"#Writer, #critic, #cultural #commentator, #polyglot, and multilingual #translator #IlanStavans is very clear about his #Jewish heritage: His grandparents had been #Shtetl-dwellers in Eastern #Europe, in #Poland and the #Ukraine, and moved to #Mexico between 1919 and 1929 to flee #poverty, #antisemitism, and #pogroms. #Stavans was born in #MexicoCity in 1961 to an #Ashkenazi family.

This certitude differentiates Stavans from many of the characters in #ElIluminado, a #graphicnovel in #English and #Spanglish that Stavans co-#wrote with #illustrator and writer #SteveSheinkin. In the #book, some of the characters are crypto-#Jews and are not entirely sure of, but suspect or deny, their Jewish heritage.

El Iluminado was first published in 2012 by Basic #Books/Hachette. The University of #NewMexico Press republished it in March , because “the story is about #SantaFe and New Mexico, and is of this community,” says #UNM Press Director Stephen Hull."

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/a-history-based-graphic-novel-tells-the-story-of-crypto-jews-in-new-mexico/article_8309195a-2f64-4d8a-af56-dd83b4e27529.html

#Ashkenazi supremacists repeat another #Kristallnacht #pogrom in #OccupiedPalestine. Burning homes, cars, businesses. Terrorizing the population. The goal of palestinenrein and #Lebensraum is abundantly clear. This is their goal.
It’s time to liberate #Palestine from the scourge of ashkenazi #zionist oppression. #onestatesolution #decolonization

https://truthout.org/articles/israeli-settlers-conduct-multi-town-pogrom-across-west-bank-unleashing-terror/

Today’s “Lest We Forget” moment:

“#WhiteSupremacy is dominant within #Israeli society, which privileges white-skinned #Ashkenazi Jews at the expense of dark-skinned African Jews, Sephardi & Mizrahi Jews as well as African refugees”

quoted from “The Zionist Fallacy of ‘Jewish Supremacy’” by Yoav #Litvin in #AlJazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/1/9/the-zionist-fallacy-of-jewish-supremacy/

#Press #SocialMedia #Gaza #PalestinianGenocide #Zionism #SettlerColonialism #Resistance #DismantleZionism #DecolonizePalestine #GlobaliseTheIntifada #Iran #War #Trump #Israel

Hate Speech & Insult Law with Jason Oberman

On air discussion with Jason Oberman addressing their three part series #Inciting #Hatred and #Slinging #Insults: Exploring the #Legal Apparatus of the BRD on The #Left #Berlin. Jason Oberman (they/them) is an #anti-zionist #Ashkenazi #Jewish #American based in Zürich. A #musician, #composer, #songwriter and #rogue #scholar who formerly lived in Berlin, Jason #researches, #lectures and #writes on Jewish identity, #Zionism, #Palestine and Germany’s weaponization of the “fight against Antisemitism”.

https://www.instagram.com/jason.oberman/

Interview by performer and anthropologist Jara Nassar. Joined by Alex Head and juwelz in the studio.

#theleftberlin #jasonoberman #live #radio

Alt Text: Jason Oberman gave us this wonderful portrait that has been chromo-cast in a way that brings out the ethereal quality of the image in yeloow and grey-black.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/radio-against-repression/id1873380913?i=1000747722018

"#Azerbaijan’s State Security Service has announced it has thwarted multiple planned #terrorist attacks and #sabotage operations allegedly directed by #Iran’s #IslamicRevolutionaryGuardCorps (#IRGC).

Among the primary targets were prominent #Jewish sites: the #Ashkenazi #synagogue in #Baku, a modern synagogue in #DilaraAliyevaStreet serving the Ashkenazi and #European Jewish communities. The #Israeli embassy in the capital was also a reported target. Also allegedly targeted was a leader of the ancient Mountain #Jews community, a historic Jewish group with centuries-old roots in the #Caucasus region.

About 6,000 to 7,000 Jews live in Azerbaijan today, according to international Jewish organisations."

https://www.jwire.com.au/azerbaijan-foils-alleged-iranian-plots-targeting-jewish-sites-and-oil-pipeline/

"In The #Marital Knot: #Agunot in the #Ashkenazi Realm, 1648-1850 (Brandeis University Press), Dr. #NoaShashar of #SapirAcademicCollege in #Israel, has written an absolutely fascinating #book that details the plights of agunot from the time of the #Khmelnytskyuprising to 1850.

While agunot today are a somewhat rare occurrence, in the period she writes of, wars, persecution, accidents, and natural disasters, as well as travel along dangerous roads, the possibility of assuming a false identity, and conversion to Christianity, all made agunot not uncommon in the least.

The book details the lives of agunot during 1648-1850 and the men who brought about this situation. It traces the states of these #widows, whose husbands were nowhere to be found."

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/book-review-the-marital-knot-agunot-in-the-ashkenazi-realm-1648-1850/

@dukepaaron
"The archetype, or stereotype, of the smothering but loving and nurturing #Jewishmother is almost exclusively presented in popularculture as #Ashkenazi"

Really? I'd say the the Jewish mother phenomenon is cross-discriminal.

*Yesh li imma pollania. Imma, pollania*