[asundergrowth]

[nyxiemeow]

[windoftime]

[gael-garcia]

The Palestinian (1977)

[roadkillnroses]

Tatreez embroidery! This is an endangered craft but there are a few organizations working to preserve it. I really like https://tirazain.com/archive which is preserving motifs and turning them into easy-to-use cross stitch charts in an organized online library.

[sethrogensmohel]

“Palestinians referred to 1948 as the Nakba, ‘the catastrophe,’ but I had no idea that Palestinians had once lived in Israel, because most Americans in 1970 had no idea either. The writer Sandy Tolan confessed that ‘like many Americans, I grew up with one part of the history, as told through the heroic birth of Israel out of the Holocaust.’ Tolan ‘knew of Israel as a safe haven for the Jews,’ but ‘knew nothing about the Arab side.’ Or as an American Jew recalled of her Hebrew school education, ‘the whole story about Israel was told as if Arabs didn’t exist at all,’ making her wonder whether she had even known there were Palestinians in Palestine.

…A tiny minority of Jewish settlers in Palestine saw things differently. When a Holocaust survivor came upon the toys that belonged to the Palestinian children who had inhabited her Jaffa home, those objects summoned what the Nazis had done to her own family. When Polish Holocaust survivors found a set table in their new home, they returned the key to the Israeli government, remembering ‘how we had to leave the house and everything behind when the Germans arrived.’

Even Israeli prime minister Golda Meir, who resolutely disallowed the return of Palestinian refugees, recorded finding houses in Haifa ‘where the coffee and pita bread were left on the table,’ bringing to mind “many Jewish towns” during World War II.

And in an autobiographical novel published in 1949, an Israeli soldier gave voice to his own horror while following orders to violently evacuate a Palestinian village. ‘We came, we shot, we burned; we blew up, expelled, drove out, and sent into exile,’ Yizhar Smilansky writes, in the voice of his protagonist. ‘What in God’s name were we doing in this place!’ As the character reflects, ‘What indifference there was in us, as if we had never been anything but peddlers of exile, and our hearts had coarsened in the process.’”

— Martha Hodes, “My Hijacking”

[femmenietzsche]

Navy ends tradition of Chinese laundrymen on warships over spying fears

They will be replaced by Nepalese Gurkhas as MI5 chief says China is trying to steal nuclear secrets from the UK

The Navy is ditching its century-old tradition of having Chinese servants on warships amid fears they could be spying. Hundreds of Chinese laundrymen have worked on British ships since the 1930s with most from Hong Kong but will now be replaced by Nepalese Gurkhas. The Sun reported that the Ministry of Defence had made the decision over fears Beijing could obtain secret information by threatening the loved ones of laundrymen. The paper said that three Chinese nationals were barred from joining HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier, on her strike group voyage to the contested South China Sea. A fourth Chinese laundryman was dismissed this month after 39 years of washing and pressing sailors’ uniforms and officers’ white tablecloths because his family lives in Hong Kong. The tradition began as a local custom early in the last century and was formalised through contracts with various Hong Kong companies.

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[max1461]

There a Lot going on with this one

[nae-nae-supreme]

[wishicouldcrossthesea]

Avi Shlaim, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew

[orpheusilver]

hyperfixating on this is not enough i need to eat it

[heartshop]

Christians with jesus christ

[no-thats-absurd]

why is there a new popular post with a joke about eucharist every week on this website

[steakplissken]

Mass is on Sundays

[tittytron]

tumblr friendships are hard to maintain like im sorry i know i havent talked to you in 5 months but you’re still super rad and i still consider us friends im just dumb

[ironbound-oberon]

#if you’re wondering if this is for you #it’s probably for you

[lifeisaroughjourney]

If I have ever messaged you or messaged me and never heard from me again, I still consider us friends. I just suck

[nesyanast]

On November 23, 1909, more than twenty thousand Yiddish-speaking immigrants, mostly young women in their teens and early twenties, launched an eleven-week general strike in New York’s shirtwaist industry. Dubbed the Uprising of the 20,000, it was the largest strike by women to date in American history. The young strikers’ courage, tenacity, and solidarity forced the predominantly male leadership in the “needle trades” and the American Federation of Labor to revise their entrenched prejudices against organizing women. The strikers won only a portion of their demands, but the uprising sparked five years of revolt that transformed the garment industry into one of the best-organized trades in the United States.

[rimonoroni]

kill the idea that Jews immigrated to the US and that lived out there capitalist “streets are made of gold” fantasies. a lot of us fought like hell instead

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I noticed in the notes that a lot of people were a bit annoyed by the fact that this uses the term “Yiddish-speaking immigrants,” rather than explicitly saying “Jewish,” and I understand being suspicious about this, given how often the Jewishness of prominent figures gets erased! However, I looked up the actual source for this quote, and I think it’s worth noting that it’s from the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopaedia of Jewish Women, written by a professor of American Jewish History, so it’s pretty clear to me that the wording was being used in a context where the subjects’ Jewishness was already presumed.

[you-are-talking-about-this-deac]

I wonder if there’s also a classist element here, noting that they’re Yiddish speaking as opposed to Hebrew.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

So it is deliberately noting a class difference, but Hebrew wouldn’t really come into it at all (there would have been few, if any, Jewish immigrants to North America who spoke Hebrew as a primary language at this point in history). The first Jewish immigrants to North America were Sephardim (especially those who had settled in the Netherlands after Spanish Expulsion), followed by German Jews. While not always the case, immigrants from these two groups tended to be more well-off and assimilated than their Eastern European counterparts, who started coming en masse to escape violent pogroms in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Within Ashkenazi Jewry in particular, there used to be an unofficial social strata that put German Jews way at the top, and then much further down the line were Litvaks, who just barely edged out the Galitzianers (My grandmother used to complain that my grandfather’s family were “stuck-up Litvaks” who thought they were better than Galitzianers, though they weren’t that different in terms of background). So the author is stressing that these are poor Yiddish-speaking immigrants who have just arrived from the shtetls of Eastern Europe, vs the more “genteel” German or Sephardi Jews who settled in there much earlier. It’s not a internal bias on the author’s part, but rather, a historical class difference they are deliberately highlighting.

[cybelusreverie]

id die for the internet archive over my country

[bamababygirl7-deactivated202603]

[letallthetrashraindown]

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? And they not both saying: Hello?

[bruno-has-definitely-deactivate]

[2miles-deactivated20240310]

trying to observe beautiful nature but all I can think of is how many cups and spoons this tree can give me

[free-use-phyrexian]

via @whyamionlyabletouse32characters

[janemechner]

If some of you remember the comic draft I shared a couple months ago- this is the final draft! Just wanted to say another thank you from everyones input and I really hope you enjoy the finished version. It’s part of a bigger project where i’ve interviewed multicultural people and told some of their stories relating to their experience. 

[tributary]

telling people to go to the united states of america so that they are not complicit in colonialism is. well it’s a choice

[rimonoroni]

i think that perhaps my favorite thing ever is that if i were to tell you everything that transpired between king david and jonathan son of saul, you'd be like "oh is that story from a bl webcomic, or perhaps a gay fanfiction" and i would have to tell you that no, it is in fact a subplot in the biblically canon book of samuel

[mossadspydolphin]

I started following you from a post where you used a David/Yonatan quote for Destiel. This is absolutely your legacy.

[chicafinal]

this is what if feels like when you hang out with two girls who have been friends since forever and you're just the work friend/third wheel