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📜 Related note on modern day genocide narratives. I grew up at a time when the term genocide referred to a deliberate effort to eradicate an entire/unique ethnic group. The concept was needed when the West had to come to grips with the industrial scale murder programme of the Nazi's Holocaust.

Before and after Hitler, Stalin's soviet-russia (and russians for all the centuries of their colonial expansionism) also aimed to eradicate "minority ethnicities" and their languages and cultures. The invading Spanish colonizers from 1500s onwards weren't exactly boy scouts in South America.

Since invading Tibet in 1950 and taking control of East Turkestan and South Mongolia the Chinese communist (since 2010s ethno-fascist) dictatorship may "only" have killed a significant minority of its newly-captive colonial subjects, but the regime's repressive policies are directly aimed at eradicating those now-occupied "minorities' " ethnic identity, culture, language... their frigging unique written scripts and history (!) while those *lebensraums* are totally dominated by the colonialist Chinese and their settlers.

The CCP is dead set on eradicating those colonized peoples. What is that if not genocide as it was initially conceived after WWII?

The Arabs of Palestine (a post-WWI concept), particularly the civilian population, have been subjected to post-Oct7 Israeli war crimes and massacres that should result in a trial in the Haque. Yet a little a history in useful: The Western Middle East and the entire Northern Africa (and even much of Spain and Portugal from 700s to late 1400s!) was overrun by Arabs (see: The Arab Conquest) incited by the newly created religion of Islam. All of the medieval cultures, languages and populations of North Africa were eradicated. Most Jews fled their ancestral lands, scattering across Europe and in pockets as early "untermensch" under newly-islamic fiefdoms in the region.

Facing repression nearly everywhere, the Nazi Holocaust was the final straw that incentiviced the Jewish people to try and reclaim their ancestral homeland (the idea of nation states had first bloomed in pre-democratic and still partially colonized Europe of 1800s).

Now, IMHO, the re-establishment of a Jewish home state (Israel) was a logical objective under the circumstances (which I realize makes me a "zionist"); the Jewish culture/religion has, due to its characteristics, survived countless generations in exile. Countless populations have been genocided for all eternity, but the Jews managed to hang on for a second chance.

The Arabs now settled in those previously Jewish ancestral lands had a choice to make when the exiled Jews started returning after mid-1940s. Some took Israeli citizenship (recognized by the constitution), others chose to wage war for their piece of the Arab Conquest...

The last Arab-run poll of Gaza population prior to Oct7 attack had 70% of Gazan adults supporting their *islamist* rulers (Hamas cancelled elections after gaining power, quelle surprise). Their specific goal was "from the river to the sea" i.e. total eradication of Israel along the lines of their ancestral Arab Conquest. Ethnically, linguistically and culturally identical to all neighbouring arabicized states they could resume their lives as majority Arabs in any of them (although they're now wary of the militancy!), but it's the principle of the Conquest. Moreover Arabs/islamists have claimed many ancient Jewish holy places as theirs (similar issues irritate the Hindus in India) so owning Israel is a koranic mission to hardline islamists. I'm an agnostic, but I feel that claiming other people's heritage as your religious conquest is a little over the top in modern world.

The Western liberals waving "Palestine" flags and calling rightwing Israelis and the ultra-orthodox settlers nazis are indeed *partially* right.

They should also understand *what* it is that they are supporting (re-enactment of Arab Conquest) and *why* (for the benefit of the anti-democratic Axis and to divide Western democracies).

#genocide #Israel #Palestine #ArabConquest #russia #china #Tibet #uighurs

📜 Related note on modern day genocide narratives. I grew up at a time when the term genocide referred to a deliberate effort to eradicate an entire/unique ethnic group. The concept was needed when the West had to come to grips with the industrial scale murder programme of the Nazi's Holocaust.

Before and after Hitler, Stalin's soviet-russia (and russians for all the centuries of their colonial expansionism) also aimed to eradicate "minority ethnicities" and their languages and cultures. The invading Spanish colonizers from 1500s onwards weren't exactly boy scouts in South America.

Since invading Tibet in 1950 and taking control of East Turkestan and South Mongolia the Chinese communist (since 2010s ethno-fascist) dictatorship may "only" have killed a significant minority of its newly-captive colonial subjects, but the regime's repressive policies are directly aimed at eradicating those now-occupied "minorities' " ethnic identity, culture, language... their frigging unique written scripts and history (!) while those *lebensraums* are totally dominated by the colonialist Chinese and their settlers.

The CCP is dead set on eradicating those colonized peoples. What is that if not genocide as it was initially conceived after WWII?

The Arabs of Palestine (a post-WWI concept), particularly the civilian population, have been subjected to post-Oct7 Israeli war crimes and massacres that should result in a trial in the Haque. Yet a little a history in useful: The Western Middle East and the entire Northern Africa (and even much of Spain and Portugal from 700s to late 1400s!) was overrun by Arabs (see: The Arab Conquest) incited by the newly created religion of Islam. All of the medieval cultures, languages and populations of North Africa were eradicated. Most Jews fled their ancestral lands, scattering across Europe and in pockets as early "untermensch" under newly-islamic fiefdoms in the region.

Facing repression nearly everywhere, the Nazi Holocaust was the final straw that incentiviced the Jewish people to try and reclaim their ancestral homeland (the idea of nation states had first bloomed in pre-democratic and still partially colonized Europe of 1800s).

Now, IMHO, the re-establishment of a Jewish home state (Israel) was a logical objective under the circumstances (which I realize makes me a "zionist"); the Jewish culture/religion has, due to its characteristics, survived countless generations in exile. Countless populations have been genocided for all eternity, but the Jews managed to hang on for a second chance.

The Arabs now settled in those previously Jewish ancestral lands had a choice to make when the exiled Jews started returning after mid-1940s. Some took Israeli citizenship (recognized by the constitution), others chose to wage war for their piece of the Arab Conquest...

The last Arab-run poll of Gaza population prior to Oct7 attack had 70% of Gazan adults supporting their *islamist* rulers (Hamas cancelled elections after gaining power, quelle surprise). Their specific goal was "from the river to the sea" i.e. total eradication of Israel along the lines of their ancestral Arab Conquest. Ethnically, linguistically and culturally identical to all neighbouring arabicized states they could resume their lives as majority Arabs in any of them (although they're now wary of the militancy!), but it's the principle of the Conquest. Moreover Arabs/islamists have claimed many ancient Jewish holy places as theirs (similar issues irritate the Hindus in India) so owning Israel is a koranic mission to hardline islamists. I'm an agnostic, but I feel that claiming other people's heritage as your religious conquest is a little over the top in modern world.

The Western liberals waving "Palestine" flags and calling rightwing Israelis and the ultra-orthodox settlers nazis are indeed *partially* right.

They should also understand *what* it is that they are supporting (re-enactment of Arab Conquest) and *why* (for the benefit of the anti-democratic Axis and to divide Western democracies).

#genocide #Israel #Palestine #ArabConquest #russia #china #Tibet #uighurs

📜 Related note on modern day genocide narratives. I grew up at a time when the term genocide referred to a deliberate effort to eradicate an entire/unique ethnic group. The concept was needed when the West had to come to grips with the industrial scale murder programme of the Nazi's Holocaust.

Before and after Hitler, Stalin's soviet-russia (and russians for all the centuries of their colonial expansionism) also aimed to eradicate "minority ethnicities" and their languages and cultures. The invading Spanish colonizers from 1500s onwards weren't exactly boy scouts in South America.

Since invading Tibet in 1950 and taking control of East Turkestan and South Mongolia the Chinese communist (since 2010s ethno-fascist) dictatorship may "only" have killed a significant minority of its newly-captive colonial subjects, but the regime's repressive policies are directly aimed at eradicating those now-occupied "minorities' " ethnic identity, culture, language... their frigging unique written scripts and history (!) while those *lebensraums* are totally dominated by the colonialist Chinese and their settlers.

The CCP is dead set on eradicating those colonized peoples. What is that if not genocide as it was initially conceived after WWII?

The Arabs of Palestine (a post-WWI concept), particularly the civilian population, have been subjected to post-Oct7 Israeli war crimes and massacres that should result in a trial in the Haque. Yet a little a history in useful: The Western Middle East and the entire Northern Africa (and even much of Spain and Portugal from 700s to late 1400s!) was overrun by Arabs (see: The Arab Conquest) incited by the newly created religion of Islam. All of the medieval cultures, languages and populations of North Africa were eradicated. Most Jews fled their ancestral lands, scattering across Europe and in pockets as early "untermensch" under newly-islamic fiefdoms in the region.

Facing repression nearly everywhere, the Nazi Holocaust was the final straw that incentiviced the Jewish people to try and reclaim their ancestral homeland (the idea of nation states had first bloomed in pre-democratic and still partially colonized Europe of 1800s).

Now, IMHO, the re-establishment of a Jewish home state (Israel) was a logical objective under the circumstances (which I realize makes me a "zionist"); the Jewish culture/religion has, due to its characteristics, survived countless generations in exile. Countless populations have been genocided for all eternity, but the Jews managed to hang on for a second chance.

The Arabs now settled in those previously Jewish ancestral lands had a choice to make when the exiled Jews started returning after mid-1940s. Some took Israeli citizenship (recognized by the constitution), others chose to wage war for their piece of the Arab Conquest...

The last Arab-run poll of Gaza population prior to Oct7 attack had 70% of Gazan adults supporting their *islamist* rulers (Hamas cancelled elections after gaining power, quelle surprise). Their specific goal was "from the river to the sea" i.e. total eradication of Israel along the lines of their ancestral Arab Conquest. Ethnically, linguistically and culturally identical to all neighbouring arabicized states they could resume their lives as majority Arabs in any of them (although they're now wary of the militancy!), but it's the principle of the Conquest. Moreover Arabs/islamists have claimed many ancient Jewish holy places as theirs (similar issues irritate the Hindus in India) so owning Israel is a koranic mission to hardline islamists. I'm an agnostic, but I feel that claiming other people's heritage as your religious conquest is a little over the top in modern world.

The Western liberals waving "Palestine" flags and calling rightwing Israelis and the ultra-orthodox settlers nazis are indeed *partially* right.

They should also understand *what* it is that they are supporting (re-enactment of Arab Conquest) and *why* (for the benefit of the anti-democratic Axis and to divide Western democracies).

#genocide #Israel #Palestine #ArabConquest #russia #china #Tibet #uighurs

📜 Related note on modern day genocide narratives. I grew up at a time when the term genocide referred to a deliberate effort to eradicate an entire/unique ethnic group. The concept was needed when the West had to come to grips with the industrial scale murder programme of the Nazi's Holocaust.

Before and after Hitler, Stalin's soviet-russia (and russians for all the centuries of their colonial expansionism) also aimed to eradicate "minority ethnicities" and their languages and cultures. The invading Spanish colonizers from 1500s onwards weren't exactly boy scouts in South America.

Since invading Tibet in 1950 and taking control of East Turkestan and South Mongolia the Chinese communist (since 2010s ethno-fascist) dictatorship may "only" have killed a significant minority of its newly-captive colonial subjects, but the regime's repressive policies are directly aimed at eradicating those now-occupied "minorities' " ethnic identity, culture, language... their frigging unique written scripts and history (!) while those *lebensraums* are totally dominated by the colonialist Chinese and their settlers.

The CCP is dead set on eradicating those colonized peoples. What is that if not genocide as it was initially conceived after WWII?

The Arabs of Palestine (a post-WWI concept), particularly the civilian population, have been subjected to post-Oct7 Israeli war crimes and massacres that should result in a trial in the Haque. Yet a little a history in useful: The Western Middle East and the entire Northern Africa (and even much of Spain and Portugal from 700s to late 1400s!) was overrun by Arabs (see: The Arab Conquest) incited by the newly created religion of Islam. All of the medieval cultures, languages and populations of North Africa were eradicated. Most Jews fled their ancestral lands, scattering across Europe and in pockets as early "untermensch" under newly-islamic fiefdoms in the region.

Facing repression nearly everywhere, the Nazi Holocaust was the final straw that incentiviced the Jewish people to try and reclaim their ancestral homeland (the idea of nation states had first bloomed in pre-democratic and still partially colonized Europe of 1800s).

Now, IMHO, the re-establishment of a Jewish home state (Israel) was a logical objective under the circumstances (which I realize makes me a "zionist"); the Jewish culture/religion has, due to its characteristics, survived countless generations in exile. Countless populations have been genocided for all eternity, but the Jews managed to hang on for a second chance.

The Arabs now settled in those previously Jewish ancestral lands had a choice to make when the exiled Jews started returning after mid-1940s. Some took Israeli citizenship (recognized by the constitution), others chose to wage war for their piece of the Arab Conquest...

The last Arab-run poll of Gaza population prior to Oct7 attack had 70% of Gazan adults supporting their *islamist* rulers (Hamas cancelled elections after gaining power, quelle surprise). Their specific goal was "from the river to the sea" i.e. total eradication of Israel along the lines of their ancestral Arab Conquest. Ethnically, linguistically and culturally identical to all neighbouring arabicized states they could resume their lives as majority Arabs in any of them (although they're now wary of the militancy!), but it's the principle of the Conquest. Moreover Arabs/islamists have claimed many ancient Jewish holy places as theirs (similar issues irritate the Hindus in India) so owning Israel is a koranic mission to hardline islamists. I'm an agnostic, but I feel that claiming other people's heritage as your religious conquest is a little over the top in modern world.

The Western liberals waving "Palestine" flags and calling rightwing Israelis and the ultra-orthodox settlers nazis are indeed *partially* right.

They should also understand *what* it is that they are supporting (re-enactment of Arab Conquest) and *why* (for the benefit of the anti-democratic Axis and to divide Western democracies).

#genocide #Israel #Palestine #ArabConquest #russia #china #Tibet #uighurs

📜 Related note on modern day genocide narratives. I grew up at a time when the term genocide referred to a deliberate effort to eradicate an entire/unique ethnic group. The concept was needed when the West had to come to grips with the industrial scale murder programme of the Nazi's Holocaust.

Before and after Hitler, Stalin's soviet-russia (and russians for all the centuries of their colonial expansionism) also aimed to eradicate "minority ethnicities" and their languages and cultures. The invading Spanish colonizers from 1500s onwards weren't exactly boy scouts in South America.

Since invading Tibet in 1950 and taking control of East Turkestan and South Mongolia the Chinese communist (since 2010s ethno-fascist) dictatorship may "only" have killed a significant minority of its newly-captive colonial subjects, but the regime's repressive policies are directly aimed at eradicating those now-occupied "minorities' " ethnic identity, culture, language... their frigging unique written scripts and history (!) while those *lebensraums* are totally dominated by the colonialist Chinese and their settlers.

The CCP is dead set on eradicating those colonized peoples. What is that if not genocide as it was initially conceived after WWII?

The Arabs of Palestine (a post-WWI concept), particularly the civilian population, have been subjected to post-Oct7 Israeli war crimes and massacres that should result in a trial in the Haque. Yet a little a history in useful: The Western Middle East and the entire Northern Africa (and even much of Spain and Portugal from 700s to late 1400s!) was overrun by Arabs (see: The Arab Conquest) incited by the newly created religion of Islam. All of the medieval cultures, languages and populations of North Africa were eradicated. Most Jews fled their ancestral lands, scattering across Europe and in pockets as early "untermensch" under newly-islamic fiefdoms in the region.

Facing repression nearly everywhere, the Nazi Holocaust was the final straw that incentiviced the Jewish people to try and reclaim their ancestral homeland (the idea of nation states had first bloomed in pre-democratic and still partially colonized Europe of 1800s).

Now, IMHO, the re-establishment of a Jewish home state (Israel) was a logical objective under the circumstances (which I realize makes me a "zionist"); the Jewish culture/religion has, due to its characteristics, survived countless generations in exile. Countless populations have been genocided for all eternity, but the Jews managed to hang on for a second chance.

The Arabs now settled in those previously Jewish ancestral lands had a choice to make when the exiled Jews started returning after mid-1940s. Some took Israeli citizenship (recognized by the constitution), others chose to wage war for their piece of the Arab Conquest...

The last Arab-run poll of Gaza population prior to Oct7 attack had 70% of Gazan adults supporting their *islamist* rulers (Hamas cancelled elections after gaining power, quelle surprise). Their specific goal was "from the river to the sea" i.e. total eradication of Israel along the lines of their ancestral Arab Conquest. Ethnically, linguistically and culturally identical to all neighbouring arabicized states they could resume their lives as majority Arabs in any of them (although they're now wary of the militancy!), but it's the principle of the Conquest. Moreover Arabs/islamists have claimed many ancient Jewish holy places as theirs (similar issues irritate the Hindus in India) so owning Israel is a koranic mission to hardline islamists. I'm an agnostic, but I feel that claiming other people's heritage as your religious conquest is a little over the top in modern world.

The Western liberals waving "Palestine" flags and calling rightwing Israelis and the ultra-orthodox settlers nazis are indeed *partially* right.

They should also understand *what* it is that they are supporting (re-enactment of Arab Conquest) and *why* (for the benefit of the anti-democratic Axis and to divide Western democracies).

#genocide #Israel #Palestine #ArabConquest #russia #china #Tibet #uighurs

Dal "2017, oltre un milione di #Uiguri e membri di altre minoranze musulmane sono passati per campi di detenzione ufficialmente definiti centri di “formazione professionale”."

#Cina #razzismo #Uighurs #HumanRights #capitalismo #GreenWashing #5luglio

https://diogenenotizie.com/cina-il-lavoro-forzato-degli-uiguri-diventa-legge/

Dal "2017, oltre un milione di #Uiguri e membri di altre minoranze musulmane sono passati per campi di detenzione ufficialmente definiti centri di “formazione professionale”."

#Cina #razzismo #Uighurs #HumanRights #capitalismo #GreenWashing #5luglio

https://diogenenotizie.com/cina-il-lavoro-forzato-degli-uiguri-diventa-legge/

Dal "2017, oltre un milione di #Uiguri e membri di altre minoranze musulmane sono passati per campi di detenzione ufficialmente definiti centri di “formazione professionale”."

#Cina #razzismo #Uighurs #HumanRights #capitalismo #GreenWashing #5luglio

https://diogenenotizie.com/cina-il-lavoro-forzato-degli-uiguri-diventa-legge/

Dal "2017, oltre un milione di #Uiguri e membri di altre minoranze musulmane sono passati per campi di detenzione ufficialmente definiti centri di “formazione professionale”."

#Cina #razzismo #Uighurs #HumanRights #capitalismo #GreenWashing #5luglio

https://diogenenotizie.com/cina-il-lavoro-forzato-degli-uiguri-diventa-legge/

Dal "2017, oltre un milione di #Uiguri e membri di altre minoranze musulmane sono passati per campi di detenzione ufficialmente definiti centri di “formazione professionale”."

#Cina #razzismo #Uighurs #HumanRights #capitalismo #GreenWashing #5luglio

https://diogenenotizie.com/cina-il-lavoro-forzato-degli-uiguri-diventa-legge/

"In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."

Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/03/uk-university-halted-human-rights-research-after-pressure-from-china

[Edit: more background on the topic https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour]

#AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations

"In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."

Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/03/uk-university-halted-human-rights-research-after-pressure-from-china

[Edit: more background on the topic https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour]

#AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations

"In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."

Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/03/uk-university-halted-human-rights-research-after-pressure-from-china

[Edit: more background on the topic https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour]

#AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations

"In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."

Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/03/uk-university-halted-human-rights-research-after-pressure-from-china

[Edit: more background on the topic https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour]

#AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations

"In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."

Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/nov/03/uk-university-halted-human-rights-research-after-pressure-from-china

[Edit: more background on the topic https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour]

#AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations

@EUCommission Bismark estaria orgulhoso da "RealPolitik" e do ignorar dos direitos humanos em prole da geopolitica. Bravo!👏
#Uighurs #humanrights #HongKong

@EUCommission Bismark estaria orgulhoso da "RealPolitik" e do ignorar dos direitos humanos em prole da geopolitica. Bravo!👏
#Uighurs #humanrights #HongKong

@EUCommission Bismark estaria orgulhoso da "RealPolitik" e do ignorar dos direitos humanos em prole da geopolitica. Bravo!👏
#Uighurs #humanrights #HongKong

@EUCommission Bismark estaria orgulhoso da "RealPolitik" e do ignorar dos direitos humanos em prole da geopolitica. Bravo!👏
#Uighurs #humanrights #HongKong

@EUCommission Bismark estaria orgulhoso da "RealPolitik" e do ignorar dos direitos humanos em prole da geopolitica. Bravo!👏
#Uighurs #humanrights #HongKong

World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.

Giving the #CCP yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened #putin to invade #Ukraine in 2022.

Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.

It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.

There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.

Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.

“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“
— Nelson Mandela

#Hongkong #Tibet #Uighurs #ccp #china #EuropeanDefence #AxisOfDespots

World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.

Giving the #CCP yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened #putin to invade #Ukraine in 2022.

Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.

It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.

There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.

Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.

“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“
— Nelson Mandela

#Hongkong #Tibet #Uighurs #ccp #china #EuropeanDefence #AxisOfDespots

World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.

Giving the #CCP yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened #putin to invade #Ukraine in 2022.

Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.

It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.

There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.

Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.

“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“
— Nelson Mandela

#Hongkong #Tibet #Uighurs #ccp #china #EuropeanDefence #AxisOfDespots

World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.

Giving the #CCP yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened #putin to invade #Ukraine in 2022.

Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.

It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.

There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.

Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.

“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“
— Nelson Mandela

#Hongkong #Tibet #Uighurs #ccp #china #EuropeanDefence #AxisOfDespots

World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.

Giving the #CCP yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened #putin to invade #Ukraine in 2022.

Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.

It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.

There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.

Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.

“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“
— Nelson Mandela

#Hongkong #Tibet #Uighurs #ccp #china #EuropeanDefence #AxisOfDespots

Oh LOOK! NOW FP refers to #Uighurs as a terrorist entity! Also, these islamists are referred to as a "Community".

Note the onsite lede is different: "What Are #Uyghurs Doing in #Syria?"

"They helped overthrow Assad, but potential (actually well documented) #terrorists ties complicate the 'community's' future in the country."

Uyghur Fighters in Syria and the Future of the #Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/04/uyghurs-tpd-syria-fighters/

Paywall B Gone https://archive.ph/oudsu #ISIS #alqaeda #islamists

Chinese Companies Use Legal Threats to Halt Foreign Research - Think tanks and universities have helped expose problematic Chinese business practices. N... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/technology/chinese-company-legal-threats-researchers.html #americanenterpriseinstituteforpublicpolicyresearch #humanrightsandhumanrightsviolations #uighurs(chineseethnicgroup) #suitsandlitigation(civil) #huaweitechnologiescoltd #internationalrelations #communistpartyofchina #georgetownuniversity

Chinese Companies Use Legal Threats to Halt Foreign Research - Think tanks and universities have helped expose problematic Chinese business practices. N... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/technology/chinese-company-legal-threats-researchers.html #americanenterpriseinstituteforpublicpolicyresearch #humanrightsandhumanrightsviolations #uighurs(chineseethnicgroup) #suitsandlitigation(civil) #huaweitechnologiescoltd #internationalrelations #communistpartyofchina #georgetownuniversity

Chinese Companies Use Legal Threats to Halt Foreign Research - Think tanks and universities have helped expose problematic Chinese business practices. N... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/technology/chinese-company-legal-threats-researchers.html #americanenterpriseinstituteforpublicpolicyresearch #humanrightsandhumanrightsviolations #uighurs(chineseethnicgroup) #suitsandlitigation(civil) #huaweitechnologiescoltd #internationalrelations #communistpartyofchina #georgetownuniversity

Chinese Companies Use Legal Threats to Halt Foreign Research - Think tanks and universities have helped expose problematic Chinese business practices. N... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/technology/chinese-company-legal-threats-researchers.html #americanenterpriseinstituteforpublicpolicyresearch #humanrightsandhumanrightsviolations #uighurs(chineseethnicgroup) #suitsandlitigation(civil) #huaweitechnologiescoltd #internationalrelations #communistpartyofchina #georgetownuniversity

Chinese Companies Use Legal Threats to Halt Foreign Research - Think tanks and universities have helped expose problematic Chinese business practices. N... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/technology/chinese-company-legal-threats-researchers.html #americanenterpriseinstituteforpublicpolicyresearch #humanrightsandhumanrightsviolations #uighurs(chineseethnicgroup) #suitsandlitigation(civil) #huaweitechnologiescoltd #internationalrelations #communistpartyofchina #georgetownuniversity

We don't NEED a fucking VIDEO! We NEED to know WHY these things happen at all! At least ONE obvious explanation is posited below. "US #MilitaryService Is Strongest Predictor of Carrying Out #ExtremistViolence". Ur Bois need #DEPROGRAMMING just as surely as an #Islamists #Uighurs returning to China. Got that? They're PROGRAMMED TO KILL. #ErikPrince and his Mercs too.

#Biden to visit #NewOrleans as #FBI releases new video of attacker

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/biden-to-visit-new-orleans-as-fbi-releases-new-video-of-attacker/

https://theintercept.com/2025/01/02/military-veterans-extremism-attack-new-orleans-vegas/ #FuckTheArmy

"It's been two years since I've arrived to the US to work for the CIA."- Arslan Hidayat 👀

"...for a long time, the #CIA has assisted the US government and Congress in playing the "Xinjiang card" through direct intervention and support for proxies, in order to achieve its goal of containing #China with topics related to its #Xinjiang region."

How a tweet from a separatist exposes again CIA’s long interference in China’s Xinjiang #Uighurs #Uyghurs "#UyghurGenocide"

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202311/1301268.shtml

#Uighurs are fighting with #HTS? Very disappointing
https://anfenglish.com/news/knk-calls-on-everyone-to-defend-rojava-76613 #Syria #Assad #Aleppo #Rojava

Muslims as a target of genocide is weird.

When it happens near Israel, things are fine and dandy, and it might not even really be happening despite the definite 24/7 footage from the area. Who knows what is happening?!

But when it allegedly happens in China with flakier evidence and questionable sources, it is verifiably the worst atrocity to ever happen and can be condemned with the power of a thousand suns.

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #China #Uighurs #Muslim #Islam #Genocide #Apartheid

Muslims as a target of genocide is weird.

When it happens near Israel, things are fine and dandy, and it might not even really be happening despite the definite 24/7 footage from the area. Who knows what is happening?!

But when it allegedly happens in China with flakier evidence and questionable sources, it is verifiably the worst atrocity to ever happen and can be condemned with the power of a thousand suns.

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #China #Uighurs #Muslim #Islam #Genocide #Apartheid

Muslims as a target of genocide is weird.

When it happens near Israel, things are fine and dandy, and it might not even really be happening despite the definite 24/7 footage from the area. Who knows what is happening?!

But when it allegedly happens in China with flakier evidence and questionable sources, it is verifiably the worst atrocity to ever happen and can be condemned with the power of a thousand suns.

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #China #Uighurs #Muslim #Islam #Genocide #Apartheid

Muslims as a target of genocide is weird.

When it happens near Israel, things are fine and dandy, and it might not even really be happening despite the definite 24/7 footage from the area. Who knows what is happening?!

But when it allegedly happens in China with flakier evidence and questionable sources, it is verifiably the worst atrocity to ever happen and can be condemned with the power of a thousand suns.

#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #China #Uighurs #Muslim #Islam #Genocide #Apartheid

West blasts China on rights, China responds: What about Gaza? https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/west-blasts-china-on-rights-china-responds-what-about-gaza/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #Gazawar #humanrights #Uighurs #UnitedNations

West blasts China on rights, China responds: What about Gaza? https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/west-blasts-china-on-rights-china-responds-what-about-gaza/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #Gazawar #humanrights #Uighurs #UnitedNations

West blasts China on rights, China responds: What about Gaza? https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/west-blasts-china-on-rights-china-responds-what-about-gaza/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #Gazawar #humanrights #Uighurs #UnitedNations

West blasts China on rights, China responds: What about Gaza? https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/west-blasts-china-on-rights-china-responds-what-about-gaza/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #Gazawar #humanrights #Uighurs #UnitedNations

West blasts China on rights, China responds: What about Gaza? https://www.euractiv.com/section/global-europe/news/west-blasts-china-on-rights-china-responds-what-about-gaza/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #Gazawar #humanrights #Uighurs #UnitedNations

@harmonicarichard

I agree with all you've said.
However, #TikTok indoctrinates, too.
The #CCP is world-class in controlling the narrative on the internet, which OFC they do in the #PRC with the same app. #TikTok is pushing rightwing propaganda, just like the #DeadBirdSite: https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-recommendations-far-right-wing , https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-5110-9_8.

And OFC, they control everything on it regarding #China. I'm positive that a #Short reporting on the plight of the #Uighurs would not be online for > 1 hour.

@VeroniqueB99

@harmonicarichard

I agree with all you've said.
However, #TikTok indoctrinates, too.
The #CCP is world-class in controlling the narrative on the internet, which OFC they do in the #PRC with the same app. #TikTok is pushing rightwing propaganda, just like the #DeadBirdSite: https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-recommendations-far-right-wing , https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-5110-9_8.

And OFC, they control everything on it regarding #China. I'm positive that a #Short reporting on the plight of the #Uighurs would not be online for > 1 hour.

@VeroniqueB99

@harmonicarichard

I agree with all you've said.
However, #TikTok indoctrinates, too.
The #CCP is world-class in controlling the narrative on the internet, which OFC they do in the #PRC with the same app. #TikTok is pushing rightwing propaganda, just like the #DeadBirdSite: https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-recommendations-far-right-wing , https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-5110-9_8.

And OFC, they control everything on it regarding #China. I'm positive that a #Short reporting on the plight of the #Uighurs would not be online for > 1 hour.

@VeroniqueB99

@harmonicarichard

I agree with all you've said.
However, #TikTok indoctrinates, too.
The #CCP is world-class in controlling the narrative on the internet, which OFC they do in the #PRC with the same app. #TikTok is pushing rightwing propaganda, just like the #DeadBirdSite: https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-recommendations-far-right-wing , https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-5110-9_8.

And OFC, they control everything on it regarding #China. I'm positive that a #Short reporting on the plight of the #Uighurs would not be online for > 1 hour.

@VeroniqueB99

@harmonicarichard

I agree with all you've said.
However, #TikTok indoctrinates, too.
The #CCP is world-class in controlling the narrative on the internet, which OFC they do in the #PRC with the same app. #TikTok is pushing rightwing propaganda, just like the #DeadBirdSite: https://mashable.com/article/tiktok-recommendations-far-right-wing , https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-5110-9_8.

And OFC, they control everything on it regarding #China. I'm positive that a #Short reporting on the plight of the #Uighurs would not be online for > 1 hour.

@VeroniqueB99

A moving and concerning article about the first #Uyghur woman to receive a doctorate who disappeared in #China.

After the pandemic, #Ukraine #Gaza and the #IranProtests , I fear we all lost sight of the #uighurs.
This is a really good introduction to the whole region as well as a portrait of a remarkable woman.

What became of Rahile Dawut? - https://on.ft.com/49SUd6n via @FT

A moving and concerning article about the first #Uyghur woman to receive a doctorate who disappeared in #China.

After the pandemic, #Ukraine #Gaza and the #IranProtests , I fear we all lost sight of the #uighurs.
This is a really good introduction to the whole region as well as a portrait of a remarkable woman.

What became of Rahile Dawut? - https://on.ft.com/49SUd6n via @FT

A moving and concerning article about the first #Uyghur woman to receive a doctorate who disappeared in #China.

After the pandemic, #Ukraine #Gaza and the #IranProtests , I fear we all lost sight of the #uighurs.
This is a really good introduction to the whole region as well as a portrait of a remarkable woman.

What became of Rahile Dawut? - https://on.ft.com/49SUd6n via @FT

A moving and concerning article about the first #Uyghur woman to receive a doctorate who disappeared in #China.

After the pandemic, #Ukraine #Gaza and the #IranProtests , I fear we all lost sight of the #uighurs.
This is a really good introduction to the whole region as well as a portrait of a remarkable woman.

What became of Rahile Dawut? - https://on.ft.com/49SUd6n via @FT

A moving and concerning article about the first #Uyghur woman to receive a doctorate who disappeared in #China.

After the pandemic, #Ukraine #Gaza and the #IranProtests , I fear we all lost sight of the #uighurs.
This is a really good introduction to the whole region as well as a portrait of a remarkable woman.

What became of Rahile Dawut? - https://on.ft.com/49SUd6n via @FT

Eyeing China, EU parliament to back ban on forced labour https://www.euractiv.com/section/china/news/eyeing-china-eu-parliament-to-back-ban-on-forced-labour/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #EuropeanParliament #forcedlabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang

Eyeing China, EU parliament to back ban on forced labour https://www.euractiv.com/section/china/news/eyeing-china-eu-parliament-to-back-ban-on-forced-labour/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #EuropeanParliament #forcedlabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang

Eyeing China, EU parliament to back ban on forced labour https://www.euractiv.com/section/china/news/eyeing-china-eu-parliament-to-back-ban-on-forced-labour/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #EuropeanParliament #forcedlabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang

Eyeing China, EU parliament to back ban on forced labour https://www.euractiv.com/section/china/news/eyeing-china-eu-parliament-to-back-ban-on-forced-labour/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #EuropeanParliament #forcedlabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang

Eyeing China, EU parliament to back ban on forced labour https://www.euractiv.com/section/china/news/eyeing-china-eu-parliament-to-back-ban-on-forced-labour/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #EuropeanParliament #forcedlabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang

Russia and China trade new copper disguised as scrap to skirt taxes, sanctions https://www.euractiv.com/section/china/news/russia-and-china-trade-new-copper-disguised-as-scrap-to-skirt-taxes-sanctions/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #copper #Russia #Sanctions #Uighurs

Russia and China trade new copper disguised as scrap to skirt taxes, sanctions https://www.euractiv.com/section/china/news/russia-and-china-trade-new-copper-disguised-as-scrap-to-skirt-taxes-sanctions/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #China #copper #Russia #Sanctions #Uighurs