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Hello, how are you? First of all, excuse me for sending the message in English, I don't speak Catalan just yet.
So, recently I've been researching about the immigration in Europe and found out that Catalunya is one of the places in the Iberian Peninsula that has received the most immigrants throughout the years. So, I wanted to know: what are the feelings that most Catalans have on this matter? If you don't want to speak for most Catalans, I'd love to hear your own opinion!
I also ask this because recently I stumbled upon this video on Twitter, I don't know if you have seen it, where this guy named Quim Masferrer was interviewing a black woman and got VERY surprised that she spoke Catalan. Probably because he thought that she was an immigrant and could only speak Spanish. You mentioned in one of your posts that people usually tend to change to Spanish when speaking to black people, assuming that they don't speak Catalan.
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Hi! English is no problem at all, don't worry.
Yes, you are right that Catalonia is one of the places in Iberia that has received the highest amount of immigrant people. We started getting international immigration from outside Iberia in the 1990s, and since then it has continued growing.
According to elections results and polls, Catalonia's population has a better view of immigration than the average.
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Share of votes for political parties in favour of restrictive measures on migration in the European Parliament elections of 2019. Source: European Union. You can see Catalonia is one of the greenest places (with lowest votes for parties that seek to restrict migration), and Catalonia's shape can be clearly seen from the greener tone it's painted in compared with its neighbours.
Every so often, polls are conducted on the topic and they always show something similar.
Catalonia has also held the largest demonstrations in Europe in favour of welcoming refugees (in 2017). This was a protest against the Spanish Government, which is the one who has the power on immigration and refugee issues, because they were not allowing enough refugees in, and people in Catalonia wanted to allow them in.
This is not to say there aren't racists, of course there are. Sadly, the fascist parties are growing in all of Europe, particularly among young men/boys. This is also happening here, with the Spanish supremacist party Vox. And outside of people who are directly fascists, racist beliefs still persist in other parts of the population, often ones who would like to get rid of their racist beliefs, but we live in a society.
What you mention about the black woman speaking Catalan is one of them (I saw the video when this episode was on TV, link here for anyone who wants to watch it). Well-meaning Catalan people who want to be welcoming do this when 2 problems come together: on the one hand, the fact that many people still aren't used to people who don't look or sound like they're from here actually being from here, and the fact that many people would be very surprised if any people who aren't originally from here would speak our language or even knowing that it exists. So when they see someone who looks African, Scandinavian, from any other part of the world, makes mistakes when speaking Catalan or sounds like they usually speak Spanish, the Catalan person will 99% of the time switch to Spanish with the well-meaning intention of making it easier for the person they see as "foreigner". This is often useless, because a person who speaks Mandarin or Wolof won't be helped by you speaking Spanish instead of Catalan, but our history has convinced us that it will.
People are not switching to Spanish on purpose to call the other a foreigner, they're doing because we come from centuries of illegalization, persecution and discrimination and we have internalized the idea that we are worthless, not "citizens of the world", and that only our most immediate surrounding speaks our "useless" language, while The World speaks Spanish, the respected and widely-spoken language that everyone admires. That's of course not true, someone who just arrived from, say, China might know as much Catalan as Spanish: that is, none. But in our minds, because of all these centuries of brainwashing through physical violence, the school system, media, etc, literally everything saying we're "provincial", "rural" and "worthless", and that we better hide the fact that we speak the language we speak if we want anyone to understand us, and that it's so so so rude to speak in Catalan instead of Spanish or to even be heard by a Spanish speaker when we speak Catalan; while also making us believe that the whole world loves Spanish and that most of the world speaks Spanish and that everything will be better if we speak Spanish- well, at the first moment of seeing someone they identify as a "non-Catalan", the Catalan person full of self-hatred will immediately use Spanish.
Of course, this is racist (nowadays many people whose ancestors are African have been raised in Catalonia, sometimes even born here, or might have been living here long enough to speak it! it's racist to assume that just because of their looks or accent, that they are foreigner, and that they can't know the language of the place they live in and that they need us to make the effort of switching to an "international" language instead). But if you speak in Catalan to a racialized person or a person who comes from Spain (outside the Catalan Countries), many non-migrant Catalans will call you racist for it, because they'll say you're making things hard for the immigrant for no reason. They'll say, "why would you bother them with Catalan? You should make things as easy as possible for them", with the underlying assumption that Catalan is worthless and we should give up our right to speak it when it slightly inconveniences someone. And, again, the view that the immigrant person needs us to simplify and speak to them differently from how we would speak to a non-immigrant person because they can't know this, is very racist, even though it's done thinking that it's just being polite and, sometimes, believing that it's anti-racist and that it would be racist to treat them like any other person. At the same time, this alienates immigrant, racialized and Spanish people from the community, effectively showing them that we consider them a foreigner and not one of us, and we don't transmit the feeling that they need to learn it to live here, so in the end some of them will only learn Spanish (why learn Catalan, if nobody will speak it to them? Everyone speaks to them in Spanish, so that gives the idea that that is the language they need to learn) which fuels this circle.
So yeah, most people will do this racist thing because they believe it's the non-racist and polite thing to do. But, like racialized people have been saying for a very long time, that is not true at all. I have heard many racialized people (including friends of mine) explain how strangers in shops and restaurants will speak in Catalan to everybody and, when turning to the racialized person, talk to them in Spanish, clearly singling them out for their looks as if they needed any help, as if they couldn't speak our language perfectly (and even if it wasn't perfect, so what?). Some days ago I saw it again, I was waiting at the queue of the CAP (local healthcare centre) and the nurse attended everyone in Catalan. When a Moroccan family arrived and asked in perfect Catalan what they needed, the nurse (for the first time in that whole time) answered in Spanish. The Moroccan women continued asking in Catalan, and the nurse continued answering in Spanish, until the 4th interaction in which the Moroccan girl who was speaking ended up switching to Spanish as well. I can't imagine how heartbreaking that must feel.
I hope this answered your question. I hope you will understand why people act the way they do when they switch, that is not a matter of wanting to treat foreigners or those read as foreigners badly (actually, all the opposite). I hope you won't be too harsh on us for this, because it's a result of our own oppression and a manifestation of our internalized Catalanophobia.
Now, message to the other Catalans reading this: absolutely judge yourself harshly if you do this. Reflect and change your ways.
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Citizen insurgency and role of Andean women 2023-02-03 
By Linda Lema Tucker .  sociologist
Women are being protagonists of this great story that is yet to be written: the protests of the citizen insurgency. These days, in Lima, great days of democratic struggle are taking place, in which hundreds of women, from the most infinite corners of Peru, with loud and forceful voices, demand the resignation of Dina Boluarte, the closure of Congress and Constituent Assembly.  
They left behind their children, the harvest, the cattle. They have broken the private sphere and have joined political affairs, to propose solutions to old problems that are still unresolved. They have faith that a new dawn in Peru is about to arrive. In protests they are distinguished by their colorful and bright skirts, their woven llicllas that they carry on their backs and shoulders, and their wonderful Aymara or Quechua language. They are not willing to return to their towns until Dina resigns, because her resignation is to fulfill that promise they made to the sixty murdered Peruvians, who would fight until the end, until this dictatorial regime abdicates. They carry in their memory and are the inspiration of their struggles, the story of brave Quechua and Aymara heroines, who preceded them as inspiration. They also know that this is a new time, in which the collective force has to overcome the old that has to lay the foundations for a rebirth of a new state, in which forgotten sectors of the country participate in power in a constitution of a new republic.
Women, the streets and the new leaderships These days, with great intensity and force, women march through the streets of Lima, launch harangues, sing and dance huaynitos, demanding the resignation of "la Dina", as they usually call her. We have walked blocks and blocks with them, until the police surprised us and repressed us with tear gas. The gas suffocated, when I saw that, in their saddlebags, they carried handkerchiefs and vinegar to avoid burning in the respiratory tract. We continued marching and he heard the loudest proclamation, "Dina, murderer, the people repudiate you." Until arriving at Plaza Dos de Mayo, where a commission of women waits for the compañeras to get sandwiches and drinks. That solidarity surprises me. But it is striking to see new women leaders, Quechua and Aymara, who, with braids, flip flops and a Peruvian flag tied around their necks, continue to harangue with surprising force, offer interviews and express their feelings and opinions about the meaning of the struggle. of their communities and towns. They do not stop demanding Boluarte's resignation, saying: “She ordered our children and brothers to be killed and has not asked for forgiveness. She is a ruthless woman, who is militarizing our towns to continue killing us." This energetic political possession with which women speak is an expression that something important is happening in deep Peru.
They continue to protest in the central streets of Lima, in addition, they have done so in districts called exclusive, San Isidro and Miraflores, where, before, some "gentlemen" believed they belonged to them. Let us remember that, not long ago, Andean women were kicked out of Larcomar in rejection of their ways of dressing and customs of a country that, paradoxically, has a multiethnic and multicultural origin. In addition, for many years, the program La Paisana Jacinta was broadcast on television, which constituted an insult and a racist attack on the dignity of indigenous peasant women.
That is why, the insurgency that is developing now against this regime, is marked by the historical accumulation of so many abuses, discriminations and violence against the majority of the population that has an indigenous origin, therefore, the necessary democratic change must come from the original peoples in order to eliminate so much pain and establish a different destiny for millions of Peruvians.
Fighters tied to history  Throughout these days, we have observed that women are united by history, that history that feminist women are now writing and that is being repeated today, by Andean women, university students, workers, housewives, and feminists, who they have joined the historic struggle in the streets, in the relief brigades, in the alternative press, in the aid of food on the highways, the women with multicolored skirts, flip flops and huaraca in hand, confront the police – like we have seen in the networks -, actions, all of women to put an end to a totalitarian regime, anti-women, as Micaela Bastidas did in Cusco, or Rita Puma Justo, in Puno, heroines who, like many others, raised their voice of protest and participated in historical episodes, against domination and gender violence, exercised by patriarchal and oppressive regimes, which considered indigenous women as an inferior race and gender.
https://www.noticiasser.pe/insurgencia-ciudadana-y-protagonismo-de-las-mujeres-andinas?fbclid=IwAR3sF6SsW1rbFRvTjfcjg6TGrVeTQ7P1uiekHjH5LohdfnxElqve66x6CJw
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Le message est clair
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102e témoignage
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jloisse · 6 months
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"Notre race est la race maîtresse.
Nous sommes les dieux
divins sur cette planète. Nous sommes aussi différents des
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-MENACHEM BEGIN (1977-1983),
6E PREMIER MINISTRE D'ISRAËL
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Le IVème Reich, l’avènement.
Inspiré du fascisme de Mussolini, plein de la mégalomanie et des fantasmes d’un Hitler, le nazisme est une sorte de révolution conservatrice avec un ADN raciste. Et si les juifs sont la principale cible d’un antisémitisme d’état, leur élimination systématique ne fut pas la première idée engagée à ce sujet mais l’expulsion vers un état choisi arbitrairement. C’est ce que l’extrême-droite moderne…
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Le déni quoi qu'il en coûte
“La société de la bonne et unique pensée est en mode désinformation pour mieux garder le pouvoir » Par Alexandre Goldfarb 🔵 Le déni quoi qu’il en coûte  L’idéologie prend systématiquement le pas sur la réalité ! Le racisme antisémite de la gauche bien pensante ou plutôt mal pensante est affiché en étendard sur une France qui s’est endormie et se réveillera dans un vrai cauchemar : ce n’est…
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Haine et extrémisme sur Twitter : rester c'est cautionner ?
Au moment où j'écris ces lignes, je suis en pause de Twitter. Je me fais une sorte de "Dry January" de l'Oiseau Bleu.
Je viens de voir que Twitter a banni à nouveau une sorte de nazi américain dont le compte venait d'être rétabli 24 heures plus tôt. J'en parlais dans ce billet.
Donc, on a 1 histoire qui fait les gros titres...
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...pendant que des douzaines d'autres fachos, antisémites et extrémistes divers réinvestissent l'Oiseau Bleu pour y semer des hoax et des discours haineux.
Mais il n'y a pas que les outrances de ces extrémistes les plus voyants. Avez-vous songé au pouvoir que Twitter peut donner à l'extrême-droite ? Songez à la récolte de données de toutes sortes, aux influences plus ou moins subtiles que pourront avoir l'usage habile des algorithmes, etc.
Et, surtout, si vous considérez que vous ne pouvez pas vous passer de Twitter, il faudrait songer au pouvoir que peut exercer sur vous celui qui en est le propriétaire.
Je suis un anonyme. Je n'ai pas de carrière universitaire. Je ne suis spécialiste en rien. Je n'ai pas de chaîne YouTube. Je ne suis ni un artiste, ni une vedette, ni un dirigeant politique, ni un businessman prospère. Je n'ai ni notoriété, ni prestige. Et avec des débunks, un peu de fact-checking, quelqus trouvailles, quelques anecdotes, j'ai rassemblé plus de 5'500 abonnés sur Twitter. C'est beaucoup pour moi. Ça me monte un peu à la tête, je l'avoue. Et j'aurais bien envie de les garder tous ces abonnés. Voire d'en avoir plus.
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C'est bon pour mon égo, ça, des milliers d'abonnés.
Je me sens important avec des milliers d'abonnés.
Mais je ne vais pas pouvoir fermer les yeux sur ce qu'il se passe sur Twitter et encore moins sur ce qu'il pourrait s'y passer.
Faire comme si de rien n'était, continuer comme avant, ce serait cautionner, être complice. Générer du trafic et des revenus publicitaires. Contribuer à entretenir le cercle vicieux qui fait que les uns restent parce que les autres y sont, mais les autres y sont parce que les uns restent.
Et il me paraîtrait dérisoire, pour ne pas dire complètement con, de réagir en allant passer un maximum de temps sur Twitter pour y multiplier les signalements et les messages d'indignations, et y générer du trafic et des revenus publicitaires, tout en m'imaginant combattre ainsi la haine en ligne...
Je ne vais pas fermer mon compte tout de suite. Mais après mon break du mois de janvier, mon activité sur Twitter va se limiter à 2 choses :
Garder le contact en échangeant en DM avec quelques personnes.
Partager du contenu que j'aurais publié hors de l'Oiseau Bleu, comme ce billet-ci sur Tumblr. Ce sera peut-être des billets de blog publiés sur d'autres plateformes, sur Post par exemple. Je réfléchis aussi à un blog sur WordPress. Ou à des débats sur Reddit. Et il y a mon compte Mastodon.
Et je pense qu'il y aura un moment où j'arrêterai. Je garderai mon compte inactif, sans le fermer, pour conserver le contenu. Et puis à terme, il faudra réfléchir... ben... à mettre un terme, justement.
Et je vous invite chacun et chacune à réfléchir à ce que vous voulez faire de votre temps, à comment est-ce que vous pouvez établir des contacts, échanger, débattre, faire passer vos infos, suivre l'actualité, partager vos coups de cœur et coups de gueule, sans contribuer à cette machine à diffuser la haine et le mensonges qu'est en train de devenir l'Oiseau Bleu.
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huariqueje · 1 year
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“ More than 40 dead and Lima continued in silence “
The poster pasted in the vicinity of the Palace of Justice, in the center of Lima, the Peruvian capital, expresses the indignation at the indolence of the national authorities, state powers and political groups opposed to citizen protests, in the face of dozens of deaths in cities in the interior of the country. Photo: Mariela Jara/IPS
Lima – "We are not terrorists, we are women and men from the highlands who want respect and who do not kill us for asking for early elections and a Constituent Assembly," said Rosa Cachi, an Aymara indigenous woman from Puno, in the southern Andes of Peru, where she The protests against the government of President Dina Boluarte are concentrated.
The protests are concentrated in the southern Peruvian Andes and as a result of the brutal repression, 17 demonstrators died due to the impact of projectiles fired by the forces of order, in addition to a policeman who was allegedly burned by protesters.  Adding the 28 deaths that occurred in December in other regions such as Apurímac -land of Boluarte and where the mobilizations originated-, Ayacucho, Arequipa, Junín, Cusco, La Libertad, there are more than 40 victims in the first 34 days of this government of transition, a fact that the National Human Rights Coordinator has described as a massacre.  The 17 deaths of civilians occurred in a single day, on January 9, in Puno, one of the Peruvian regions with the greatest poverty and located at more than 3,800 meters above sea level, with a high Aymara indigenous population.  The government disqualified the protests and, through the Prime Minister, Alberto Otárola, accused them of being financed by illegal activities such as drug trafficking and foreigners, and announced that order would be restored. On Tuesday the 10th, the cabinet he presides over received a vote of confidence from the Legislative Branch despite the deaths in his to have.  For Javier Torres, political analyst and director of Noticias SER, the information portal of the Association of Rural Educational Services, this decision means a political endorsement of the government of Dina Boluarte, whose only response to the protest of the population is indiscriminate repression and the establishment of states of emergency and compulsory social immobilization. This last measure was issued for three days for Puno.  “There is also a kind of total impunity, because we have news yesterday (January 10) that in Puno they are looking for the relatives of the victims to give false testimonies to protect the police officers. In this scenario, what the Congress of the Republic has done seems very serious to me,” he stressed.
In a telephone interview with IPS, Torres stated that the government of President Boluarte rests on two pillars: the armed forces, which are her main support, and the parliamentary majority, which has granted a vote of confidence to her ministerial cabinet.
The congressmen who voted in favor are mostly from benches such as Fuerza Popular, which represents Fujimorismo, Renovación Popular and Avanza País, who are from conservative and extreme right positions and have installed the discourse that the mobilizations are instigated by terrorism and they must be totally suppressed.  These groups were joined by three others such as Acción Popular, Alianza para el Progreso and Somos Perú. who also defended the argument of the recovery of public order.  Faced with this decision, Torres considered that the political class does not recognize the demands of the population.  “In Ayacucho, Cusco, Puno, Apurímac, political demands are raised and they are the most democratic that can be given. They ask for an electoral process and a referendum, which is what is behind asking that the president leave and that they close the congress. It has nothing to do with secessionism or with communism or with Evo Morales”, he stated.  But that -he added- the political class does not want to see it because the protest is a questioning of the central power, the way in which the elites of this country govern and make decisions, that is what is in question.  In his opinion, the only viable way out of the current crisis is the resignation of President Dina Boluarte, the immediate convocation by Congress of general elections and that these be held in the shortest possible time, which would be six months, as he has stated that the National Elections Jury could be possible.  “That would lower the pressure on the country. There are other measures that could help, but at this moment it is the institutional solution that we have left, because the other thing is that this government continues to maintain a repressive policy that what it is going to bring is more deaths and it is not going to solve the problem ”, warned.  We continue in the fight  Rosa Cachi, a Puno artisan from the Quilca peasant community, responded to the IPS call while participating in a citizen mobilization through the streets of downtown Puno demanding justice for the deaths that occurred in her region and rejecting the position of the main authorities of the country that seek to delegitimize their fight.  
“They tell us that we are terrorists, that they finance us from another country, that drug traffickers give us money. It is not like this. We are men and women from the highlands, we are natives, we want respect for our native people. They can't treat us this way," he exclaimed.  And he continued: “I am in the streets of the city right now because we do not agree with what Mrs. Boluarte says that elections cannot be brought forward this year until 2024, what they want is to stay in power with this Congress that the people reject”.  In addition to the advancement of elections, it also demands that a constituent assembly be installed to elaborate a new Constitution.  “We live from our pachamama, from our water and look, so many resources from our land that they take away and it is not left for the town or for the countryside. Only at the time of the elections do they arrive saying, brothers and sisters, vote for me. Then they forget. We don't like that, it shouldn't be like that anymore," she questioned.
In addition to the advancement of elections, it also demands that a constituent assembly be installed to elaborate a new Constitution.  “We live from our pachamama, from our water and look, so many resources from our land that they take away and it is not left for the town or for the countryside. Only at the time of the elections do they arrive saying, brothers and sisters, vote for me. Then they forget. We don't like that, it shouldn't be like that anymore," she questioned.  Cachi, who is also dedicated to family farming, lamented the indolence of the powers of the State in the face of the deaths that occurred in his region, Puno.  “We are mobilizing for our dead who are not recognized by Mrs. Dina Boluarte, the ministerial cabinet or Congress. It is an indignation for us, that is why we have come here in mourning, with black clothes. They don't have to kill us for protesting and demanding what is fair," he insisted.  In Lima, citizen vigils have been held in front of the Palace of Justice, in the center of the capital, to express rejection of the government's repressive policy, show solidarity with the families of the victims and demand justice.  On the 10th, the National Prosecutor's Office announced the start of a preliminary investigation for the alleged crimes of genocide, qualified homicide and serious injuries against the Peruvian president, the head of her cabinet and the defense and interior ministers, the latter responsible for the actions of the armed forces and the national police respectively.  The investigations will cover the deaths during the demonstrations in December and January.  Filed in: Featured Cover, Governance, Report, Latest News Latin America and the Caribbean, Crime and justice, Democracy and Politics
https://ipsnoticias.net/2023/01/gobierno-de-boluarte-en-peru-podria-incrementar-represion-para-sostenerse/
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ma-vie-de-serveuse · 1 year
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Je vous explique le bail de la journée.
J’ai un nouveau serveur qui vient faire un essaie. Évidement moi la sudiste perdue dans l’Yonne la première question est souvent « que fait une sudiste ici » et là il ne m’a pas laissé le temps de répondre qu’il m’a dit « c’est pour un mec » ce à quoi j’ai répondu « non pour une meuf » Le gars me répond « ok pas de soucis » bon jusque-là ça va .
Pendant le service le mec me sort un « t’étais garçon manqué quand t’étais jeune ? Parce que tu te tiens un peu comme un bonhomme » mdr et il continu dans sa connerie et là ça devient drôle. Il me dit « non mais j’ai rien contre deux meufs ensemble par contre deux mecs j’aime pas trop, les gays ils me saoulent » je lui ai répondu « attention l’homophobie » et là j’en rigole encore le boug me dit quoi ? « T’inquiète mon cousin est gay » et vu que c’est un martiniquais je lui juste répondu « et moi mon facteur est noir, tu vois le problème là ? » oui en effet il a bien compris. De suite quand tu parles de racisme il comprend mieux.
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87e témoignage TW : racisme - enbyphobie - queerphobie - misogynie
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thomas-querqy · 7 months
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The green book réalisé par Peter Farrelly 😍😍
Revu avec des élèves, inhabituellement sages. Tonnerre d'applaudissements à la fin du film. Une deuxième vision confirme la très grande qualité du film.
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En 2017, le député Meyer Habib était avec le grand-rabbin d'Israël, Yitzhak Yosef, ce dernier dira le 22 mars 2018, lors d'un sermon raciste : les Noirs sont des "singes", des "créatures étranges" et des "kushi" (équivalent du terme "nègre"). Il affirmait aussi en 2016 que les Goys (non-juifs) ne devraient pas pouvoir vivre en Israël si ils ne se mettaient pas au service des juifs.
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