UN Human Rights Office - OPT: Unlawful killings in Gaza City

المنطقة عكف عفريت@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.world – 807 points – United Nations reports Israeli forces are carrying out mass summary executions in Gaza
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I swapped the original article at the request of a mod to from a source deemed more reliable, but to avoid confusion when reading the comment section prior to this edit, here is the link to the original article. I chose the Relief Web source listed by some who commented. Cheers!

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I would just like to point out that the Holocaust was not JUST Jews. Other people were persecuted as well (such as LGBTQ+ peeps)

Disabled people and political dissidents too. But LGBTQ+ people is especially apt to point out in this day and age.

And black people.

The Nazi campaign was mostly focused on Jews because they were the biggest and easiest to target minority but the Nazi's killed everyone that wasn't from "their group of people" and tried to replace that population with their own (expanding the Lebensraum)

Pretty much. If you weren't white and straight and a sycophant, you were on the chopping block. Normally women would probably be too, except they wanted that to have more Aryan babies 🤮

The Roma (aka Gipsies).

Everybody forgets them, strangelly.

I noticed that the holocaust page on Wikipedia conveniently forgets to state the other non-Jewish victims, then I realized that the Holocaust with a capital H only includes Jewish victims according to Wikipedia itself:

The term Holocaust is sometimes used to refer to the persecution of other groups that the Nazis targeted,[4][6] especially those targeted on a biological basis, in particular the Roma and Sinti, as well as Soviet prisoners of war and Polish and Soviet civilians.[7][8][9] All of these groups, however, were targeted for different reasons.[10] By the 1970s, the adjective Jewish was dropped as redundant and Holocaust, now capitalized, became the default term for the destruction of European Jews.[11] The Hebrew word Shoah ("catastrophic destruction") exclusively refers to Jewish victims.[5][6][7] The perpetrators used the phrase "Final Solution" as a euphemism for their genocide of Jews.[12]

I don't really know what to think of this.

Apparently some don't like to include LGBTQ, the disabled, and non-Jews under the term "Holocaust" despite shit like this:

“All Poles will disappear from the world,” Heinrich Himmler said, It is essential that the great German people should consider it as its major task to destroy all Poles.”

If anyone is well versed in genocide studies and history, please enlighten us!