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It's June 2025. Today I learned about a #concentrationcamp. No, I didn't read a history book, I listened to a podcast about very recent events. This is happening now, in #Gaza, in #Al-Mawasi.

We're a witnessing a #genocide and nobody will stop it - or will we? How? How can #Palestine be free again?

Here's a link to the interactive article, podcast included. It's in Dutch. A collaboration between #DeCorrespontent and #forensicarchitecture

decorrespondent.nl/16187/de-sl

De Correspondent · De slotfase van de genocide is begonnen: zo drijft Israël de Palestijnen naar een concentratiekampBy Rinke Verkerk
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12 June 2025 | A Gazan boy, Adam al-Najjar, arrives in Italy for medical treatment.

Adam is the only one of 10 children in his family to survive an Israeli strike on their home in the city of Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on May 23. His siblings ranged in age from seven months to 12 years old.

Adam’s father, doctor Hamdi al-Najjar, also died of his injuries in the days following the attack. His mother, paediatrician Alaa al-Najjar, had been working at the time of the strike at Nasser Hospital, one of the few still operating in southern Gaza.

The current Auschwitz maintainers have not retracted their resolution (auschwitz.org/en/museum/auschw) which includes:
"Threatened in its existence, the State of Israel has the right to self-defense in accordance with international law and the principles of humanitarianism."

Note the contrast with their statement regarding Ukraine (x.com/AuschwitzMuseum/status/1) which includes:
"This morning, Russia attacked Ukraine. This act of barbarity will be judged by history, and its perpetrators, it is to be hoped, also by the International Court of Justice.
As we stand at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, it is impossible to remain silent while, once again, innocent people are being killed purely because of insane pseudo- imperial megalomania."

My comments are not about Anne Frank at all, but about the abuse of her abhorrent death under the current circumstances. I am ashamed to have Jewish blood myself.

Today in Labor History June 4, 1939: The U.S. blocked the MS St. Louis from landing in Florida. The ship carried 963 Jewish refugees who were fleeing the Nazis. Canada also refused. As a result, the ship was forced back to Europe. Over 200 of its passengers ultimately died in Nazi concentration camps. The ordeal is also known as the Voyage of the Damned. This event has been depicted in numerous books, including Julian Barnes’s novel, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters (1989); Bodie and Brock Thoene's novel Munich Signature (1991); and Leonardo Padura's novel Herejes (2013). Cordell Hull, who was Secretary of State at the time, and who led the fight to turn the refugees away, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1944. It was one of the worst Nobel prizes ever awarded (along with Henry Kissinger (1973), who facilitated bloody dictatorships in Chile and Argentina, genocides in Bangladesh and East Timor, and carpet bombing of Cambodia. Or Elihu Root (1912), the U.S. Secretary of War who oversaw the brutal repression of the Filipino independence movement. And let’s not forget Shimon Peres, Yitzak Rabin and Yasser Arafat (1994), who jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize despite their histories of human rights abuses. Or Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). Or Mikhail Gorbachev (1990), who sent tanks into the Baltic republics less than a year after winning his “peace” prize, killing numerous civilians. Or Barack Obama (2009), who began assassinating civilians with his drones and arresting more immigrants than his predecessor, George W. Bush, not long after winning his Nobel. Or Woodrow Wilson (1919), an outright racist and apologist for slavery, who sent troops to occupy Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic, and to “intervene” in Cuba, Honduras and Panama, and who oversaw the Palmer raids that led to over 10,000 arrests and over 500 deportations of union leaders, peace activists, socialists and anarchists. Or Menachem Begin (1978), who four years after receiving his “peace” prize launched the bloody invasion of Lebanon, and who refused to fire Ariel Sharon, even after the Kahan Commission found Sharon culpable for the Sabra and Shatila massacre.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #nazis #fascism #jews #holocaust #NobelPrize #massacre #genocide #imperialism #invasion #occupation #ConcentrationCamp #HistorialFiction #novel #books #author @bookstadon

Today in Labor History May 26, 1895: American photojournalist Dorothea Lange was born. She is best-known for her empathetic photographs of people during the Great Depression. However, she is also one of the first to document the suffering of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned during World War II.

Lange grew up poor, in New York’s Lower East Side. She was one of the only gentiles in her school, which was predominantly Jewish. As a young adult, she moved to San Francisco, where she began her career doing portraits for the wealthy. But as the depression began, she turned her camera to the streets, on hobo camps, refugees from Oklahoma, farmers, breadlines, the homeless, portraying the misery and desperation of the period, becoming one of the first photodocumentarians. 22 of her photographs were used in John Steinbeck’s 1936 journalistic series for the San Francisco news, The Harvest of Gypsies, and they served as an inspiration for the film version of Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath.

Today in Labor History, May 16: Romani Resistance Day, commemorating the Roma people who fought the fascists during World War II. The date was chosen due to a Holocaust survivor stating that on 16 May 1944, there was a rebellion of Roma detainees at the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. However subsequent research by the Auschwitz Museum discovered that this date was most likely incorrect. It was actually in early April that a number of Roma prisoners refused orders from the SS to leave to work in Germany. Instead, a Polish prisoner was ordered to make a list of Roma able to work to be transported later. By 2 August 1944, those Roma able to work had been transported elsewhere, when the SS came to take the others to the gas chambers. The prisoners armed themselves with crowbars and fought back, but were eventually overcome and gassed. And in 2024, The European Committee for Social Rights (ECSR) unanimously concluded that Italy was violating the European Social Charter as regards the housing rights of the Roma, 15,000 of whom are currently living in shanty towns on the margins of big cities such as Rome, Milan and Naples.

reuters.com/world/europe/europ

Not worried because you aren't a criminal immigrant? Aren't trans? Aren't a student activist?

If so, maybe you should read the headlines. Scores of legal residents and citizens, as well as undocumented immigrants with no convictions for any crimes, have already been deported, many to gulags in El Salvador, Guantanamo and Africa.

And now, universities are joining the assault on due process and civil liberties. Columbia and Barnard expelled several students, kicked them out of campus housing, stripped away meal tickets that they'd already paid for, all because they happened to be in the library, studying, when protesters took over the library to protest the Genocide in Gaza.

NO ONE IS FREE UNTIL WE ALL ARE FREE!!!

theintercept.com/2025/05/10/co

The Intercept · Students Studying at Columbia Library Were Suspended for Protest They Took No Part InBy Meghnad Bose
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@glitzersachen @Elias

That's the whole point in RFK Jr. using "farms" and "reparenting" and "healing" as euphemisms: To make it sound like it's meant to help us, so that people will get on board without realizing what they're actually supporting.

The labor isn't optional; it's forced. Contact with the outside world isn't allowed. It is a concentration camp, using doublespeak to mask it as something kind and helpful. It's all right there in his own words, with a spoonful of sugar to get us to swallow it. We are to be removed from society for our own benefit, *obviously*, because who could ever be so evil?

#Nazis
#RFK
#AutismRegistry
#ForcedLaborCamp
#ConcentrationCamp
#Fascism

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"Humanitarian area" is the new term for concentration camp 😬🤬

Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no deal by Trump's trip

Israel's Security Cabinet approved a plan Sunday night to gradually reoccupy all of Gaza and hold it indefinitely if no deal is reached by May 15. Plans for the operation call for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to flatten any buildings that remain standing and displace virtually the entire population of 2 million people to a single "humanitarian area."

#israel #gaza #trump #hamas #concentrationcamp #holocaust
axios.com/2025/05/05/israel-ga