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“In Europe they–”
WHERE in Europe??!? WHERE??? You mean Iceland?? Azerbaijan? The Netherlands? Liechtenstein???? THERE ARE 50 COUNTRIES IN EUROPE. ALL WITH DIFFERENT CULTURES. SO PRAY TELL ME, WHERE IN FUCKING EUROPE.
in europe they got antisemitism
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:
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:
* 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.
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).
-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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criticising israel is all well and good, but when your “criticism” and “arguments” start sounding like centuries-old libels and you’re finding yourself holding the one (1) jewish country in the world to standards you are not holding countries like russia, japan or the us to, you need, need, need to question whether you’re still criticising israel or if you’ve fallen into the trap of punching down on the worlds oldest and most favourite scapegoat.
What a wonderful day to remember that every Jewish person should feel safe and loved and welcome, and that every antisemite should shut up forever.
i feel like liberals are obsessed with finding a category of people you're allowed to scapegoat and want dead. like if it's not drug addicts it's criminals, if it's not criminals it's pedophiles, and politics is about slotting different disadvantaged demographics into those categories. every homeless person is a potential drug addict/criminal, every non-white person is a criminal, every trans woman is a child predator, etc. i think the only way to kill this tendency and prevent there from being a dehumanized category of person upon which all violence is justified is to deconstruct and humanize these categories.
straight up many of you like having a category of evil person upon which you can incite as much violence as you want forever with no repercussions
“Violence against Jews Zionists only happens because people are frustrated and protesting the various crimes of the Israeli state.”
Okay.
And the literal centuries of violent, genocidal antisemitism that existed before that modern, independent, sovereign nation?
“Because Israel” is an excuse. It’s always been an excuse. It’s a convenient cover for people to launder their disgusting bigotry through and pretend it’s for noble, humanitarian purposes.
And they’re getting away with it. Loudly. Proudly. Constantly.
The Talmud is one of Judaism’s most sacred books, a sprawling collection of rabbinic legal arguments (as well as legends, ...
The Talmud is one of Judaism’s most sacred books, a sprawling collection of rabbinic legal arguments (as well as legends, sayings, biographical anecdotes, medical advice, recipes and many other things). On each and every page, the rabbis clash over fine points of law or practice or theology. Most of these disagreements are amiable and seen as praiseworthy, disputation l’shem shamayim — for the sake of heaven. Every once in a while, though, the rabbis lose their cool.
According to the Talmud itself, the rabbis living in Babylonia were particularly prone to heated exchange. Pesachim 113b: “Three hate each other: Dogs, roosters and sorcerers. Some say also prostitutes. And some say also the sages in Babylonia.” Despite the rabbis’ best efforts, every now and then a talmudic dispute descends from deferential disagreement to dog fight.
So how did they express their displeasure? The rabbis had no shortage of choice expressions. Here are some favorites.
Below is the start of a list of Yiddish vocabulary that aims toward gender-inclusivity in the Yiddish-speaking community, to empower trans and nonbinary Yiddish-speakers to be able to speak about their existence, and to make it easier for trans and nonbinary people to learn Yiddish.
agender: אָ֜נמיניק [ÓNMINIK]
gender spectrum: די גאַ֜מע מי֜נים [DI GÁME MÍNIM]
gender-fluid: מי֜ן־פֿלי֜סיק [MÍN-FLÍSIK]
demigender: האַ֜לבמיניק [HÁLBMINIK]
dysphoria: די דיספֿאָ֜ריע [DI DISFÓRYE]
in between genders: צװי֜שנמיניק [TSVÍShNMINIK]
HRT (hormone replacement therapy): די האָרמאָ֜נען־בײַט־טעראַ֜פּיע [DI HORMÓNEN-BAYT-TERÁPYE]
nonbinary: או֜מצװײיִק [ÚMTSVEYIK]
top surgery/bottom surgery: די אָפּעראַ֜ציע פֿון אױבן/פֿון אונטן [DI OPERÁTSYE FUN OYBN/FUN UNTN]
transfeminine: טראַנספֿעמיני֜ן [TRANSFEMINÍN]
transgender (adj.): טראַ֜נס…; טראַ֜נסמיניק [TRÁNS…; TRÁNSMINIK]
transgender man: דער טראַ֜נסמאַן, טראַ֜נסמענער [DER TRÁNSMAN, TRÁNSMENER]
transgender woman: די טראַ֜נספֿרױ, -ען [DI TRÁNSFROY, -EN]
transition (v.): אַרי֜בערגײן [ARÍBERGEYN]
transmasculine: טראַנסמאַסקולי֜ן [TRANSMASKULÍN]
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"People from [insert country] are all inherently bad" NO. WRONG. VERY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER FOLLOWED BY FLASHING LIGHTS AND AN AUTOMATED RECORDING OVER THE PA SYSTEM WHICH JUST SAYS "XENOPHOBIA IS A VIOLENT AND DEHUMANIZING TRAP THAT SOWS PARANOIA, DISTRUST, AND HATE AND COMPLETELY DESTROYS COMMUNITIES AND LIVES" OVER AND OVER
I’m getting really really tired of myself and other Jewish people getting accused of “oppression olympics” and feeling guilty whenever we bring up the fact that anti-Semitism and Jewish-related hate crimes get consistently ignored and dismissed by people who claim to stand against racial inequality and racial violence. It’s not “oppression olympics” to ask you to reflect on why you’re so damn eager to turn a blind eye to the suffering of my people. Jews have been leaving Europe by the thousands. Jewish cemeteries have been vandalized, synagogues have been firebombed and shot up, and kosher markets have been targeted. And no, this is not just about Europe, it’s about the US too. It’s not “oppression olympics” to ask you why a “Jewish lives matter” hashtag has not trended but a “Hitler was right” hashtag has, and why none of you said anything about it. And fuck off with the “Jews have white privilege” bullshit, this isn’t about white privilege. My family had no white privilege when they were taken from their homes and thrown in concentration camps. Look, if you’ve got time to flood all of your social media accounts with posts about every other type of hate crime except those pertaining to Jewish people, don’t bother calling yourself an activist and don’t bother speaking to me. The Holocaust was not our lesson to learn. It was yours.
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hey ppl who critique the "old testament" as having a bad/worse/whatever deity vs the "new testement" having a "better" deity
y'all aren't as progressive as you think
Activism is actions taken to achieve a goal.
It's not more complicated than that.
You have a goal. You come up with ideas of how to achieve it. If those don't work, you try other actions. But always your eye is on the goal: I want X, so I need to do Y to achieve X.
If doing Y achieves Z instead, then either your goal was Z all along, or you need to change your actions.
But if you keep seeing that your actions are achieving a goal you're not trying for, and you don't change your actions, then only one of two things can be possible.
One: you're pretty bad at this, and should take up a different activity before you do a lot of unintended damage.
Two: your goal was Z all along, and you were either lying to me or to yourself. It's fine if you lie to me -- but lying to yourself is a much bigger problem, for you, in the long run. Self-delusion isn't praxis.
So hey. Stop murdering Jews.
Yemenite Torah scroll, the earliest portions from ca. 1425-1450
The Yemenite community is one of Jewry’s oldest diasporas. Some of its customs echo those of ancient times, with no parallel known among other contemporary Jewish groups. One particularly noteworthy practice is their use of a distinctive square script in the copying of ritual scrolls like Torahs, tefillin, and mezuzot. The forms of the script’s letters harken back in certain respects to those current in Second Temple times and thereby constitute a living link to earlier periods of Jewish history.
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“Don’t get into pointless arguments with jerks on the Internet” –the rabbis
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Just as it is a mitzvah, a commandment, to reprove someone who will heed the reproof, so too is it a mitzvah not to say what will not be heeded (Talmud, Yevamot 65b)
Goyim will never allow (or forgive) Jews for having trauma, that they gave us.
And when we talk about it its all "shut up, ur all such whiny babies, cant u just get over the fact that ur entire population was exterminated and I want to kill half of the ones left over" lmao
