Today in Labor History February 28, 1933: Erich Mühsam, was arrested and blamed for the Reichstag fire. He was sent to the Oranienberg concentration camp, where he was tortured and murdered. Mühsam was an anarchist, poet and playwright who condemned Nazism and satirized Hitler. In the wake of the fire, President von Hindenburg issued the Reichstag Fire Decree, suspending civil liberties, and launching a "ruthless confrontation" with the Communists, making the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.
In a direct afront to #ICJ provisional measures and the #Genocide Convention writ-large, #Egypt, lead by Western-backed dictator #Sisi, is building a new #ConcentrationCamp in the Sinai desert at the behest of #Israel. A tent city surrounded by concrete walls. No more of a plan with what to do with the #Palestinians that will be ethnically cleansed from #Gaza and herded into the camp like caddle than there was in 1948. The difference being that its not being errected by the UN, and will not offer mobility outside of its confines: it is being designed entirely as a zone of exception from the responsibilities of sovereign authority. Thats a concentration camp.
The chart below summarizes how very little time #Hitler needed to abolish democracy and have the first #Jews deported to a #ConcentrationCamp: 👉less than only three months!👈
Today in Labor History December 15, 1941: Nazi troops murdered over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The temperature was −15 °C (5 °F). They threw children into pits alive, to save bullets, assuming that they would quickly freeze to death.
“ALLEGED IRAN ROLE IN ISRAEL ATTACK ECHOES BOGUS IRAQ WMD CLAIMS: Israeli and U.S. officials acknowledge there is no proof that Iran directed last weekend’s deadly Hamas attack.”
“It’s possible that evidence of Iranian sponsorship exists and simply hasn’t emerged yet, but that reasoning echoes the Iraq WMD imbroglio. “If the Israeli government had any evidence at all of direct Iranian involvement in the Hamas attack, it is very likely that Israel would let the world know about that,” Paul Pillar, a former chief analyst at the CIA’s counterterrorism center, told The Intercept.
According to Pillar, Hamas had plenty of incentive to conduct the operation on its own, including acquiring hostages as bargaining chips to free Palestinian prisoners and also to torpedo the Saudi–Israel normalization deal being pursued by the Biden administration.”
@bp how the fuck do you want to move 1 million people to a place where there is nothing but another million? Let alone in one day. The #IDF and #Israel are committing #warcrimes and starting to commit #genocide here. They've had their own #concentrationcamp for many decades now. It's time the world and especially #enabler#USA should end this madness.
You’re conveniently forgetting that, over the past 75+ years, Israel has been responsible for the murder of thousands of Palestinian children! THOUSANDS!!!!!
Children are murdered, imprisoned & tortured almost every day in the West Bank! They are dying by the hundred now in the Gaza genocide!
Are Palestinian children’s’ lives any less precious than Israeli children’s’ lives? You seem to think they are!
Similarly, when you refer to members of Hamas as “animals”, is that because you regard them as “Untermensch”? Fascists like like Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir also refer to Palestinians as “animals”. Seems like you agree with them!
The British island of Alderney is divided over how to address its Nazi past.
London wants to shed light on a dark page in history that has long been kept secret: the number of prisoners who died in the four concentration camps built on the small Channel island during the Second World War.
“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.”
In case you were under any illusions that the #BibbyStockholm#ConcentrationCamp is just a far right Tory thing, here's alleged left-wing commentator #NickCohen calling for the same thing, and on the same grounds, over 22 years ago.
(Yes, the same boozed-up sex pest narcissist who thought the Iraq War was a great idea. And yes, he uses a racist slur. Did I mention he just LURVES #KeirStarmer too?)
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.
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.
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.