#European Zionism

[claraameliapond]

European immigrants welcomed in Israel to populate and push out , displace Palestinians from Palestine since 1948- even when they are not religious, as evidenced by this video- they are white though, which is what Israel wants. They want numbers. Literally the same as 'ten pound pom' to " populate" Australia (that's how the Bee Gees came here as children )

#Palestine #Free Palestine #Decolonise Palestine #Ten pound pom #Nakba #European immigrants #Israel #Israel is a terrorist state #European Zionism #Zionist #Zionism #Ethnic cleansing #Displacement #Genocide #Apartheid #Occupation #Occupied Palestine #Illegal invasion #Illegal occupation #Illegal settlement #Illegal Israeli expansion settlements #Illegal Israeli invasion #Illegal Israeli occupation #Illegal Israeli settlement

[hero-israel]

Hey man. Sorry about this, but I am arguing with one of my friends about Israel. I know you had some good posts on the arguments about the sterilization of the Beta Israel and the Nakba, but I'm struggling to find them. (I am looking for other sources, but your stuff was striking the first time I read it.) Do you know what you tagged those with? Alternatively, what sources do you recommend? Thank you!

Here are some posts I'm rather proud of, and hope you will find helpful. Tags are below.

There were no sterilizations.

What caused the Nakba?

Why the abandonment of the Jews made Zionism necessary.

There was no "peaceful coexistence before 1948".

Ottoman Muslim settler-colonialism in 1800s Palestine.

"Israeli apartheid" is a bad-faith lie.

"Palestine is a climate / environment issue" is an even bigger lie.

Was Nazism wrong, or just wrong when white people did it?

Killing Jews is not - and can never be - "liberation"

How often did the media lie about conditions in Gaza?

BDS is the abstinence-only sex education of the Left

Palestine is the Confederate Lost Cause of the Left

#beta israel #ethiopian jews #depo-provera #gaza #apartheid #zionism #arab antisemitism #muslim antisemitism #amnesty international #human rights watch #united nations #european antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #jumblr #israeli wildlife #wildlife of israel

[broodingnightgoddess]

PEOPLE FROM THE EU

On the coming European Parliament elections of this year please research the plans of every party and only vote for those that support Palestine.

The Proggressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats is one of these.

IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PARLIAMENT SUPPORTS PALESTINE

Especially with the pro-Zionist Germany and France around, it is vital to apply pressure to the European parliament

#eu #free palestine #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #fuck israel #anti zionism #anti colonialism #european elections #icj #gaza #gazaunderattack #genocide #palestinian genocide

[bijoumikhawal]

hello! i hope it's alright to ask you this but i was wondering if you have any recommendations for books to read or media in general about the history of judaism and jewish communities in egypt, particularly in ottoman and modern egypt?

have a nice day!

it's fine to ask me this! Unfortunately I have to preface this with a disclaimer that a lot of books on Egyptian Jewish history have a Zionist bias. There are antizionist Egyptian Jews, and at the very least ones who have enough national pride that AFAIK they do not publicly hold Zionist beliefs, like those who spoke in the documentary the Jews of Egypt (avaliable on YouTube for free with English subtitles). Others have an anti Egyptian bias- there is a geopolitical tension with Egypt from Antiquity that unfortunately some Jewish people have carried through history even when it was completely irrelevant, so in trying to research interactions between "ancient" Egyptian Jews and Native Egyptians (from the Ptolemaic era into the proto-Coptic and fully Coptic eras) I've unfortunately come across stuff that for me, as an Egyptian, reads like anti miscegenationist ideology, and it is difficult to tell whether this is a view of history being pushed on the past or not. The phrase "Erev Rav" (meaning mixed multitude), which in part refers to Egyptians who left Egypt with Moses and converted to Judaism, is even used as an insult by some.

Since I mentioned that documentary, I'll start by going over more modern sources. Mapping Jewish San Francisco has a playlist of videos of interviews with Egyptian Jews, including both Karaites and Rabbinic Jews iirc (I reblogged some of these awhile ago in my "actually Egyptian tag" tag). This book, the Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry, is avaliable for free online, it promises to be a more indepth look at Egyptian Jews in the lead up to modern explusion. I have only read a few sections of it, so I cannot give a full judgment on it. There's this video I watched about preserving Karaite historical sites in Egypt that I remember being interesting. "On the Mediterranian and the Nile edited by Harvey E. Goldman and Matthis Lehmann" is a collection of memiors iirc, as is "the Man in the Sharkskin Suit" (which I've started but not completed), both moreso from a Rabbinic perspective. Karaites also have a few websites discussing themselves in their terms, such as this one.

For the pre-modern but post-Islamic era, the Cairo Geniza is a great resource but in my opinion as a hobby researcher, hard to navigate. It is a large cache of documents from a Cairo synagogue mostly from around the Fatimid era. A significant portion of it is digitized and they occasionally crowd source translation help on their Twitter, and a lot of books and papers use it as a primary source. "The Jews in Medieval Egypt, edited by: Miriam Frenkel" is one in my to read pile. "Benjamin H. Hary - Multiglossia in Judeio-Arabic. With an Edition, Translation, and Grammatical Study of the Cairene Purim Scroll" is a paper I've read discussing the Jewish record of the events commemorated by the Cairo Purim, I got it off either Anna's Archive or libgen. "Mamluks of Jewish Origin in the Mamluk Sultanate by Koby Yosef" is a paper in my to read pile. "Jewish pietism of the Sufi type A particular trend of mysticisme in Medieval Egypt by Mireille Loubet" and "Paul B Fenton- Judaism and Sufism" both discuss the medieval Egyptian Jewish pietist movement.

For "ancient" Egyptian Jews, I find the first chapter of "The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words 1000 BC-1492 AD” by Simon Schama, which covers Elephantine, very interesting (it also flies in the face of claims that Jews did not marry Native Egyptians, though it is from centuries before the era researchers often cover). If you'd like to read don't click this link to a Google doc, that would be VERY naughty. There's very little on the Therapeutae, but for the paper theorizing they may have been influenced by Buddhism (possibly making them an example of Judeo-Buddhist syncretism) look here (their Wikipedia page also has some sources that could be interesting but are not specifically about them). "Taylor, Joan E. - Jewish women philosophers of first-century Alexandria: Philo’s Therapeutae reconsidered" is also a to read.

I haven't found much on the temple of Onias/Tell el Yahudia/Leontopolis in depth, but I have the paper "Meron M. Piotrkowski - Priests in Exile: The History of the Temple of Onias and Its Community in the Hellenistic Period" in my to be read pile (which I got off Anna's Archive). I also have some supplemental info from a lecture I attended that I'm willing to privately share.

I also have a document compiling links about the Exodus of Jews from Egypt in the modern era, but I'm cautious about sharing it now because I made it in high school and I've realized it needs better fact checking, because it had some misinfo in it from Zionist publications (specifically about the names of Nazis who fled to Egypt- that did happen, but a bunch of names I saw reported had no evidence of that being the case, and one name was the name of a murdered resistance fighter???)

#cipher talk #I find Leontopolis fascinating because after the first time a bunch of Egyptian Jews built a temple in Egypt a second guy did it #And allegedly had a not terrible scriptural justification! And the temple lasted for THREE EXTRA YEARS after Jerusalem was sacked! #Never let anyone tell you there was only one temple #There's also other stuff but this is what I immediately had #Some books I have I'm pretty sure just aren't good to start with lmao they're about very specific stuff #Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity politics and culture is interesting and includes Egyptian Jews #But it's definitely got a zionist bias. It's mostly essays #I'd definitely recommend reading up on Joseph Cattaui and Murād Farag because they were simply so influential #Even though Farag was a dumbass that wrote the first Arabic defense of Zionism #Ya‘qub Sannu‘ is also fascinating- he spent a lot of his time defending Muslims to European audiences so some people assumed he reverted #He didn't he just took a hard stance on it. Also he got exiled for criticizing the Khedivate #All 3 are in MMEJT iirc

[earthytzipi]

as much as Zionism is a colonial project (though I tend to take the view as expressed in "Decolonizing Jewishness" re: Zionism as failed decolonization attempt) I think it's extremely reductive to claim that Ashkenormativity is to blame for the colonial nature of the Zionist reality. as more and more people from outside of Jewish spaces are introduced to the concept of Ashkenormativity, "Ashkenazi" is being used as a synonym for white and for colonizer.

this is not the whole picture. first and foremost, a large percentage of Ashkenazim are not white, though of course many of us are. conflating Ashkenazim with whiteness, both inside and outside of the Jewish community, contributes to the erasure of Jewish People of Color. additonally, the first Jews in the western hemisphere, arriving with conquistadors and colonizers, were, in fact, Sephardi. in the US, almost every Jewish person was Sephardi until the second half of the 19th century. Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews have also historically participated in and currently participate in Zionism, including in the settlements. furthermore, when we're talking about Israel's suppression of diasporic culture, a very real phenomenon, we need to discuss how many Ashkenazi cultural elements were also suppressed - including Yiddish and Ashkenazi Hebrew. in fact, Ashkenazim from Europe who wanted to hang onto their diasporic cultures were considered weak and effeminate. this reality should make sense to everyone who is aware of how Holocaust survivors are treated in Israel. in Israeli society, there is contempt for EVERY Jewish culture that is not Israeli, and of course that is compounded and exacerbated by racism for Mizrahi, Ethiopian, Indian, and other Jewish groups of color.

it's not the same dichotomy as the Black vs white dichotomy set up by US/UK/French/Spanish/etc colonization, and the term "Ashkenormativity" being taken out of Jewish contexts and applied to Zionism just makes Ashkenazim a convenient scapegoat for all the evils of Zionism. the main consequence I'm seeing is the idea that Ashkenazim are "fake European Jews" in contrast to the "real Middle Eastern Jews." this idea hurts us all. Jewish people are from every corner of the globe, and every Jewish person is a real Jewish person. I'm asking those of us who are pro-Palestine to tread very carefully when discussing this issue, and maybe retire the use of "Ashkenormativity" when it comes to discussing the racism of Zionism, which Jewish people from every diasporic background can and do participate in. Ashkenormativity refers to the centering of Ashkenazi history and customs when discussing Jewishness, and I'm really concerned that the way I'm seeing it used does not meet that definition and is not helpful (and maybe ends up centering Ashkenazi "evilness" or "Europeanness" while still not discussing Sephardi, Mizrahi, and other Jewish diasporic group's histories at all outside of their interactions with Ashkenazim in Israel). there's a lot of racism Jewish spaces, in Zionism, and in Israeli society, I just think we should call it racism and white supremacy.

#Zionism #free Palestine #asking this as a pro palestine ashki jew #just please consider that this situation is not equivalent or the same as western european colonization #while it is accurate to say that Zionism started in Europe and centers a European jewish experience #Ashkenazi is not a direct equivalent to white or european #many sephardim are white #the are other Jewish diasporic groups who are white or european #and you are spreading antisemitism when you say or imply that Ashkenazim are not really Jewish or aren't real Jews #or are less real than other Jewish diasporic group's #also looking at the politics of Israel if you removed every single Ashki person from the country the politics would likely swing far right #it's just not as black and white as yall want to make #and taking jewish conversations about very real issues within our community and applying those terms outwards as stand ins #for issues within colonial societies like racism #doesn't really work

[hussyknee]

Tried to tell someone that Zionism is about white supremacy, Islamophobia and colonial capitalism and to stop centering western antisemitism when the whole reason that Palestinian Christians aren't protected by Christian Zionists is that they're the wrong race. And they blocked me.

Twenty thousand dead and y'all are still not done shutting down BIPOC and Muslims lol. You're not equal victims as colonized people and you never have been. Colonized natives of settler societies and people from Africa and Asia will never be white, and always be vulnerable to and exploited by white Europeans, no matter their own regional disenfranchisement. Zionism is about race, not religion. Religion is just a convenient alignment and rationale for US imperial interests i.e military industrial economy, weapons trade, shipping lines and gas reserves. Your white asses are the beneficiaries and will be last in the line to be eaten after the Black people, brown immigrants, Muslims in their own damn countries, and Natives. Every time you deny it, you're showing your refusal to divest from white anxiety and become more complicit in Zionism. Die mad.

#seriously considering adding 'whyppo dni' to my bio #anti zionism #antisemitism #jewish exceptionalism #holocaust exceptionalism #white supremacy #usamerican imperialism #colonial capitalism #gaza genocide #islamophobia #anti blackness #racism #colonization #colonialism #european colonization #free palestine #palestinian genocide #muslim lives matter #muslim genocide #the caucasity #knee of huss

[goddess-of-chai]

From the river to the sea...

#free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #palestine #free gaza #anti zionism #anti european terrorism #anti american terrorism #anti colonialism #from instagram account : savoirflair

[chaiaurchaandni]

zionists will do this and cry about 'from the river to the sea' being antisemitic

the zionist cult is to judaism/jews what isis was to islam/muslims.

both the zionist cult/isis excommunicate + attack jews/muslims who do not support them

both regularly engage in acts of terror against innocent unarmed civilian populations

both use an extremely twisted and sick interpretation of religion to justify and sanction their actions

both have been condemned by huge groups from the religion they claim to represent

isis committed a horrible genocide against the Yazidis and the zionist cult is in the process of committing a horrible genocide against Palestinians

#in the past month i have seen some of the most blatant and vile displays of antisemitism and all of it from zionists #as someone who was born and raised in the east where antisemitism is p minimal i had never even realsied the disgusting things europeans #say about jewish people and the disgusting streotypes they have about jewish people #to the point that i had to google a lot of the shit they were saying bec i was like ????? wtf is that even supposed to mean #idk how white zionists can be so blatantly antisemtic and violent yet we are seen as barbaric for calling out genocide #this is insane #zionism is a disgrace to judaism and jewish people all over the world #free palestine #palestine #gaza #long live palestine #glory to the martyrs #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #long live the resistance #death to israel

[theculturedmarxist]

Over 500 children have been killed in Gaza in the last week and over 2,000 maimed, many with life changing injuries. Nobody can claim they do not know what is already happening or what is about to unfold. The cutting off of food and water to Gaza is a major international crime, which the western proponents of the “rules based order” universally refuse to condemn.

In both the UK and the US there can be no more stark illustration of the lack of any kind of meaningful democracy, than the fact that there is no major political party that opposes the genocide – despite massive public opposition.

The bought and paid for media and political class in the west are extremely nervous, throughout the western world. Now they have come to the final genocide for which zionism has always aimed, they face a good deal of popular resistance.

Throughout Europe there is a massive gap between the zionist unanimity of the politicians and the much greater understanding of the Palestinian situation among the general public. Tellingly the response by the zionist political class has been a wave of outright fascist suppression.

In France, Macron has made all pro-Palestinian demonstrations illegal, but as so often the French people are not standing for that kind of authoritarianism.

In the UK, the police have adopted the cowardly tactic of arresting a couple of individuals, one in Brighton and one in Manchester, for pro-Palestinian demonstration. Under Tony Blair’s notorious draconian “anti-terror” legislation, they could face up to 14 years in prison.

The young man in Manchester was arrested on the precise site of the famous “Peterloo massacre”, which generations of British people were taught at school was a terrible crime in breach of the rights to freedom of speech and assembly. Let the irony of that set in.

You can go out in the streets of the UK with an Israeli flag and yell that you want every Palestinian to be cleansed from Gaza. That is not illegal. If you say the Palestinians have a right to resist their genocide, that is illegal.

That appears to be a genuine analysis of the law in the UK, France and many other western countries.

That is intended to terrify all of us. It will not work.

The European Commission has been ferociously zionist and gung-ho for this Palestinian genocide. It displayed the Israeli flag on its Berlaymont headquarters. It has taken a side in the most ferocious way.

It is therefore deeply sinister that the European Commission is actively working to shut down pro-Palestinian information and comment on social media. The European Commission has written to all major social media organisations and is able to threaten them with massive fines if they do not remove information of which the European Union disapproves.

The notion is plainly nonsense that through the fog of war the European Commission – which is 100% parti pris – is qualified to say what information is true and what information is false, and what comment is legitimate.

Thierry Breton, the European Commissioner in charge of this operation, is a former chief executive of electronic companies – and defence contractors – Atos and Thomson. He has no genuine interest in freedom of speech, and is engaged in a process of silencing dissent for military aims, which is quite simply fascist.

We are witnessing almost all western governments deliberately facilitating massacre, ethnic cleansing and genocide. We are witnessing almost all western governments turning on their own people to crush dissent at that complicity in genocide.

This feels not so much like the week that western democracy died, as the week it was impossible any longer to deny that western democracy died some time ago.

#propaganda #internet censorship #european commission #craig murray #israel palestine conflict #zionism #fascism #free speech

[samaspic31]

It is sooooooo great that finding academic text is that hard and paywalled. We wouldn’t want ppl to run the risk of accessing knowledge

#so little ppl are even trying to and the obstacles are so. im gonna scream #jstor ily but why is zionism from the standpoint of its victims not available online #i hate the commodification and gatekeeping in academia so fucking much #also there’s shit in my school library about how said was a fake academic #the irony. when he was saying academia was used as a tool of the oppressor to justify itself and gives less credit to non European sources #sam speaks #sigh. going to uni has been. frustrating #the capitalism in schools is unbearable

[doikayt]

"palis" sounds remarkably similar to a british slur for pakistanis 🤔

britain....

#root of all of this innit #asks #zionism is some kind of ridiculous copycat melange of various european nationalisms

[hero-israel]

The British military in Palestine disliked the Jews from the beginning, even when it was the Arabs who were giving the trouble.  And this attitude subsisted right through the Arab Revolt, in which the Jews helped the British.  In the mess of the Palestine Mobile Force in 1945, Richard Grossman was told:  'All through the Arab revolt, when our men were being shot in the back and protecting the Jews, most of them liked the Arabs… The old Arab will take a pot at you in the night, but he’ll offer you coffee the next day when you come to investigate.  The Jew doesn’t offer you coffee, even when you’re protecting him.’ People who disliked the Jews before the Holocaust generally didn’t dislike them any the less because of the Holocaust.  On the contrary: the Jews were seen as more pushing, strident, and demanding than ever - and cashing in cunningly on their new asset of enhanced entitlement to sympathy. Dislike of the Jews was existential. If they conformed to the traditional stereotypes - pushy, acquisitive and so on - they were disliked for that.  But if they departed from the stereotype, they were felt to be cheating.  Thus one of the most cherished of the stereotypes was that the Jew was un-warlike.  This had never been regarded as a point in his favor:  Joseph Chamberlain thought they were ‘cowardly’; Treitschke, 'lacking in the martial virtues.’  But for the Jew to become warlike was regarded as a monstrous mutation.  It was all right for 'the old Arab’ to 'take a pot at you,’ but for the Jew to do so was contrary to the law of nature.

Conor O’Brien, “The Siege:  The Saga of Israel and Zionism,” Simon & Schuster, 1986

#i reblog this every year #and it gets more true every time #israel #palestine #zionism #antisemitism #european antisemitism #jumblr

[bijoumikhawal]

multiple Palestinian organizations have stated for decades they're against "dejudification" and even Hamas draws the distinction that not all Jews are Zionists and vice versa. "Im sure theres a version if antizionism that doesnt involve it-" its been a VERY common position among antizionists to not give a shit if Jews still live in Palestine so long as Palestinians are free, actually. There are Palestinian Jews, who call themselves Palestinian, actually. And whining that calling Israelis colonizers implies all Jews are foreign is fucking rich regarding the ideology that tries to force dual loyalty on everyone, and really fucking annoying considering European Jews have been fucking colonizing Mizrahi communities for a LONG time. All those Jewish French speaking schools in the MENA were founded because European Jews thought local Jews were backwards.

#cipher talk #'Uwu having an ideology that's I don't hate all jews just most of them for having a uniquely Jewish ideology is bad-' cry me a river #Zionism isn't uniquely Jewish. It's bones are a specific form of modern era ethnonationalism and colonization #It's in fact got plenty of similarites to other nations states influenced by modern european/enlightenment philosophy #Read actually quality antizionist stuff. Talk to actual antizionist jews. Put aside your knee jerk reaction for a bit #Use your brain about 'maintaining a Jewish majority' practically means and if you can support it and live with yourself

[menalez]

like zionists always leave out the part of the history where europeans created political zionist ideology, migrated to the middle east, and then decided to take over parts of palestine by force and forcibly expelled palestinians. then getting funding from powerful western nations when allies to palestine fought them for forcibly taking palestinian land. how tf were u the victim in the situation where the neighbours of a country fought you FOR BEING A VIOLENT COLONIAL ENTITY 💀

#like it’s clear they think that everyone should close their eyes #and just say ‘pray for palestine’ & do nothing else #otherwise if u do anything else ur an aggressor and hate jewish ppl #also they pretend that MENA countries just never had jewish ppl or sth like.. #the rise of zionism led to the rise of antisemitism in MENA which led to our jewish populations #also being forcibly expelled. on one end palestinians were being expelled from their lands and jewish ppl in MENA countries were facing the #same fate. i hope one day things get better n our jewish populations can safely return #and are welcomed w open arms and protected better rather than blamed for what european zionists did to palestinians #but why ignore like decades of history to act like ~arabs~ r just violent and aggressive #and decided to randomly attack poor israel that came to exist through totally peaceful and consensual means

[hussyknee]

#european commission #ursula von der leyen #islamphobia #holocaust #anti zionism #white supremacy #western hypocrisy #fuck Israel #american exceptionalism #Jewish exceptionalism #war crimes #western imperialism #colonization #global south #international law #human rights violations #free palestine #gaza genocide #fuck joe biden #genocide joe #fuck liberals #military industrial complex #world politics #Twitter #racism #knee of huss

[kendrixtermina]

So there has been a lot of material about the Israel lobby in the USA, but I wanted to highlight this series about lobbying in Europe (specifically Britain)

Something I've noticed, and which I've also seen echoed by other European posters, is that the situation has gotten much worse fairly recently. One poster said that they felt like they suddenly woke up in a Dictatorship.

- of course there have always been shady backroom deal arms trades and so on, the western establishment hasn't ever been saints & always had some Israel bias, but this banning of protests, this instant smearing of any pro-palestine support, the free speech restrictions... that's new. That wasn't there 10 years ago. I watched a documentary from 2014 which highlighted the big contrast between europe and US, but now it's like they're identical, or possibly worse, we don't have anything resembling a German Rashida Tlaib.

My main takeaway is that it's surprisingly easy to get into politics if you're sufficiently extroverted, lol.

Also, this is probably how ALL the lobbies do it. Big Oil, Big car, Russia... Schröder was super duper bought by Russia, remember?

Though some part of me will always be grateful that he kept us out of Iraq. Those were the days, when a German chancellor might tell the USA "no". Though I'd prefer if the kibosh was put on lobbyism so we could get one who wasn't bought by any superpowers. I mean, what's next? A Chancellor owned by China?

Saying they're bought by Israel (which, in practice, is often a middleman for the USA's dirty work) shouldn't be more controversial than speculating about undue influence re: Russia or China.

And as with those cases, I'd of course advice not to get paranoid & not to harass random Russians & Chinese with no government ties whatsoever, & same for any ppl who might just happen to share religion or ethnicity with some Israelis (and nothing else)

#gaza #free gaza #palestine #free palestine #israel #zionism is fascism #eu #european union #britain #great britain United kingdom #uk #germany #deutschland #Youtube