What sucks for Jews, like me, and for blacks, like my wife, is that the pain that we both experience is often shared by the oppressed! What do I mean by this? Read the history in the blood, our shared blood. Read the foods that we ritually eat. Read the history books that actually share the factual historical verifiable truths about our peoples!
Off the fresh history of the Nazi Holocaust in Europe (at the cost of over 6 million Jewish lives), Jews in Iraq just a few years later found themselves on the receiving end of the Muslim version of European-influenced (aka, Christian) Nazism – and it only got worse, in time, across the Middle East and North Africa!
Attacked and murdered, stolen from and made refugees, just for being a “Jew.” While, “across the world*, in the USA, an entire city is bombed to the ground on this day, just because the citizens creating prosperity in the “Land of the Free” in Tulsa are, unfortunately, born “black”/”negro” – aka, slaves by Christian social design (in other words, like “Jews,” the targeted “other”).
White Christian and Muslim Arab supremacy is a sin against Humanity itself! Religious fundamentalism with the power of States backing inherent racism is a sin against Humanity! For peace and justice is never achieved by forced conversions or attempted genocides! Absolutism, especially religious, is a sickness of the mind that leads repetitively to violence and Holocausts/Catastrophes (to Shoah/Nakba)! Especially, for anyone not born “white” – meaning, White Anglo Saxon Protestant!
Those, like Arab and Jewish Palestinians before the Nazi Shoah (those who are non-Muslims and non-Christians, yes, both still exist)! Those, like 400 years of USA oppression of blacks and First Peoples! No oppressed minority can afford to think that they are more oppressed than other minorities!
The truth is, in this modern world, if you are not Christian white or Muslim Arab, then you are “target,” the blame for everything! Yes, ever a target, in this Christianity/Islam ruled world of human beings. There is *no* place for ethno-religious minorities, people of color, or Jews and blacks, in the Christian/Islam dominated 20th/21st century!
Why? For such to exist sheds light upon the lie of absolutism of fundamentalist proselytizing reigions. For such religions to exist (to continue existing) a demon community *is required*! This is why gentile Christianity demonized “the Jews” to begin with, from the 4th century CE onward. The historical fear is this:
So long as “others” exist, there are natural options to not be what is *idealized* as “absolute” truth. Only Christianity and Islam speak in such absolutes upon this planet Earth!
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“As we mark the 80th anniversary of the Farhūd (Arabic for “violent dispossession”) on June 1, 1941, I think about my father’s childhood in Iraq. When he talks about Iraq, he always has fond memories. He remembers his Jewish school in Baghdad, his love of swimming in the Tigris River, and how the Jewish community was large and vibrant.
My father recalls that because there were so many Jews in Baghdad (90,000) then, the banks were closed on Saturday out of respect for the Jewish Sabbath, rather than on Friday for Jumuʿah, the Muslim weekly day of prayer and rest. The Jewish population was three percent of the population of Iraq in the 1940s, or about 135,000 people. Jewish communities had existed in this region since the 6th century BCE, nearly a millennium before Muslim communities established a presence in Iraq during the 7th century. Jews were active in Parliament and other branches of the government, and one of independent Iraq’s finance ministers, Sir Sassoon Eskell, hailed from a Jewish family.
But a peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Jews in Iraq was disrupted on the fateful day of June 1, 1941 — the Nazi-inspired Farhūd. The massacre, which erupted as Jews across Iraq were beginning the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Shavuʾot, ended with thousands injured and 130 people murdered, mostly in Baghdad.
The tragedy took place one month after Iraq’s pro-Nazi Prime Minister Rashid Ali Al-Gaylani led a group of Iraqi officers (al-Murabbaʿ adh-Dhahabī — the “Golden Square”) in a coup and overthrew the British Regent of Iraq along with the soon-to-be King ʿAbd al-Ilah of the Hejaz (now Saudi Arabia) and Iraq’s Hashemite royal family.
Soldiers, police, members of youth gangs, and Bedouins rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods in Baghdad murdering, raping and looting. Neither the Iraqi authorities under Rashid Ali al-Gaylani nor the British intervened. The British delayed intervention and recapture of the city. The violence continued for two days and only ended early on the afternoon of June 2, 1941.”
https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/my-father-survived-a-pogrom-in-baghdad-i-still-hope-for-jewish-arab-engagement-in-iraq/
My Father Survived a Pogrom in Baghdad. I Still Hope for Jewish-Arab Engagement in Iraq.
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“Woke culture [in the West] is in desperate need of humility, admitting that truth does not dwell in Twitter nor the messiah in a meme.
If the “woke community” really sought to awaken, it would realize that Jew hatred is the oldest of hatreds. [Slavery, ghettos, and genocides targeting Jews by Gentile Christians in Europe and the Middle East, preceded their colonizing enslavement of Africans by 1,200 years!]
It seems that portions of our people have forgotten why Israel was established in the first place: to serve as a safe haven for Jews in our own ancestral homeland. Israeli Jews are roughly divided between Ashkenazi Jews with roots in Europe and Sephardi or Mizrahi Jews with roots around the Mediterranean and the Middle East, who in turn were descendants of Jews from the Holy Land, going back hundreds and thousands of years.
How profoundly unfortunate it is that the Palestinian leadership continues to undermine its own people’s wellbeing, repeatedly rejecting peace accords with Israel, and most recently, refusing its own people democratic elections. Let’s remember that the Palestinian prime minister [Abbas] is still serving a four year term that started in 2006 [following the example of his predecessor, PLO terrorist leader Yasser Arafat, before him].
Claiming that Jews are white, European “colonizers of Israel” — as woke activists frequently do — is about as historically honest as saying Native Americans don’t have a right to live in the United States. [After 3,000 years of Jewish presence in Gaza, since 2005, Gaza became Jew-free – which is the intention of both Hamas and the PA for all of historic “Palestine.”] Unfortunately, segments of the Jewish population are some of the most vocal supporters of this fraudulent ideology, trading our people for acceptance, forgetting our own history for the expediency of being politically correct [in the Diaspora].”
https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/how-a-wokestorm-is-misleading-a-generation-about-israel/
How a ‘Wokestorm’ Is Misleading a Generation About Israel
Defense of Palestinian rights has too often become a one-sided, distorted, often violent assault against Jews.
[ ] – my clarifications
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Out of nearly 4,000 missiles shot towards Israel, nearly 500 landed in Gaza – courtesy of the terrorist organization Hamas.
“Matthias Schmale, Gaza Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), admitted in a televised interview that Israel’s effort to silence Hamas and Islamic rockets had been “precise” and that, with some exceptions, Israeli bombs did not hit civilian targets. (He later retracted those words under intense pressure from Hamas.)
Hamas’s own statistics reflect the truth of Schmale’s original statement. Its health ministry counts 243 deaths during 11 days of Israel’s air campaign. This number includes Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters, Gaza residents killed by defective Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets and innocent civilians. This is a figure that demonstrates careful restraint, not carpet bombing.
None of the six Arab nations with which [Israel] has diplomatic relations has recalled its ambassador, and several are actively engaged in diplomatic efforts to calm things down. The EU, often a critic of Israeli policy, has been loath to blame a democracy for fighting back against rocket barrages by a hostile neighbor.
A few days later, Sky News’s Middle East correspondent Mark Stone paid a visit to Mahmoud al-Zahar, a co-founder of Hamas. Al-Zahar bragged about the Hamas strategy of firing rockets at crowded civilian targets in Israel and said that it was just a matter of time before Israel reached a breaking point. Stone asked his host if the state of Israel has the right to exist. Al Zahar seemed surprised by the question. “No,” he answered plainly….”
– Bloomberg News
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-28/israel-hamas-s-pr-war-against-israel-has-misfired-too
But, if you listened to “Liberal” politicians (aka, anti-Zionist politicians) and to “Liberal” newscasters, you”d think that Israel was indiscriminately “carpet bombing” Gaza for 11 days in an asymmetrical affront to human life in a populated area.
Nevermind the strategic strikes against Hamas and their infrastructures hiding in plain sight within Gaza’s most populated areas. Nevermind the majority of innocent Gazan deaths were caused by Hamas rockets. Nevermind that Israel verbally warns first to evacuate it’s target, taps it’s target later with a blank (showing intention) and, then, fires an actual missile at these Hamas positions.
All this goes unreported in media until well after the PR damage to Israel and to Jews (in general, everywhere in the world) has been done. And who, now, honestly is listening to the aftermath reports, to the words of the conflict’s actors spoken from their own lips, and analysing the facts established by surveys of the ground? …
Only those that give a damn about seeking the factual truth! The rest, the easily swayed masses, seek out the self-inflating feel-important tropes that justify one’s biases in life.
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“But is it true that the Jews never left Israel? Yes, it is:
Talmudic Age: The Romans did not exile the Jews. Post-revolt synagogues dotted the land. The misnah and Palestinian Talmud were written. The Romans recognized the Patriarch as the community’s head until the fifth century.
The Muslim Dynasties: The Jews were still there.
Crusader rule: The Jews fought at Jerusalem, and held the Crusaders off — alone at Haifa — for a month.
The Mamluks: the Jews were still there — in their four holy cities and elsewhere.
The 400 years of Ottoman Turk rule: The Jews were still there, becoming Jerusalem’s majority during this time.
The argument for Israel is typically made on the legal side — the Balfour Declaration, the San Remo Conference of 1920, the Palestine Mandate, UN Security Council Resolution 242. These are critical, yes, but not enough to counter the pervasive, but wholly false, sentiment that Jews stole Arab land.
Historian James Parkes is indeed right that we grievously err in not making it clear that Israel, far from being “founded” in 1948, has been the Jewish people’s uninterrupted homeland during and since biblical times.
“The omission [of the fact of continual Jewish presence in the land] allowed the anti-Zionist, whether Jewish, Arab or European, to paint an entirely false picture of the wickedness of Jewry in trying to re-establish a two-thousand-year-old claim the country, indifferent to everything that had happened in the intervening period.” ”
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This is why we need as a world of humans to enforce the end of Christian/Islamic hate for the non-Saved! So that we can free Palestinians and Jews, blacks and First Peoples, from the horrific violent enslavement of terroristic oppression upon them!
“From a strictly Halakhic point of view, Moslem Palestinians are covenanted B’nai Noach – children of Noah who are completely in compliance with the seven universal laws of ethics. Those who live in Israel are the modern day equivalent of the ancient Ger Toshav (resident convert) who is accorded full economic, legal and moral rights in our country. And our empathy. Those who fight us obviously will face a tough hand. But to encounter “THEM” as an evil totality is to push them all into the enemy camp. And worse, it serves to erase our own identity. If one lacks this quality of empathy, of being Rachmanim, one cannot cleave to the nation of Israel (Tractate Yevamot 79a).” – Rabbi Daniel Landes, Rachmanut for Gaza, Feb 2015
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“This morning I was also deeply saddened to hear of an attack by anti-Semitic vandals against the Young Israel of Century City, the Beit Knesset of my good friend Rabbi Elazar Muskin, thousands of miles away in Los Angeles.”
While religious haters, like Bella Hadid, chant for the genocide of Jews in Israel-Palestine, synagogues are being vandalized and Jews being attacked in the USA and Europe for the same hateful reasons. It’s not about Israeli sovereignty, but about hating upon the existence of Jews in this world. That’s why so few remain now in Islamic nations. Ever since the creation of Gentile Christianity, anything/everything is an excuse to target Jews – anywhere/everywhere!
“The painful reality of today’s world is that the Jewish people are once again united against dangerous enemies who are attacking us simply for who we are. But those enemies also remind us that our responsibility remains to serve as a light of morality and justice to the rest of the world. Hatred and darkness will not deter us. Rather they must only inspire us to work harder to defend those values and take greater pride in our Jewish traditions and identity.”
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Look, as much as I *want* to believe that Christians and Muslims can be trustworthy, that is like the First Peoples (the indigenous) of this continent that white people call “America” wanting to believe that white people will keep their g-d-mn treaties. It’s never gonna happen(!), so long as white supremacy rules over the world!!! Peace will never happen! Social justice will never happen!! *Actual* “Democracy” will never happen!!!
Why/How do I know this?! There is a fricken *GAS CHAMBER* in the State of Arizona that is *not* knew and is OPPERATIONAL again! … So what that it is for “criminals” on “death row”. Not all of them *are actually guilty* of the crime that they’ve been sentenced to having committed!
A serious question for you here, white folk: How much longer before every white Christian ruled State has a gas chamber at the ready? Due to recent World War history, this question *must* be asked by those of us who are Jewish, *having seen this* before in recent history!
In other words, exactly how much longer before the next “Shoah”? So, I and Jews like me can plan, please, oh “superior” master “race,” do answer!
Hell, voting rights once again are being restricted across this nation, to keep white supremacy over this nation alive. The self-declared “superior” race is taking back their (“our”) white-skinned country! And, now we learn of a *Nazi weapon* revived to slaughter *the innocent*?!?! Yes! The same kind of gas chamber that put 6+ million Jews to death in Europe, not that effing long ago in history!!! WTF?!!!
And, what the hell is wrong with USA Jews that can’t distinguish between Badchristians and Badmuslims, many of whom are married to them (and, thus, on their side!), from the real thing?!!! The pious devout white Christians and Muslims that seek to turn the world into the faithful them?!!! Wake up, #SHJ !!!
Everyday white people! They have no understanding of collective trauma, because they have *never* been the victims of their self-righteous superior violence upon others. Just saying!!! If they had *any* collective memory of being a target, then they’d *question twice* their motives before acting!!! Like the rest of us humans on this planet!
But, I’m just preaching to the choir, right? Ain’t nobody in power listening, unless they – of course – be looking for the jeans pocket access to fund their upcoming election votes!!! Welcome to the United States of white Christian AmeriKKKa! The literal historical teachers for Nazi Germany!!! I and other historians got receipts to prove this!
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