You’ve already made up in your mind that the Palestinians are genicidal, in order to justify their colonization, oppression and murder by the Israelis. You do this for your own peace of mind. You need to do that because if you didn’t, you would see it for what it is, a people fighting for its liberation. You require the Palestinians were all perfect pacifists, going along with their own ethic cleansing and genocide.
Post an example of Palestinian people calling for genocide instead of a some unrelated dude.
I know why people keep quoting this unrelated dud:, it’s to make you think that “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is a call to genocide. It’s not, it’s a call for freedom. Both quotes just use the word “sea”, but are otherwise not related.
I mean, there is a big difference between the crimes you commit and the ones you don’t commit.
If we’re going to judge countries based off what politicians of OTHER countries say, we’ll be here all night. Fuck Canada for the shit Trump says, etc.
What’s your point? Are you saying that there are always people who commit genocides and these people become communist after they read Das Kapital?
Communism’s main rival is capitalism. If you want to make a fair comparison, you need to include genocides committed by capitalist countries too. And capitalism has been around for a fair bit longer. Not making excuses for communist countries, just putting things a little more in context.
To be fair, I said people “who call themselves communist”.
Communism and socialism is popular, if you are a populist, an often used strategy is pretending to be the popular thing. Hitler pretended to be a socialist, until he purged all socialists. Pol Pot pretended to be a communist, until it no longer suited him and he had them killed.
Why is it almost always the people who call themselves communists?
Because you’re ignoring genocides committed by others?
What about:
native Americans
Irish
Bangladesh
Holocaust
Armenia
Just to name a few famous examples.
Besides, Pol Pot wasn’t much of a communist, as soon as he started the genocide, he lost support from other communist nations, he became a staunch anti-communist and got the support of the USA even more than a decade after the communists deposed him.
I’m not going to argue the holodomor with you, but even there, the case is not as simple as you think.
On top of that, the existence of bigger genocides doesn’t stop making this less of a genocide.