Show threadEstelle PlatiniJun 15, 2025

"The calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to #Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits. But at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, Russia underwent dramatic political upheavals that engendered a brutal political culture that scorned tolerance and enlightenment."

by Ofri Ilany: https://archive.ph/DhflH#selection-873.0-873.527 via @oatmeal @israel @histodons 🧢

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Show threadoatmealApr 8, 2024

Attar, Samar. Debunking the Myths of Colonization: The Arabs and Europe. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2010.

[...] Chaim Weizmann (1874–1952), who was born in Russia and later became a naturalized British subject and in 1948 the first president of the State of Israel, said of the Palestinians: β€œThe British told us that there are some hundred thousands Negroes. . . and for those there is no value.” Rafael Eitan, the Israeli general and former Chief of Staff, whose ancestry goes back to Russia too, speaks of Palestinians in 1983 as β€œdrugged cockroaches inside a bottle.” This is the common crude language of intruders/ colonists who have originally arrived from Europe to different parts of the world. Ironically, the Jews in Europe were never considered Europeans, yet some of them seemed to have emulated the racial and ideological make-up of their tormentors!

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Jew Of the DaySep 4, 2023

✑️ Today's Jew of the Day is David Dubinsky!

David Isaac Dubinsky was a labor leader and politician who founded the Congress of International Organizations (CIO), and took part in the formation of the American Labor Party as well as the Liberal Party of New York.

In 1906, Dubinsky escaped a Siberian prison sentence for labor activities in Russia and escaped to New York City.

When in NYC, he eventually became a garment worker and joined the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). He became the local chapter president a year later, and rose in the ranks to leadership within the decade.

He went on to co-found the CIO and his involvement with the ILGWU and the CIO lead to the AFL-CIO.

Dubinsky formed the American Labor Party, which served as a party to provide a voice to disenfranchised Democrats who wanted to use their collective voice to shape Democratic politics.

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Jew Of the DayAug 26, 2023

✑️ Today's Jew of the Day is Boris Volynov!

Boris Valentinovich Volynov (Бори́с ВалСнти́нович Волы́нов) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two harrowing missions and is considered the first Jew in space.

Volnov trained to be on the Voskhod 1 mission, the seventh manned Soviet flight mission, as well as the Voskhod, but was bumped from the crew roster of both, very likely due to his being Jewish. He did fly on Soyuz 5, but both this and the Soyuz 21 mission suffered muliple mission problems, including mechanical failures and resulted in hard landings, the first of which broke several of Volynov's teeth.

Despite his career being held back for being Jewish, Volynov has been heavily awarded, including two Orders of Lenin, two Hero of the Soviet Union awards, an Order of the Red Star, an Order of Friendship, an "Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class", as well as others.

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Serge from BabkaJun 25, 2023

This video on the Israeli judicial reforms does an amazing job of covering this conflict, and does triple or quadruple duty of covering the basics of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Zionism, conflicts within Israeli society over Secular Democracy and a lot more.

I'm shocked to see something so well produced.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST_eZwBIMDA

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Israel's Religious Demographic Crisis (and why it's only going to get worse)

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