How can it be that immediately after Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Israeli military is preparing a ground invasion of Rafah? The invasion will cause the senseless deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian children. Many figures in the Israeli government have emphasized that their chief goal is to render Gaza completely uninhabitable.

"The entire Gaza Strip should be emptied and leveled flat, just like in Auschwitz."

-David Azulai, head of the City Council of Metula

"The idea that an understanding of the genocide, that a memory of the holocausts, can only lead people to want to dismantle the system is erroneous. The continuing appeal of nationalism suggests that the opposite is truer, namely, that an understanding of genocide has led people to mobilize genocidal armies, that the memory of holocausts has led people to perpetrate holocausts. The sensitive poets who remembered the loss, the researchers who documented it, have been like the pure scientists who discovered the structure of the atom... Nationalists used the poetry to split and fuse human populations, to mobilize genocidal armies, to perpetrate new holocausts."

-Fredy Perlman, Jewish anti-Zionist and anarchist, one of the few members of his family who survived the Holocaust

https://crimethinc.com/GazaGenocide

Human Rights Discourse Has Failed to Stop the Genocide in Gaza

An anarchist from Jaffa explains why we should not look to international institutions to put a stop to the genocide in Gaza.

CrimethInc.

@CrimethInc Are you telling me that only neurospicy people will survive a genocide and conclude that genocide is bad, and everyone else will proceed with genocide established as precedent and therefore morally acceptable?

David Graeber's writings on the way precedent-based thinking supports hierarchy has permanently influenced the way I view the world.