Israel’s announcement of its “humanitarian city” in Gaza stirs up unsettling, traumatic and barbaric images of concentration camps.
    • folaht@lemmy.ml
      4·
      22 days ago

      How is that a correction when concentration camps were invented by the British Empire?

      • FelixCress@lemmy.world
        2·
        22 days ago

        And?

        Léon Levavasseur is one of inventors of tanks, do you claim that IDF are therefore following the French?

        • folaht@lemmy.ml
          3·
          22 days ago

          The British Empire used those concentration camps.
          The Anglo-American and British Empire have a knack for calling things what they aren’t
          in order to make their genocidal behaviour sound everyday and neutral.
          Tanks and concentration camps, which are mobile armored cannons and detention death camps, are two of them.
          Concentration camp may have been literally translated in many languages, tank however is char in French, from chariot, and Panzer in German from armor.
          The British Empire conducted a multitude of genocides instead of a few.
          The British Empire was in favor of Israels genocide of the Palestinians and it still is.

          • FelixCress@lemmy.world
            2·
            22 days ago

            The British Empire used those concentration camps.

            Again, and? French used tanks and so did the IDF - does it mean IDF are following the French?

            If you read article again it pretty much says “we have been told it is antisemitic to compare Israel to Nazis so let’s compare Israel to British”.

            Since i do believe Israeli government are following at least some of nazi footsteps (ghettos, genocide of lesser races, massacring of civilians, creating lebensraum etc), I also believe comparison to nazi concentration camps would be more relevant.