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In reply to the discussion: The fallacy of the 'pinkwashing' argument [View all]shira
(30,109 posts)4. Imagine "progressives" boycotting gay Zimbabweans or Iranians...
Yeah, right. Not in a million years.
Boycotting Israelis (Jews) is pure bigotry. These BDS clowns and their silent supporters throughout the rest of the progressive/left should hang their heads in shame. They're proving to be no better than their extreme rightwing counterparts. The more things change the more they remain the same...
The Bielski Brothers
Jewish Resistance and the "Otriad"
Prior to the onset of WWII, conditions throughout occupied Poland & Belarus varied greatly. In some areas, especially in eastern Poland, which the Soviet Union invaded in 1939, and subsequently "formally" annexed, the situation was particularly volatile.
During the two year' occupation till the Soviet-German war outbreak in 1941, the Soviets carried out the ethnic cleansing of Poles considered as a potential threat to full annexation of these territories into Soviet Union.
Hundred of thousands of Polish officials, officers, soldiers, policemen, teachers, churchmen, landowners, and civilians with their families were sent to Siberian concentration camps.
[font color = "red"]Some Jews had welcomed the Soviets as liberators, [/font]believing that life under the communists might be preferable to that of the Poles. However time would soon disprove that theory.
Novogrudek Market Place 1941
[font color = "red"]"I remember we were very happy that the Russians liberated us from the anti-Semitic government of Poland[/font], and we were happy that the Germans didn't occupy our area of Belarus, but when the Russians came in, right away they took away my father's business. I was forced to go to a Russian school, instead of the Tarbut. The Russians forced my father to work for them. He was sweeping the floors because he was a capitalist, a bourgeois. He worked in his own store as a laborer...
Jewish Resistance and the "Otriad"
Prior to the onset of WWII, conditions throughout occupied Poland & Belarus varied greatly. In some areas, especially in eastern Poland, which the Soviet Union invaded in 1939, and subsequently "formally" annexed, the situation was particularly volatile.
During the two year' occupation till the Soviet-German war outbreak in 1941, the Soviets carried out the ethnic cleansing of Poles considered as a potential threat to full annexation of these territories into Soviet Union.
Hundred of thousands of Polish officials, officers, soldiers, policemen, teachers, churchmen, landowners, and civilians with their families were sent to Siberian concentration camps.
[font color = "red"]Some Jews had welcomed the Soviets as liberators, [/font]believing that life under the communists might be preferable to that of the Poles. However time would soon disprove that theory.
Novogrudek Market Place 1941
[font color = "red"]"I remember we were very happy that the Russians liberated us from the anti-Semitic government of Poland[/font], and we were happy that the Germans didn't occupy our area of Belarus, but when the Russians came in, right away they took away my father's business. I was forced to go to a Russian school, instead of the Tarbut. The Russians forced my father to work for them. He was sweeping the floors because he was a capitalist, a bourgeois. He worked in his own store as a laborer...
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/revolt/bielski.html
Not too much has changed in 70 years.
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Palestinian nationalism is no more justifiable than white or "European" nationalism.
EgaLitE
Apr 2012
#6
white nationalism has been around a lot longer than any "civil rights movement"...
pelsar
Apr 2012
#10
Actually, the Palestinians tend to be more popular with people of colour...
shaayecanaan
Apr 2012
#14
The post above mine claimed, essentially, that Palestinian nationalism amounted to racism
shaayecanaan
Apr 2012
#20
So anyone who criticizes Israe's policy toward Palestinians is really just an "anti-semite"?
whathehell
Apr 2012
#22
That loud/vocal minority of "progressives" is tolerated way to much by the majority. n/t
shira
Apr 2012
#31
Ken, do you think Israel is trying to "cover its crimes related to occupation"? n/t
shira
Apr 2012
#27
And anyone who claims to just be against "zionism" is OBVIOUSLY an anti-semite!
whathehell
Apr 2012
#21
More Zionist hijinks. Obvious attempt at "Snow-washing" to cover for Ziocrimes against humanity
shira
Apr 2012
#35
LOL @ Haaretz: "Michael Oren pinkwashes the truth about Israel and gay Palestinians"
shira
May 2012
#36