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Germany, which committed genocide in Namibia, blasted for defending Israel by African nation - UPI.com (www.upi.com)

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Namibian President Hage G. Geingob blasted Germany on Saturday for defending Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, pointing to the genocide Germany itself perpetrated on Namibians in the early 1900s.

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[-] DemBoSain@midwest.social 15 points 10 months ago

Well, Germany is kind of in a tough spot here...

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 42 points 10 months ago

Only because the Holocaust was always framed as "that horrible thing that happened to the Jews that we need to prevent from ever happening again to Jews" instead of "that horrible thing that happened to people (some of which were Jews) and we need to prevent that from happening to any people ever again".

[-] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 21 points 10 months ago

One if our own making. If we stopped defending genocide we wouldn't be here.

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