#revisionist history

[sayruq]

The brochure states there are five "myths" around the creation of the state of Israel, which are subsequently refuted in short essays by various authors.In the first section, debunking myth #1, that Jews and Arabs lived together in peace before Israel was founded, Israel's pre-state militia, the Haganah, responsible for the destruction of 531 Palestinian villages and the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians between December 1947 and the summer of 1948, is promoted as a merely "defensive" Jewish resistance movement. Under 'Myth #2: Israel was established on stolen Palestinian land', Masiyot states that the acquisition of land by Jewish immigrants to Palestine took the form of a legal exchange of capital for an official title deed.

At no point in history was land illegally conquered by Jewish immigrants, the author of the text, Michael Spaney, claims.Even land conquered following the wars of 1948 and 1967 and the subsequent construction of settlements, which are internationally recognised as a violation of international law, did not occur unlawfully, it says. "Anyone who uses the accusation of land theft as an argument demonises Israel and denies its legitimacy, i.e. acts out of antisemitic motives," Spaney wrote. "Myth #5: Israel is to blame for the Nakba", includes a text by researcher Shany Mor titled "the UN is distorting the meaning of the Nakba: its view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is extremely one-sided". In the text, Mor states that "displacement during war - then and now - was nothing unusual".He also labels the UN's attention to the Palestinian cause "obsessive" and the Arab defeat of 1948 a myth.

#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #germany #nakba #nakba 1948 #revisionist history

[odinsblog]

#politics #palestine #gaza #queen elizabeth #uju anya #israel #colonialism #compassion #oppression #gaslighting #revisionist history #whitewashing history #imperialism #history #white fragility

[mileenaxyz]

Fuck Mayim Bialik

#under the rocket's glow #mayim bialik #genocide propaganda #racist propaganda #revisionist history #gaza under attack #gaza genocide #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza #this is a children's book #this is how it starts #fuck roman sandler #fuck isntreal #fucking holocaust deniers

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

If the Jews had been the ones to defeat the Nazis in WWII, the Holocaust would be known as the Zionist Genocide of Europe.

#antisemitism #jumblr #wwii #holocaust #israel #revisionist history #antisemitic double standards #they only love Jews when we’re victims #and many times not even then #you are not immune to propaganda #if you hate Jews for fighting our killers now #you would have hated us if we were too successful in fighting our killers then too

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right." -- George Orwell, "NIneteen Eighty-Four"

Unethical, dishonest and sinister.

When multiple historians called out the 1619 Project's pervasive historical fraud, known compulsive liar, Nikole Hannah-Jones justified it as "reshaping public memory." That is, it isn't true, but it should be true, and people should believe and insist that it's true.

Dublin Pride has since added some text to their page to handwave the dishonesty. However, anyone using the site and its assets as a historical reference - and why wouldn't they, when it's the official site for Dublin Pride - will be reproducing the images they want them to have, not the ones that are factually accurate. So any news sites that source from their site will be, knowingly or not, perpetuating Dublin Pride's rewrite of their own history.

#Dublin Pride #pride march #gay rights #gay rights march #rewriting history #Orwellian #memory hole #gender ideology #queer theory #gay erasure #revisionist history #historical revisionism #fraud #woke homophobia #Malcolm Michaels Jr. #religion is a mental illness

[gwydionmisha]

DeSantis Faces Criticism For Black History Standards, Makes It Worse

#Ron DeSantis #Florida #Black History #Revisionist History #News

[tomorrowusa]

I wonder about the people who claim they were better off four years ago than today. I can't think of anybody who was except maybe nihilists and doomsday religious fanatics.

This is a hospital in my neighborhood early during the pandemic emergency. They needed to put up tents to accommodate the increased number of patients.

On a different day I saw a large truck parked in front of another hospital building. The truck was apparently used to haul away bodies.

Anybody who tells you that the Trump administration was some sort of utopia is a person trying to gaslight you with revisionist history. Calling such people out is the only appropriate response to such individuals. What I saw in 2020 was more like a real life dystopia.

Republicans who endorse Trump want to bring him back so he can create additional disasters.

#donald trump #narcissism #covid-19 #pandemic #trump's incompetent pandemic response #republicans #revisionist history #joy reid #election 2024 #vote blue no matter who

[mahoganygold213]

#joél leon #free palestine #signal boost #free gaza #gaza strip #west bank #white supremacy 101 #revisionist history #bigotry #colonialism #imperialism #crimes against humanity #history #current events #war crimes #genocide #ethnic cleansing #solidarity with palestine

[thegoodmorningman]

Always Trust a Dragon of Good Morning!!!

#good morning #good morning message #morning #good #good morning messages #the good morning man #message #morning message #good morning man #good morning images #good morning image #the entire morning #dragon #wizard #dragon posting #wizard posting #revisionist history #restarting this series #it's never too late to start again #trust #friendship #the sun #wizard of love #dragon of good morning

[gancanagh]

The Curse

The Witch...

"Before the witch's final breath, She found a way to cheat her death. By cutting off her wicked hand,

She kept her grip upon her land. She reaches from beyond the grave To make good man her wicked slaves. She'll take your blood, she'll take your head. She'll follow you until you're dead."

...Sarah Fier

The truth will come out. Maybe not today… and maybe not tomorrow, but it will. The truth shall be your curse. It will follow you for eternity. I will shadow you forever. I will show them what you've done. I will never… let you go. The truth will come out. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but it will. The truth shall be your curse. I will shadow you for eternity. I will follow you forever. And everything you take and everyone you harm, you will feel the grip of MY HAND. I will show them what you've DONE. I will NEVER let you go.

#fear street #fear street trilogy #fear street 1994 #fear street 1666 #sarah fier #the curse #all the emotions #saddest and most powerful scene in the show #revisionist history #misunderstanding #poor sarah was trying to be helpful and only hated the goodes but was so misunderstood for a good long time #sends helpful visions that are misunderstood #the rock in her grave wasn't malicious but it ended up feeling that way didn't it #her hand wasn't a curse but a guide and a blessing waiting to be accessed #a tragedy that while unique in its circumstances is probably not uncommon #how many good people have become villains of the story when all they did was end up on the wrong side of the one writing the history?

[kostektyw]

some podcasts I like

in no particular order, to show some appreciation for the hours i spent listening

Black Box Down - about aviation disasters. I like that they really go into details on the cases, going through the reports, talking about the mechanical workings of the planes, as well as the procedures, rules, and how an incident influenced them, but they do it in a way that's understandable even to an average person.

Swindled - about corporate greed, con artists and white collar crime. Told from a perspective of a concerned citizen that's fed up with this bullshit. I'll be honest, sometimes listening to it makes me really mad at the world we have to live in.

Revisionist History - about the overlooked and the misunderstood. Each episode is a fascinating journey into a topic i might not have otherwise thought about. I love listening to it while on a walk, it makes me feel like its really worth being aware of the world that surrounds me.

Sawbones - about medical history. the first mcelroy podcast i ever listened to :p i often very much appreciate the lighter tone while still learning stuff

You're Wrong About - about correcting misconceptions. I'll be honest, as a non-american sometimes it's strange to hear them talking about something i've never heard about like it's the most common thing in the world, but it's still fun to learn.

Well There's Your Problem - about engineering disasters (with slides). Very funy, very interesting, and who doesn't love a good bridge collapse.

#this been in my drafts for months but since i already posted the anime ost list i decided why not this one also #i was waiting for the energy to list more but that may honestly never come #so ig i could just do a part 2 someday #kostek original #podcasts #well there's your problem #sawbones #you're wrong about #revisionist history #black box down #swindled #kostek reviews

[odinsblog]

FLASHBACK: Nazi apologia - Benjamin Netanyahu said that “Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews.”

According to Netanyahu, Adolph Hitler did not want to kill Jewish people, it was Palestinians who convinced and coerced him. (source)

Fortunately, Germany did not allow his lie of Holocaust revisionism to go unchallenged. Germany accepted full responsibility for the Holocaust and would not absolve themselves from the responsibility for the atrocities committed by Hitler and the Nazis.

Holocaust experts also publicly condemned Netanyahu’s Holocaust revisionism and Nazi apologia. (source)

And just because this isn’t crazy enough, Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, Yair—who also espouses white supremacy and Nazi apologia—has long been the darling of Germany’s rightwing AfD Party and known white supremacist websites like the Daily Stormer. (source) (source)

Just putting this back up front because it is imperative that people understand how much Netanyahu and Likud hate Palestinians — enough to claim that “Palestinians are the real Nazis,” and enough to absolve Adolph Hitler of agency for his heinous crimes against humanity. Worse still, Netanyahu is using his Holocaust revisionism as a basis for leading Israel to commit collective punishment and genocide against all Palestinians.

#politics #palestine #gaza #isreal #benjamin netanyahu is a war criminal #revisionist history #yair netanyahu #whitewashing history #islamophobia #genocide #nazi apologia #war crimes #never again #never again to anyone #bds #boycott divest sanction #israel is an apartheid state #collective punishment #settler violence #settler colonialism #white supremacy #nazi apologists

[gwengifterror]

Some insightful words from Nelson Mandela (6-12-1990), who was once considered a "terrorist" by the colonial super powers of the world (US / UK *and friends*) to then later be awarded such honors as the Nobel Peace Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is an example of a person utilized as a token for revisionist history.

"They [Arafat, Castro, Gaddafi] fully support the anti-apartheid struggle. They do not only support it in rethoric, they are placing resources at our disposal for us to win the struggle. That is the position."

#nelson mandela #history #quotes #palestine #apartheid #freedom #free gaza #free palestine #american media #1990s #us politics #us propaganda #fidel castro #cuba #yasser arafat #south africa #america #american #american television #revisionist history #colonialism #colonial violence #colonizers

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

What they say:

“From river to sea, Palestine will be free”

What they mean:

“Destroy Israel and kill the Jews there, because there’s no way in hell that Hamas will let them live because they hate the Jews.”

Yup. Just like “ceasefire” means “Israel should ceasefire, Hamas can keep firing rockets and repeating October 7 whenever they want.”

And “we should go back to pre-1948 Palestine when Muslims and Jews coexisted in peace” means “we should go back to pre-1948 Palestine when Muslims were the ones killing Jews.”

And “peace” means “only Jews are being massacred.”

#antisemitism #jumblr #israel #revisionist history

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. In the past people deliberately lied, or they unconsciously coloured what they wrote, or they struggled after the truth, well knowing that they must make many mistakes; but in each case they believed that ‘the facts’ existed and were more or less discoverable. And in practice there was always a considerable body of fact which would have been agreed to by almost everyone. If you look up the history of the last war in, for instance, the Encyclopaedia Britannica, you will find that a respectable amount of the material is drawn from German sources. A British and a German historian would disagree deeply on many things, even on fundamentals, but there would still be that body of, as it were, neutral fact on which neither would seriously challenge the other. It is just this common basis of agreement, with its implication that human beings are all one species of animal, that totalitarianism destroys. Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as ‘the truth’ exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as ‘science’. There is only ‘German science’, ‘Jewish science’ etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, ‘It never happened’ – well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five – well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs – and after our experiences of the last few years that is not a frivolous statement.

But is it perhaps childish or morbid to terrify oneself with visions of a totalitarian future? Before writing off the totalitarian world as a nightmare that can’t come true, just remember that in 1925 the world of today would have seemed a nightmare that couldn’t come true. Against that shifting phantasmagoric world in which black may be white tomorrow and yesterday’s weather can be changed by decree, there are in reality only two safeguards. One is that however much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing, as it were, behind your back, and you consequently can’t violate it in ways that impair military efficiency. The other is that so long as some parts of the earth remain unconquered, the liberal tradition can be kept alive.

-- George Orwell, "Looking Back on the Spanish War" (1943)

Eerie.

[ Note: In 1949, Orwell subsequently wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. ]

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"One of the key contributions of critical theorists concerns the production of knowledge. Given that the transmission of knowledge is an integral activity in schools, critical scholars in the field of education have been especially concerned with how knowledge is produced. These scholars argue that a key element of social injustice involves the claim that particular knowledge is objective, neutral, and universal. An approach based on critical theory calls into question the idea that objectivity is desirable or even possible. The term used to describe this way of thinking about knowledge is that knowledge is socially constructed. When we refer to knowledge as socially constructed we mean that knowledge is reflective of the values and interests of those who produce it."

-- Ozlem Sensoy/Robin DiAngelo, "Is Everyone Really Equal?"

#George Orwell #Looking Back on the Spanish War #1619 Project #historical revisionism #revisionist history #2+2=5 #woke math #postmodernism #decolonize science #cultural relativism #decolonize STEM #woke #wokeism #cult of woke #wokeness as religion #wokeness #religion is a mental illness

[kontextmaschine]

So if we're all doing our retrospective takes on the Iraq War, mine was… it wasn't that big a deal? In scale, direction, and costs borne and imposed it was basically well within norms for what the country might get distracted with over a two-decade period.

Already within my lifetime the specter of the Vietnam War, once much more significant in national affairs, looms not nearly as large as I remember it doing in the '80s (indeed, the easy victories of the "Desert Shield/Storm" Iraq excursion of the early '90s were specifically hailed for dispelling this "Vietnam Syndrome"), as a colorful but not particularly important chapter of 20th Century American history.

While the action did not serve to renew America's post-Cold War unipolar "hyperpower" moment, I honestly don't think it accelerated its end any, which looks to be more a product of the development of China and reassertion of Russia than any "Clash of Civilizations".

#amhist #history #iraq war #revisionist history #same as it ever was