Michael
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Michael
@romsaca
Born in 🇿🇦, grew up in 🇨🇦, historian of 🇧🇷
Cambridge, MA Katılım Aralık 2010
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Spanish translation of Hebrew prayers according to the Sephardic Nusach. Copied by Judah Machabeu in Recife, Brazil in 1650. Located in the historic Ets Haim Library in Amsterdam.
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I am a Jew. I renounce performative posting. I renounce self-tokenization, I renounce arbitrary litmus tests. I renounce racist double standards. It is not a leftist practice. There is nothing leftist about racism
Gritty is the Way@Gritty20202
I am a Jew. I renounce slaughter. I renounce genocide, I renounce child murder. I renounce Israel. It is not a Jewish state. There is nothing Jewish about genocide.
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It's so hopeless.
Gaza is reduced to rubble. West Bank is on fire.
Lebanon is risking a fate similar to Gaza.
I said it back then, and I will say it today:
October 7th did not bring us closer to liberation, justice, or anything.
It will take generations to recover from this, if even possible.
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This is such a destructive attitude. Israel will not stop until its patron in the west stop arming it. But it will not and cannot be defeated militarily by its neighbours, since it is a nuclear power.
Believing a great war against Israel is the solution is a horrific take.
dylan saba@shaabiranks
If it somehow wasn’t clear before, Israel will not stop committing massacres until it is put down by force. There are no more off ramps. The Great War has arrived and it will decide the fate of the Palestinian cause, the region, and possibly the world
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@TaliaRinger Yes, this is a major flaw in this scholar's approach. Labor Zionism was as much a part of the US Jewish left as communism, and much more popular
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It is also ahistorical to act like communists and Zionists were discrete groups, when this is emphatically not how it played out in real life. From Saba's autobiography:
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OK, but meanwhile my grandfather upon liberation of the Nazi death camp who was homeless and orphaned did not have the privilege to make fun ideological decisions like this. His Soviet liberators abandoned him with pocket change and a blind horse
Zachary Foster@_ZachFoster
This passage is a description of what the American Jewish left thought about Zionism in the 1930s-40s. Pretty wild. Feels like since Oct. 7th we are returning to our roots. Source: B. Balthaser, "When Anti-Zionism Was Jewish...," American Quarterly 72(2)(2020), p.450.
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I don’t personally see 2SS as the right solution, but any movement toward peace is a good thing and I’ll take it.
John Aziz@aziz0nomics
The Arab world is waking up
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“Firefighters in Brazil rescued a baby marmoset from a forest fire in Pau Furado State Park, cradling it and giving it water out of a bottle cap.
The monkey was taken to a veterinary hospital for treatment.”
Watch with sound on.
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me: *answers basic questions in basic portuguese*
taxi driver: you speak well!
me: thx i’m learning
taxi driver (still in portuguese): now tell me, what is the origin of the israel-palestine conflict
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Just leaked: A workable proposal by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Palestinian Authority Nasser Al-Kidwa. If former Likud and Fatah leaders can come together with a plan to end this war and create a roadmap to peace and coexistence, then so can every Israeli and Palestinian, along with our allies around the world. This is a declaration of hope—a realistic vision for a better future, even in the darkest times. The world needs to see this. Share it far and wide and follow the #OlmertAlKidwaPeace plan.
#Palestine #HostageDeal #TwoStateSolution #BringThemHomeNow
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Routledge books are notorious for their weird covers, but this one just defeats them all in the awkwardness contest. Back cover and all.
And to prove that I’m not making this up: amzn.eu/d/9gi7o2w
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@Shteyngart Personally I think "shvantz" is more apt here. Same meaning, and it rhymes
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I’ve often had trouble explaining the word “schmuck” to international students. But now I have this video.
MeidasTouch@MeidasTouch
JD Vance had a very awkward visit to a donut shop in Georgia earlier. Trust us, it’s worse than you even think.
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@Bad_bureaucrat If "Zionism" is used as a euphemism for Jews, it's antisemitism. If it actually means Zionists, then it's antizionism.
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@Bad_bureaucrat What do you mean by "the permission structure for antisemitism built by his colleagues"?
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