#arabjews — Public Fediverse posts
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'We usually understand “divide and rule” as a tactic for dividing populations, preventing them from unifying to overthrow the colonial power. But “divide and rule” also divides people from their own pasts.'
Samuel Hayim Brody reviews #TheJewelersOfTheUmmah, #ThreeWorlds: Memoirs of an Arab Jew, and #WhenWeWereArabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/in-search-of-arab-jews/
#ArabJews #JewishHistory #MENA #MiddleEast #MizrahiJews #SephardicJews #Palestine #books #memoirs @bookstodon
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#JewishCurrents fellow #JonathanShamir attended a retreat for #ArabJews where participants reflected on the fraught promise of Arab-Jewish identity and Mizrahi perceptions of Zionism. He interviews 3 of the participants: Hana Morgenstern, Yaël Mizrahi-Arnaud and Moshe Behar.
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-fraught-promise-of-arab-jewish-identity
#MizrahiJews #Mizrahim #IsraelPalestine #Palestine #Israel #PalestineQuestion #MiddleEast #MiddleEastStudies @palestine -
Liberated content from Musk's fascist man cave:
"“The humiliation Arab Jews experienced in Zionism is something they never experienced in the Arab countries.”
Israeli writer Alon Mizrahi (https://easternoak.co) spoke to AJ+ about the erasure of the Arab Jewish identity in Israel."
[edit: added Alon Mizrahi's website]
#Palestine #Israel #ArabJews #Arabs #Jews #Mizrahim #MizrahiJews #MiddleEast #Maghreb #Zionism #FreePalestine
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#Israel / "too old to emigrate but envied those who could" (Sami Michael, RIP)
Famed Israeli Author Sami Michael Dies at 97
[...] Born and raised in #Iraq, Mr. Michael was a political activist and member of the Communist party; when a warrant for his arrest was issued in 1948, he fled to neighboring Iran. Unable to return to Iraq, he immigrated to Israel in 1949. After working as an engineer and as a journalist for the Haifa-based Arabic newspaper Al Itihad, he became an acclaimed novelist who has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature. He [was] a human rights activist and the president of ACRI – the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
Excerpts from a speech he gave back in 2012:
[...] The dominant culture in Israel has always directed its eyes towards the West. But this West, as always, weighs the existence of Israel as well as other countries in terms of economic profit and strategic value. The European settlers in Algiers, Zimbabwe and South Africa lasted longer than Zionist settlement in Israel. The hold that white men had over South Africa developed into an impressive power, but when the order of priorities changed in the world, it seems that the wall of Western support was a passing illusion, treacherous and deceptive. The State of Israel is in fact the product of traditional Jewish intercession. When the fathers of Zionism in Europe garnered sympathy for the establishment of a Jewish state they made use of the argument that the entity to be created would spread a wave of advanced European culture into the Middle East. This approach took root in Israeli consciousness, and until today Europe is the spiritual Mecca for a large section of the Israeli intelligentsia, especially for those writers considered as the shapers of public opinion. In my view, this is one of the deep internal conflicts in the Zionist idea. Zionist ideology emerged against the background of European anti-Semitism, yet the fathers of Zionism volunteered to serve as the agents of that very culture which nurtured a hatred of the Jews. It thus transpires that those upholding this approach regard the generations of anti-Semitism, the expulsion from Spain, the atrocities of Nazi Germany as if they had occurred on another planet, in some imaginary era.
#972mag https://www.972mag.com/author-sami-michael-israel-is-the-most-racist-state-in-the-industrialized-world/
See also:
Antisemitism and "Aliya" (immigration) and IDF's chronic manpower shortage https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112194886210173814
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In this introductory lecture “Memoirs, Memories & Personal Histories” at a #SOAS conference about the Jewish community of #Iraq, the two aspects of Avi Shlaim's academic and personal life come together.
He briefly touches on what he calls “cruel Zionism” — that is, Israel’s activities to co-opt and conscript Jews from around the world into a project they never wished to be part of, and the price paid by both Palestinians and Jews as a result.
