Spanish MP Ione Bellare spoke up in Parliament against the genocide in Gaza, asking, ‘What is the difference between what Israel is doing and the Nazi gas chambers?’

The leader of the left-wing party Podemos highlighted Israel’s latest attack on al-Aqsa hospital’s courtyard, where videos showed people burning alive, and the Spanish government’s complicity in doing weapons deals with Israel.

  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    Most people have only received education regarding the holocaust.

    A more apt comparison would be the brutal French colonization of Algeria but that does not speak to people’s imagination.

    Vietnam is also a great comparison but people are still being thanked for their service in 'nam so you can imagine they are not fully up to date.

    A consistent theme in all of those stories is one culture which proclaims itself as superior trying to wipe out a culture they perceive to be inferior.

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      2 months ago

      I don’t understand why you need to compare with something else. The horrors speak for themselves. Compare with normalcy if you have to.