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Immigration from France: 230 new immigrants landed in Israel; about 800 immigrated within a month. Welcome to Israel. 🇮🇱

Albert Einstein was born in 1879 in Ulm, Germany, to an Ashkenazic Jewish family. His parents, Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch,came from Jewish families in Swabia. Below a rare photo of Einstein in his youth.

Hakeem Jeffries Will Oppose Massie-Khanna Amendment Cutting All U.S. Aid to Israel

🚨LONG POST ALERT🚨 about the Muslim Conquest of the Holy Land. This is for those that like to read still. At the time of Muslim Arab colonization of the Levant in 637-638 CE, the region was mostly Christians followed by a minority of Jews. After Muslims conquered the region Christians and Jews were dhimmis, that is second class citizens with a separate set of rules and laws that applied to them as non-Muslims, such as: -Subjugation: Non-Muslims held a legally inferior social status compared to Muslims. -Proselytism: Converting Muslims to other faiths or openly criticizing Islam was strictly forbidden.Public -Worship: Ringing church bells, displaying crosses, or building new houses of worship was heavily restricted. -Dress Codes: Laws occasionally required distinct clothing or badges to differentiate dhimmis from Muslims. Over the next several hundred years, financial and social pressure on dhimmis resulted in a gradual conversion to Islam of the population. The jiyza tax, said to have been for "protection" of non-Muslims (protection from whom??? lol) was burdensome and the only way to avoid it was to convert. The burden of taxes and levies on property owners of non-Muslims was also too heavy for most and the only way for financial relief was to convert. Positions of power and governing was reserved solely for Muslims as well, so if anyone wanted to have authority over their own village they needed to convert. In the Holy Land the demographic shift from a Christian majority to a predominantly Muslim majority took roughly 400 to 500 years. Arabic became the majority language of the land and the Hebrew names of towns and areas were replaced with Arabic names. Meanwhile the region was devastated by plagues and massive earthquakes (in 749, 881, and 1033 CE). The total population was cut in half from natural disasters and plagues and the financial burden of the jizya became untenable for many of the non-Muslims, triggering waves of mass conversion just to survive. While the early Muslim rulers initially allowed a Jewish revival, ongoing civil wars between Jews and Muslims, heavy taxation, and instability in the 8th and 9th centuries drove significant Jewish emigration out of the Levant and into safer regions of the Islamic empire, like Baghdad, which retained a significant Jewish population after the destruction of the first temple. Then came the rule of the "Mad Caliph", al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (who reigned from 996 to 1021 CE), whose goal was the total erasure of non-Muslim cultural visibility and the forced assimilation of the dhimmis. Al Hakim launched a brutal and violent campaign against the Jews and Christians of the region, making it nearly impossible for most to avoid conversion. In 1009 CE he commanded non-Muslim places of worship (churches and synagogues) to be destroyed en masse. The most severe event occurred in Jerusalem: Al-Hakim ordered the total demolition of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holiest shrine in Christianity. Fatimid laborers stripped the massive structure of its gold, mosaics, and artwork. Workers hammered away at the bedrock itself, nearly erasing the rock-cut tomb traditionally associated with the burial of Jesus. The Mad Caliph and his destruction of Christian holy sites was one of the main triggers of the Holy Crusades, launched by European Christians to retake the Holy Land and save it from destruction. Al Hakim established new laws for dhimmi that were extremely burdensome: -Christians were legally forced to wear massive, heavy wooden crosses around their necks. -Jews were forced to wear heavy wooden blocks resembling a calf's head, a mocking historical callback to the golden calf. -Public religious celebrations like Epiphany, Easter, and Passover were completely outlawed. -Christians were barred from ringing church bells or carrying crosses in public. -Non-Muslims were purged from all state bureaucracies and tax collection offices. -Al Hakim encouraged and allowed local mobs to terrorize Jewish and Christian villages. -Businesses were looted, homes were broken into, and physical assaults were common as dhimmis scrambled to hide their families or protect their properties from the mobs Those who openly refused to wear the humiliating visual identifiers (the heavy wooden crosses or the calf-head blocks) or refused to convert faced severe physical beatings, public shaming, and potential execution at the hands of the state police. Around 1012 CE, al-Hakim issued an ultimatum: Jews and Christians had to convert to Islam or leave Fatimid territory. Thousands of local Judean and Syrian Christians fled into the Byzantine Empire, while others feigned conversion to survive. Al Hakim also banned all women from leaving their homes entirely, and shoemakers were forbidden from manufacturing women's shoes to enforce the house arrest. This ban included Muslim women as well as non-Muslim women. While Muslims lost control of the Holy Land temporarily to the crusaders, they eventually regained control through sieges and conquest, re-establishing dhimmi laws and treatment. This is the reality of the Muslim Conquest of the Levant. Don't ever let people parroting Muslim revisionist history tell you that the region was conquered peacefully and people converted because they just all of a sudden realized Islam was so great. The entire Levant was forcefully colonized and converted, Arabized and Islamified. It's actually truly amazing that the PR campaign by Arab Muslims to frame Jews as the colonizers of our own land has been successful. But people don't read anymore, and I doubt many will actually read this whole post to learn the real history lol Thanks to those who took the time to read this! Please share so others that are interested in the history of our land can learn what really happened.