#jewish history project

[fdelopera]

Goyim really need to stop repeating the "happy Dhimmi" narrative.

Jews were forced into second-class Dhimmi status in Muslim countries, were forced to pay the Jizya (the tax for non-Muslims), and were at constant risk of pogroms from their Muslim neighbors. Jews were not "living in peace and harmony."

Even Maimonides, the great 12th century Jewish Torah scholar and philosopher, was forced to "convert" to Islam as a child in Cordoba, along with his family and many in his Jewish community. They did this because the Almohad Caliphate gave Jews in Cordoba a decree that they must either convert to Islam or be murdered. I say "convert" in quotes because it was later ruled that since Maimonides' conversion was coerced, he had not become an apostate from Judaism.

Maimonides escaped to Morocco and then spent time in the Holy Land during the Crusade years before traveling to Egypt, where he spent much of his life.

Even though Maimonides was a physician and a scholar, he was still a second-class citizen in Egypt.

Maimonides also knew that the West wasn't any better for Jews. He was personally invited by Richard the Lionheart, King of England, to come to England to be the King's physician (though he would have to live in the Jewish ghetto), but Maimonides turned down this offer. The Devil you know is often better than the Devil you don't.

So while it's true there were certain places and times where it was safer to be a Jew in the Muslim world than in Christendom, we Jews were always second-class citizens no matter where we went.

Tl;dr yes, depending on who the ruler was, it was sometimes better to be a second-class citizen (subjected to extra taxes and to pogroms) in certain Muslim-controlled lands like Egypt than it was to be rounded up and mass murdered in the Holy Roman Empire of Europe...

But is that really a fair comparison? No. It is just a choice between a "lesser of two evils."

said this in a comment but as a non ashki jew, the way y’all (gentiles) talk abt ashkenazi jews is really fucking weird. you’re not being a savior to non ashkenazi jews or to black and brown jews (some of whom are ashkenazi) by painting ashkenazi jews as this nefarious group of elites plotting against everyone. the antisemitism doesn’t cancel out just because you’re targeting the group you perceive to be the “white ones.”

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Now that I have your attention:

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[ace-hell]

Can't stop thinking how PPs (pro palestinians) force "decolonization" on israel by forcing arabic onto the names and everything when these are the native languages of canaan, aka what they call "palestine":

Modern hebrew was indeed revived in Europe but it is still a moddle eastern jewish native canaanite language

so no its not nablus, or al aqsa or whatever they call whichever city bc arabic is a colonizer language. Like english is America.

[highlyillogicalandroid]

Btw excluding Jews from social and creative (and any other) spaces because you’ve assumed our politics based solely on our religion is antisemitic.

[thebusylilbee]

"zionism is for jewish people to discuss, goyim have no place in this conversation !!!"

what in the holy ethno-brainwashing... are yall... are yall zionist pieces of shit forgetting that the primary victims of the zionist ideology are goyim palestinians and arabs as a whole ??! never fucking seen oppressors be this confident to try to erase their own fucking victims from the conversation holy shit. this is like saying "white supremacy is for white people to discuss, people of color have no place in this conversation" like im sorry but THE JEWISH SUPREMACIST COLONIALIST IDEOLOGY THAT DEHUMANIZED PALESTINIANS AND ARABS AS A WHOLE FROM DAY FUCKING ONE IS VERY MUCH AN OKAY TOPIC TO DISCUSS AMONG ARABS YOU BRAINDEAD ZIONIST CUNTS

[whitesinhistory]

CNN eventually boots MAGA racist

Mehdi: “If you don’t want to be called a Nazi, don’t act like one"

Ryan Girdusky to Mehdi: “I hope your beeper doesn’t go off”

The Nazi tried backtracking…

[hobbinch]

I'm turning into the joker over seeing fellow white non-Jewish leftist friends and acquaintances sharing posts scoffing at the idea that Jews are native to the land currently called Israel and Palestine. Israel's gov't is clearly using tactics from the US Genocide playbook to evacuate the land and dominate its residents. That doesn't mean you can paste American dynamics of Who's Indigenous/Native And Who's A Colonizer directly onto the situation.

You can't absolve yourself of the guilt of being a settler in America by taking it out on Israelis. Some people claiming Jews aren't indigenous/native are saying that because their goal is 0 Jews in Palestine or any neighboring countries. At least do a minute of work to make sure you're not fucking platforming those people.

[infiniteglitterfall]

[waugh-bao]

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[tacticalgrandma]

I’m sorry but fuck off, it only takes a small but violent hate group to make a place unlivable for a marginalized group; large swathes of the populations of those countries (I know the majority in Egypt) were born after the Jewish population had been forcibly emigrated to Israel or killed, or they were children at the time, they had no say in it; the fucking audacity of accusing people interested in preserving their local history & examples of Jews & Muslims living peacefully together—which was almost always the fucking case!! or how the fuck else do you think those Jewish communities established such long roots!!—of “self-righteous memory-keeping” while using those same long-gone Jewish communities to justify your islamophobia. Fuck off

[mango-meister]

There’s a popular post about how Leonard Nimoy went to a Yiddish speaking therapist just to practice the language, but the first time I ever heard him speak it was when I stumbled into the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project.

This video is just a piece of a nearly 2 hour long video interview that you can find at the Wexler Oral History Project’s website.

If you don’t feel like listening to the whole 2 hours straight, they’ve divided it into bite sized chunks of different interview topics if you scroll down a bit.

It’s a really beautiful story. And language. What a fascinating history.

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Now that I have your attention:

[funkopersonal]

Me at 2am grinding out my notes to submit to my history teacher to prove that I did my research in their stupid little way. (I do my best work researching in my own method)

[makingcontact]

Uncovering the Refugee Experience & Healing Through Storytelling (Encore)

Wilson Dairy Restaurant (Left), Helen Zia as a baby with mom (Right). Credit: Photo copyright Helen Zia used with permission. This week’s Making Contact episode is about two strong women who survived historic trauma, and the stories they later told their families.  We start with the story of Katie Wilson. Born to an Orthodox Jewish family in Kiev, Ukraine, she grew up safe and comfortable – until…

[akajustmerry]

everytime someone, usually white, talks about the IOF using major US cultural events as "distractions" to commit more genocidal operations in Palestine, I want to SCREAM. The assumption that the IOF is hanging on the us's every fart to make their moves is US centrism, narcissism at global proportions. the IOF don't need "distractions" they've been murdering, torturing and displacing Palestinians and other Arabs for almost a century with impunity because they KNOW they can get away with it. Because the IOF knows practically no one who can actually stop them gives a fuck about Palestinians and Arabs. The IOF don't need a presidential assassination scandal, a met gala, or any large event to cover for their atrocities because they've been doing them in broad daylight everyday, all day for decades, AND BRAGGING about it. Claiming the IOF is doing anything because some event is providing a "distraction" is a vapid projection of a personal inability to deal with the cognitive dissonance and guilt of bearing witness and experiencing these events simultaneously. Not to mention, it plays into anti-jewish conspiracies of Jewish world domination by insulating connections between major events that are often unconnected. It's okay that you feel scared and confused and overwhelmed, but stop pretending the IOF even cares about Palestinians and Arabs enough to wait for the world to be distracted to kill us. They don't need to. They never have and it's hugely ignorant of at least a century of history, anti-Arab racism, and Zionism to say otherwise.

EDIT: I was wrong making this post. @el-shab-hussein took the time to correct me in their reblog here. But I will also copy and paste their correction here:

They committed some of the most atrocious massacres since the start of the acceleration during and directly after the debates between Trample and Bitchen, with several hundreds confirmed dead by day. It's crazy how much Palestinians have discussed the phenomenon of Israel using major U.S. events as a distraction before the acceleration and we've posted about it on tumblr and I've seen other Palestinians make threads about it on Twitter to compile various instances where U.S. events and other major world events used as distractions (wow! Look an example to back my point: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). "They don't need distractions" yes they do, that is the very basis of the massive Israeli lobby and hasbara industry. Don't patronize us just because you can't understand how central the U.S. and its apathy is in our genocide. Recognizing the role of American cultural imperialism and its far-reaching consequences is not perpetuating it - what an incredibly lazy way to try to shut us up - it's recognizing who's the lynchpin in the equation here.