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alanshemper · 6 months

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In 1862's 'Rome and Jerusalem,' perhaps the earliest Zionist text, Moses Hess asked France to "help the Jews to found colonies which may extend from Suez to Jerusalem and from the banks of the Jordan to the coast of the Mediterranean." 2/

In late August 1898, the Second Zionist Congress established the Jewish Colonial Trust, the financial arm of the World Zionist Organization and the first official Zionist bank. In 1902, the Anglo-Palestine Company Ltd. was founded as a subsidiary of the Jewish Colonial Trust. 3/

In 1902, Theodor Herzl, father of political Zionism, begged Cecil Rhodes to support the Zionist project and facilitate Jewish settlement of Palestine. Zionism was in Britain's imperial interest, Herzl suggested, "Because it is something colonial." 4/

Revisionist Zionist leader Vladmir Jabotinsky, who founded and led the Irgun militia, wrote explicitly in his 1923 Zionist manifesto, "The Iron Wall," that "Zionism is a colonization adventure and therefore it stands or it falls by the question of armed force." 5/

Jabotinsky also wrote, "Zionist colonization, even the most restricted, must either be terminated or carried out in defiance of the will of the native population," and that it was "necessary to carry on colonization against the will of the Palestinian Arabs." 6/

One of the leading Zionist organizations supporting the Yishuv (Jewish settlers) in Mandatory Palestine was the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, established in 1924. (It was originally founded in 1891 as the Jewish Colonization Association.) 7/

The Jewish Agency, formed in 1929 by the 16th Zionist Congress, was (and is still) tasked with increasing Jewish immigration to Palestine. Its fundraising arm originally operated under the auspices of World Zionist Organization's aptly-named "Colonization Department." 8/

On October 5, 1937, David Ben-Gurion - later Israel's first prime minister - sent a letter to his son Amos in which he wrote that "Palestine...contains vast colonization potential which the Arabs neither need nor are qualified (because of their lack of need) to exploit." 9/

In mid-1947, the Jewish Agency presented its position to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. It declared "industrial development in Palestine" was "part of...the migration of industry from the old industrial countries to colonial or semi-colonial territories." 10/

During the presentation, Chaim Weizmann-later Israel's 1st president-stated, "As compared with the result of the colonizing activities of other peoples, our impact on the Arabs has not produced very much worse results than what has been produced by others in other countries." 11/

Moshe Shertok-Israel's 2nd prime minister-boasted of Zionism to the UNSCOP, saying "it will not be easy to find an instance in the history of colonization where a large scale settlement scheme has been conducted with so much respect for the interests of existing population." 12/

Clearly, Zionism's colonial nature was explicit from the outset and was leveraged as a selling point to gain European support. When colonialism began to lose legitimacy, the term was retired.

So don't ever claim that "we Zionists never called ourselves colonialists."

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In 1891 leading Zionist thinker Asher Ginsburg (Ahad Ha'am) wrote that "when the life of our people in Palestine will develop to such an extent as to push out, to a small or large extent, the indigenous population of the country, then not easily will they give up their place." 2/

In 1898, Theodor Herzl recognized that, in order to establish a "Jewish state" in Palestine, the inconvenient indigenous population would have to be removed. “We shall try to spirit the penniless [Palestinian Arab] population (i.e. Arab) across the border," he wrote. 3/

Israel Zangwill, British leader of the Jewish Territorialist Organization (ITO), wrote in 1904 of "a difficulty from which the Zionist dare not avert his eyes, though he rarely likes to face it." It was that "Palestine proper has already its inhabitants." 4/

So what was his solution? "We must be prepared...to drive out by the sword the tribes in possession as our forefathers did."

Similarly, Chaim Weizmann referred to Palestinians as "the rocks of Judea, as obstacles that had to be cleared on a difficult path." 5/

his 1926 address to Nat'l Conference of the United Palestine Appeal in Boston, Weizmann said Palestinians "are in the country, and have been there for ages. We are the newcomers and have to become part and parcel of the country. We are planting a new people in the country. 6/

In 1929, early Labor Zionist intellectual Berl Katznelson declared, "Zionist enterprise is an enterprise of conquest," admitting that "it is by no chance that I use military terms when speaking of settlement." 7/

In 1930, Menachem Usshishkin, a powerful early pioneer of Zionism and leading member of the Jewish National Fund, stated, "If there are other inhabitants there [in Palestine], they must be transferred to some other place. We must take over the land." 8/

in 1936, Ussishkin commented, "Now the [Palestinian] Arabs do not want us because we want to be the rulers. I will fight for this. I will make sure that we will be the landlords of this land...because this country belongs to us not to them." 9/

In 1936, another leading Zionist, Arthur Ruppin, who led colonization efforts through the Jewish National Fund, declared, "On every site where we purchase land and where we settle people, the present cultivators will inevitably be dispossessed." 10/

In June 1937, David Ben-Gurion wrote to Jewish Agency head Moshe Shertok, "Were I an Arab...I would rebel even more vigorously, bitterly, and desperately against the immigration that will one day turn Palestine and all its Arab residents over to Jewish rule." 11/

Ben-Gurion told the 20th Zionist Congress in August 1937, "New Jewish settlement will not be possible unless there is a transfer of the Arab peasantry," adding, "Jewish power in the country...will also increase our possibilities to carry out the transfer on a large scale." 12/

At the November 21, 1937 meeting of Jewish Agency's Transfer Committee, Yosef Weitz, Land Department chief at the Jewish National Fund, boasted that "transfer" not only "diminish[es] the Arab population," but also "release[s] it for Jewish inhabitants." 13/

In 1938, Ben-Gurion reaffirmed these sentiments: "Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves. Politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down." 14/

At the same time, Ussishkin insisted, "We cannot start the Jewish state with...half the population being Arab...Such a state cannot survive even half an hour." Regarding the forcible ethnic cleansing of over sixty thousand Palestinian families, he added: "It is most moral." 15/

Ruppin agreed: "I do not believe in the transfer of individuals. I believe in the transfer of entire villages." He also wrote, "Land is the most necessary thing for establishing roots in Palestine...We are bound in each case...to remove the peasants who cultivate the land." 16/

Moshe Shertok, Jewish Agency chief and later Israel's second prime minister, said, "We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it." 17/

On March 20, 1941, the Jewish Agency's Yosef Weitz wrote, "The complete evacuation of the country from its other inhabitants and handing it over to the Jewish people is the answer." 18/

In 1941, Weitzmann told Ivan Maisky, Soviet ambassador to England, that "if half a million Arabs could be transferred, two million Jews could be put in their place. That, of course, would be a first installment; what might happen afterwards [would be] a matter for history." 19/

In a 1941 memorandum entitled "Outlines of the Zionist Policy", Ben-Gurion recognized that "the majority of the Arabs could hardly be expected to leave voluntarily," noting, "Complete transfer without compulsion – and ruthless compulsion, at that – is hardly imaginable." 20/

Founder and longtime president of the World Jewish Congress Nahum Goldmann recalled Ben-Gurion saying in 1956, "Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country." 21/

In 1969, Moshe Dayan declared, "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages...There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population." 22/

Again, Zionism is a colonial ideology that explicitly relies on the forceful removal of the native population from its homeland. To live in peace with those you have displaced, dispossessed & disenfranchised, you must guarantee equal rights for all. 23/END

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date-prisa-estamos-leyendo · 5 months

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Prohibido nacer, Trevor Noah.

#prohibido nacer #trevor noah #currently reading #frases libros #frases literatura #frases literarias #libros #literatura #Hitler #cecil rhodes #andrew jackson #cristóbal colón

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kramlabs · 10 months

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“Sixty-seven words that led to the creation of the State of Israel”

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Reminder:

#rothschild #balfour declaration #city of london #cecil rhodes #Zionist #carroll quigley #antony sutton #richard grove #Alfred Milner #sullivan and cromwell #round table #think tank

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allthecanadianpolitics · 2 years

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The Winnipeg School Division has approved a new name for a 114-year-old school that honoured a controversial man connected with apartheid and white supremacy.

Cecil Rhodes School will be renamed Keewatin Prairie Community School, the division announced on Wednesday.

The new name, which will take effect on Sept. 1, connects the school to its geographical location while also honouring the Cree and Ojibway languages, the division said.

Keewatin means "the land of the northwest wind" in Cree and Ojibway.

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On its website, Cecil Rhodes School proclaims its name is a tribute to the "British-born South African statesman, financier, founder of the Rhodes Scholarships at Oxford and one of the great empire builders of the late 19th century."

However, biographies written about Rhodes say he also advocated vigorous settler colonialism and touted views that white Europeans were "the first race in the world" and that "the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race."

A British businessman, imperialist and politician, Rhodes's policies paved the way for apartheid in South Africa.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#White supremacy #apartheid #Winnipeg #First Nations #cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #Cecil Rhodes

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eucanthos · 2 years

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Edward Linley Sambourne, Punch editorial cartoon, 1892, for Cecil Rhodes’ British colonial plans for Africa [as Colossus of Rhodes]

Armillary Globe, Astrolabe Astronomy Map

Orrery Planetarium, 19th c.

Elon Musk “Colonization Ends on Earth” posted by celesticadream

#eucanthos #collage #Elon Musk #dystopia #space #mechanical #mistakes #Cecil Rhodes #Earth #Mars #planet #airplane #Orrery

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tmarshconnors · 1 year

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"Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life."

Cecil Rhodes, former Prime Minister of the Cape Colony Born 5th July 1853

Died 26th March 1902

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delilahmidnight · 2 months

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#theodore herzl #cecil rhodes #colonialism #imperialism #israeli imperialism #western imperialism #western colonialism #british colonialism #tiktoks

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my-passion-for-travel · 3 months

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Kimberly and The Big Hole

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#Cecil Rhodes #D-Beers #Diamonds #independent travel #Kimberly #photography #Road Trip #South Africa #travel #travel blog #travel tips

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spectaculardistractions · 1 year

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As a matter of fact it is surely remarkable, to begin with quite a superficial observation, how large is the number of representatives of the most spiritual forms of Christian piety who have sprung from commercial circles. In particular, very many of the most zealous adherents of Pietism are of this origin. It might be explained as a sort of reaction against mammonism on the part of sensitive natures not adapted to commercial life, and, as in the case of Francis of Assisi, many Pietists have themselves interpreted the process of their conversion in these terms. Similarly, the remarkable circumstance that so many of the greatest capitalistic entrepreneurs—down to Cecil Rhodes—have come from clergymen’s families might be explained as a reaction against their ascetic upbringing. But this form of explanation fails where an extraordinary capitalistic business sense is combined in the same persons and groups with the most intensive forms of a piety which penetrates and dominates their whole lives.

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic

#max weber #the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism #st. francis of assisi #cecil rhodes

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this-is-a-podcast-fanblog · 6 days

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Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament

Welcome one and all to the Night Vale Obscure Ship Tournament! This is to determine once and for all what is the best obscure Night Vale ship. This tournament brings together canon pairings from the supplementary media (like the books), fandom crack ships, rarepairs, and could-have-beens. Some of these ships have large fanbases on Tumblr, but are more lacking on other platforms. Some of these ships will genuinely make you question who in the world is interested in that. And all of these ships are up for your vote, starting tomorrow!

Official Bracket:

On the left we have:

Nilanjanet (Nilanjana Sikdar/Janet Lubelle) vs Kasvin (Kasper Rhodes/Kevin)

Cecearl (Cecil Gerswhin Palmer/Earl Harland) vs Charlos (Carlos Robles/Charles)

Josh/Monty vs Danielauren (Daniel/Lauren Mallard)

Kascil (Kasper Rhodes/Cecil Gerswhin Palmer) vs Blake/Larry Leroy

On the right we have:

Mallardinal (Lauren Mallard/Dana Cardinal) vs Pawn Sherrif (Jackie Fierro/Sherrif Sam)

Toxic Science (Blake Jones/Janet Lubelle) vs Pizzacat (Silas the Thief/Big Rico Goldblum)

Radio Scientology (Cecil Palmer/Kevin/Carlos Robles/Charles) vs Women's Wrong's (The Faceless Old Woman/The Woman From Italy)

Laurbelle (Lauren Mallard/Janet Lubelle) vs Kasplake (Kasper Rhodes/Blake Jones)

Vote correctly, or never see your loved ones again.

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thevoiceofdesertbluffs · 1 year

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mmmmmmmm food yummy yummy (someone fucking stop me)

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esrah-rah-rasputin · 11 months

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Some other doodles from yesterday (and aside from the Kevin one, this is about the quality/style you can expect from a doodles for tips commission in ko fi 🙂)

[ID 1: Steve Carlsberg, using @/kerink’s design of him, sliding forward on the floor on his knees and doing jazz hands. In one palm is a rose, and he’s biting another rose with stem between his teeth, raising his eyebrow suggestively. He’s wearing cargo pants and a t shirt that says “Puns N Roses.” Steve is a middle aged, mid sized balding man with one single eye. /End ID]

[ID 2: a doodle of Kasper Rhodes, using @/thevoiceofdesertbluffs’s design, standing facing the viewer with a big smile and his arms held a little ways out from his body. Kasper is a mid sized person with antennae, four teeth that stick out, pointed ears, a tail, and mechanical legs from the knees down. He’s wearing a cloak, pants, and a t shirt that says “I heart brains.” /End ID]

[ID 3: Donovan and Esteban swinging on swings together. They are both curly haired, small boys. /End ID]

[ID 4: Cecil Palmer reading a geology book to Esteban, both cuddled up in Esteban’s bed (which has a wooden frame with star and eye designs). Cecil reads to him as Esteban yawns, “And this is called igneous rock..!” Cecil is wearing a lace tank top, striped arm warmers, and the sort of night cap you’d see in a late 1800s illustration. /End ID]

[ID 5: Charles, Kevin, and Donovan on a picnic, using @/mudstoneabyss’s designs for them. Charles is leaning back and smiling, while Kevin holds a sandwich and presses one hand to his cheek out of adorableness for his son. Donovan has picked up a large rock to reveal a centipede, and exclaims, “wow!” Charles is wearing a crop top, sunglasses, mesh under shirt, and shorts. Kevin is wearing a sun hat and a sun dress. Donovan is wearing a t shirt and pants. /End ID]

[ID: a matching drawing of Steve Carlsberg, but this time he’s looking over his shoulder with one hand on his hip. He’s wearing a pair of cargo pants that have had the back pockets ripped out unceremoniously, showing his bare ass (with thong). He’s wearing a t shirt that says on the back, “Buns N Poses.” /End ID]

[ID: a more detailed drawing of Kevin, in @/mudstoneabyss’s design, roller skating. He crouches and points one leg out towards the viewer, while holding out one arm for balance and resting the othr on his bent knee. He’s wearing a t shirt, scrunchie on one wrist, frayed shorts, and tube socks. His roller skates have a sun motif on the heels. The entire thing is drawn in perspective, and large accent marks emphasize the entire thing. /End ID]

#My art #wtnv fanart #Kevin wtnv #Charles the theologist #Donovan wtnv #kasper rhodes #esteban Palmer #Cecil Palmer #Steve carlsberg

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