#Arab colonialism

[soxiyy]

From Levantine_gay on insta

[golem-brigadier]

When people, especially pro-pal revisionists, like to ignore that it's very common for regions to have multiple names, just look at Germany and Japan.

[toastedbiali]

[chanaleah]

a little video i made about arab colonization of the middle east

[secular-jew]

Arab colonialism generally adheres to the same blueprint of land theft, displacement, and genocidal violence. When Islam plants a mosque somewhere, it believes this is conquered land and it's theirs forever, no matter what Temple or Church it builds on top of.

What sets it apart, however, is that it also attempts to project its own abuses onto its victims.

Rather than acknowledge their glaringly obvious 1400-year uber-colonial history, they will invert perceptions of history and reality in an attempt to self-indigenize.

They then usurp the cultures, stories, and legacies of indigenous peoples for themselves (but only the convenient parts - you'll never see Palestinians claim Judas) and disenfranchise the people they stole it from.

They will furiously deny that their ancestors were, in fact, colonizers who conquered their way on land on which they now occupy. Instead, they will frame themselves as native peoples who simply embraced Arab identity/converted to Islam, while the actual indigenous peoples are framed as nothing more than a pathetic band of rejects and cosplayers whose ancestors either never lived on the land to begin with, or were rightfully cast out (or have been cast out for so long that they have lost all right to return).

I can think of few other colonizers that do this. And because this behavior deviates from what we typically understand as "baseline colonialism", it becomes immeasurably harder to identify and more complex to counter.

[jewish-vents]

to the anon who said their “friend “ranted about how hebrew “stole” its words and letters from arab people?” Hebrew is literally the indigenous language. Arabic is the colonizer language. not only in Israel, Arabic is a colonizer language ACROSS the Middle East. for example, the Iranian language is Farsi. I’m sure other people on here could explain this better than me but these people are so uninformed that it makes my head ache. Hebrew is the language of Judea and of our people, it is the native tongue of the land we came from.

and actual friends shouldn’t ever treat you that way. </3

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[aurangg]

When iranians say they want Iran to get rid of Arabic names, use native Iranian names, get rid of Arabic words in the language, Arab supremacists immediately latch onto us and say “b-but Arabic is the language of islam and quran! It is the most important! It will be spoken in Jannah! How dare you!! Allah will not be happy!” Okay I don’t care. It’s so obvious you’re using Islam to uphold Arab supremacy and force people to remain assimilated into Arab culture.

[soxiyy]

So @omeryotam4 requested I make a master list of articles involving Jewish indigenous identity and Arab colonialism

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[toastedbiali]

[jewish-microwave-laser]

That was in the 1990s, when Holocaust museums and exhibitions were opening all over the United States, including the monumental United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. Going to those new exhibitions then was predictably wrenching, but there was also something hopeful about them. Sponsored almost entirely by Jewish philanthropists and nonprofit groups, these museums were imbued with a kind of optimism, a bedrock assumption that they were, for lack of a better word, effective. The idea was that people could come to these museums and learn what the world had done to the Jews, where hatred can lead. They would then stop hating Jews.

It wasn't a ridiculous idea, but it seems to have been proven wrong. A generation later, antisemitism is once again the next big thing, and it is hard to go to these museums today without feeling that something profound has shifted.

[...]

No, what I'm wondering about is the purpose of my knowing all of these obscene facts, in such granular detail.

I already know the official answer of course: Everyone must learn the depths to which humanity can sink. Those who do not study history are bound to repeat it. I attended public middle school; I have been taught these things. But as I read the endless wall texts describing the specific quantities of poison used to murder 90 percent of Europe's Jewish children, something else occurred to me. Perhaps presenting all these facts has the opposite effect from what we think. Perhaps we are giving people ideas.

I don't mean giving people ideas about how to murder Jews. there is no shortage of ideas like that, going back to Pharaoh's decree in the Book of Exodus about drowning Hebrew baby boys in the Nile. I mean, rather, that perhaps we are giving people ideas about our standards. Yes, everyone must learn about the Holocaust so as to not repeat it. But this has come to mean that anything short of the Holocaust is, well, not the Holocaust. The bar is rather high.

Shooting people in a synagogue in San Diego or Pittsburgh isn't "systemic"; it's an act of a "lone wolf." And it's not the Holocaust. The same is true for arson attacks against two different Boston-area synagogues, followed by similar simultaneous attacks on Jewish institutions in Chicago a few days later, along with physical assaults on religious Jews on the streets of New York—all of which happened within a week of my visit to the Auschwitz show.

Lobbing missiles at sleeping children in Israel's Kiryat Gat, where my husband's cousins spent the week of my museum visit dragging their kids to bomb shelters, isn't an attempt to bring "Death to the Jews," no matter how frequently the people lobbing the missiles broadcast those very words; the wily Jews there figured out how to prevent their children from dying in large piles, so it is clearly no big deal.

Doxxing Jewish journalists is definitely not the Holocaust. Harassing Jewish college students is also not the Holocaust. Trolling Jews on social media is not the Holocaust either, even when it involves photoshopping them into gas chambers. (Give the trolls credit: They have definitely heard of Auschwitz.) Even hounding ancient Jewish communities out of entire countries and seizing all their assets—which happened in a dozen Muslim nations whose Jewish communities predated the Islamic conquest, countries that are now all almost entirely Judenrein—is emphatically not the Holocaust. It is quite amazing how many things are not the Holocaust.

The day of my visit to the museum, the rabbi of my synagogue attended a meeting arranged by police for local clergy, including him and seven Christian ministers and priests. The topic of the meeting was security. Even before the Pittsburgh massacre, membership dues at my synagogue included security fees. But apparently these local churches do not charge their congregants security fees, or avail themselves of government funds for this purpose. The rabbi later told me how he sat in stunned silence as church officials discussed whether to put a lock on a church door. "A lock on the door," the rabbi said to me afterward, stupefied.

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I feel the need to apologize here, to acknowledge that yes, this rabbi and I both know that many non-Jewish houses of worship in other places also require rent-a-cops, to announce that yes, we both know that other groups have been persecuted too—and this degrading need to recite these middle-school-obvious facts is itself an illustration of the problem, which is that dead Jews are only worth discussing if they are part of something bigger, something more. Some other people might go to Holocaust museums to feel sad, and then to feel proud of themselves for feeling sad. They will have learned something officially important, discovered a fancy metaphor for the limits of Western civilization. The problem is that for us, dead Jews aren't a metaphor, but rather actual people that we do not want our children to become.

from "Blockbuster Dead Jews" in People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn, pp. 183–184, 187–189

[beta-lactam-allergic]

Hey I just wanted to say thank you so much for your support of the Jewish community, it really means a lot to us (any time, but especially now).

I noticed that you said you're an Indigenous Australian, and I was wondering if there's any ways we can help support you and your community? (Indigenous Australians in general, or your specific nation) I'm not Australian, but I know y'all have definitely suffered discrimination and worse at the hands of the government and society (and still are).

I honestly wasn't expecting thanks. It seemed like the bare minimum, it should be the bare minimum. The fact that it isn't & is rare enough that you felt the need to thank me is more an indictment on the failures of most people in my opinion. I admit, it does feel nice to be thanked though.

If I had donated to multiple Israeli charities I would feel worthy of praise. But the only one I have donated to is Ogen's "Swords of Iron Emergency Economic Relief Fund". I donated about $100USD (they didn't give the option to donate in AUD).

If you still want to help my people than I would suggest donating to the Aboriginal Legal Service (for Aboriginal people needing legal support in NSW & ACT), North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, abbreviated as NAAJA (same as the Legal Service but for NT), ALSWA (literally just the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia), The Fred Hollows Foundation (it's owned by white people, but it does good work, & without it the blindness rate for us would be double what it is), or one of the many Aboriginal Medical Services. Each community has their own AMS with their own names (the AMS abbreviation comes from the very first such organisation, AMS Redfern, which is the one you will most likely find if you do a Google search, it serves the Aboriginal community in Sydney, which isn't where I'm from), with widely varying level of effectiveness depending on management. The one servicing people in my area is one of the less effective ones, though most of us rely on it for lack of alternatives.

Once again, most of us can't afford either legal representation or visits to the GP, so donating to an AMS or an aboriginal legal service will help most of the us. I actually have some money, so I don't use the local AMS, instead going to see a GP who mostly services the LGBTQ community.

Calling out antisemites when they are being antisemitic is just the right thing to do. From a moral perspective, letting people victim-blame Israel for the war Hamas started is wrong. Letting people peddle falsehoods & antisemitic libel without calling it out was the same as condoning it. I saw people celebrate the October 7th pogrom outside the Sydney Opera House, long before the Israelis were able to launch counter-attacks on Gaza. I saw people on this site act like Hamas were angels when those murderers bragged & posted the footage of their atrocities for the world to see. I couldn't stay silent as these terrorists were praised after murdering people, raping people, kidnapping people. I couldn't stay silent when people denied these crimes happened despite the overwhelming evidence, despite Hamas not only admitting to it, but proclaiming their desire to do it again & again until there were no more Jews to attack. To stay silent was at best condoning those who would deny what happened.

That alone was enough for me to pick a side, but that's just emotions. If emotions hadn't moved me, my logical side would have still intervened to back Israel & condemn antisemitism.

Defending Israel's right to exist is just basic logical consistency. Even without the moral component of the fact that Hamas committed atrocities on October 7th & are proud of it, I have other principles. Admittingly, some of these started pretty self-serving but applying these principles consistently rather than only when it benefits me leads to altruism, so here we are.

I was going to write the list of principles, but it's a very long list, so that's a separate document. In the meanwhile, I'll summarise two of the parts of the principles list affecting my POV here (though not the only parts, they're the easiest parts to point out).

In essence, I consider the Jewish people to have a better claim to being the native people of Israel/West Bank than the Palestinian Arabs do. I know that some Palestinian Arabs have Jewish ancestry, but I consider indigeneity to be as much about culture as blood, so if they fully adopted the invader's culture & identify as Arabs, they voided any claims to indigeneity they once had as far as I'm concerned. Yeah the first 9 points in the principles list were about native sovereignty. I still think a two-state solution is the best chance for a long-term peace, but that's pragmatism over the fact that the Arabs are there now & aren't going to leave, not an endorsement of their claims to indigeneity.

In addition, I'm a transwoman, not straight (bisexual, not sure where on Kinsey scale) & an atheist. Hamas would kill me if I was somewhere they could reach me for being myself regardless of anything else I did or didn't do. It's just logical to back the side that won't kill me for being a queer non-believer & which actually gives us rights. Actually LGBT rights also made up several more points in the principle lists.

Basically I was locked in to supporting Israel on basic morality & on ideological consistency. I don't see the point in thanking me, but it does feels nice that you did thank me so I guess thanks in return.

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

Everyone follow neuroticjewishgay on instagram.

[cheesebongdynasty]

This is not two African groups fighting amongst themselves. This is Arabs ethnic cleansing Blacks, in Africa.

Why the hell won't NBC even mention this?

Why are groups so concerned with "colonization" and "genocide" not talking more about this?

Why isn't BLM causing an uproar over this?

And if "Zionists" control the media, why aren't they trying to draw some attention to this?

[bottlepiecemuses]

Israel is a SETTLER STATE who shouldn't even be there in the first place. The existence of Israel is a form of NEO-COLONIALISM.

For many decades, ISRAEL has KILLED Palestinians. What happened on October 7th was a form of RETALIATION for DECADES of GENOCIDE.

Let's make a list.

1) Hafia Massacre 1937

2) Jerusalem Massacre 1937

3) Hafia Massacre 1938

4) Balad al-Sheikh Massacre 1939

5) Hafia Massacre 1939

6) Hafia Massacre 1947

7) Abbasiya Massacre 1947

8) Al-Khisas Massacre 1947

9) Bab al-Amud Massacre 1947

10) Jerusalem Massacre 1947

11) Sheikh Bureik Massacre 1947

12) Jaffa Massacre 1948

13) Khan Yunis Massacre 1956

14) Jerusalem Massacre 1967

15) Sabra and Shatila Massacre 1982

16) Al-Aqsa Massacre 1990

17) Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 1994

18) Jenin Refugee Camp April 2002

19) Gaza Massacre 2008-9

20) Gaza Massacre 2014

21) Gaza Massacre 2018-19

22) Gaza Genocide 2023-2024 (ONGOING)

Israeli military has lined people up and killed them via firing squad. Israeli military has fire bomb hospitals. Israeli military puts Palestinians in CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

The humanitarian crisis in Palestine, because of Israel's doing, is at an all time high. 99% of Palestinians don't have access to electricity, almost every hospital is destroyed, and disease is running rampant.

Israel is genociding the Palestinian people, and you have audacity to say Israel is the victim?

You are the embodiment of revisionism and tone-deaf. You really want to say October 7th a cruel attack was retaliation when it was supposed to be a day for peace, but you guys took as a day when you could kill people because of your perceived victimhood. And perceived victimhood is a good description because you cry victim while ignoring the blood you have from killing Jews then say in an unironic tone that you guys lived in peace and harmony when that was bs to cover up Jews were treated like second class for centuries. Seriously, you guys were the one genociding and you guys eventually had people hit back for all the times you guys were putting people under their thumb. You guys don't want to own up to the consequences of war because you just want the rewards and never the negatives. Also again you forget they are lining up terrorists and not innocent people as you think. And again those places were filled with terrorists and you will go on denying it because you want a picture where they are unjustified attacks. Also Palestine is an example revisionist hiding Arab colonialism and then refute saying it wasn't the same.

[secular-jew]

Caliphate Colonialism is my new favorite term.