The Nazi German government attempted to exclude Jews from all aspects of public life. One such attempt was Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass—during which Jewish businesses and synagogues were destroyed by state-sponsored violence.
In autumn 1941, around 340,000 Jews remained in Greater Germany. At that time, key Nazi figures advised Hitler to deport those Jews. Hitler then ordered that all the remaining Jews be deported between September 15 and 17, 1941, to the already overcrowded ghettos in Eastern Europe.
In the Minsk Ghetto, which was full, space was made for the newcomers by the German army gathering 25,000 of the ghetto inhabitants and murdering them.
The increased number of Jews arriving in the ghettos led to severe overcrowding, unsustainable food shortages, and poor sanitation.
Later, in 1948, there was a mass displacement of Palestinian civilians in their homeland, Palestine. This displacement involved families taking what they could carry or being shipped in trucks as they left their homes to make space for the new state of Israel.
What occurred during Kristallnacht was nearly repeated, more offensively, with Israeli soldiers or settlers attacking and displacing the inhabitants of many villages or killing them. One such village was Tantura, where the Alexandroni Brigade, a group of Israeli soldiers, attacked its inhabitants, killing many without reason and raping girls. Numerous sources confirm the existence of this massacre.
Most displaced Palestinians moved to two areas: the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Human Rights Watch, in the report titled "Israel: 50 Years of Occupation Abuses," outlined at least five categories of major violations of international human rights law and humanitarian law characterizing the occupation: unlawful killings, forced displacement, abusive detention, the closure of the Gaza Strip and other unjustified restrictions on movement, and the development of settlements, along with accompanying discriminatory policies that disadvantage Palestinians.
For more than 70 years, Israel's government has been demonizing Palestinians. The state of Israel has continuously portrayed them as terrorists with the primary goal of killing Israelis and compromising their security.
Israel's mass media outlets, along with European and US mainstream media channels, have consistently condemned Palestinians for spreading violence without acknowledging that these Palestinians were displaced from their homes, killed in large numbers, and oppressed by an occupying regime.
It is crucial to differentiate between Jews and Israel. Jews are individuals who were oppressed by the extremist ideology of Nazi Germany. Conversely, Palestinians are people currently oppressed by the extremist ideology of the Israeli state.
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