Amsterdam climate protest, Sara Rachdan, Greta Thunberg, propaganda, Holocaust mention
So after seeing various Dutch media post extremely poorly-sourced articles (well, let's just call it what it is - propaganda) about the incident at the Amsterdam climate protest, I finally had time to look into what actually happened.
The claims: Sara Rachdan is a "Hamas supporter", a "terrorist friend", and "trivializing the Holocaust".
The actual evidence: Sara Rachdan drawing parallels between what happened in the Holocaust and what is happening in Gaza, eg. comparing the death tolls and circumstances.
Now there's two ways to interpret that: either you assume the Holocaust was horrible, and so by extension she claims that what's happening in Gaza is also horrible.
Or you assume that what's happening in Gaza is Not That Bad, actually, and therefore by extension that must mean she claims that the Holocaust also wasn't that bad.
And well, if you look at the reporting in the Dutch media, you can very easily tell that they went with the second interpretation - and I think that pretty much says everything I need to know about these claims, and the people spreading them.
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Also consider that this was all *specifically* in the context of how the situation in Gaza is really bad. I can really only explain this as deliberate propaganda, not just a simple misunderstanding.
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This whole incident is frankly a scathing indictment of the supposed "progressives" who immediately lose their shit as soon as they are confronted with their beloved country's involvement in ongoing colonialism
re: Amsterdam climate protest, Sara Rachdan, Greta Thunberg, propaganda, Holocaust mention
@joepie91 Thank you for shedding some light into these false accusations. In the light of these, I am also being accused of anti semitism, with false allegations, no evidence what so ever because it simply isn't there. Just my points of view regarding the genocide in Palestine commited by the apartheidsregime of terror state Israel.
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@Jo Yeah, I had seen this particular phenomenon (people describing criticism towards Israel as antisemitism) mentioned in a few places already, but I'm somewhat unpleasantly surprised to see media outlets like the AD running with it uncritically too.
The Telegraaf, sure, of course they are going to do that. But everybody seems to be playing this game now.
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@joepie91 Yes, it's appalling. I have had someone making an anonymous post accusing me on Indymedia.nl, off all places, using the free posting principle for character assasination. I expect to find it in for example De Telegraaf and the like, but not spread inside the activist scene! Indymedia took it down both times, but harm has already been done.
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(The original source that everyone seems to be going off, by the way, is Bild; a German populist tabloid)