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The Holocaust and Other Genocides

Since Raphael Lemkin coined the term genocide after the destruction of the European Jewry during World War II, the United Nations signed the Genocide Convention in 1948. Though the Convention aimed at preventing genocide in the future, large-scale mass murder returned on all continents, in Cambodia and Rwanda as some of the most notorious cases.

Rafal Lemkin Law of Genocide Nuremberg Trials

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by Oui (Oui) on Sun Jan 7th, 2024 at 09:04:45 PM EST
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Posted earlier @TikunOlam

Herzl was a man of his time.

"Everyone Is Welcome": The Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism in the Imperial Worlds of Austro-Hungarian and Wilhelmine Jewry

The fallacy of colonizing Palestinian land should never have become doctrine of the Jewish State. Colonizers throughout history of mankind brought with them Genocide of the indigenous peoples. See the life of Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959):

According to Lemkin, colonization was in itself "intrinsically genocidal" He saw this genocide as a two-stage process, the first being the destruction of the indigenous population's way of life. In the second stage, the newcomers impose their way of life on the indigenous group.

Palestine Nakba : Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory

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by Oui (Oui) on Sun Jan 7th, 2024 at 09:56:25 PM EST
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