There is an entire field of scholarship dedicated to drawing...
Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura@arnesa_kustura
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Jun 16, 2024
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There is an entire field of scholarship dedicated to drawing comparisons between genocides. The entire point of genocide education is to draw parallels between genocides so that we do not repeat the mistakes of the past. Utterly absurd to pretend that is antisemitic.
US Holocaust Museum@HolocaustMuseum
Weaponizing the Holocaust is always wrong and especially when it comes from a head of state. That Brazilian President Lula did so to promote a false, antisemitic claim is outrageous and should be condemned.
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I have worked with the US Holocaust Museum in the past as well as with countless other organisations focused on the Holocaust and Genocide remembrance and education. It has been nothing but heartbreaking to watch as they weaponise genocide to shield Israel from any criticism.
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Before you get on your high horse, I am a descendant of Holocaust survivors and victims. Both of my great-grandfathers, my great-grandmother, aunts and uncles were killed in the Holocaust. My grandmother survived the Holocaust as a Muslim Roma.
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All of these organisations did not have any problems with bringing me out to speak to their audiences, with using my story and my trauma of surviving the Bosnian Genocide for their own gains. All in the name of “learning from our past” and yet here we are. They stay silent.
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Nothing has disappointed me as much as Holocaust and Genocide remembrance and “educational” organisations have throughout these past 4 months. While actual survivors of genocides & actual genocide scholars speak out, they chose to remain silent.
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Also important to remember that many of these organisations, in fact the vast majority of these organisations, are neither led by survivors or their descendants nor are they led by genocide scholars and researchers.
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Important to also remember that countless Holocaust survivors and their descendants have spoken out about the genocide in Palestine as have Bosnian, Tutsi, Sudanese, Indigenous communities from the USA, Australia & Canada, Rohingya, Armenian and many other survivors.
