Genocide! Happening Right Now!

By now everyone is probably aware of the terrible genocide currently being committed against that proud ancient brown indigenous people in the Middle East.  You know, the people who have been colonized and occupied for years?

Picture from the genocide in question

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Oh wait, you thought I was talking about the Palestinians?   You must be incredibly stupid!

First of all, the "Palestinian" territories have the highest rate of natural population increase in the world.  In the world!  That is the opposite of a genocide.  For something to be a genocide, the population of the supposed target group has to at least stop going up at the highest rate in the world.  Plus there is all that stuff about thousands of rockets being fired from schools and hospitals and so on.  There is also that little matter that the Palestinians are not ancient at all.

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No, I am talking about the genocide of the Yezidis.  See, even though you don't know about it, because the media seems to be silent, right now the Yezidi people, who practice a unique religion that predates Islam and speak Kurdish, are being killed and expelled from the last of their homeland in Iraq.   A larger fraction of Yezidis have died and been displaced than Palestinians lately, but for some reason hardly anyone knows about the Yezidis.  Hmm, very "interesting".

Stranded on a barren mountaintop, thousands of minority Iraqis are faced with a bleak choice: descend and risk slaughter at the hands of the encircled Sunni extremists or sit tight and risk dying of thirst.

Humanitarian agencies said Tuesday that between 10,000 and 40,000 civilians remain trapped on Mount Sinjar since being driven out of surrounding villages and the town of Sinjar two days earlier. But the mountain that had looked like a refuge is becoming a graveyard for their children. 

Unable to dig deep into the rocky mountainside, displaced families said they have buried young and elderly victims of the harsh conditions in shallow graves, their bodies covered with stones.

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The Yezidis are not the only current victims of genocide that you've never heard of.

The Assyrian people are even more ancient, the descendents of the Sumerian civilization.  Historically they were spread across Iraq and formed around 8% of the Iraqi population in the late 20th century.  As Christians they have been an especially vulnerable target of Islamic militants.  Between 2003 and 2009 one million Assyrians - two-thirds of the total population - were driven from Iraq.  The rump that has remained has now been targeted by ISIS, who have issued convert or die orders to the remaining Assyrian community in Mosul.

But wait, there's more!  Have you heard of the Mandaeans?  I didn't think so.  They are another ancient minority in Iraq.  The Mandeans practice a religion that fuses Christianity with Gnostic philosophy.  In the past 20 years, due to persecutions, murders, and expulsions, their population in Iraq has gone from 60,000 to around 5,000 today.  A reduction of 92%?  Now that is a genocide. 

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So why is it that all of these groups, who are each more ancient than the Palestinians, and who are actually losing numbers and actually in danger of extinction in their homelands whereas the Palestinians are not, are getting only the tiniest fraction of the amount of concern that the Palestinians are??

Why is it that there are thousands of editorials over the Palestinians but zero for the Yezidis, who are actually going extinct?? 

Why are there hundreds of articles at HuffPo and Daily Kos about the Palestinians but none for the Assyrians, who are going to actually disappear from their five thousand year homeland?? 

Why have their been dozens of protests worldwide about the Palestinians whose population goes up every single day but none for the Mandaeans who have declined by 92%??

One of those "human rights" activists who supports Palestinians and definitely doesn't have any other motivation

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Well, we all know the answer.

It is because Palestinians are involved in a conflict with Jews, and the rest are not.  When Jews can be somehow blamed, the world perks up and takes note.  The rest of these groups are S.O.L., because even though they are actually going extinct in the Middle East due to the genocidal activities of their neighbors, nobody cares for or has even heard about them, because their situation cannot be blamed on Israel.

This proves that people who are supposedly concerned with "Palestinians" are really just haters of Jews.  If they were really concerned about human rights and oppressed peoples, they would devote at least a fraction of their concern to the Yezidis, Assyrians, and Mandaeans.

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This is why I must conclude that all Western pro-Palestinian activists are solely motivated by pure antisemitism, and/or pure hatred of America and the West.  Full stop.  They simply don't care one bit about human rights or actual people, or else they would have at least heard of these other groups.  They only care about people if they can be a means to bash America, Israel, or the West.

So let me say it again:

So-called pro-Palestinian activists only care about people if they can be a means to bash America, Israel, or the West.