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Specifically the judgement was that you cannot engage in political protests at these concentration camps which the accused had explicitly said they were doing.
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Arguing that the keffiyeh itself represents protest is already a false equivalence to one person trying to protest. This is absolutely generalizing to alienate an entire group of people. What if they said that all Jews needed to remove their kippot? If a Jewish person is devout enough to wear a yarmulke in public, they're going to stand on the ground that asking people to remove their kippot is discriminatory.
But I take the most umbrage with that last part. To say that people can't "relativise Nazi crimes" is to deny learning from the past. It's essentially my community saying "it's only a genocide when it happens to us." We can't own genocide and we really shouldn't own the Holocaust. Just because 6 million of us were killed doesn't allow us to prevent others from making comparisons. If only Jews can learn from the Holocaust, then millions more will die when we get to use our shield as a weapon.
That last sentence is phrased poorly because that's exactly what's happening right now; I just can't think how to rephrase it right now.
That "document" which "contained mistakes" said that the slogan "ceasefire now" is antisemitic hatespeech that would deny that Israel is merely defending itself in Gaza. At a time when most human rights organizations had reports detailling, why Israels massacres amount to genocide, with the UN showing that the "famine" is entirely man made and the deliberate use of starvation as a means of genocide.
The Buchenwald memorial organization is run by people who engage in extreme historical revisionism, exclude Jews, including the descendants of people who were victims of the Nazis in Buchenwald and by this is desecrating the memorial and supporting new atrocities.