#algerian politics

[sissa-arrows]

The Algerian president: calls out a country without naming them for its normalization with Israel, its support of Moroccan colonialism in Western Sahara as well as its involvement in all conflicts on behalf of the West citing Sudan, Mali and Libya.

Me: It could be so many countries… I know who he is talking about but those who don’t follow Algerian politics or SWANA politics won’t know 😂

The UAE: ALGERIA IS ATTACKING US IT’S SO SAD AND ALGERIANS DESERVE A BETTER GOVERNMENT *proceed to use the exact same arguments the French use when attacking Algeria*

Me: Well I wasn’t counting on the country who wasn’t name dropped to say that they are the piece of shit Algeria was talking about… had they not said anything 80% of the world would have thought he was talking about France or the US but hey if the UAE wanna make sure everyone knows it’s about them no problem.

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Algeria among top importers of Brazilian beef

Algeria has joined the list of the top 20 importers of Brazilian beef, at 34,200 tonnes from January to September. The UAE also increased their purchases, contributing to the rise in exports.

Algeria has made its way into the list of the top 20 importers of Brazilian beef this year, according to information released on Monday (14) by beef industry group Abrafrigo. Brazil increased its overall beef export volume by 33.7% from January to September compared to the same period last year, achieving a 21% increase in revenue from these sales.

The rise in purchases from several countries, including Arab nations Algeria and the United Arab Emirates, has contributed to the performance of Brazilian exports. Algeria has made a significant leap from virtually zero imports last year to being among the top importers this year. The North African country imported 34,200 tonnes of beef in the first nine months of this year.

The UAE ranked third among buyers, importing 120,700 tonnes from January to September this year, compared to 40,000 tons during the same months in 2023. This represents a growth of 162%. The revenue Brazil grossed from imports by the Gulf Arab nation also surged, by 168.3%, rising from USD 204.1 million to USD 547.8 million in the same comparison.

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[atheostic]

Religious Privilege

In Algeria Islamic studies are mandatory in public schools at primary level and followed by Sharia studies at secondary level.

[linkedsoul]

CRAB DANCE MY GOOD PEOPLE

[hussyknee]

Rundown of the current protests, rioting and state crackdown that have erupted in France over the police murder of a 17 year old brown boy.

I've seen way too many Europeans on here insisting ACAB is just a USAmerican thing. It's really important y'all know that it isn't. Cops as an institution is fundamentally fascist, and in the Global North, white supremacist.

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Rest in power baby boy.

*Correction: Nahel wasn't Black, but Maghrebi (of North African descent). Apologies for the mistake.

[bookloversofbath]

The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War :: Douglas Porch

[cleversleazoid]

París 2024: Un Desfile de Modas con Atletas

La ceremonia de apertura de París 2024 fue toda una experiencia. Una especie de desfile de modas irrelevante. Y es que, entre tanto brillo y glamour, se les olvidó enfocar a los atletas. Lo mejor? La bandera olímpica al revés. ¡Un toque de originalidad que nadie se esperaba! Los bailarines, por su parte, nos regalaron una coreografía digna de un musical de Broadway. Bueno, quizás no tanto. Más bien parecía una reunión familiar donde alguien puso música y todos empezaron a moverse sin ninguna coordinación.¡Y qué decir de la representación histórica! Un viaje en el tiempo que nos llevó desde la Revolución Francesa hasta los Minions. Porque nada une a las personas como un buen crossover cultural.En fin, una ceremonia para todos los gustos. Si te gusta la confusión, la falta de sincronía y los guiños a la historia colonial, ¡esta era tu noche!

[spacelazarwolf]

before yom hashoah ends, i want to remind folks that sephardi, maghrebi, and mizrahi jews were also deeply affected by the holocaust.

this is by no means inclusive of all communities who were affected by the holocaust and its aftermath, i do not have the emotional bandwidth for that, but hopefully this gives you some insight into jewish experiences outside of what's usually talked about.

the jews of morocco, algeria, tunisia, libya, and italy were all subjected to the racial laws of the vichy regime or fascist italy, which prevented them from attending educational institutions, holding public office, and owning businesses and sometimes property. moroccan jews were protected from some of the violence faced by other jews of the mediterranean and north africa because of the moroccan sultan mohammed ben youssef, who was vocally opposed to the anti jewish laws. he reportedly told the vichy government, "there are no jews in morocco. there are only moroccan subjects." he believed he had a god-given responsibility to protect moroccan jews. "moroccan jews are my subjects, and it is my duty to protect them against aggression."

unfortunately, other jewish communities did not receive that kind of protection. algerian jews faced a pogrom by the local arab population in constantine, killing 25 and destroying several jewish homes and businesses. 2000 algerian jews were sent to concentration camps in bedeau and djelfa, where many died from hunger, exhaustion, disease, or beatings. 5000 tunisian jews were forced into labor and detention camps where over 400 of them were killed. in libya, there was a violent pogrom which killed 500 jews out of a community of 4000. 2600 of the survivors were sent to the giado concentration camp, of which 526 died. in tunisia, there was a violent pogrom which killed over 130 jews (including 36 children), injured hundreds, and left 4000 homeless. italian jews faced pogroms, the jewish ghetto in rome was raided and over a thousand jews were detained and sent to concentration camps. a total of 7680 italian jews out of a population of nearly 45,000 were killed.

in greece, thousands of jews were deported to auschwitz. as many as 50% died en route, and only 10,000 out of over 75,000 survived, a nearly 90% death rate. their homes were looted and their property was stolen, and when the few survivors tried to return after the war (a difficult task as the greek foreign ministry attempted to delay or prevent their return to greece), most were unable to regain their property and possessions, forcing most to seek asylum in israel or other countries.

egyptian jews were not directly affected by the axis powers, but extremist organizations like young egypt and the muslim brotherhood sympathized with the nazis and even secured nazi funds to distribute thousands of antisemitic propaganda pamphlets. sporadic pogroms took place throughout the 40's, stoked by political leaders like mahmoud an-nukrashi pasha who said to the british ambassador, "all jews were potential zionists" and dr heykal pasha who said "if the u.n. decides to amputate a part of palestine in order to establish a jewish state, ... jewish blood will necessarily be shed elsewhere in the arab world ... to place in certain and serious danger a million jews." this political extremism prompted the 1948 cairo bombings that killed 70 jews and wounded 200, with many more being killed in the riots following, and eventually led to the expulsion of nearly all egyptian jews, whose money and posessions were all confiscated by the egyptian government.

similar political persecution was directed at iraqi jews, leading to the farhud, a pogrom which killed 180 jews and forced tens of thousands to flee. though there were many who did not support the nazi regime or agree with their views, there were just as many in arab countries who did, in no small part because of active effort by the nazis to gain sympathy from arab populations who already did not get along with their local jewish populations. this led to several other pogroms that took place in the 30's and 40's across lebanon, syria, and british mandate palestine, including a pogrom in jaffa which killed 9 jews and forced 12,000 jews to flee, and another in tiberias which killed 19 jews (including 11 children), most of whom were stabbed to death.

it's understandable that most of what the general public knows about the holocaust is the stories of ashkenazi jews from central and eastern europe, because they comprise the vast majority of the victims. hopefully, this encourages you to do further research into the ways other parts of the diaspora were also affected.

[floral-ashes]

I was asked why the moral panic around Algerian boxer Imane Khelif was so centred on trans people when there’s no evidence that she’s trans. I thought I’d share my thoughts publicly.

The reason is that, in many ways, transphobia isn’t about trans people, it’s about what trans people mean to ideologies of race and gender. The controversy about the Olympic boxers is linked to rising anxieties about the line between men and women becoming increasingly blurred in contemporary society. These anxieties are fuelled by right-wing movements who see rigid divisions between men and women as critical to maintaining white social, economic, and political control. Because trans people are seen as challenging the justification of gender norms and roles based on biology and reproduction, they’re targets of particularly intense hostility and violence. My colleague Blu Buchanan and I tracked that racial logic a bit more in depth in a truthout essay a few years ago. White supremacist ideologies are heavily invested in rigid gender norms and roles because they see them as necessary to white reproduction.

The moral panic about ‘gender ideology’ is about trans people, yes, but it’s also explicitly about cis men and women not conforming to gender ideals that see men and women as fundamentally different forms of life with different roles in a society organized around the nuclear family. Women have to act and look a certain way to be considered ‘really’ women, much in the way that gay men are deprecated as ‘not real men.’ This moral panic manifests in the disproportionate targeting of racialized women and especially Black women for not conforming to white ideals of femininity. This dynamic is only amplified in the context of elite sports given the pervasive association of athletic ability with masculinity, especially in contact and strength-based sports like boxing as opposed to, say, gymnastics.

[djuvlipen]

one last word on this. it is very interesting to me that it is imane khelif (an allegedly intersex algerian person with an androgynous physique) who has been chosen by radfems to give a face to the problem of sexism at the olympics and not steven van de velde, the athlete convicted of raping a child, not "valentina" petrillo, the actual transwoman competing at the female paralympics, not manizha talash, the female afghan athlete who was eliminated from the competition for wearing a cape that said "free afghan women", not vinesh phogat, the female indian athlete who was excluded from the competition because she was 100g overweight as she was about to win a gold medal (a decision that may have been politically motivated considering phogat has been very vocal and active protesting sexual violence in indian society), not the inclusion of israeli players who represent a country that commits mass rapes on palestinian women.

When you bring that up the counter-argument is always "yes but radfems are opposed to the inclusion of khelif and at the same time they denounce these other forms of sexism, we can care about multiple issues at once" except that this is absolutely not the case here, feminists have devoted much, much more time, attention and conversation to khelif than to any other people i've mentioned here, they have protested much more against khelif than against the men or in support of the women I have listed. This shows that radfems (in general) have made the choice to give a greater priority to khelif than to these other questions, and this shows that their priorities really speak to white middle class women much more than they do disabled women, woc, third world and working class women.

Because even if khelif had been a biological male identifying as a woman (which isn't the case)... none of this warrants focusing so much on her. all the other topics i've mentioned here have only been discussed from time to time at best (for van de velde and petrillo) and a couple of times before everyone decided to collectively move on at worst (for talash and phogat). Of course fair play for women is important but it shouldn't obliterate every other conversation to be had about male violence, especially male violence occuring in third world countries in large part because of western imperialism (in the cases of afghanistan, india and palestine)

[sissa-arrows]

forgot to send you this from an Algerian news outlet.

What’s interesting is that the French far right and the right in general keep comparing Kanaky and Palestine to Algeria without realizing that it doesn’t play in their favor at all… like thank you for confirming this is colonialism which makes the resistance legitimate I guess?

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Algeria new phase: Brazil’s embassy takes companies to show

The Brazilian Embassy in Algiers will have a space in the agri-food show Sipsa & Filaha – Agrofood, to take place in May in the Algerian capital, and invites Brazilian companies and entities to exhibit. The Arab country is experiencing a more favorable moment for foreign trade.

The Brazilian Embassy in Algiers is calling Brazilian companies to exhibit at Sipsa & Filaha – Agrofood, the biggest agri-food show in Africa, to take place from May 22 to 25 this year at the Safex Exhibition Center in the Algerian capital. The embassy will have a 50-square-meter space in the exhibition and is looking for companies and entities to exhibit and collaborate in the booth assembly.

The Arab country is experiencing a new phase of more significant opening to imports, which could be an opportunity for Brazilian food exporting companies. The Brazilian ambassador to Algiers, Flavio Marega, believes the time is ripe to make contacts in the country. “It is a good time for Brazilian exporters to come and live this new moment in Algeria,” the diplomat said in an interview with ANBA.

Algeria has a policy of encouraging domestic production and usually allows imports in some segments, usually essential products, and inputs, or in the face of supply gaps. With high prices, shortages of some goods, and the need to increase stocks, however, it has been giving greater flexibility to foreign trade into the country to increase the availability of products and lower prices for the population.

Marega reported this year Algeria imported 10,000 standing cattle from Brazil. “I think it opened an important path,” he said. The diplomat believes Algeria could also open its poultry and beef market to Brazil. The country used to import Brazilian beef but closed the market in mid-2020 to Brazil, Spain, and India to boost local production in the segment.

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[edenfenixblogs]

Me: I think I’ll catch up on the Olympics. I’m a former gymnast who loves gymnastics. Let’s see what’s going on there!

Me: Awesome! Way to go team USA and Simone Biles! What an achievement! I’m so proud of them. How cool that two women of color from the USA take gold and silver in the individual all-arounds! And Simone got a record breaking number of awards Olympic medals and took gold at age 27!!!! That’s unheard of in gymnastics!!!!

Olympic YouTube Video: Here is cool stuff about Team USA and Brazil.

Me: this is a hard time for Israelis. I’m so glad we have these Olympic Games—an event specifically about putting aside politics and celebrating individual humans regardless of where they’re from. I think I’ll do a quick search to see if any Israelis are competing in any televised events this time! It’ll be nice to see some apolitical stuff about Israel. I love that Brazil placed, too. And team USA was cheering them on! What good sportsmanship!

YouTube Search Result Video 1: Israelis play SOCCER??? In France???? When GAZA IS GETTING BOMBED???? Sounds like Jews love the GENOCIDE-lympics am I right????

Me: …um. Did you want the athletes in Israel instead? Actively involved in the bombing you said you don’t like? Isn’t it good that young, talented people are here in Paris using their strength and talent for something other than war???

YouTube Search Result Video 2: This is a news report about Houthis threatening to attack Israelis as the Olympics and Israeli olympians needing increased security. Some have had their data breached and also faced threats from Iran.

Me: This is definitely normal and not at all a terrifying memory of the time a bunch of Jews were attacked at a previous Olympic Games.

YouTube Search Result Video 3: Israeli athletes report feeling isolated and threatened at Olympics to the point that they require 24h security.

Me: EverythingIsFine.jpg

Youtube Search Result Video 4: Israelis booed at their soccer game. Protestors shout “Heil Hitler!”

Me: Hmmm, something about the fucking HITLER part makes me think that perhaps this is less about supporting Palestine and more about hating Jews.

YouTube Search Result Video 5: Algerian Olympian refuses to compete against Israeli Olympian in Judo.

Me: …so…he gave Israel the victory in that event? In protest of…Israel? Placing him on the podium? With a bronze medal? After waiting his whole life to be in the Olympics? …that sure will show him…something?

Official Olympics YouTube Channel: There is no war in Ba Sing Se, and I have never heard of this place you call Israel.

Me: (heavy sigh) of course not

Official NBC Sports YouTube Channel: umm???? Israel. Israel? Israel you say? Nope. Doesn’t ring a bell. Are you sure they make athletes there?

Me: Yes.

NBC Sports: Did you mean you want to see Simone Biles?

Me: No, I saw Simone Biles already.

NBC: How about Suni—

Me: Let’s assume I’ve seen all of team USA gymnastics.

NBC: Katie Led—

Me: No, that’s US swimming. Which is very cool. But I have run a search for Israeli Olympians please.

NBC: Ugh. Fine. Best I can do is a video of Qatar winning at volleyball. That feels related to Israel, right?

Me: Not…really what I was going for. But thanks, I guess.

[nesiacha]

Today, this war criminal, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has died—impunity granted, like so many others.

He is the one who tortured and killed many Algerians during the Algerian Revolution, including with his own hands or under his orders. One must consider, among other things, the way revolutionary Moulay Ahmed died—tortured in front of his six children and wife (what was known as "torture under the roof")—when he refused to reveal the whereabouts of his comrades in arms, who were not far away (according to the son of Ahmed Moulay, he could also have escaped before being arrested, but he refused for fear of reprisals against his family, and his fear was justified). Le Pen accidentally left his knife and another personal belonging at the crime scene. His wife, daring the dangers, filed a complaint with the help of a white man from the Church (which was dangerous at the time). She took one of Jean-Marie Le Pen's items (his weapon belt, if I'm not mistaken). The complaint regarding the death of her husband went nowhere, as usual. However, the son of Ahmed Moulay kept the knife with Jean-Marie Le Pen's name engraved on it. He searched in vain for Le Pen and turned the entire area of the Moulay family home upside down.

After the Algerian Revolution, those who committed horrific crimes against the Algerians, including Jean-Marie Le Pen, were not prosecuted. He went on to lead a far-right political party.

Years later, when Jean-Marie Le Pen made it to the second round of the election, the matter of the knife resurfaced. Le Pen, as usual, denied and showed no remorse.

For my part, the best thing would be for Le Pen to disappear into oblivion, in his racism and Nazi delusions, but for his crimes to be discussed. We should talk more about his victims than about him, as he never repented, and he should have been proud that we talk about his heinous acts (much like the worthless members of the OAS who laugh or mock openly in interviews about the assassination of the great writer Mouloud Feraoun, his colleague Max Marchand, and other great men like Marcel Basset, Ali Hammoutène, Salah Ould Aoudia, and Robert Aimard because they know these crimes were amnestied; or other people who openly commemorate in cities OAS criminals like Delguedre—I can assure you that there are public demonstrations in honor of this atrocious man. The best thing to do is to ignore such nonsense).

Here are my sources: Florence Beaugé, Algérie: une guerre sans gloire https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2012/05/02/mohamed-moulay-l-homme-au-poignard-de-le-pen-est-mort_1694213_3382.html

[devotedlittlefreak]

One thing that particularly annoys me about the Kai Winn hate is how it strips her of her actual power.

I've seen so much people comparing her to their catechism teacher or another uber-catholic conservative woman of their life, and... she's the most powerful Bajoran in the show! She's the Kai, at some point she seems like the de-facto head of diplomacy, and for a moment she is even the head of state! She has 2 Coup attempts on her record!

Even before she's elected, she's a proper dangerous reactionary, with a political doctrine and an important base of followers. Along with Dukat and Weyoun, she is THE political character of the show. And she's so grey! So real!

I don't want to compare her to one of today's fascist either, but I feel she's kinda similar to De Gaulle ? (One of the leader of the French resistance and post WW2 political leader, and then president.)

Someone with an authoritarian doctrine who became a face of liberty and resistance (more or less peacefully). A radically Conservative politician who rose to prominence because of governmental instability, and strangely became a voice of moderation and stability. Someone "respectable".

Definitely an opportunist but also they haven clear limits. Her line is "No Cardassia, no Federation", but it really is No Cardassia first. Unlike Jaro.

Some info about De Gaulle to make my points : During the Algerian war of independence, the putschists of Alger wanted him to take power in a new military government. He declined their offer but immediately was named 1st minister by the president. And then... he instored a new Constitution tailored to his view of France. Does anyone see where I'm going with the comparison?

Back to Adami. They toned it down a lot after her first appearance, but she has this criminal side that's proper to fascists. I'm pretty fascinated by Bareil's view of her. She tried to have him killed, and then blackmailed him, and he's like "Maybe it's the will of the Prophets. She will need our help."

When it's Dukat, it's all "he's so charismatic and complicated tho", but the best Kai Winn get is "Louise Fletcher makes me hate her so bad!" Honestly, I think she is more complicated and interesting and grey than he is

The fandom rarely undermine his power. Same for the other villains who are actually "evil" : Lady Founder, who is too frightening to undermine, Intendant Kira and Emperor Gieorgou (probably because of the Camp factor), and the Borg Queen.

And I don't think Winn is evil. She's a realistic authoritarian/reactionary. In the end, I think she does care about the Bajoran people. But she thinks she knows best, she think they need a strong hand and she's the best qualified

[halalchampagnesocialist]

anyway not to get overly political on this blog but everytime they mention the seine for the Olympics I think of two things 1. Dirty river 2. The bodies of Algerians who were massacred by the French and dumped at the bottom