On the 27th of January the Holocaust Memorial Day takes place in the UK. It is always good to remind people what hatred and injustice looks like so that people can understand the pain of those who are being oppressed and persecuted throughout history and more importantly in the present day.
What I disagree on however is the ranking of suffering and giving a particular genocide more importance compared to other genocides as if the Jews of the Holocaust suffered more than the Native Americans, the Rwandans, the Bosnians or the Palestinians. If we are going to remember what oppression and persecution looks like than lets consider all those who were oppressed. Lets specifically consider the Palestinian case that has a direct relation to the Holocaust.
They say that the Jews deserve a state of their own, so that they can have the right of self determination because they were persecuted in Europe and under the Nazi's they were massacred and persecuted. However today, the grandchildren of those that survived and managed to make it to the so called "state of Israel" are today persecuting, and massacring and destroying the lives of millions of indigenous people of that Land, who are also known as Palestinian. Since a picture speaks a thousand words I leave you with the following pictures that compares the injustice towards the Jews in Europe and the injustice towards the Palestinians in Palestine.
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