'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

Always great when nationalist myths are debunked using solid scientific backing.

History.Culture.projects: *Palestinians Did Not Come from Arabia: Debunking another Zionist Origin Myth*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-UlTACbko

"This video breaks down the myth that Palestinians are recent arrivals from Arabia by examining historical records, demographic math, and the latest peer-reviewed genetic research. Arab identity was adopted—not imported—by indigenous populations who have lived in Palestine since the Bronze Age.

Sources & Further Reading:
- The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30487-6
- Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam — Peter Brown:
https://dokumen.pub/empires-of-faith-the-fall-of-rome-to-the-rise-of-islam-500-700-oxford-history-of-medieval-europe-9780191620027.html
- The Early Islamic Conquests — Fred M. Donner:
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691638898/the-early-islamic-conquests
- The Roman Near East — Fergus Millar:
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674778863
- Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History — Nur Masalha:
https://www.amazon.com/Palestine-Four-Thousand-Year-History/dp/1786992728
- UN Mandate Palestine Census Reports:
https://digitallibrary.un.org/
https://archive.org/search?query=1931+Census+Palestine "

#Palestine #Palestinians #Jews #MizrahiJews #Levant #Levantines #AshkenaziJews #Canaan #Canaanites #Arabs #Arabization #zionism

#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

"#HenMazzig is possibly the best-known young advocate for #MizrahiJews.

He will talk to #Harif about his new book, part memoir, part manifesto, #TheWrongKindOfJew.

The #Jews of the #MiddleEast and #NorthAfrica, known as #Mizrahim, are “the wrong kind of Jew.”

We’re not only unfamiliar, but our culture shatters stereotypes and unspoken rules."

https://youtu.be/t8ph89qy-Xk

✡️ Today's Jew of the Day is Uri Gavriel!

Uri Gavriel is a theatre and film actor known primarily, though not exclusively for his work in Israel in dramatic roles.

Gavriel's has appeared in 32 films and 28 television series, including The Band's Visit, Byzantium, Shavua ve Yom, The Dark Knight Rises, One Week and a Day, The Attack and The Ballad of the Weeping Spring.

In 2005 he won an Ophir Award (Israel's Academy Awards) and Karlovy Vary International Film Festival as Best Actor for What a Wonderful Place.

#JewOfTheDay #Actor #MizrahiJews #IraqiJews #Israeli #Jewdiverse