A French hard-left MP sparked a political row Sunday by saying Israeli athletes were not welcome at the Paris Olympics because of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, which one senior minister said had "hints of anti-Semitism".In a post on X, Arfi branded Portes's comments "irresponsible" and accused him of "legitimising Hamas", the Palestinian militant group whose October 7 attacks on Israel sparked the Gaza war.
Haven’t they hit themselves with genocides about half a dozen times or so in their history…?
“And then things got worse” and all that…
Or do you only get a free pass if the genocide wasn’t self inflicted…?
They ironically got hit with a genocide from the same people who did it to the Jews. Twenty-seven million dead at the hands of the nazis.
That wasn’t a genocide, though, at least on the Nazis’ part, it was just war… (now, Stalin deciding who to send to that meat grinder could have been a tad genocidal, but if I recall correctly they practically ended up sending anyone available, so probably not…)
The majority of the deaths were civilians.
But if you want to get hyper-technical, communists were among those sent to the camps in Hitler’s purges.
Genociding yourself is an internal matter, even if you invade first so it becomes part of your country and then start the genociding.
Naming no names. You know who