#the diaspora

[bijoumikhawal]

Insecure abt my original fiction

#Cipher talk #I've decided after I finish rtd I wanna work on a novel #But all my story ideas (except the reanimators which I don't really. Want to make into prose I envision it as having a strong visual #Element) are undercooked and specifically like all my stories with Copts feel wildly depressing #Plus it's the 'am I enough to write this' fear again. If I set a work in Egypt will it be recognizable when I am permanently relegated to #The diaspora

[realkilljoyhoursnow]

Do you think we'd be friends in another universe?

Us in another universe:

#art #drawing #hours has art #everybody welcome back my drawing era #this is sooo like. its summer youre going to your tias house its a warm night and you can hear the grasshoppers #hares #mice #rats #aka diaspora latinocore

[palipunk]

Armenians have lived in Jerusalem for 1,600 years and Armenian Palestinians are the oldest group in the Armenian diaspora. From their indigenous land in Artsakh to the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem, Armenians have been facing ethnic cleansing and persecution on multiple fronts. With the escalating genocidal violence in Gaza and the West Bank, armed settler encroachment into Armenian holdings in Jerusalem has fallen under the radar of some pro-Palestine activism and it is critical we do not allow this to happen.

Some context:

( In 1948, Armenians in Jerusalem numbered about 16,000. Today, that number has shrunk; estimates range from 700-1000, with a smaller community in Bethlehem. )

“We are not the objectives of the Israelis, but we occupy a huge chunk of Jerusalem. The fact that we’re here is an obstacle for them, but we’ve been here for 1,600 years and we’re not going anywhere.” "These are only the most visible of the challenges facing the community....Israeli discrimination, economic decline, and political insecurity have taken a toll on Armenians, encouraging emigration. A century after the community was nearly annihilated, Armenian Palestinians today say they feel deeply at home in the Holy Land, but fear how much longer they will be able to hold on."

“Don’t ask me about the massacres that happened 100 years ago [1915],” Annie Guluzian said when asked about her experiences as an Armenian Palestinian. “I won’t open [up about] those topics. Because if I do, I will start talking about my brother who was martyred by the Israelis in the [second] Intifada.” The toll of the Israeli occupation in Palestine is what defines her life today, Guluzian added. Source

Since October 26th, 2023, when the leader of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem announced it would cancel a once-secret 2021 land lease deal with a real estate company that has alleged links to settler interests, the company, Xana Gardens, has sent in armed settlers and bulldozers to steal the land (including Armenian Chruch property and several Armenian families). Armenians have been resisting the occupational forces day in and day out.

From November 5th:

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November 5th:

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November 22nd:

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November 25th:

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In response, Armenians have created an account on Twitter called SaveTheArq which has been documenting and updating on social media the recent land demolitions by Israeli settlers in the Armenian quarter, they have also launched a fundraiser for legal actions to protect the Armenian quarter and I highly recommend donating, if you can't, please share it around:

#palestine #jerusalem #armenia #armenian diaspora #save the Armenian quarter #free palestine #my liberation as a Palestinian is not complete without the liberation of Armenians and I stand by that #Armenian palestinians #armenian genocide

[hilacopter]

conflating diaspora jews with the actions of the israeli government is not okay, yes, but have you considered it's not okay to conflate israeli jews with them either

#listen. no hate to diaspora jews. y'all are suffering unimaginable antisemitism rn. #but as an israeli it makes me so mad how they're always the only ones leftists care about when it comes to antisemitism if even #“nooo guys we can't be mean to diaspora jews because of isnotreal it's antisemitic and wrong!” #“israelis? now those are completely fine to harass and wish death upon <3” #people just straight up don't see us as humans deserving of basic decency i think #when they at very least pretend to or believe they like diaspora jews #leftist antisemitism #antisemitism #israel #jumblr

[doikayt]

fundamental to bioessentialist and zionist ideology is a refusal to recognize that victimhood is situational rather than ontological

#honestly the terf-zionist overlap ime is massive. and yet the parallels in experience btwn diaspora jews and trans women is undeniable #but like. generally an incapability to recognize that jews are not inherently victims in an existential sense #but that antisemitic persecution is like... circumstantial. not natural law.

[brother-emperors]

something. about. the horror of being sent on an impossible (death) quest and obligations and hospitality politics. the trauma of not having a home, and then the trauma of being in a house that becomes actively hostile to you, one that would swallow you whole and spit out your bones if you step out of line. all of this is conditional, your existence continues to be something men want gone.

it's about going back as far as I can with the perseus narrative because there's always a version of a myth that exists behind the one that survives. the missing pieces are clearly defined, but the oldest recorded version of it isn't there! and there's probably something older before that!! but it's doomed to forever be an unfilled space, clearly defined by an outline of something that was there and continues to be there in it's absence.

and love. it's also about love. even when you had nothing, you had love.

on the opposite side of the spectrum, this is Not About Ovid Or Roman-Renaissance Reception, Depictions And Discourses On The Perseus Narrative.

edit: to add to the above, while it's not about Ovid, because I'm specifically trying to peel things back to the oldest version of this story, Ovid is fine. alterations on the Perseus myth that give more attention Medusa predate Ovid by several centuries. this comic is also not about those, either! there are many versions of this story from the ancient world. there is not one singular True or Better version, they're all saying something.

Perseus, Daniel Ogden

Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation, edited & translated by Stephen M Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, Stephen Brunet

#it's all greek to me #perseus #danae #komiks tag #long post #every other week i start to say something about how greek heroes are a good case study in diaspora and exile trauma #but man perseus makes me so sad. so does danae. she loves her son :( #perseus turning a whole island to stone is a huge mood. i would also do that if i were him #anyway (salutes) take care everyone i gotta watch yunho's new video it looks like a fucking movie im so excited #(i singled out ovid bc i remember the fucking shit perseus discourse that ran through this site. i remember #im preemptively loading a gun and pointing at it before it can touch this post #it hasn't died out either i see it on twitter all the time in the most ANNOYING ways possible i am TIRED #esp bc they're actually doing medusa a narrative disservice like congrats! you made it worse! stop telling me it's better!!!!)

[amereid1960]

روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية - الادراك والتوظيف

روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية – الادراك والتوظيف

روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية – الادراك والتوظيف   روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية – الادراك والتوظيف الكاتب : لراري علي الملخص: يتناول هذا المقال مسألة ” روس الشتات”، ويبحث في السياسات التي اتخذتها السلطات الروسية تجاه المواطنين الروس القاطنين في دول الجوار الجغرافي أو ما يسميه الساسة الروس بالغريب المجاور، وفي النقاشات الفكرية والسياسية المحتدمة حول المفهوم الجديد للهوية الروسية…

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#employment of minorities #Russian foreign policy #the diaspora #the Ukrainian crisis #توظيف الاقليات ; روس الشتات ; السياسة الخارجية الروسية ; الازمة الاكرانية

[alewaanewspaper1960]

روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية - الادراك والتوظيف

روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية – الادراك والتوظيف

روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية – الادراك والتوظيف   روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية – الادراك والتوظيف الكاتب : لراري علي الملخص: يتناول هذا المقال مسألة ” روس الشتات”، ويبحث في السياسات التي اتخذتها السلطات الروسية تجاه المواطنين الروس القاطنين في دول الجوار الجغرافي أو ما يسميه الساسة الروس بالغريب المجاور، وفي النقاشات الفكرية والسياسية المحتدمة حول المفهوم الجديد للهوية الروسية…

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#employment of minorities #Russian foreign policy #the diaspora #the Ukrainian crisis #توظيف الاقليات ; روس الشتات ; السياسة الخارجية الروسية ; الازمة الاكرانية

[acpsalewaanewspaper]

روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية - الادراك والتوظيف

روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية – الادراك والتوظيف

روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية – الادراك والتوظيف   روس الشتات في السياسة الخارجية الروسية – الادراك والتوظيف الكاتب : لراري علي الملخص: يتناول هذا المقال مسألة ” روس الشتات”، ويبحث في السياسات التي اتخذتها السلطات الروسية تجاه المواطنين الروس القاطنين في دول الجوار الجغرافي أو ما يسميه الساسة الروس بالغريب المجاور، وفي النقاشات الفكرية والسياسية المحتدمة حول المفهوم الجديد للهوية الروسية…

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#employment of minorities #Russian foreign policy #the diaspora #the Ukrainian crisis #توظيف الاقليات ; روس الشتات ; السياسة الخارجية الروسية ; الازمة الاكرانية

[mylight-png]

I frequently mourn the fact that so little is commonly known about the smaller details of traditional Jewish life. And I don't mean diaspora Jewish life, it's amazing how much we know and have preserved of various diaspora community traditions.

I mean ancient Judean lifestyles. And yes, the Torah outlines a lot of it, which is amazing. But I don't want to just know that Judean women wore jewelry or nose rings or etc, I want to be able to know what our traditional Jewish jewelry looked like. Smaller specifics instead of the broad strokes.

We can know what religious garb looked like, and even the general gist of day to day clothing. But I want to know specifically what colors people would dye their clothes for their personal tastes, the specific embroidery designs that were worn.

I want to know how traditional Judean women wore their hair, both how they wore their head coverings (knot styles, accessories for the coverings, etc) and how unmarried women would adorn their heads.

I want to know what traditional Judean makeup looked like, what toys the children played with, so so so many aspects of ancient Jewish life that I have been able to find nothing about.

Maybe, of course, I just don't know enough history. But I've tried googling these things and I have not ever found a satisfactory answer.

I wish to know what traditional, pre-occupation, pre-exile Jewish life was like.

If anyone knows anything about any of this, please please please reblog or send an ask or comment about anything you know.

This topic is of great interest to me but I'm not great at finding good history information, I've got more experience doing in-depth research on current events and politics.

#jumblr #jewish #judaism #jew #ancient judea #pre-diaspora judaism

[fromgoy2joy]

I’m still nearly crying laughing from this interaction that happened yesterday.

I wore my Magen David in French lecture. It is 8:30 in the morning. I sat down next to this random girl that I’d never really seen before.

She looks at me for 0.7 seconds before starting to avidly sketch palestenian flags on her notes for the next hour and a half. Like pages and pages of the symbol, glancing at me the entire time.

Whoaaa, you really showed me up. I’m deeply offended and don’t know what to do with myself ! Help! I’m meeeeelting! The supposed Zionism in me is burning!!

Like I have no opinions on that flag. No grudge or resentment. But what makes someone go angry bird attack mode when seeing a symbol that’s Jewish adjacent?

#fromgoy2joy thoughts #jewish #jumblr #jewblr #jewish tumblr #jewish conversion #jewish convert #tw antisemtism #antisemitism #jewish humor #judaism stuff #jewish diaspora #dark jewish humor

[palipunk]

I’ve never seen anything like the press conference from the Palestinian workers at Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. They’re literally addressing the world surrounded by bodies on the ground. One is holding the corpse of a baby. I hope these images haunt every Zionist till the day they die.

#sometimes as a Palestinian you feel like you get used to seeing Palestinian death #in the homeland - in the diaspora - in our refugee camps - amongst family - everywhere #but you don’t. I cannot imagine the pain of gazan Palestinians. it is unfathomable #the world should be begging on their knees for the forgiveness of Palestinians in Gaza #palestine #free palestine

[ancestralsurvival]

Dear “Queers for Palestine,” et al:

I’m sorry you were rejected by your childhood church or friends or family.

I’m sorry you have had to organize for your rights to simply love and live as you choose.

I’m sorry you have become hypervigilant to perceptions of injustice.

And I’m deeply sorry that you’ve taken all that and used it to punch down, to inflict hurt, to join the antisemitism of your upbringing to the untrue buzzwords of today in order to injure:

the only democracy in the Middle East

a haven for LGBTQ+ rights in the Middle East

a nation that would legally protect your right to life and joy that is fighting a terror organization that kills queers and anyone else who disagrees with its hateful goals that include a genocide of all Jews, everywhere

diaspora Jews who are only trying to live peacefully as a minority, something you should know about

Zionism is the belief in Jewish right to self-determination in our ancestral homeland, our place of indigenousness: Israel. Zionism isn’t hatred for anyone. In fact, many Zionists want a two-state solution so Israelis can live in peace with Palestinians.

I’m sorry you either didn’t know that or didn’t care before reading this far.

I’m sorry your hatred for Jews might be so ingrained that you won’t unlearn it even though you may have been willing to unlearn other biases.

I’m sorry the people who most need to read this probably won’t.

#queer antisemitism #jumblr #antisemitism #am yisrael chai #leftist antisemitism #diaspora jewery

[the-catboy-minyan]

would you tell a Native American person you know their history better than them?

would you tell an African American person you know their history better than them?

would you tell any minority group you know their history better than them?

no?

then why the fuck are you doing that with Jews?

#I'm so fucking tired #antisemitism #jumblr #jewish #judaism #israel #israblr #ישראבלר #ישראל #jewish history #am yisrael chai #like it or not Israel's history is part of Jewish history as well #because it's a Jewish country created by JEWISH PEOPLE #not all Jews are gonna know Israeli history that well sure #but Israeli Jews sure will #and even diaspora jews need to know a bare minimum because the existence of the state directly affects them #and obviously this is also about general antisemitism which I'd say diaspora jews probably know more than Israelis

[hindahoney]

Jewish prayer book from Kaifeng, China, written with Chinese and Hebrew characters

#jumblr #judaism #jewish #frumblr #jewish history #jewish art #jewblr #judaica #jewish diaspora #keifeng jews