#KURDS

[former-leftist-jew]

Arabians: the origins group of people in which Islam first was formed, they live in the Arabian peninsula.

No shit.

Muslims: people who fallow Islam, most of whom are not Arabic.

Yeah, because of early Arabian Muslim warlords performing violent religious expansionism and colonialism.

Arabs: a group of people with a wide origin including, Arabians, Egyptions, Lenvantic peoples, Syrians, Bedouins and others who formed base on the mutual use of some form of the Arabic language (originating with the Arabians) as a first langege. Only the Arabians and some Bedouins come from the Arabian peninsula.

Right. Descendants of indigenous populations who were conquered and culturally assimilated by early Arabian Muslim warlords.

Descendants of non-Arabian, non-Muslim indiginous people who were culturally assimilated by early Arabian Muslim warlords ("caliphs, officers, and soldiers" as you put it) who forced their Arabian religion, language, culture, way of life, onto them?

Now that I've used your preferred terms, what do you think of early Islamic Arabian Colonialism and its legacy to this day?

What do you think of non-Arabian, non-Arab, and non-Muslim ethnic and religious minorities in Arab Muslim-majority countries who say "It sucks living under Arab Muslim-majority rule

[autisticexpression2]

Seeing a lot of posts about the Palestinian flag, and it got me thinking about indigenous flags around the world.

Māori:

Kalaallit Nunaat:

Haudenosaunee

Nunatsiavut:

Australian Aboriginal:

Torres Strait Islands:

Rapa Nui:

Kurdistan:

Sami:

Ainu:

Of course, these are just a handful. May they all reclaim their stolen lands.

[underthewingsofthblackeagle]

[mapsontheweb]

Areas of majority of Kurdish settlement.

[sartorialadventure]

A village girl, Palangan, Kurdistan, Iran. At the beginning of spring, Kurdish people according to their customs and culture, celebrate an annual celebration called Nowruz or kindling fire.

[secular-jew]

Listen to the indigenous, not the Islamic Jihadi invader colonizers.

[chaiaurchaandni]

it is imp to remember that this is not about religion and the ethnic cleansing of artsakh proves this. all oppressive regimes are connected regardless of religion and that is why azerbaijan and israel have good relations. another example is saudi arabia having good relations with america and israel while also killing other muslims in yemen.

interestingly, like israel, saudi also uses religion to gain credibility (recently got holy mosque imam to give statement condemning boycotts and encouraging muslims to not be involved in the situation in palestine) and recruit muslim supporters from all over the world, while simultaneously killing/imprisoning muslim critics of the kingdom.

similarly, israel sells itself as a safe haven for jews and convinces jews around the world to migrate to israel while also simultaneously criminalizing antizionist jews all over the world, even suggesting that theyre not 'real jews' (reminiscent of takfirism which is a core part of saudi wahabi ideology) [ fun fact: the house of saud came into power in arabia with help from the british, just like the zionists in palestine! ]

oppressive regimes are directly connected and mirror each other in several ways. this is why liberation and resistance movements need to unite and work together across the world

[dougielombax]

So.

Today marks 36 years since the beginning of the Anfal Genocide in Iraq where Saddam Hussein’s regime slaughtered hundreds and thousands of Kurds, Yazidis, Assyrians, Mandaeans and Shabaks.

Around 100,000 people at the least would be killed.

It would last from February to September of 1988. During the late stages of the Iran-Iraq war.

Largely consisting of mass killings, chemical attacks and forced displacement.

Many in Iraq sadly continue to deny it to this day. Predictably. As do Saddam Hussein’s many idiot apologists on the internet.

I’ll leave some sources from this year and the last few years here for additional information.

Some sources also focus on the Assyrian victims too.

Above: A monument dedicated to the memory of the Assyrian victims of the Anfal genocide in the village of Gonda Kosa.

Just to remind any idiots who think Saddam and his cronies were kind to the Assyrians. They were certainly not!

Feel free to reblog.

Reblog the shit out of this!

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Bassam Tawil

"Turkey is bombing and massacring Kurds tonight. No protests, no marches, no media coverage, no condemnations from UN, no ICC arrest warrants for Erdogan. Since 1914 Turkey has killed over 1.5 million Kurds. Stop Kurdish genocide." — Hemdad Mehristani, researcher, X, October 23, 2024.

If Turkey has the right to respond to a terrorist attack by bombing dozens of targets belonging to Kurdish militants in Iraq and Syria, why is Israel being condemned for responding to the October 7 Hamas-led atrocities against its own citizens? Just because of the "two-state solution": Michigan and Minnesota?

Not only is Erdogan lying when he accuses Israel of "genocide," but he is also proving that he is a big hypocrite. If he is really worried about the safety of the Muslims in the Gaza Strip, why does he continue to support Hamas, while denying Israel the right to defend itself against Islamist terrorism? If he believes that he has the right to bomb Kurdish militants in Syria and Iraq, why is he denouncing Israel for taking the same action against Palestinian Islamist terrorists?

The complicit silence of the anti-Israel groups on US university campuses towards Turkey's crimes is simply evidence of a staggering racism and hypocrisy.

[timekilla]

kurds ☀️

[jewkbox]

"Borne from a long history of strife, Kurdish culture places value on individual freedoms. Whether it be overt religious tolerance, strides towards equality in the status of women, or democratic government, Kurdish culture values individual life and has fiercely defended its ability to live free from external rule."

While combating antisemitism, Jews should also be drawing attention to the countless other minority groups currently being oppressed around the world, most of whom seem invisible even to the average Western keyboard warrior.

[mizgin]

btw i always go back to Michel Setboun’s whole catalogue of Rojhilatî Kurds during the 1979 Revolution, the shots are immaculate

[coralgreenroses]

dont give up on Palestine, Kurds,Sudan, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Afghanistan or any other people who are being faced with Genocide, Ethnic Cleansings, Apartheid, Oppresion or injustice altogether.

they rely on all of us to be their voice.

times are changing and the world has gotten more humane than ever. humanity is thriving.

no longer will we be divided by colour, race, religions, goals , power. let us be who we really are. humans.

one day, when you find yourself in a similar scenario, perhaps the good we did for them at their lowest points, may return to us in an unexpected way.

you loose nothing by fighting for the weak and vulnerable.

dont choose to be blind.

lead the way, educate yourselves. be the uprising.

[mapsontheweb]

Greeks, Armenians and Kurds in modern day Turkey in 1914.

by georgianmaps

[kropotkindersurprise]

May 21, 2023 - Turkish police harass a group of Kurdish men for dancing halay to Kurdish music in an Istanbul park. One of the racist cops starts pepper-spraying one of the men for arguing, causing some other to fight back. When they run away the racist cop draws his handgun and starts firing in the air before giving chase. The cops managed to arrest four of the group, made them lay facedown on the ground with their hands cuffed behind their backs, while the cops played Ottoman military marches on their car stereo. [video]

[nesyanast]

Refugee Kurdish Jews in Tehran, Iran 1950