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headspace-hotel · 6 months
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Sometimes, old American books about trees are all "This tree is unshapely, has ragged and irregular growth and has little economic value." but I was wrong to characterize them all as such, because for every capitalist-minded book about the USA's trees that is like "ough we gotta exploit every living thing" there's also a book like this:
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The book is called Our Friends the Trees and it was written in the 1930's and this is the VERY FIRST PARAGRAPH, no introduction no nothing, just going all in taking no prisoners from the very first line and it CONTINUES like this for the WHOLE book there is ZERO chill throughout the whole length of the book
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theancientwayoflife · 2 months
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~ Man and woman in loving embrace.
Place of origin: Iraq, Nippur
Period: Achaemenid Period
Date: 450 B.C.
Culture: Near Eastern
Medium: Terracotta
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As an actual Israeli Jewish woman, please do tell me about the apartheid in my country
The only argument you have are the blockades
-you do realise the blockades you always mention as an example go both ways, right? Israelis have to go through the same check points…
The blockades are there for a reson: they save lives.
-you know? countries usually have boarders and checkpoints on borders with neighbouring countries- let alone countries with terror organisations that massacred their citizens and have repeatedly said that they’ll do so again…
And by the way- Jordan and Egypt both have the same blockades and even more of a military presence on their boarders with Palestinians- yet you only care when it’s Israel…
-in fact, Israelis face more restrictions of movement : Palestinians living in the West Bank can enter Israeli governed territory while Israelis (mainly Jews) can’t .
Gazans could enter Israel freely as long as they had work permits/ passed the checkpoints without any issue They were payed wayyy better than what they could potentially earn in Gaza too btw
-There are no discriminatory laws , no Jim Crowe-like laws
-There was never any form of slavery (Palestinians did have slaves though , they still do)
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Seriously, westerners are hell bent on projecting their history of inequality and racism on this conflict
And Ffs, read a book,talk to an actual Israeli, read a credible articles and sources that aren’t* heavily * biased, terror-supporting and antisemitic (like Al Jazeera).
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nesyanast · 3 months
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Scene from the most famous Yiddish play The Dybbuk by the Vilner Trupe. 1910s.
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lionofchaeronea · 1 month
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Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac is halted by an angel. Fresco in St. Sofia Cathedral, Kyiv, Ukraine, painted ca. 1000.
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hiddenromania · 2 years
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Neo-Romanian house, designed by the first woman architect in Romania, Victoria Andreescu-Haret (1894-1962), Bucharest
Source: Reddit
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elbosta · 2 years
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palestinian women collecting fruit 🤍
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theworldatwar · 4 months
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Soviet soldiers occupy a trench during the defence of Leningrad - Jan 1943
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pagansphinx · 4 months
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Edward Okuń (Polish, 1872-1945) • Musica Sacra • 1915
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gender0bender · 7 months
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Photos of lesbians taken between 1983-1985 by Czech photographer Libuse Jarcovjakova in T-Club, a gay bar in Prague. Link to her website - http://www.jarcovjakova.com/albums/t-club-1983-1985/
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furordinaricvs · 7 months
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Rural Russia, early 1900s.
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illustratus · 18 days
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The Battle of Manzikert, 1071 by Steve Estvanik
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theancientwayoflife · 2 months
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東漢(鮮卑文化) 鎏金翼馬紋銅飾板
~ Plaque with a Winged Horse.
Period: Eastern Han dynasty (25–220), Xianbei culture
Date: 1st century
Culture: North China
Medium: Gilt bronze
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A brief History of Mizrahi Jews in Arabic countries and Their expulsion
A\N: While I am an Ashkenazi Jew, I have done A LOT of research, and have both Iraqi friends and relatives to corroborate this with. Also, I'm petty - an Iraqi user who comments regularly on my posts seems to forget about his own country's Jewish history... Well, I hope he forgot instead of the more likely reality: It seems like Arabic people nowadays aren't aware of Jewish history in their countries since they either killed to expelled them all. Thus is born the constant argument that all Jews originated in Europe and are merely settlers in the Middle East.
I realized that what may be obvious to me won't be obvious to others since I'm a history nerd who grew up in Israel with plenty of rich archeological evidence and resources surrounding me. I'm happy to make these posts in hopes of educating others and contributing my part to ending antisemitism and prejudice. ___________________
You might have seen the following picture in one of my previous posts:
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It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Unfortunately, in this case, it concludes hundreds of years of discrimination, violence, and exile for Mizrahi Jews. * It is important to note that numbers are slightly varied between sources, but the meaning is clear.
In a nutshell- all throughout history, the fate of Jewish people in countries where they weren't the religious majority was the same:
Discriminatory laws, blood libels, being blamed for disasters > violence & murder > Pogroms * > and eventually- exile or mass murder AKA ethnic cleansing \ genocide.
Pogrom-  the term refers to violent attacks by local non-Jewish populations on Jews in the Russian Empire and in other countries.
Every Jewish community has its own Pogrom. While my side of the family might immediately think of the Kristallnacht or persecution & pogroms in Hungary, it is different for Jews from different backgrounds. You can read about a few cases of forced conversion to Islam here.
A brief History of the land of Israel
The land of Israel has always been considered a strategic passageway, and so many empires throughout history have conquered it:
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* I simply cannot accurately write 3000+ years of Jewish history in the land of Israel. I found that this video summarizes it perfectly.
Exile from the land of Israel
Jews were exiled from the land of Israel numerous times since the Assyrian empire conquered Israel in 732 BCE, to what we call "the diaspora" גולה. It was not by choice and we were persecuted everywhere we went.
Jews were not allowed to legally return to Israel until 1948 when the British mandate over the land of Israel ended and Israel was formed. Yes, even during the Holocaust.
The Jewish answer to exile - Aliyah עליה There have been 5 waves of illegal immigration from all over the world to the land of Israel before 1948, recorded in modern times.
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Chart taken from Wikipedia (their chart was the best I could find in English)
Forced Conversion
Whether in conquered Israel or in exile, Jews were often forced to convert to either Christianity or Islam. The choice was between conversion or death.
*You can read more about some of the forced conversion of Jews during history here and here.
First Case study- The last jew of Peki'in, Margalit Zinati
Peki'in is an ancient village in the upper Galilee, Northern Israel. Nowadays, its population is mostly Druze.
Peki'in has had a Jewish presence since the Second Temple period, until Arab riots in the 1930s*. Meet the remaining member of the Zinatis, the only family who returned. (aish.com)
*Read more on the Arab riots of the 1930s here and here. Margalit is currently the last Jew living in the village of Peki'in . She is the last direct descendent of the Zinati Cohen family. The Zinati family's origins are dated back to the Second Temple era. The former Jewish community of Peki'in maintained a presence there since the Second Temple period (516 BCE – 70 CE). That is when the polytheistic Persian Empire conquered the land of Israel. For reference- that was approximately 500 years before Jesus was even born! "During which the Second Temple stood in the city of Jerusalem. It began with the return to Zion and subsequent reconstruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, and ended with the First Jewish–Roman War and the Roman siege of Jerusalem." (Wikipedia)
As an adult, Margalit chose to not marry so she could stay in Peki'in and continue her family's Jewish legacy in Peki'in. She later became in charge of the ancient synagogue in the village and turned her basement into a visiting center \ museum of Jewish history in Peki'in- "House of Zinati". in 2018, she lit up a torch as part of Israel's 70th Independence Day Torch lighting ceremony (which is considered an honor given to influential and trailblazing people).
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-Margalit Zinati pictured in the Peki'in Synagogue yard, 2016 Picture taken from Wikipedia, uploaded by Deror Avi.
Second Case study - Iraqi Jews (Babylonian Jews \ יְהוּדִים בָּבְלִים)
Iraqi Jews are one of the oldest documented Jewish communities living in the Middle East. It is estimated that they originated around 600 BC.ת
The Farhud الفرهود הפרהוד
Unfortunately, Iraqi Jewish history ended in the same pattern I've described earlier. The Farhud was the violent mass dispossession against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq between 1-2 June 1941. was the pogrom or the "violent dispossession" that was carried out against the Jewish population of Baghdad, Iraq, on 1–2 June 1941, It immediately followed the British victory in the Anglo-Iraqi War.
Background for the Farhud:
WW2- At the time, many Arabic countries in the Middle East agreed with Nazi ideology.
History of violence towards Jews.
The Anglo-Iraqi War (2–31 May 1941) - caused rising tension, and as usual, it was turned on the Jews.
personal family ties to the Farhud My relative was born in 1939 in Iraq, to a big upper-class Jewish family. Unfortunately, the mass exile of Jews in the 1950s didn't skip her family: she was stripped of her belongings and exiled to Israel along with her family. In the 1950s there were approximately 140,000 Iraqi Jews. As of 2021, there are only 4 left.
----------------- Please feel free to add anything I missed in the notes. And as usual - remember I am a human being. If you cuss or harass me, I will block and report you.
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Online Sources: * https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/865383 - Hebrew article, Title means "Sad ending to a magnificent history: Only 4 Jews left in Iraq".
What was the Farhud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud
History of the Jewish community in Baghdad https://cojs.org/the_jewish_community_in_baghdad_in_the_eighteenth_century-_zvi_yehuda-_nehardea-_babylonian_jewry_heritage_center-_2003/
What are Pogroms?https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/pogroms?gclid=Cj0KCQiAkeSsBhDUARIsAK3tiedM7DuwIaSQX-kRxvXTgCDxN6-zqeo_DNNFgyanSYGyGOhwu_0vfrkaAg6REALw_wcB
The last Jew of Peki'in, Margalit Zinati https://aish.com/the-last-jew-of-pekiin/
Arab riots of 1930s- https://www.gov.il/en/Departments/General/ben_zvi_30 https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-1936-arab-riots
Israel's history from ancient times & timeline : https://www.travelingisrael.com/timeline-land-israel/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iiUIWnU-Ofk
Second Temple era - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple_period
Forced conversion of Jews across history- https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18mvnct.7?seq=4
https://academic.oup.com/book/32113/chapter-abstract/268043723?redirectedFrom=fulltext
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oldshrewsburyian · 8 months
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The dead do not disappear after death. They persist, in their own minds as well as in ours. Again and again they return: sometimes envious, sometimes aggrieved, often just desperate for warmth. The message they bring back is always, in essence, the same: We live. We live. Our hearts burn.
Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land, Jacob Mikanowski
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revoevokukil · 3 months
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There is an old copy-paste moving around the internet regarding discussions asserting the inherent Slavicness of The Witcher, and I will record it here for posterity.
(translated from polish)
-write eight books
-have their main character suffer from otherness, prejudice and erroneous stereotypes
-insert anti-racist references at every turn
-make dwarves into Jews
-and use to criticise anti-Semitism
-criticise nationalist attitudes
-criticise xeno- and homophobia at every turn
-show support for a multicultural society and acceptance of otherness
-describe how victims become executioners
-show how violence begets violence
-make it the central theme of the last three volumes
-have the hero and his lover die during a racist pogrom
-defend the persecuted to the lastHear from every corner of the internet that "a black witcher would be a disaster."
-write thirteen stories
-based three on Andersen's fairy tales
-three more on the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm
-seventh on an Arabian fairy tale
-mock folklore and folk beliefs in the first one
-but also make fun of them in the story "The Edge of the World"
-mock the Polish legend in "The Limits of Possibility"
-name the main character "Żerard" (Jerald)
-generally use mainly names with Celtic roots like Yenefer or Crach
-and those derived from Romance languages such as Cirilla, Falka or Fringilla or Triss
-a few English names such as Merigold
-and those derived from other Germanic languages such as Geralt
-and Italian
-German
-and even French
-borrow monsters from American games, especially from Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
-from Irish, make an elf language
-and from German, make it the language of dwarves
-make the characters celebrate Irish folk holidays
-write an article about where you got your inspiration from
-pour bile on Slavic fantasy in it
-finally write an eighth book
-make one of the key characters a Japanese demoness
Become a champion of turbo-slavism.
/s
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