Post by Estelle Platini

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"Every night, I sleep through the same nightmare. I hear a roar coming towards me, an increasingly menacing rumour. I don't turn round. I don't need to. I know who's chasing me… I know they have machetes. Somehow, without turning around, I know they have machetes… Sometimes there are my classmates too. I hear their screams when they fall. When they… Now I'm running alone, I know I'm going to fall, I know I'm going to be trampled, I don't want to feel the cold of the blade on my neck, I…
I wake up. I'm in France. The house is silent. My children are asleep in their room.

– Scholastique Mukasonga, in her book "Inyenzi ou les Cafards" (incipit)

#Mukasonga #Rwanda #شهيد, #shaheed #words #witness #France #history #mourning #coloniality #book #racism #genocide #quote #quotes #nightmare #trauma #ethnicCleansing #PTSD

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Uri Gordon said: "People aren’t born to dehumanize, right? People dehumanize because A, it comes at no cost, and B, because they are given frameworks of thinking that encourage them to do that. I think we should think about it the same way as you know, maybe a lot of the American mainstream public was dehumanizing Afghans and Iraqis earlier this century, to me dehumanizing mentalities are a sort of discursive symptom of actual power imbalances. It's a mechanism for people to self-legitimate, to give themselves some kind of way of reconciling their desired self-image as good people with the fact that atrocities are being committed in their name. And the way to reconcile that is to portray the victims of those atrocities as uniformly threatening, menacing, dangerous enemies who are forever ill-disposed to agreement and motivated by hatred and by anti-Semitism and the rest of it, which can become a self-fulfilling prophecy."

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mohammed-bamyeh-uri-gordon-the-no-state-solution

#blameTheVictim #anarchism #genocide

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Omer Bartov wrote about the need of Jewish Israelis to believe in their national morality and to nourish #victimhood: 🧶

"This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

#trauma #ethnicCleansing #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #Zionism #israel #Gaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #OmerBartov #IsraelGazaWar #GazaWar #warOnGaza #IDF #military #army #sociology #domination #history #reputation

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