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    Default A Jewish Historian. Yes, We Should Call Border Detention Centers 'Concentration Camp

    It isn’t just accurate. It’s necessary.



    This week, conservatives weaponized Jewish suffering to divert discussion from the massive human rights abuses occurring at our border.

    Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), daughter of the man who called torture “enhanced interrogation,” scolded Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for using the term “concentration camp” to describe the growing civilian detention system, including the reopening of Fort Sill, previously a Japanese American internment camp, to hold children.


    First, it’s important to note that despite the contemporary association of concentration camps with the Shoah, they are not a Nazi invention. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, various imperial forces — including the British and Germans in their African colonies, the Spanish in the Caribbean, and Americans in the West — engaged in the practice of rounding up civilians into concentration camps as a tactic to suppress indigenous guerrilla warfare. By isolating the civilian population, fighters had fewer places to hide. Large populations of mostly women and children were held in terrible, quasi-permanent conditions, without trial, and died en masse from disease, malnutrition, and exposure.

    Historian Isabel Hull argues that the German military’s predisposition toward “final solutions” was first evident in the 1904 internment and genocide of the Herero and Nama people in the German colony of South West Africa, now Namibia, in what was already called a “concentration camp.” The term itself comes from reconcentración, a Spanish policy deployed against Cubans in the 1890s, which was then reused by the British during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902.


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    Same perpetrators different century



    First, it’s important to note that despite the contemporary association of concentration camps with the Shoah, they are not a Nazi invention. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, various imperial forces — including the British and Germans in their African colonies, the Spanish in the Caribbean, and Americans in the West — engaged in the practice of rounding up civilians into concentration camps as a tactic to suppress indigenous guerrilla warfare. By isolating the civilian population, fighters had fewer places to hide. Large populations of mostly women and children were held in terrible, quasi-permanent conditions, without trial, and died en masse from disease, malnutrition, and exposure.
    “If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”

    — Golda Meir

    Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.







    ברוך השם

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    Yes , call them concentration camps ! Maybe they will stop coming here !

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    guno, this stale ass content isn't gonna get you rehired at JIDF.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    It isn’t just accurate. It’s necessary.



    This week, conservatives weaponized Jewish suffering to divert discussion from the massive human rights abuses occurring at our border.

    Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), daughter of the man who called torture “enhanced interrogation,” scolded Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for using the term “concentration camp” to describe the growing civilian detention system, including the reopening of Fort Sill, previously a Japanese American internment camp, to hold children.


    First, it’s important to note that despite the contemporary association of concentration camps with the Shoah, they are not a Nazi invention. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, various imperial forces — including the British and Germans in their African colonies, the Spanish in the Caribbean, and Americans in the West — engaged in the practice of rounding up civilians into concentration camps as a tactic to suppress indigenous guerrilla warfare. By isolating the civilian population, fighters had fewer places to hide. Large populations of mostly women and children were held in terrible, quasi-permanent conditions, without trial, and died en masse from disease, malnutrition, and exposure.

    Historian Isabel Hull argues that the German military’s predisposition toward “final solutions” was first evident in the 1904 internment and genocide of the Herero and Nama people in the German colony of South West Africa, now Namibia, in what was already called a “concentration camp.” The term itself comes from reconcentración, a Spanish policy deployed against Cubans in the 1890s, which was then reused by the British during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902.


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    Another leftist that can't be trusted to tell the truth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vasquezrocks View Post
    Yes , call them concentration camps ! Maybe they will stop coming here !
    Do you really believe that? They are willing to walk thousands of miles through hot and dry country to get a chance at a better life. What you call the camps is meaningless. They are desperate people who have shown how big a gamble they are willing to take.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gonzomin View Post
    Do you really believe that? They are willing to walk thousands of miles through hot and dry country to get a chance at a better life. What you call the camps is meaningless. They are desperate people who have shown how big a gamble they are willing to take.
    If the conditions are as bad as you liars claim, they can turn around and go back. They know the route.

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    If the conditions are so bad, why isn't the Squad, etc. down there doing something about it? (When Cortez was there she didn't even take a water bottle to share... Lots of complaining...no actions taken at all....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gonzomin View Post
    Do you really believe that? They are willing to walk thousands of miles through hot and dry country to get a chance at a better life. What you call the camps is meaningless. They are desperate people who have shown how big a gamble they are willing to take.
    Then YOU pay for them !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vasquezrocks View Post
    Yes , call them concentration camps ! Maybe they will stop coming here !


    We can only hope!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gonzomin View Post
    Do you really believe that? They are willing to walk thousands of miles through hot and dry country to get a chance at a better life. What you call the camps is meaningless. They are desperate people who have shown how big a gamble they are willing to take.
    They are welcome to come here legally.

    No need to slap the immigrants who work hard for YEARS to become citizens by rewarding criminal acts of illegal aliens.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOP View Post
    If the conditions are so bad, why isn't the Squad, etc. down there doing something about it? (When Cortez was there she didn't even take a water bottle to share... Lots of complaining...no actions taken at all....
    This POS claims she was a teacher,you can see how much she don't give a flying fuck,about kids in cages.
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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