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.
  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Russia’s problem is that they’ve never been hit with a genocide themselves

    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…?

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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…)

        • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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.