a truly beautiful & insightful conversation about holocaust memory, the necessity of comparison, and the urgent call to heal & release genocidal logics on a planetary scale; and how we start that healing through the intentional comparison and connecting of dots

from @ayoub

172/ The Holocaust, the Nakba and Reparative Memory - The Fire These Times

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they’re drawing on many references here to say that this is not about finding equivalence. equivalence may be irrelevant. it’s about finding parallels in logic between genocides. and when we look deeply at the german Holocaust and beyond even our sometimes narrower popular conceptions of it, we find actually even more to compare

the point being that without drawing these lines, we cannot identify how we as humans abandon genocide as a way of being on our planet and also with our planet

on the need to look to pre-Holocaust diasporic Jewish philosophies of the 20s/30s for alternatives to Zionism

“zionism is spiritually hollow for people. you can only narrow a people’s political imagination for so long before they start looking for alternatives…

the militarization of Jewish life and identity is a novel phenomena, one that is only made possible by a complete narrowing of Jewish memory”

-Daniel Voskoboynik