Nakba as historical traumas can be understood, acknowledged, & remembered, without constructing a kind of competition between #trauma and #victimhood, is crucial for any path to future peace and reconciliation,” “To find a way out of a destructive spiral of #hatred, #dehumanization, and #violence we must understand the long-lasting ‘shadows’ of historical traumas."
#Shoah #History #Genocide #Ethnocide #History #News #Palestine #Israel
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 has adopted a sweeping ethnic unity law that critics say tightens assimilation and weakens minority rights. On Thursday, legislators at the National People’s Congress approved it. A delegate says it aims to build a shared national identity across every group and workplace. Scholars say the law undercuts promised autonomy in China’s constitution and ethnic autonomy rules. It mandates Mandarin as the primary teaching language in compulsory education. Experts said language about mixing communities are also concerning and say it could lead to the break up of minority neighborhoods. The law also opens penalties for actions abroad that Beijing says harm ethnic unity.
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
גולי דולב-השילוני 05.01.2026 שתפו הספר "איך אומרים ג'נוסייד בעברית?" של פרופ' ליאורה בילסקי הוא ספר עיון רלוונטי מאין כמוהו. החיבור עומד על חשיבותו של ההיבט התרבותי של פשע רצח העם דרך ניתוח ביקורתי של משפט אייכמן. הספר מתמקד בארבע דמויות: אבי מושג הג'נוסייד, המשפטן רפאל למקין; המשורר היידי והפרטיזן אברהם סוצקבר; ההיסטוריון סאלו בארון; וההיסטוריונית והסופרת היידית רחל אוירבך. שני האחרונים העידו במשפט אייכמן בעוד
BBC documentary on how Denmark is committing ethnocide on Inuit Indigenous people by taking away their children on very shaky foundations:
Au Tibet, le peuple subit un ethnocide culturel : assimilation forcée, destruction des monastères, interdiction de la langue, enfants arrachés à leurs familles.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_repression_in_Tibet
Un peuple pacifique est effacé en silence.
Le #Tibet mérite la reconnaissance de l’#ONU.
Here in Philadelphia, the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History “stands with Israel.”
There was a time when the Weitzman stood for #liberty. I’ve visited exhibits that were historically accurate and progressively prescient. The staff that I met were great.
The Weitzman’s posting of this Israeli flag, with its ahistorical, anti-intellectual declaration, is #antisemitic propaganda. It aims to justify the attempted annihilation of #Palestinians (who are semites) while risking the lives of Israelis as Israel continues to engage in #ethnocide.
#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
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.
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
En Chine, de plus en plus de pensionnats sont construits pour les enfants tibétains, souvent séparés de leur famille dès l’âge de 4 ans. Une politique d’assimilation assumée, qui crée de la distance entre parents et enfants et contribue à l’effacement de la culture tibétaine.
"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
#FoodSovereingty #FoodIsCulture #Colonialism #Ethnocide #Agroecology
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