In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad, who is of Palestinian heritage, said:
“It is profoundly disturbing that a religious leader would deny the very existence and basic rights of an entire people. Such rhetoric dehumanizes Palestinians and helps create an ideological and religious climate in which genocide is normalized and justified.
“Palestinians are a people with a deep-rooted history, culture, identity and connection to their homeland. Their existence and their human rights are not matters for anyone to grant or deny.
“The denial of Palestinian humanity and rights must not become normalized. Palestinians deserve the same fundamental rights, dignity, freedom, and security that every human being deserves.”
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SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 18d
No one dishonors the holocaust victims more than the descendants of its survivors. This genocidal fever that has gripped Israeli society is one of the saddest ironies in history.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 18d
It's an awful example of what happens when too many people who dislike others or their ideas or opinions get in to power. We all like to view ourselves as righteous and good, and it's far too easy to start to see people who feel differently from ourselves on the things we find to be most important as evil and bad.
It's alright to disagree with people. It's completely normal to have a near impossible time speaking with some people because you both feel strongly on a thing in opposite ways. Tolerance is accepting that despite that, you both have the same basic right to live and be. It's not an easy thing, but it's a necessary thing because deciding the people who feel differently from you are evil and subhuman leads to this darkness. Every genocidal authoritarian believes they're doing what's right and fighting evil.
Abyssian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 18d
This is what the intolerance Karl Popper said a tolerant society can not tolerate looks like. Not people having opinions you don’t like, people declaring that others aren’t really people, have no rights, and are great to murder.