#league of nations

[probablyasocialecologist]

At the end of World War I, the Japanese delegation had come to the Versailles Peace Conference of 1919 to secure a racial equality clause in the charter for the new League of Nations. Despite his promises of freedom and plans for a postwar league to promote world peace, American president Woodrow Wilson was a Southern segregationist who had purged the US civil service of Blacks and hosted a White House screening of Birth of a Nation, thereby endorsing the film’s celebration of the Ku Klux Klan and its virulently racist depictions of African Americans. British officials had similar concerns that any declaration of human equality would create “extremely serious problems” for their colonial empire. When the Japanese motion nonetheless won majority support at the conference, Wilson used his position as chair of the deliberations to arbitrarily dismiss it, thereby preserving the racial hierarchy of the imperial age. While the conference liberated white Europeans from Austrian and Russian imperial rule, the League sanctioned continued colonial dominion over the peoples of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. To preserve imperial rule, the League created a mandate system which instituted a form of suspended sovereignty first advanced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish jurist Francisco de Vitoria. In effect, President Wilson’s arbitrary rejection of racial equality crippled the moral leadership of the League of Nations at birth, just as his inept failure to win congressional approval for US participation fatally weakened its international influence.

Alfred W. McCoy, To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

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[xialite]

All the non-UN orgs designs I have made so far

That was a lot of them but I like how this turnt out ngl

[lheautontimoroumenos]

Sakina Karchaoui celebrating her first goal in national selection (FRAWNT) in the League of Nations 2024 Semi Final France v. Germany

[emilyhh09]

CH book

Hey guys, I would like to know if yall would be interested in a CH book...

[nic0-ch]

Art dump cause I keep forgetting to post my stuff here lmao

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

These days, we hear numerous specious complaints of "cultural appropriation", often connected to a celebrity perceived to be in the wrong.

But when there's real cultural appropriation, such as the Palestinian Authority's recent bid to erase Jewish history in Jericho, those who are usually so vocal fall silent.

In fact, the Palestinian Authority's latest attempt to claim that Jericho is actually called Tell es-Sultan and is in 'Palestine' is worse than cultural appropriation: it's outright falsification of history and ethnic erasure of the Jews.

As Robert Williams explains in the above article, Jericho was built long before any Arab and/or Muslim ever arrived in the land. In fact, Jericho is older than the Jews too. To give an Arabic name that has no historical connection with the site is clearly a political decision, and UNESCO has fine form with putting politics ahead of historical facts.

In the past, UNESCO has falsely attributed Jewish holy sites to the Palestinians and to Islam. Consequently, the United States withdrew from UNESCO under the Trump administration. Biden has returned to it to counter Chinese influence, a statement that only reveals just how compromised UNESCO has become.

As I have said many times before, the reason for Palestinian falsification and erasure of Jewish history is simple: countless pieces of archaeological evidence prove that the Jews had a national homeland in Israel, which was only relinquished temporarily due to foreign invasion. The historical record shows consistent resettlements of Jews throughout the land ever since the last great expulsion of 70 CE.

This is why the Jews are the sole people with a national entitlement in Israel, a fact that was affirmed at the San Remo conference in 1920 and later by the League of Nations. This right never prevented Arabs from living in Mandatory Palestine (or even from having a state in some parts of it), but it did confer on the British Empire a responsibility to settle the Jews.

Despite the lies of Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations this year, the British Empire actually reneged on that obligation in favour of the Arabs. Most of Mandatory Palestine became Jordan, and Jews were restricted from purchasing housing in most of the tiny remainder. (Hence the increasing militancy of Zionist groups in the 1940s, fighting against the White Paper.)

The 1947 Partition Resolution would have granted Arabs sovereignty in the majority of the western part of the Mandate, effectively creating two states for them. But the Arabs rejected this, with the Arab Secretary General at the time threatening a monumental massacre of the Jews in response.

All of this historical background is crucial, as it demonstrates the malevolent deceit of the Palestinian Authority today. Without acknowledging the multiple opportunities it has had for a Palestinian State, the dictatorship pursues an inherently racial annihilationist goal of erasing all Jewish history from the land by seeking international validation for anti-historical lies.

And the feckless political merchants at UNESCO continue to accept this strategy, a strategy that is applied to no other ethnic and national group.

I hope that anyone with a conscience at UNESCO will reject this latest attempt at anti-Jewish ethnic erasure by the Palestinian Authority, but after their previous, hallucinatory decisions, I am not holding my breath.

[woodrowwilsonofficial]

world peace and self-determination have been on the decline as of late which is why i’m proud to announce my brand new project: League of Nations 6!

[deadpresidents]

Do you think that if Senator Lodge had let the USA join the League of Nations, Hitler and Hirohito's crimes could have been prevented?

No. The League of Nations still existed even though the United States didn't join. Most of the rest of the world was a part of it throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Even if the present-day United Nations had been up and running before World War II, I think the war still would have happened.

[bagudinahoe]

petkovicu ljubi te majka

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Japs Threaten To Withdraw From League,” Border Cities Star. December 8, 1932. Page 22. ---- GENEVA, Dec. 8. - Japan threatened to withdraw from the League of Nations Assembly considering the Manchurian dispute today unless smaller powers withdrew a resolution censuring Japanese actions and declaring recognition of Manchukuo contrary to existing treaties.

Japanese Delegate Yusoke Matsuoka asked that the resolution be withdrawn.

The resolution asked the assembly to declare that Japan did not act in legitimate self-defence and that the Manchukuo state was not created spontaneously. Spain, Ireland, Czechoslovakia and Sweden drafted the resolution.

[haedyllic]

i promised you 🦋

(crossposting from x, bsky, & ig)

[princehowl]

the dumbest smart person i know

[jan 2025]

[lucinfernos]

you're crazy if you thought i wasn't going to draw them in That bbno$/will neff pose

i imagine sometimes jayce just comes into their shared office, does that to viktor for a few secs and walks away... recharge his battery!

[spockvarietyhour]

Time Magazine, October 29, 1923

[1929crash]

Ambushing Germany, January 1931

Besides enforcing felony beer, the Hoover Admin. also funded exportation of drug laws worldwide Did you know that in February 1931 President Herbert Hoover pardoned a prohibition law violator? That same month he signed a bill to deport “drug violators” and later an Executive Order making it difficult for women to become citizens by marriage? Do you believe that making beer an asset-forfeiture…