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vy@vjy1· 16d

I don't say "all Muslims". I just say there was significant oppression. Albert Memmi, Tunisian Jew wrote:

The Moslem masses have been among the poorest on the whole planet. But what about ours, the Jews of the Arab countries? Who has visited one of our ghettos and not felt frightened? Why shouldn’t we too submit our reckoning to the world? The Arabs were colonized, it is true. But weren’t we? What have we been for centuries if not dominated, humiliated, threatened, and periodically massacred? And by whom? It is time our answer was heeded: by the Moslem Arabs! And to such an extent that – how many people fully realize this? – the colonization by the French, the English, and the Italians, which the majority of Jewish intellectuals condemned for the sake of political ethics, was received by our own [Jewish] masses in the Arab countries as a guarantee of survival.

vy@vjy1· 16d

And yet, the historical conditions varied and were often terrible. For example, in Yemen

Under the Zaydi rule, which lasted nearly 1,000 years, Jews were treated as second-class citizens and were oppressed by the rulers and population. They were considered impure, and could not touch a Muslim’s food, had to walk on a Muslim’s left side, could not build houses higher than a Muslim's or ride a camel or horse, and when riding on a mule or a donkey, they had to sit sideways. Upon entering the Muslim quarter, a Jew had to take off his footgear and walk barefoot. If attacked with stones or fists by Islamic youth, a Jew was not allowed to defend himself.

vy@vjy1· 24d

Nostalgia is ok, but not for someone supposedly writing a history. As for Mamdani, I get his appeal, but it's the Nazi at the bar story.

Back in 2020, a writer named Michael B. Tager wrote a few tweets about his time at a dive bar in his native Baltimore.

While he was enjoying an after work beer he noticed the bartender booting out a seemingly quiet patron. This patron was wearing a jacket covered in Nazi symbolism.

When Tager asked about why he booted the guy, the bartender, a seasoned pro, said that if you let one Nazi in, slowly they replace the clientele.

“You have to nip it in the bud immediately,” he said, as Trager paraphrased. “These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after a while, they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.”

“And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh *****, this is a Nazi bar now,” he continued. ”And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.”

vy@vjy1· 24d

But the Bund was a specifically Jewish movement, not just a socialist one. The Bundist argument was that solidarity with the gentile working class was a strategy by which Jewish freedom and autonomy could be achieved. They were tragically wrong about this, and on a colossal scale. Jews who stayed in Europe—whether as a conscious decision to fight for what they believed was their country, or because they had no choice—mostly died in the Holocaust; those who left for Palestine survived.

vy@vjy1· Jul 14

AI Overview A punishing summer heat wave and severe drought are significantly slashing European grain yields. The extreme weather has dropped the EU and UK's total grain harvest for 2026 to 286.6 million tonnes—down 23.4 million tonnes from last year. France, the continent's largest agricultural producer, is experiencing its worst corn conditions in 50 years.

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vy@vjy1· Jun 29

This is what makes arguing with sincere anti-zionists so difficult: there is so much disinformation. The map show the British ruled "mandate". Here's a passport cover from "Palestine". It says "British passport" on the front and has arabic and Hebrew on the back

vy@vjy1· Jun 29

Memmi

The same with claims to nationhood. Happily, the world has recognized the legitimate rights of the Moslem Arabs. Why does it so delicately overlook ours? I know very well why: because in a Manichaean world, our rights seem to get in the way of those of the Moslem Arabs. But simply because the Moslem Arabs were the victims of European colonizers, must we be eternally resigned to being their victims? Must we accept the hangings of Jews in Baghdad, the prisons and the fires in Cairo, the looting and economic strangling in the Maghreb, and, at the very least, the Jewish exodus from the Arab countries?

vy@vjy1· Jun 26

How do you propose Democrats campaign - like hire field staff and print signs if they don't take donations?

Corporate and Lobbyist FundingThough Platner's platform centers on an anti-corporate crusade, campaign finance and lobbying records show he has accepted thousands of dollars from lobbyists representing major industries (including Big Pharma, tech giants, big banks, and defense contractors), though some campaigns have returned these funds following public scrutiny.

vy@vjy1· Jun 26

They don't even really care about their OmniCause

vy@vjy1· Jun 26

Wow! Historic! Unprecented! No other Mayor could have done what Wonder Mayor did, at least not for the last 4 years.

Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) approved three historic rent freezes for rent-stabilized tenants during his tenure in 2015, 2016, and 2020. These freezes directly impacted over 1 million apartments in New York City.

vy@vjy1· Jun 25

Oh, you are forced to see what Hamas is, so you blame Zionists because people like you don't see Palestinians as human beings.

Hamas has systematically used torture, arbitrary detention, and extrajudicial executions against both Palestinian civilians in Gaza and foreign hostages. International human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW), alongside the United Nations, have extensively documented these abuses as a primary tool for silencing political dissent, punishing alleged collaborators, and maintaining authoritarian control over the Gaza

vy@vjy1· Jun 25

DSA is the Gentrifier Party

Darializa Avila Chevalier's narrow June 2026 Democratic primary victory in NY-13 (ousting incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat) was driven by younger, college-educated, and higher-income voters. Her support base contrasted with her opponent's, who primarily carried lower-income, majority-Hispanic, and majority-Black precincts. - from Columbia Spectator

vy@vjy1· Jun 23

this is the intended goal of the campaign to convict Israel of "genocide" - justification for an actual genocide of Israeli Jews (and Israeli Arabs and Druze).

vy@vjy1· Jun 22

Fyi: hitites.

vy@vjy1· Jun 19

This is hard to believe

Photo of owner of company awarded no bid contract to paint the reflecting pool. I cant describe him other than he looks like a cartoon rich person

vy@vjy1· Jun 17

The #spurs supporting nuns got overruled, i guess #nba

vy@vjy1· Jun 12

Mark Twain's description in his travelogue was typical of what travelers from the rest of the world saw in the 1800s. It's easy to look up. Albert Memmi wrote:

he Moslem masses have been among the poorest on the whole planet. But what about ours, the Jews of the Arab countries? Who has visited one of our ghettos and not felt frightened? Why shouldn’t we too submit our reckoning to the world? The Arabs were colonized, it is true. But weren’t we? What have we been for centuries if not dominated, humiliated, threatened, and periodically massacred? And by whom? It is time our answer was heeded: by the Moslem Arabs! And to such an extent that – how many people fully realize this? – the colonization by the French, the English, and the Italians, which the majority of Jewish intellectuals condemned for the sake of political ethics, was received by our own [Jewish] masses in the Arab countries as a guarantee of survival

vy@vjy1· Jun 7

The underlying complaints about Howard Zinn's History seem to me to be connected to what he discusses in the afterward #zinn #history #racism

It was not until I joined the faculty of Spelman College, a college for black women in Atlanta,
Georgia, that I began to read the African-American historians who never appeared on my reading lists
in graduate school (W. E. B. Du Bois, Rayford Logan, Lawrence Reddick, Horace Mann Bond, John
Hope Franklin). Nowhere in my history education had I learned about the massacres of black people
that took place again and again, amid the silence of a national government pledged, by the
Constitution, to protect equal rights for all.

vy@vjy1· Jun 6

I don't see any condemnation of the embargo or any equivalence between Japan and the USA in Zinn's book. What did you want him to say? Is this false?

Pearl Harbor was presented to the American public as a sudden, shocking, immoral act. Immoral it
was, like any bombing—but not really sudden or shocking to the American government. Russett says:
“Japan’s strike against the American naval base climaxed a long series of mutually antagonistic acts.
In initiating economic sanctions against Japan the United States undertook actions that were widely
recognized in Washington as carrying grave risks of war.”

vy@vjy1· Jun 6

That's not what I got from the book, which has extensive coverage of the abolitionist movement and John Brown and Frederick Douglass. Northern sentiment was divided ...