#Maccabees

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Sometimes all you need is 36+ hours straight of listening to your favourite band on repeat and till all your issues fade away

[eretzyisrael]

By REBECCA SZLECHTER

Beginning his college tour at Queens College, there was a mob of over 200 people threatening and cursing at him. “I want the counterparties to come hear me and speak. I want people who are against the IDF to hear what I have to say. Unfortunately, there hasn't been room for that.” He spoke on the fact that the mob refused to listen to this speech and ask questions. Getting threatened by these individuals, Fried had to be escorted back by the police.

“How can you have peace with people who refuse your right to exist?” He says.

Another case he brought up was an encampment he visited that took place at City College, in which he is an alumnus. He came intending to have peaceful and meaningful dialogue. “I’m asking someone, somebody who wants peace, to come and speak to me.” Not a single person took the offer. Not only were they refusing to speak to Fried, but they blocked him from entering a public area that is funded by taxpayers' dollars, including himself.

After one of Fried’s recent speeches in Boise, Idaho, people came to the hotel he was staying at dressed in keffiyehs, holding hammers and wrenches, in an attempt to lynch him. They did 10,000 dollars worth of damage to the hotel, luckily, Fried wasn’t there then. Three out of the four people have since been arrested. People plastered pictures all over the city portraying Fried as a villain and killer. “Because these people are so anti-peace, I have to keep going.”

When asked about dealing with hostile and aggressive questions, Fried answered, “It's very simple. We are speaking the truth. We are on the right side of history. These people are lying, conflating truths, and revising history. We cannot let them.” Fried says he arms himself with truth and history. He fights with facts.

“The most common misconception about the IDF is that we want war. We do not. We are a defense force. We want peace.”

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Okay. So. After 7 years The Maccabees finally teased a reunion and I for one am pissed that I'd deluded myself into thinking thta they would never get back together because the pain was always too much to bear. But over the past few months I've seen every member of the band play live with their new bands and acts and each time one of them played a Maccabees riff or full song (and each time I cried for half an hour afterwards). So picture this morning, I wake up at 1pm, hungover and possibly concussed. I check twitter and the first thing I see is this.

You're all going to see my real time meltdown over this fucking 00s indie rock band.

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Phil Sharp

All Points East 2025  will be welcoming The Maccabees for their first show in eight years on Sunday 24 August.

In 2017, The Maccabees said an emotional, euphoric goodbye with three sold-out nights at Alexandra Palace.

After a final performance of their breakout hit ‘Pelican’, they stood together on stage for the final time, waving back at a sea of adoring fans, all pouring their own goodbyes into the moment. It was an ending that has stayed with all who witnessed it, equal parts joyful and sad. At their creative, critical and commercial peak, they were leaving behind everything they had known in their adult lives. The end of crafting four increasingly accomplished and acclaimed albums, with each passing record reflecting the experiences of the fans who had grown up alongside them. The end of The Maccabees.

It was a farewell so resolutely final that each member threw themselves with full commitment into countless new endeavours: music, art, books, film scores, production, broadcasting and so much more. No matter how many times the question was asked in the years after, each member felt the same thing. It was the end. But not all goodbyes are necessarily forever. And so today comes the news that The Maccabees have reunited to headline All Points East in Victoria Park, London on August 24th 2025 – it also coincides with the 10-Year Anniversary of their final record together; the critically acclaimed, Number 1 album ‘Marks To Prove It’.

Not only will The Maccabees be Sunday night headliners – the bank holiday weekend being the perfect time for such a celebratory occasion – but they are also collaborating with All Points East to deliver an essential bill of artists that they love, both old and new.

The first small turning point on the road to All Points East can be charted back to guitarist and founding member Hugo White’s wedding in February 2020. He wanted to put together a covers band as part of the celebrations. Guest spots were divided out between an illustrious list of close friends and musical peers including Adele, Florence + The Machine and Jamie T. It was mooted that The Maccabees could maybe play ‘Pelican’ at the party to make it really special, but Hugo wasn’t entirely sure if singer Orlando Weeks would accept the invitation. They hadn’t all been together, on or off stage, since that last moment at Alexandra Palace.

For Orlando, it was about participating in a landmark life moment for his friend; as he puts it “I didn’t go because it was The Maccabees playing together again, but because it was a beautiful gesture to be invited and to contribute to the spirit of the day. What I wanted, band aside, was to find a way to be in each other’s lives in some way.’’

Having played almost every venue of every size in London as the band developed, the opportunity to headline the leading festival in the Capital in such good company, in the City they all grew up in, was eventually too good an opportunity to pass up.

Having immediately sold 30,000 tickets for their final Alexandra Palace shows shortly after its announcement, demand for tickets is expected to be huge. Fans who sign up to the mailing list at www.themaccabees.co.uk will gain access to a pre-sale which opens at 10am on Wednesday 30 October. Remaining tickets will then go on general sale from 10am on Thursday 31 October.

Felix White adds, on the pertinence of the show itself, “In the intervening years we’ve been to All Points East a lot, separately. It’s become a bit of a landmark festival for us, always checking who’s on the line-up. I’d go and have a great time throughout the day, but there was always this pinch of regret watching headliners that we could’ve done it ourselves one day too. I thought that moment had passed, and it was something I was prepared to come to terms with that I was always going to miss. I think we’re all kind of shocked and excited that we get to do it together again.”

Hugo White was inspired, in part, by watching The Strokes at last year’s All Points East: “I could see that they were enjoying it , realising how great what they had created together was. Being a band, you are usually in a mindset of, ‘We can do better’ and you’re always chasing something else. This is an opportunity to realise that whatever we had in that moment was pretty special and get to enjoy it again. It’s a chance to appreciate everything, and especially how it impacts other people and created a community.

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Antonio Ciseri - Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabees, 1863.

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15 Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible; 7-15 Apocrypha books of the King James Bible Were Deleted; Black Slave Bible, Dead Sea Scrolls

The Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible are books which are included in some version of the canonical Bible, but have been excluded at one time or another based on textual or doctrinal issues from the standard bible. Of these books, Tobias, Judith, the Wisdom of Solomon, Baruch, and Maccabees, remain in the Catholic Bible. First Esdras, Second Esdras, Epistle of Jeremiah, Susanna, Bel and the…

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On this last night of Hanukkah, I remember the Ukraine and the parallels between that nation’s fight for freedom and that of the Maccabees. Both fought and are fighting for not only their existence, but for their identities and beliefs. President Zelenskyy came to the U.S. just beforeChristmas, but he is Jewish and he leads his nation with honour, dignity, and the courage of all our forbearers who faced down giants and enemies stronger than we were. Perhaps it is a dream, but I hope next year we can light our candles in a world without war.

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There is only one Israel. This is the place where the Maccabees refused to lose their identity, pride, and faith and overcame all odds against the overwhelming Greek culture, which sought to strip the Jewish people of its unity and identity.

The miracle of Hanukkah is not that the candles were lit and burned for eight days. The miracle is that the candles were lit at all.

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Question: is the Book of the Maccabees included in the Deuteronomy or is it completely separate?

nah, Maccabees is its own thing, totally separate from Deuteronomy.

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HAPPY HANUKKAH AND MERRY CHRISTMAS? -- a Bill's Bible Basics article #BirthOfChrist #Hanukkah #Christmas This Bill's Bible Basics 2-part article by Bill Kochman can be read at: https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/HappyHanukkahMerryChristm1.html https://www.billkochman.com/Blog/index.php/happy-hanukkah-and-merry-christmas-a-bills-bible-basics-article/?HAPPY%20HANUKKAH%20AND%20MERRY%20CHRISTMAS%3F%20--%20a%20Bill%27s%20Bible%20Basics%20article

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Bombay Bicycle Club announced at All Points East on the 24th August 📣📣‼️‼️

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Controversial Prophesy Alert

Dale Pollard Daniel 8  Daniel prophesied of the Persian and Greek eras of Israelite history. The angel interpreted that for us, so there’s no mystery there. That mean man of the Diadochi, Antiochus Epiphanes, is described with his persecution lasting 2300 days. It was concluded by the Rededication of the Temple by Judas Maccabee, and that day became the Jewish Festival of Lights (John…

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There's this one bit at 1:50 onwards that I've got on a loop. I'm going to play it until I'm sick of it