katzenberger<p>I've noticed that I got blocked by some for occasionally boosting posts of the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>auschwitzmuseum</span></a></span>.</p><p>If you're not familiar with that account: it is run by the <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AuschwitzMemorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AuschwitzMemorial</span></a> in Poland, and their posts are usually a photograph of a victim of the <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/holocaust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>holocaust</span></a>, accompanied by a short text on who they were.</p><p>I share criticism of the appointment of some questionable persons as members of their advisory "International Auschwitz Council" (<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/IAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IAC</span></a>). Members that relativize genocides, apparently because in their opinions, only a holocaust counts as a "real" genocide, despite the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/CPPCG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CPPCG</span></a>) having clear criteria that say otherwise; and despite their own country being a member state of that treaty. Members that also have a track record of proudly defending decades of gross violations of international law.</p><p>I'm also alienated by the contrast between the Museum's strong, and almost instant, condemnation of the full-scale invasion of <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> in 2022, and its choice of still staying completely silent, in 2025, on the war crimes being committed in <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a>. I consider this voluntary bias utterly inappropriate, once you have chosen to speak up on current matters.</p><p>You will still see me boosting posts that show a human being, and what a genocidal regime has done to them. Whether it's a historical genocide, or a present one.</p>