“Itamar #BenGvir and his #fascist ilk inadvertently advance the apartheid discourse: We should be thankful for the honesty of fascist MKs Itamar Ben-Gvir and Amichai #Eliyahu. Their recent statements that the rights of #Jews trump the rights of #Palestinians are exposing the #apartheid reality.”

#ApartheidIsrael #Fascism #SettlerColonialism #ChildMurder #ChildTorture #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #FreePalestine #EndApartheid #Netanyahu #Gaza #Jenin #Hebron #ConcentrationCamp #CollectivePunishment #Nazi

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/08/itamar-ben-gvir-and-his-fascist-ilk-inadvertently-advance-the-apartheid-discourse/?ml_recipient=97843409584129310&ml_link=97843078355748364&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-08-29&utm_campaign=Daily+Headlines

Very close to the old church, the f***** nazis set-up a small #ConcentrationCamp in 1944, a subcamp of Neuengamme. Guarded and brutalized by SS and marine soldiers, the prisoners were forced to build coastal defenses during the final phase of #WW2. The prisoners, about 200 died at Engerhafe, were often driven through the village. The post-war myth, that „ordinary Germans“ did not know about the atrocities committed in the camps is easy to debunk.
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@MikeDunnAuthor

#Biko was a great man! Thanks for the reminder!

Interestingly, Wikipedia notes that he was a proponent of ‘African Socialism’ & believed that a socialist society was necessary to ensure social justice.

“He believed that, if post-apartheid South Africa remained capitalist, some black people would join the bourgeoisie but inequality and poverty would remain. As he put it, if South Africa transitioned to proportional democracy without socialist economic reforms, then ‘it would not change the position of economic oppression of the blacks"’.

…. which, sadly, is exactly what’s happened. The country has stayed largely Capitalist & millions of indigenous people remain in poverty!

Rhetorical question: When #Israel’s #Apartheid is no more & #Palestine is free “from the river to the sea”, which Palestinians will we remember in the same way that we now remember Biko, Mandela, Tutu, Sisulu, Tambo, Goldberg, Slovo & Suzman?

Will it be Kareem Younis who spent 40 years in Israeli prison? Will it be the resisters of the #Jenin refugee camp or the population of #Gaza who have endured multiple brutal attacks from land, sea & air by #Israel’s ‘most moral army in the world? Will it be Shireen Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera journalist assassinated by an Israeli sniper whilst doing her job in Jenin? Who knows?

#FreePalestine #ApartheidIsrael #Gaza #ConcentrationCamp #CollectivePunishment #Nakba75

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#Nauru #concentrationcamp #LNPscam #auspol

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/boats-stopped-the-money-didn-t-how-liberal-donor-made-442m-in-five-years-20230809-p5dv2v.html

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits is another from my visit to KZ Dora-Mittelbau.

It's a lino print produced by DOMINIK CERNY, and depicts 'life in the caves'.

#KZDoraMittelbau #LabourCamp #ForcedLabour #ConcentrationCamp #DomimikCerny #PrisonerArt #NaziGermany

Let’s be very clear - this Home Office push out to sea - this isolation from the populace - is one of the major definitions of a #ConcentrationCamp

Today's photo with the most hits: this prisoner art from Dora-Mittelbau - Sick Parade, 1944.

#DoraMittelbau #NaziCamp #ConcentrationCamp #SickParade #art #PrisonerArt

Today in Labor History August 2, 1943: Jewish prisoners revolted at Treblinka, one of the deadliest of the Nazi death camps, where approximately 900,000 persons were murdered in less than 18 months. In early 1943, an underground Jewish resistance formed at Treblinka. One of the organizers, Dr. Julian Chorążycki, killed himself with poison when he was caught prior to the uprising, so the Nazis couldn’t torture the plot details out of him. The conspirators raided the arsenal, stealing rifles, grenades and pistols. They set buildings on fire, attacked the main gate and tried to climb the fence. German and Ukrainian guards opened fire with machine guns, resulting in near-total slaughter. About 200 Jews escaped, but half of them were caught and killed.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #holocaust #nazis #treblinka #ConcentrationCamp #antisemitism #genocide #uprising #resistance #jewish

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: these worker's tags, excavated from KZ Dora-Mittelbau - a slave labour camp tasked with construction of V 1 and V2s. The MW logo 'MittelWerke'.

The inmates at Dora-Mittelbau were treated brutally: working 14-hour days, being denied access to basic hygiene, beds, and adequate rations. Around one in three of the roughly 60,000 prisoners who were sent to Dora-Mittelbau died.

#DoraMittelbau #ConcentrationCamp #SlaveLabour #nazis #WorkerTags

The older I get the more haunting I find this quote from George Santayana to be.

It is inscribed on a plaque at Block 4 of @auschwitzmuseum .

#Auschwitz #concentrationcamp #KZ #Holocaust

‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camp on UK soil finally to be officially investigated | Second world war | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/22/nazi-atrocities-jews-prisoners-war-alderney-channel-island-uk

#Nazis
#ConcentrationCamp
#WW2
#Alderney
#ChannelIslands

@yogthos The concentration camp is an Anglo-Saxon invention.
#angloSaxons #concentrationCamp

Today in Labor History July 12, 1919: Erich Mühsam was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his role in the Bavarian Workers' Councils uprising. He was an antimilitarist, anarchist, essayist, poet and playwright and one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic. He also did cabaret performances during the Weimar Republic that satirized Hitler, who was, coincidentally, released from jail under the same amnesty that freed Mühsam in 1924. Mühsam was tortured and murdered in the Oranienburg concentration camp in 1934.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #nazis #fascism #antifascism #bavaria #soviet #prison #torture #ConcentrationCamp #execution #hitler #ErichMühsam #poet #poetry #playwright #writing @bookstadon

#nauru #concentrationcamp

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/australia/2023/07/11/the-australian-island-that-became-a-living-nightmare-for-refugees-and-asylum-seekers/

Vandaag voormalig Kamp Vught bezocht. Ik was er nog nooit geweest. Een gat in mijn opvoeding. Vorig jaar was ik voor het eerst in een voormalig concentratiekamp (Dachau).

Vreselijk om weer met mijn neus op de feiten gedrukt te worden dat er groepen mensen zijn die er niets van hebben geleerd, of willen leren. Ik zag vandaag een fascistisch krantje uit de jaren 30 (Zwart Front). De teksten konden zo van het hedendaagse Twitter geplukt zijn.
Vreselijk. #holocaust #concentrationcamp #fascism

Today in Labor History July 8, 1898: May Picqueray was born. She was a French anarchist, trade unionist and pacifist, who published the pacifist, anti-militarist periodical Le Réfractaire from 1974 to 1983. In 1921, in response to the silence of the French press on the convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti, she sent a parcel bomb containing a defensive grenade and leaflets to the American embassy. Her efforts helped mobilize French journalists, without harming any people and only causing damage to material. In 1922, as a delegate of the Metalworkers union, she visited Moscow, where she climbed on a table full of Red Trade Union officials to denounce their having a luxurious banquet while the common people starved. She refused to shake hands with Trotsky because of his responsibility for crushing the Kronstadt rebellion, and his betrayal of Nestor Makhno. During the Spanish Civil War, she helped transport orphans out of the country. During World War II, she help people escape French concentration camps. She also was a participant in the French uprising of May 1968, participated in anti-nuclear campaigns and supported war resisters.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #MayPicqueray #pacifism #antiwar #CivilWar #ConcentrationCamp #union #organizer #feminism #Kronstadt #antinuke #NestorMakhno #trotsky #SaccoAndVanzetti

#stateless on #Nauru #concentrationcamp #auspol

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/stateless-man-detained-on-christmas-island-hopes-for-ministerial-intervention/41vvun1im?dlb=[2023/06/20]%20del_newspm_bau&did=DM26002&cid=sbsnews:edm:acnewspm:relation:news:na:na

Tales from the #WhiteWhiteWest

Imagine, you address a topic of WWII by a #Museum and you don't mention #Holocaust a single time.

What would you think?

Now, imagine, that the wine museum of #Bordeaux, goes through the history of monocultural distribution of a single plant, an obvious act of imperialism, not even indicating a single victim of the 100s of Millions murdered people in the #Colonies.

#Missionairing even sounds cute in the 7th best Museum of the world. And #Conquadestadore like a respectful profession.

What about we call the SS employees of a #ConcentrationCamp Securistas and the hunt on Jews behind the frontline we call: #AufklärungsArbeit (#AwarenessTraining, literally enlightenment work) for the ordinary people.

The wine museum of Bordeaux nicely demonstrates, that you can have a racist system without a single racist inside. For sure, the museum just tries to establish a shopping athmosphere.

#Racism, #Colonialism, #France

Tales from the #WhiteWhiteWest

Imagine, you address a topic of WWII by a #Museum and you don't mention #Holocaust a single time.

What would you think?

Now, imagine, that the wine museum of #Bordeaux, goes through the history of monocultural distribution of a single plant, an obvious act of imperialism, not even indicating a single victim of the 100s of Millions murdered people in the #Colonies.

#Missionairing even sounds cute in the 7th best Museum of the world. And #Conquadestadore like a respectful profession.

What about we call the SS employees of a #ConcentrationCamp Securistas and the hunt on Jews behind the frontline we call: #AufklärungsArbeit (#AwarenessTraining, literally enlightenment work) for the ordinary people.

The wine museum of Bordeaux nicely demonstrates, that you can have a racist system without a single racist inside. For sure, the museum just tries to establish a shopping athmosphere.

#Racism, #Colonialism, #France

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. It 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 #jews #holocaust #NobelPrize #massacre #genocide #imperialism #invasion #occupation #ConcentrationCamp #HistorialFiction #novel #books #author @bookstadon