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Screenshot from rosypiriani @ instagram:
Stop calling Gaza an “open air prison.”
Prisons are filled with convicted criminals. Prisons have food. Prisons have water. Prisons have electricity. Prisons have medical treatment.
Gaza is not a prison; it is a concentration camp.
While I can’t argue with point 1, it’s wildly unrealistic to believe that even 3/4 of convicted criminals in American prisons are actually guilty. Between private prisons, kickbacks for judges, and the war on drugs, our prison system is about as shitty as it gets.
Private prisons only house 8% of US prisoners. The problem is the contracts given to public prisons.
Maybe she’s talking about European prisons?
Western European prisons? I doubt that all of those apply to Turkey or Russia, for example.
If you’re born in prison, you will not grow up in prison.
Gaza is a concentration camp.
I agree prisons should have those things. Sadly not all of them do. And I’m not sure just talking about countries where prisoner rights are not protected by law. Multiple people are dying in first world prisons due to lack of medical care, including simple things like overheating.
None of this is to justify or dismiss the situation in Gaza. It is to highlight the abuses that exist despite beliefs such as those expressed here.
More like a ghetto.
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So this is your first siege?
How does a Israel closing its border to Gaza make it an open air prison? Does Israel have obligations to Gaza? And why should they provide stuff to Gaza when Hamas keeps launching attacks? Genuinely wondering about the thinking behind this narrative.
They don’t just close the borders all around gaza, but also the exit to the sea. Not to mention they kept moving the border on a whim for decades, cutting access to trade, farm land, electricity. Do they have obligations? Yes, it’s called reparations…
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This meme is quite anisemitic! The comparison to concentration camps is just morally wrong. Critique of the israeli state and the government under the current politicians is absolutly nescessary, but that is no reason to go to an antisemitic place.
How is this antisemitic?
Hard disagree. Is it intentionally provocative to make their statement in that way? 100 percent. But that isn’t anti semitism, anti semitism isn’t saying things that may upset Jewish people. It is the belief that Jewish people are less than people.
the belief that Jewish people are less than people.
Which is of course ironic since Israel is treating the Palestinians as less than people…
Yeah no. A concentration camp does not need to be a carbon copy of what the Nazi’s did for it to be called one. This is not antisemitism. Israel can be criticized based on policy and military action. It’s an apartheid state anyway. Palestine has a right to exist, it’s ridiculous that these people are considered stateless. It’s shameful that the powers-that-be intend to continue to prop Israel up regardless of the inhumane treatment of those they oppress.
You keep using that word. I don’t think you know what it means.
Concentration camps have a history outside ww2, also Jews were not the only ones to be sent to camps lest you forget about the disabled, romani, gays, various slavs, or socialists who were also killed by Nazi Germany
Don’t forget the Cubans, the Boers, and the Japanese.
All three were still camps, because more than just the Germans used them.
Concentration camps existed far before the Nazis used them and exist today (see: Isreal’s treatment of Gaza).
