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I’ve been spending time with the testimonies of Holocaust survivors in Israel lately. Their stories are harrowing, vital, and deeply Zionist. But as I read them, I feel a strange, quiet friction. 🧵 #History #Identity #Europe

@folkebernadotte25

you mean, they're pissed off at the genocide currently being committed by the israeli state in their names?

#Gaza #Gazagenocide
#israelterroriststate #NetanyahuWarCriminal

@Captain_Jack_Sparrow I hear you. I’m deeply critical of current Israeli policy and the devastation in Gaza. While I’m cautious with the term "Holocaust" given its specific historical weight for my family—preferring the lens of war crimes—my post was about identity. I believe our home can be here in Europe, not just in nationalism. My life in Germany is my way of carrying that history

@folkebernadotte25

I didn't say Holocaust, I said genocide, which is exactly what it is, plus ethnic cleansing and warcrimes in the West Bank.
Plus a new ethnic cleansing and illegal occupation of Southern Lebanon, plus an illegal war on Iran. Plus the new act for executing Palestinians held in israeli death camps, without charge.

btw, I do sympathise with you regarding the Holocaust committed by Germany on Jewish people in the 1930's and 1940's and I am not "antiSemitic".

@Captain_Jack_Sparrow I appreciate the clarification. Whether the term is genocide or war crimes, the level of civilian suffering and the current policy are, to me, indefensible. My point is precisely that: because I feel European and live here, I don’t feel that the actions of a state thousands of miles away should define my identity or my heritage. I’m looking for a way to honor the past without it being tied to a nationalist project I don't support.

@folkebernadotte25

Thanks for your explaination.