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I feel this so much
It wasn't until about a week into this that I even began to process what had happened the week or 2 prior, when the entirety of Canadian parliament gave a standing ovation to a literal nazi SS officer as a "Ukrainian resistance fighter against the Soviets"
The Jewish side of my family has a Ukrainian side and family members whose names I'll never know were murdered in the Holocaust no different than what the Palestinians are being subjected to today and it wasn’t until after that first week that I really thought about how that specific SS officer was provably personally responsible for the murder of my family and that he got to live a long comfortable life without ever paying for what he did
It was in that moment of clarity that I thought, "Oh, this must be what Norman Finkelstein feels like all the time" I bet it's similar for Palestinians who have to see the faces of people on TV who are personally responsible for murdering their family members only it must be worse because they know the victims personally and the monsters they see on TV are in charge of everything, not just being honored for a day like that nazi
Words fail to describe my sorrow and rage