cross-posted from: https://feddit.online/c/euro/p/1713770/france-ban-israeli-minister-over-brutalised-gaza-flotilla-activists
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is banned from France for his treatment of pro-Palestinian activists detained as they tried to reach Gaza, the French government announced on Saturday.
There were French citizens on that flotilla.
It would be crazy of the French government not to consider that a line.
A French EU MP was captured in international water and held captive in Israel for a couple of days in a prior flotilla assault. That should definitely have been the line. I’m not sure what this latest occurrence adds to that but I guess the financial interests have shifted.
I mean sure. I’m just commenting on the fact that genocide should have been the first line because it is genocide.
That’s a fair criticism too.
I would have thought with all the talk about, “Never again,” we’d be a bit more upset about genocide but we have a pretty poor record around doing anything about them, caring about them, and in many cases, just knowing about them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides
Several disputed genocides have not made it into that list, either. Among them: the wilful lack of response against the AIDS crisis, and the current efforts to erase trans people in the US..
Political groups and LGBTQ+ identities are particularly vulnerable to having extermination efforts against us denied the description of genocide, and thus, minimized. Take a guess as to why.