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Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, by Avi Shlaim, tells how the Oxford historian left Iraq at the age of 5 in 1950 to live in Israel and eventually England. Importantly, the book offers a perspective on Arab Jews that is often forgotten today but...
by ybruti
on Fri Apr 05, 2024 at 03:33 PM PDT
with 21 Recommends
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In Nazi Germany and in much of Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern era there was legal antisemitism with laws that discriminated against Jews. The most notorious were the 1935 German Nuremberg laws, but in the 1920s and 1930s, Italy, Poland, and...
by Alan Singer
on Wed Apr 03, 2024 at 08:25 AM PDT
with 26 Recommends
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I just received a solicitation from the Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) in regards to the violence in Gaza. I share the concern over the horrible conditions & events in Gaza & Israel but I am curious regarding the details & perspectives of such a...
by dlsamson
on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 07:18 PM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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The history of the West’s behaviour towards Palestinians is one of betrayal of legitimate hopes. The Husain-McMahon correspondence shows Britain luring the Emir of Mecca, Sharif Husain, into entering WW1 on the Allies side by promising falsely that...
by aukview
on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 04:26 PM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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History is complicated. Israel was a settler colony established as a homeland for European Ashkenazi Jews who survived the Holocaust because after World War II European countries did not want the Jewish refugees to remain there, and the United States...
by Alan Singer
on Wed Mar 13, 2024 at 07:07 AM PDT
with 33 Recommends
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My family was not religious, but we were always aware that we were Jews. Until I was 12, we were the only Jewish family in a Catholic neighborhood. Some families wouldn’t let their children play with us. My parents sent us to Hebrew School, to get in...
by AliceT4
on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 01:03 PM PST
with 21 Recommends
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According to the Guardian: [I]n a reply to an X post that criticized “child-abusing radical leftist losers”, Ackman wrote: “I will pursue these societally important issues including problems with how our media operates, the ideological takeover of our...
by wytcld
on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 06:34 AM PST
with 3 Recommends
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People like me When I was in elementary school, I was the only Jewish kid in my school, and one day out of the blue a classmate on the playground called me “Jew boy.” I was shocked. I knew about antisemitism, about Jewish history, but I’d never...
by Rob in Vermont
on Sun Dec 31, 2023 at 01:34 PM PST
with 33 Recommends
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American college campuses , as well as our society more broadly, continue to be roiled by incidents of hate targeting ...
by Ian Reifowitz
on Sat Jan 27, 2024 at 06:00 AM PST
with 226 Recommends
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I received a WhatsApp message the other day asking me to sign a petition demanding the Obama Foundation cancel the scholarship of a student for posting the above commentary on a photo of students demonstrating with Israeli and IDF flags. The people...
by thewavethatiam
on Thu Dec 14, 2023 at 09:28 PM PST
with 3 Recommends
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Many of us have seen the Congressional soundbites. MAGA superstar Elise Stefanik made mincemeat out of Ivy League college Presidents Claudine Gay of Harvard, Liz Magill of the University of Pennsylvania, and Sally Kornbluth of the Massachusetts...
by Alan Singer
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 10:02 AM PST
with 24 Recommends
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History: Israel was founded in 1948. The West Bank & Gaza have been without autonomy under various levels of Israeli occupation since 1967. Elections: Israeli citizens can vote, but Palestinians in occupied territories cannot vote in Israeli elections....
by CorpFlunky
on Sun Dec 10, 2023 at 10:02 AM PST
with 10 Recommends
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Hayim Katsman was one of the 1200 killed by Hamas on 10/7. He was also a liberal, and wrote an essay which has been published in Jacobin magazine. Please read the whole essay, as I found it to be very insightful. Some of my highlights. He starts with a...
by SevenStrings
on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 11:22 AM PST
with 12 Recommends
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Here’s what I believe: 1. Bibi is corrupt. He is not a partner for peace and any hope for a two-state solution revolves around him not being in power. Biden’s embrace of him was a mistake. Any policy we make should be contingent on him being out of...
by insipid47
on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 01:19 AM PST
with 129 Recommends
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In a letter written by future 1st Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, to his wife, in 1938, he writes what David Lloyd George of Great Britain, said of the British Colony that was then Palestine: “I’ll be frank with you. During the world war...
by David B
on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 07:55 AM PDT
with 413 Recommends
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)� reports that last year saw the single largest number of antisemitic incidents—assaults, harassment, and vandalism—in the U.S. in the almost half-century they’...
by Ian Reifowitz
on Fri Dec 09, 2022 at 08:30 AM PST
with 156 Recommends
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The last few years have seen a significant increase in antisemitic attacks in the U.S. and worldwide. Some have been violent, while others have been verbal or rhetorical. Furthermore, they’ve come from different ideological directions, although the...
by Ian Reifowitz
on Fri Aug 05, 2022 at 05:59 AM PDT
with 242 Recommends
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I am a Jew and a long time opponent of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, Israeli settlements there, and the blockage of Gaza. I believe in the right of Israel to exist, but I also believe in democracy and that Palestinian lives matter. I can wear...
by Alan Singer
on Wed Jun 02, 2021 at 05:07 PM PDT
with 19 Recommends
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Some will find this article uncomfortable, but it is my position. I consider myself a humanist in the sense that I believe all people deserve to live in peace. I abhor terrorism but the racism against Jews, Blacks, Islam followers, or whatever group is...
by leftwisdom
on Sat May 29, 2021 at 09:10 AM PDT
with 32 Recommends
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x Vimeo Video How do you boil down the causes of the latest war ...
by Mark Fiore
on Fri May 21, 2021 at 02:00 AM PDT
with 33 Recommends
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