History will judge us for whether we could see genocide for what it is, without asterisks, without exceptions, without the comfortable lies that let the powerful sleep while children starve to death or get torn to pieces. If we fail to grasp this fundamental truth, we do not just fail Palestinians. We fail every occupied, colonised, and oppressed people who might one day be told their resistance justifies their extermination.
It’s no different than saying the Nazis perpetrated genocide but then declaring that Jewish, Romani, Slavic or all the other people the Nazis or their fascist little helper elves targeted “started it.”
Perhaps the Warsaw Uprising proved what horrible people Jewish people were in the eyes of Nazi Germany? Somebody help me out here.