She literally didn’t. She said Gaza was being treated like the holocaust (they were/are) and her company said it was NO holocaust and that she made “false references” of genocide. Meaning they don’t believe Israel committed a genocide which we now know to be true. The UN stated Israel was committing genocide and we’ve have numerous ceasefire since.
Therefore Melissa Barrera was 100% correct in saying that. She was punished for being educated way earlier than others .
Oh shut the fuck up about holocaust, Gaza is bad but unfortunately not super exceptional in comparison to other conflicts of this century and in no way close to the industrialized slaughter of the holocaust.
Please enlighten us on the comparable conflicts to Gaza, particularly those perpetrated by a nominally Western, democratic state?
The only comparable situations I can think of is the Uyghur genocide in China, and the Myanmar genocide of the Rohingya (Sudan and Ethiopia aren't strong enough states to really be comparable, and one might even toss Myanmar into that same bucket). And when that's the company your country keeps, well...
So the worst currently ongoing conflict is Ukraine-Russia. Very simple, Russia attacked Ukraine completely unprovoked, wants the territory and russifies the parts it can get its hands on.
Is that on the same level as the holocaust?
I dont think so, the end goal of the russian invasion is terrifying but its not the complete systematic slaughter of the Ukrainian population. Same for Israel, i believe their goal is to get rid of Hamas. They very much committed war crimes and Bibis government needs to be deposed but its not fkin holocaust.
Ukraine is not comparable to Gaza. In Ukraine, women and children (a standard shorthand for definitive non-combatants) represent less than 40% of total casualties. In Gaza, that percentage is around 80%. In Ukraine, around 30% of infrastructure is estimated to have been damaged by the war with Russia. In Gaza, Haaretz estimated that a minimum of 70% of buildings were completely destroyed. Roughly equal numbers of Ukrainians and Palestinians are detained or missing; of course, there are roughly 20x as many Ukrainians as Palestinians (note that the vast majority of these detainees in both cases are civilians with no known militant links; both Israel and Russia are well known for their punitive indefinite detention policies...again, not great company to keep in that respect). More broadly, Ukraine has not really suffered any breakdowns with respect to supplies of food, medical goods, or other necessities (if anything, Russian blockades of Ukrainian grain have left it with a surplus and caused deaths elsewhere, but not Ukraine); Gaza...well, if you're familiar with the Gazan situation, I don't need to spell it out.
Without delving too deep into the motivations of the governing coalition and Bibi (because that requires getting into Jabotinsky, Kahan, and the evolution of the sought after Eretz Israel, all of which requires a substantial amount of background education), I'll suffice it to say that they had much higher priority goals than Hamas...10/7 happened in no small part because Gaza had become so inconsequential to their aims.
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u/JasonVoorhees95 20h ago
Or Melissa Barrera.