#historicalrevisionism — Public Fediverse posts

Someone rewrote the history of Balkan war crimes. On Wikipedia. For years. This is how it happened — and why it matters wherever you live.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lQYa-rm-QPY
https://joetripician.substack.com/p/who-controls-the-past-the-wikipedia
#Wikipedia #Disinformation #Balkans #Srebrenica #MediaLiteracy #HistoricalRevisionism #Propaganda #Journalism #HumanRights #NeverAgain

Someone rewrote the history of Balkan war crimes. On Wikipedia. For years. This is how it happened — and why it matters wherever you live.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lQYa-rm-QPY
https://joetripician.substack.com/p/who-controls-the-past-the-wikipedia
#Wikipedia #Disinformation #Balkans #Srebrenica #MediaLiteracy #HistoricalRevisionism #Propaganda #Journalism #HumanRights #NeverAgain

Someone rewrote the history of Balkan war crimes. On Wikipedia. For years. This is how it happened — and why it matters wherever you live.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lQYa-rm-QPY
https://joetripician.substack.com/p/who-controls-the-past-the-wikipedia
#Wikipedia #Disinformation #Balkans #Srebrenica #MediaLiteracy #HistoricalRevisionism #Propaganda #Journalism #HumanRights #NeverAgain

Someone rewrote the history of Balkan war crimes. On Wikipedia. For years. This is how it happened — and why it matters wherever you live.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lQYa-rm-QPY
https://joetripician.substack.com/p/who-controls-the-past-the-wikipedia
#Wikipedia #Disinformation #Balkans #Srebrenica #MediaLiteracy #HistoricalRevisionism #Propaganda #Journalism #HumanRights #NeverAgain

Someone rewrote the history of Balkan war crimes. On Wikipedia. For years. This is how it happened — and why it matters wherever you live.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lQYa-rm-QPY
https://joetripician.substack.com/p/who-controls-the-past-the-wikipedia
#Wikipedia #Disinformation #Balkans #Srebrenica #MediaLiteracy #HistoricalRevisionism #Propaganda #Journalism #HumanRights #NeverAgain

"Who controls the past, controls the future." -- George Orwell
https://joetripician.substack.com/p/who-controls-the-past-the-wikipedia #Wikipedia #Disinformation #Balkans #HistoricalRevisionism #MediaLiteracy #OpenKnowledge #Propaganda #Journalism #HumanRights #Fediverse

Reuters: Leaked Interior Department database reveals US plans to revise historical information. “An internal government database first reported ​by the Washington Post and posted on two public websites on Monday revealed the scope of the Trump administration’s effort to revise or remove information on African-American history, LGBT rights, climate change and other topics at hundreds of […]

Judge invokes ‘1984’ in order against Trump’s whitewashing of history #MemoryHole #Fascists #HistoricalRevisionism #Racism #Greed #Lies #GOPLiesAboutEverything www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Judge invokes ‘1984’ in order ...

Judge invokes ‘1984’ in order against Trump’s whitewashing of history #MemoryHole #Fascists #HistoricalRevisionism #Racism #Greed #Lies #GOPLiesAboutEverything www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Judge invokes ‘1984’ in order ...

Judge invokes ‘1984’ in order against Trump’s whitewashing of history #MemoryHole #Fascists #HistoricalRevisionism #Racism #Greed #Lies #GOPLiesAboutEverything www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Judge invokes ‘1984’ in order ...

Judge invokes ‘1984’ in order against Trump’s whitewashing of history #MemoryHole #Fascists #HistoricalRevisionism #Racism #Greed #Lies #GOPLiesAboutEverything www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Judge invokes ‘1984’ in order ...

Judge invokes ‘1984’ in order against Trump’s whitewashing of history #MemoryHole #Fascists #HistoricalRevisionism #Racism #Greed #Lies #GOPLiesAboutEverything www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Judge invokes ‘1984’ in order ...

The far-right’s ‘accelerated’ rise in Croatia https://www.byteseu.com/1589841/ #Croatia #FlorianBieber #HistoricalRevisionism #HomelandMovement #IndependentStateOfCroatia #MarkoPerkovicThompson #MassiveConcert #MinisterAndrejPlenkovic #Ustasha

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/wednesday-october-29-2025/

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/wednesday-october-29-2025/

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/10/wednesday-october-29-2025/

‘Grandpa was Antifa’ may be the dumbest meme of the decade

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/grandpa-was-antifa-may-be-the-dumbest-meme-of-the-decade

‘Grandpa was Antifa’ may be the dumbest meme of the decade

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/grandpa-was-antifa-may-be-the-dumbest-meme-of-the-decade

Historian Ivo Goldstein: ‘Croatia’s Anti-Fascists Were on The Right Side’ https://www.byteseu.com/1456345/ #Croatia #HistoricalRevisionism #history #JosipBrozTito #UstasaMovement #WorldWarII #YugoslavPartisans

Historian Ivo Goldstein: ‘Croatia’s Anti-Fascists Were on The Right Side’

A great deal was written about World War II in communist Yugoslavia, but Goldstein argues that much of…
#Croatia #HR #Europe #Europa #EU #croatia #historicalrevisionism #history #hrvatska #JosipBrozTito #Ustasamovement #vijesti #WorldWarII #YugoslavPartisans
https://www.europesays.com/2494537/

Miss America (part 1 of the Four Continents series) by Kent Monkman, 2012 (acrylic on canvas)
#kentmonkman #historicalrevisionism #MissChiefEagleTestickle #Indigenization #painting #twospirit #queerart

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas commented on Russia, addressing China by saying that together they won the Second World War and defeated the Nazis.

#KajaKallas #Russia #China #WWII #HistoricalRevisionism

📚🤔 Ah, the audacity to declare that Plato, millennia-dead philosopher, was just winging it! This article is a masterclass in rewriting history with the confidence of a Twitter troll. Truly, a groundbreaking revelation that will rock the very foundations of... absolutely nothing. 😂📜
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/opinions/41672/plato-got-virtually-everything-wrong #PlatoCritique #HistoricalRevisionism #PhilosophyHumor #TwitterTrolls #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated

📚🤔 Ah, the audacity to declare that Plato, millennia-dead philosopher, was just winging it! This article is a masterclass in rewriting history with the confidence of a Twitter troll. Truly, a groundbreaking revelation that will rock the very foundations of... absolutely nothing. 😂📜
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/opinions/41672/plato-got-virtually-everything-wrong #PlatoCritique #HistoricalRevisionism #PhilosophyHumor #TwitterTrolls #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated

📚🤔 Ah, the audacity to declare that Plato, millennia-dead philosopher, was just winging it! This article is a masterclass in rewriting history with the confidence of a Twitter troll. Truly, a groundbreaking revelation that will rock the very foundations of... absolutely nothing. 😂📜
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/opinions/41672/plato-got-virtually-everything-wrong #PlatoCritique #HistoricalRevisionism #PhilosophyHumor #TwitterTrolls #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated

📚🤔 Ah, the audacity to declare that Plato, millennia-dead philosopher, was just winging it! This article is a masterclass in rewriting history with the confidence of a Twitter troll. Truly, a groundbreaking revelation that will rock the very foundations of... absolutely nothing. 😂📜
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/opinions/41672/plato-got-virtually-everything-wrong #PlatoCritique #HistoricalRevisionism #PhilosophyHumor #TwitterTrolls #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated

Germany to deploy troops near Nazi massacre site in Lithuania https://www.byteseu.com/1047540/ #BalticStates #Bundeswehr #EasternFront #GermanLithuanianCooperation #Germany #HistoricalRevisionism #Holocaust #JägerReport #JewishCulture #JewishMassacre #JoachimHamann #KarlJäger #Lithuania #NaziCollaborators #NaziGermany #Nemenčinė #TsMAKP

Mass Mind Control Through Historical Revisionism: How Education Shapes Obedience
https://youtu.be/MzJ6zT8cTE8
#HistoricalRevisionism #EducationSystem #MassMindControl #CulturalConditioning #MindControl

#Antisemitism and holocaust denialism / Netanyahu whitewashes Holocaust history during meeting with Orbán

Wanted war criminal #Netanyahu deliberately avoided mentioning #Hungary's role in the systematic extermination of over 400,000 Hungarian Jews under the Miklós Horthy regime. Instead, he constructed a fictional narrative of shared fate between Hungarians and Jews.

When referencing post-WWII suffering, he highlighted Polish victims while carefully omitting that the Soviet Union was the occupier—likely to avoid offending #Putin, another conservative ally.

Not the first time Netanyahu, who has been practicing historical revisionism for years, is accused of holocaust denial, showing how far he is willing go to cement alliances with leaders who share his hate of #Islam and international legal institutions, like the #ICC and #ICJ.

[…] On the path to global right-wing unity, allies are forced to make compromises. Netanyahu, for example, partially sacrificed Israel's most sacred historical memory. In his remarks alongside Orbán, he did mention the Holocaust, but constructed an imagined narrative about a shared destiny between Hungarians and Jews. Additionally, Netanyahu avoided mentioning the Holocaust of Hungarian Jews and the responsibility of Miklós Horthy's regime, Hungary's ruler at the time, for the systematic extermination of more than 400,000 Jews.

[…] Instead, Netanyahu emphasized the suffering of Poles under the occupation that followed World War II. But here too, he avoided mentioning the occupiers - the Soviet Union. This could have offended another conservative ally - Vladimir Putin. Netanyahu and Orbán also preferred not to allow the many journalists in the hall to ask questions, which might have embarrassed each of them individually and both of them together. The unity of the global right sometimes requires walking on eggshells.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/2025-04-04/ty-article/.premium/00000195-fc7b-df89-a39f-fc7b1e720000 or https://archive.is/UYoCh

@israel
#HistoricalRevisionism
#HolocaustMemory​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

@girlbandgeek

🧵 2/2

"La Pam Pam" sounds to me like an orchestral pop piece that has been influenced by anime music. I think too that influence was at work in a lot of GFriend music.

I note that because Japan has also contributed to kpop musically as well as in terms of industrial organization and idol culture in general. Of course, the US musical influence on kpop is much more noticeable but that Japanese input is still there.

The overall importance of Japan to the kpop industry often gets neglected in those "Is Kpop getting too westernized?" discussions . Part of the reason for that neglect is that we in the west naturally focus on the west, but I also think that sensitivities about Japan Korea relations come into it.

Although I have an interest in late 19C and 20C East Asian history, I have no expert knowledge, so treat what I say with appropriate caution; a lot of it is just conjecture.

I sometimes wonder if Kpop can tell us something about Japan Korea relations. On the one hand , you have "scandals" pertaining to that history:

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2025/02/398_344898.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46147777

On the other hand, you have the importance of the Japanese market for the kpop industry and the Japanese influences I've noted earlier.

Kpop fan spaces tend to fall back on a version of history in which Japan is simply the colonial oppressor and Korea the victim.

I certainly would not want to deny the importance of that colonial exploitation in general and the the scars left by practices such as sex slavery.

Yet I have a feeling that this narrative is simplistic . Colonies depend on consent and collaboration as well as oppression, and my guess is that applies here too. Possibly there is a parallel with British -Irish relations, where revisionist historiography in Ireland has shifted from "centuries of unbroken resistance" to a more complex and nuanced view .(I'm aware of the challenges to that revisionism).

That historical complexity is reflected in the relations that obtain today between the UK and Ireland in general and even in the entertainment industry in particular.

So I am wondering if we might get a better understanding of the kpop industry and even kpop artistry if we were ready to admit the possibility that the popular history in kpop spaces merits critical scrutiny.

To obviate any misunderstandings, I am not denying or trying to play down the appalling aspects of Japanese rule in Korea and elsewhere in Asia.

Okay, we need more music at this
point. GFriend -- Memoria seems appropriate. As well as having an apt title, it's a great song, even though the lyrics include a corny English rhyme and the MV has some ugly outfits!

https://youtu.be/YTWwz6R6jy0?si=-sX7NZNNUhfETnnP

#Kpop #KoreaJapanRelations #EastAsiaHistory #Colonialism #HistoricalRevisionism #GFriend #Memoria

@girlbandgeek

🧵 2/2

"La Pam Pam" sounds to me like an orchestral pop piece that has been influenced by anime music. I think too that influence was at work in a lot of GFriend music.

I note that because Japan has also contributed to kpop musically as well as in terms of industrial organization and idol culture in general. Of course, the US musical influence on kpop is much more noticeable but that Japanese input is still there.

The overall importance of Japan to the kpop industry often gets neglected in those "Is Kpop getting too westernized?" discussions . Part of the reason for that neglect is that we in the west naturally focus on the west, but I also think that sensitivities about Japan Korea relations come into it.

Although I have an interest in late 19C and 20C East Asian history, I have no expert knowledge, so treat what I say with appropriate caution; a lot of it is just conjecture.

I sometimes wonder if Kpop can tell us something about Japan Korea relations. On the one hand , you have "scandals" pertaining to that history:

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2025/02/398_344898.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46147777

On the other hand, you have the importance of the Japanese market for the kpop industry and the Japanese influences I've noted earlier.

Kpop fan spaces tend to fall back on a version of history in which Japan is simply the colonial oppressor and Korea the victim.

I certainly would not want to deny the importance of that colonial exploitation in general and the the scars left by practices such as sex slavery.

Yet I have a feeling that this narrative is simplistic . Colonies depend on consent and collaboration as well as oppression, and my guess is that applies here too. Possibly there is a parallel with British -Irish relations, where revisionist historiography in Ireland has shifted from "centuries of unbroken resistance" to a more complex and nuanced view .(I'm aware of the challenges to that revisionism).

That historical complexity is reflected in the relations that obtain today between the UK and Ireland in general and even in the entertainment industry in particular.

So I am wondering if we might get a better understanding of the kpop industry and even kpop artistry if we were ready to admit the possibility that the popular history in kpop spaces merits critical scrutiny.

To obviate any misunderstandings, I am not denying or trying to play down the appalling aspects of Japanese rule in Korea and elsewhere in Asia.

Okay, we need more music at this
point. GFriend -- Memoria seems appropriate. As well as having an apt title, it's a great song, even though the lyrics include a corny English rhyme and the MV has some ugly outfits!

https://youtu.be/YTWwz6R6jy0?si=-sX7NZNNUhfETnnP

#Kpop #KoreaJapanRelations #EastAsiaHistory #Colonialism #HistoricalRevisionism #GFriend #Memoria

@girlbandgeek

🧵 2/2

"La Pam Pam" sounds to me like an orchestral pop piece that has been influenced by anime music. I think too that influence was at work in a lot of GFriend music.

I note that because Japan has also contributed to kpop musically as well as in terms of industrial organization and idol culture in general. Of course, the US musical influence on kpop is much more noticeable but that Japanese input is still there.

The overall importance of Japan to the kpop industry often gets neglected in those "Is Kpop getting too westernized?" discussions . Part of the reason for that neglect is that we in the west naturally focus on the west, but I also think that sensitivities about Japan Korea relations come into it.

Although I have an interest in late 19C and 20C East Asian history, I have no expert knowledge, so treat what I say with appropriate caution; a lot of it is just conjecture.

I sometimes wonder if Kpop can tell us something about Japan Korea relations. On the one hand , you have "scandals" pertaining to that history:

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2025/02/398_344898.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46147777

On the other hand, you have the importance of the Japanese market for the kpop industry and the Japanese influences I've noted earlier.

Kpop fan spaces tend to fall back on a version of history in which Japan is simply the colonial oppressor and Korea the victim.

I certainly would not want to deny the importance of that colonial exploitation in general and the the scars left by practices such as sex slavery.

Yet I have a feeling that this narrative is simplistic . Colonies depend on consent and collaboration as well as oppression, and my guess is that applies here too. Possibly there is a parallel with British -Irish relations, where revisionist historiography in Ireland has shifted from "centuries of unbroken resistance" to a more complex and nuanced view .(I'm aware of the challenges to that revisionism).

That historical complexity is reflected in the relations that obtain today between the UK and Ireland in general and even in the entertainment industry in particular.

So I am wondering if we might get a better understanding of the kpop industry and even kpop artistry if we were ready to admit the possibility that the popular history in kpop spaces merits critical scrutiny.

To obviate any misunderstandings, I am not denying or trying to play down the appalling aspects of Japanese rule in Korea and elsewhere in Asia.

Okay, we need more music at this
point. GFriend -- Memoria seems appropriate. As well as having an apt title, it's a great song, even though the lyrics include a corny English rhyme and the MV has some ugly outfits!

https://youtu.be/YTWwz6R6jy0?si=-sX7NZNNUhfETnnP

#Kpop #KoreaJapanRelations #EastAsiaHistory #Colonialism #HistoricalRevisionism #GFriend #Memoria

@girlbandgeek

🧵 2/2

"La Pam Pam" sounds to me like an orchestral pop piece that has been influenced by anime music. I think too that influence was at work in a lot of GFriend music.

I note that because Japan has also contributed to kpop musically as well as in terms of industrial organization and idol culture in general. Of course, the US musical influence on kpop is much more noticeable but that Japanese input is still there.

The overall importance of Japan to the kpop industry often gets neglected in those "Is Kpop getting too westernized?" discussions . Part of the reason for that neglect is that we in the west naturally focus on the west, but I also think that sensitivities about Japan Korea relations come into it.

Although I have an interest in late 19C and 20C East Asian history, I have no expert knowledge, so treat what I say with appropriate caution; a lot of it is just conjecture.

I sometimes wonder if Kpop can tell us something about Japan Korea relations. On the one hand , you have "scandals" pertaining to that history:

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2025/02/398_344898.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46147777

On the other hand, you have the importance of the Japanese market for the kpop industry and the Japanese influences I've noted earlier.

Kpop fan spaces tend to fall back on a version of history in which Japan is simply the colonial oppressor and Korea the victim.

I certainly would not want to deny the importance of that colonial exploitation in general and the the scars left by practices such as sex slavery.

Yet I have a feeling that this narrative is simplistic . Colonies depend on consent and collaboration as well as oppression, and my guess is that applies here too. Possibly there is a parallel with British -Irish relations, where revisionist historiography in Ireland has shifted from "centuries of unbroken resistance" to a more complex and nuanced view .(I'm aware of the challenges to that revisionism).

That historical complexity is reflected in the relations that obtain today between the UK and Ireland in general and even in the entertainment industry in particular.

So I am wondering if we might get a better understanding of the kpop industry and even kpop artistry if we were ready to admit the possibility that the popular history in kpop spaces merits critical scrutiny.

To obviate any misunderstandings, I am not denying or trying to play down the appalling aspects of Japanese rule in Korea and elsewhere in Asia.

Okay, we need more music at this
point. GFriend -- Memoria seems appropriate. As well as having an apt title, it's a great song, even though the lyrics include a corny English rhyme and the MV has some ugly outfits!

https://youtu.be/YTWwz6R6jy0?si=-sX7NZNNUhfETnnP

#Kpop #KoreaJapanRelations #EastAsiaHistory #Colonialism #HistoricalRevisionism #GFriend #Memoria

@girlbandgeek

🧵 2/2

"La Pam Pam" sounds to me like an orchestral pop piece that has been influenced by anime music. I think too that influence was at work in a lot of GFriend music.

I note that because Japan has also contributed to kpop musically as well as in terms of industrial organization and idol culture in general. Of course, the US musical influence on kpop is much more noticeable but that Japanese input is still there.

The overall importance of Japan to the kpop industry often gets neglected in those "Is Kpop getting too westernized?" discussions . Part of the reason for that neglect is that we in the west naturally focus on the west, but I also think that sensitivities about Japan Korea relations come into it.

Although I have an interest in late 19C and 20C East Asian history, I have no expert knowledge, so treat what I say with appropriate caution; a lot of it is just conjecture.

I sometimes wonder if Kpop can tell us something about Japan Korea relations. On the one hand , you have "scandals" pertaining to that history:

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2025/02/398_344898.html

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46147777

On the other hand, you have the importance of the Japanese market for the kpop industry and the Japanese influences I've noted earlier.

Kpop fan spaces tend to fall back on a version of history in which Japan is simply the colonial oppressor and Korea the victim.

I certainly would not want to deny the importance of that colonial exploitation in general and the the scars left by practices such as sex slavery.

Yet I have a feeling that this narrative is simplistic . Colonies depend on consent and collaboration as well as oppression, and my guess is that applies here too. Possibly there is a parallel with British -Irish relations, where revisionist historiography in Ireland has shifted from "centuries of unbroken resistance" to a more complex and nuanced view .(I'm aware of the challenges to that revisionism).

That historical complexity is reflected in the relations that obtain today between the UK and Ireland in general and even in the entertainment industry in particular.

So I am wondering if we might get a better understanding of the kpop industry and even kpop artistry if we were ready to admit the possibility that the popular history in kpop spaces merits critical scrutiny.

To obviate any misunderstandings, I am not denying or trying to play down the appalling aspects of Japanese rule in Korea and elsewhere in Asia.

Okay, we need more music at this
point. GFriend -- Memoria seems appropriate. As well as having an apt title, it's a great song, even though the lyrics include a corny English rhyme and the MV has some ugly outfits!

https://youtu.be/YTWwz6R6jy0?si=-sX7NZNNUhfETnnP

#Kpop #KoreaJapanRelations #EastAsiaHistory #Colonialism #HistoricalRevisionism #GFriend #Memoria

Quoting David Issacharoff on how Israel is enabling far-right's Nazi history whitewashing:

[…] The far-right in Germany does not particularly favor Israel and doesn't necessarily feel historically obligated to ensure its existence, unlike mainstream German parties. However, Israel's silence towards them, coupled with the defense of figures like Elon Musk, is a critical step towards their full legitimization in Germany. Israel and its representatives in Germany are aware of this, yet by remaining silent regarding the rewriting and downplaying of Nazi history and #Holocaust memory, they are criminally abandoning the safety of German Jews who face concrete threats from increasingly powerful neo-Nazis.

According to Issacharoff, the Israeli government provides tacit support for #Germany's far-right #AfD party, which is attempting to whitewash Nazi history. While Elon Musk is actively aiding this effort by downplaying German guilt and platforming AfD leaders like Alice Weidel, who has made historically revisionist and antisemitic statements, #Netanyahu defends Musk and the Israeli embassy in Germany focuses on alleged Muslim and leftist antisemitism, contradicting German data that identifies the far-right as the primary source of antisemitism. This alignment serves mutual interests in demonizing Palestinians and undermining international law, but dangerously legitimizes neo-Nazis and endangers German Jews. What could go wrong?

https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-02-04/ty-article-opinion/.premium/00000194-d122-daba-a3d5-dd2a980f0000 or https://archive.is/yxKpa

See also an earlier piece in English on the subject by this author:

Germany's Far Right Is Rewriting the Holocaust. Will Israel and Netanyahu Let It Slide? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/haaretz-today/2025-01-27/ty-article/.highlight/germanys-far-right-is-rewriting-the-holocaust-will-netanyahu-let-it-slide/00000194-a8d2-dbc9-a59f-acfbb5f50000 or https://archive.is/1nZyt

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#Nazism #Antisemitism
#HistoricalRevisionism
#OatmealQuotes

#Egypt / Israeli Education Ministry revises curriculum to erase Egypt's peace overtures before October War (1973)

Israel's Ministry of Education has directed teachers to stop teaching that the October War was partly due to #Israel's rejection of Egyptian peace initiatives. The new curriculum, based on recent research, asserts that the war was solely Egypt's responsibility due to its demand for full Israeli withdrawal from Sinai and other occupied territories.

The directive dismisses the historical perspective that Israel ignored peace overtures from Egypt, a view supported by some historians who argue that Egyptian President Sadat sought peace negotiations as early as 1971, but was rebuffed by Israel. Critics argue this curriculum change is a politically motivated revision of history, ignoring evidence of Egypt's willingness to negotiate and placing sole blame for the war on Egypt.

[…] The Israeli Ministry of Education is portraying its new version of Yom Kippur War history as fact, based on historian [right winger] Yoav Gelber's research. However, this is a highly contested issue among historians, with many offering different interpretations. In contrast to the Ministry's view, journalist Amir Oren argues Israel and Prime Minister Golda Meir bear responsibility for not preventing the war. Oren considers it a "war of choice," stating Egyptian President Sadat sought peace with Israel since 1971 but was ignored due to Israel's refusal to withdraw from Sinai and parts of the West Bank for peace, as Oren wrote in a 2014 Haaretz article.

[…] Newly disclosed primary sources, including a 2023 Mossad publication commemorating the October War's 50th anniversary, indicate that Egypt considered diplomatic solutions before the conflict. According to the Mossad's account, while skeptical of diplomacy alone to reclaim territories lost in the Six-Day War, President Sadat initially explored political avenues. Intelligence from Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian agent that Israel operated, revealed Sadat's communications with Soviet leaders in 1971, expressing Egypt's readiness for a settlement. However, facing political stagnation and fearing the entrenchment of the occupation, Egypt ultimately resorted to military action to break the deadlock.

[…] According to the instruction of the Inspectorate for History Studies, which will come into effect next school year, from now on "answers will not be accepted in the matriculation exams according to which Israel rejected Egyptian peace proposals before the outbreak of the war."

Hebrew https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/2025-01-29/ty-article/.premium/00000194-b1c2-d917-a9ff-f5ea097a0000

@israel
@palestine
#IsraelOccupation
#IsraelWarCrimes
#OctoberWar
#HistoricalRevisionism
#Education

If this is what just one careerist civil servant does out of cowardice at merely the *potential* of a Trump presidency, you can imagine what might happen if and when he actually does.

#historicalRevisionism #NationalArchives #nationalShame #tyranny #FireThisCoward

https://www.commondreams.org/news/the-national-archives-museum

Wealthy, mid-west #Trump supporters are engaging in #historicalRevisionism and outright #gaslighting to soften Trump's image, and portray a man who simply does not exist except in their #dishonest, self-serving minds. This uppity plastic surgeon from Podunk, Iowa is so mad that people are calling Trump a #fascist that he just had to write this op-ed defending his #fuhrer. Very convincing, Doc.

#TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TrumpIsAFascist #VoteBlue #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2024/10/07/donald-trump-accusations-fact-checking-debunked-repetition/75489681007/

Things are going great in #Oklahoma!

#RyanWalters #Christofascists #ChristianNationalism #ChristianLies #historicalRevisionism #religionOfHate #GOPfascists #EndOfDemocracy #Kamala2024 #VoteBlue #VoteBlue2024 #VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy

Wow, this is so far the worst case of distorting history I've seen when it comes to the specific topic of #antisemitism. This is on the same bar as #HolocaustDenial. ​:reimu_sigh:​

These "pro-Palestinians" are literally going to ignore the fact that an ignorant German journalist in 1879 coined the term "antisemitism" as we know it today to exclusively refer to the Jewish people. That journalist didn't know that the "semitism" was supposed to refer to more than Jews.

Worse, the term "semite" and "semitic" as racial groups has long been obsolete and considered #racist (think lumping together the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese under the "yellow race" because they look the same, it's similar to what is happening here with "Semitism"). So not only is #GLOSM / #PARES truly #antisemitic (no matter how hard they try to deny it), but is also subconsciously showing their #racism (or #orientalism) towards #Palestinians, #Jews, and other peoples of the #MiddleEast.

But what can you expect from a "non-profit entity" operating from the #Netherlands. ​:cirnoShrug:​

#Europe truly is a problematic and shameful place. ​:seija_coffee:​

#fediantisemitism #HistoricalRevisionism

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/glosmpares/statuses/112456048225473067

I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real ​:koishtare:​

https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory

I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real ​:koishtare:​

https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory

I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real ​:koishtare:​

https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory

I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real ​:koishtare:​

https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory

I fucking hate #Wikipedia lol. The "Free Territory" supposedly coined by #Makhno and his "Black Army" (or #Bolshevik historians, depends on what you read I guess) was never real ​:koishtare:​

https://www.thecommoner.org.uk/we-carry-a-free-territory-in-our-hearts/

#Anarchy #Anarchism #Ukraine #Russia #RussianCivilWar #BlackArmy #NestorMakhno #History #HistoricalRevisionism #AnarchistHistory

@timnitGebru

"the equivalent of a holocaust [...] in Gaza."

It is not the comparison that is problematic, but the relativisation that is repeatedly pursued with the means of comparison.

The Shoah is unprecedented because extermination was an end in itself, which distinguishes it from genocidal crimes motivated by economic or war strategy.
The ideological basis is redemptive antisemitism, which imagined Jews as a "divisive element" in a fascist community, that their annihilation could restore balance to a shattered society.

Parts of Holocaust research do nothing other than compare and then ultimately come to the conclusion that the Shoah is unprecedented, which incidentally does not mean that it could not be repeated.

Your continued relativism in using inappropriate superlatives is ignorant at best and does nothing for the Palestinian cause other than invite an antisemitic narrative to undermine a movement in support of a free people.

#Antisemitism #HistoricalRevisionism #HolocaustRevisionism

It always bothers me when Microsoft tries to do historical revisionism and claim that Universal apps were new with Windows 10. No they weren't, they started with 8.1.

#Microsoft #Windows10 #Windows81 #HistoricalRevisionism

Aaaand here we are. US private equity owned Politico showing its entire nazi sympathizing colors. Fighting for the SS against the Soviets doesn't mean you're a Nazi. 😬 People wonder why I have media trust issues. For the doubters, without the Russian people, Germany had an excellent chance of winning that war. See Stalingrad.
#CDNPoli #HistoricalRevisionism #Canada #WTSF #Obsession

Edit: Please do separate out Stalin/Stalinism from the sacrifice of the Russian people.

https://www.politico.eu/article/fight-against-ussr-nazi-waffen-ss-trooper-yaroslav-hunka-world-war-ii-soviet-union-germany/

The GOP are now claiming slaves could have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/slavery-desantis-florida-history-gop-b2381746.html

#GOPSlaveryClaim #FloridaHistory #DeSantis #Bootstraps #ReparationsDebate #HistoricalRevisionism #Politics #News

This #racist jerk wants to erase the legacy of the people who lived and resisted under the brutal conditions of #slavery and are an essential part of the #American narrative. Their stories, their struggles, and their triumphs must not be forgotten or misrepresented by the likes of Minister Keller.

#Christofascists #ChristianNationalism #ChristianLies #historicalRevisionism #Duggars

https://boingboing.net/2023/06/27/duggar-family-minister-tells-incredible-lies-about-u-s-slavery.html