excellent point and my sincerest apologies for filling this reblog with idiocy but i have to scream at people.
wait. hang on. back up a second.
it is impossible for indigenous people to exist without colonization? damn that feels...wrong. hot take: maya indigeneity shouldn't depend on conquistadors. they are irrelevant. mayans exist independent of colonization.k
the terrifying thing is that at first glance this just seems to be a normal blog.
anyway, minor rant incoming.
even if you think zionists are worse than nazis. the terrifying thing is that they're human.
if they're not human, you can neatly preclude yourself from ever being one. you can neatly avoid that. how could you? you're a person.
when a hamster does something terrible by human moral standards, it doesn't really change our view of humanity. they're hamsters. they have no relevance to human morality, not really. when a human does, that changes things.
by making these people into monsters we neatly avoid any sort of moral reckoning.
what the fuck. hi @matriarch-amanda. first of all, this is the logic of "you made me hit you!" you should not be provokable into committing a hate crime. i don't give a fuck what israel's doing, or what epstein did, or whatever. this is just basic principles.
listen. when people say muslim antisemitism didn't exist or whatever, that's a lie. it was also better than christian europe.
someone very wise* (*random ao3 commenter) once said something along the lines of "well, the bar is literally in hell, but at least they're not tap dancing with the devil". let me be very clear. the bar is in hell, everyone's tap dancing with the devil, but the christians are doing it more. that doesn't make it okay.
finally, as a matter of pure fact: damn the state is old.
this is according to wikipedia unless noted so if anything this will understate things. bolded ones are by leaders (this is an artifact of the person i originally made the list for)
627: “Between 600 and 900 Jewish male captives including any boys showing signs of puberty are beheaded by Muslims on Muhammed’s orders…”
628: “battle” of khaybar. many jews slaughtered on the orders of muhammad. you may have heard of it; some “antizionists” chant about it, positively.
639: jews first forced to pay jizya, an extra tax, under caliph umar.
640: jews expelled from arabia on the orders of caliph umar.
717: possible date for the pact of umar (lovely dude), which first codified the dhimmi status of jews, which required us to wear special clothing, not have weapons (if, say, muslim rulers mistreated us), not ride on saddles (no idea why), not build new shuls, etc., etc.
720: jews not allowed to worship on the temple mount. did I mention the part where they built a mosque atop our holiest site yet? no?
788: “Idriss I attacks Jewish communities, imposes high per capita taxes, and forces them to provide annual virgins for his harem for refusing to attack other Jewish communities.”
807: “Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid orders all Jews in the Caliphate to wear a yellow belt”.
870: “Ahmad ibn Tulun flattens Jewish cemeteries and replaces them with Muslim tombs.”
925: “Jews of Oria are raided by a Muslim mob during a series of attacks on Italy. At least ten rabbinical leaders and many more are taken as captives.”
985: “A number of Jewish residents in Barcelona are killed by the Muslim leader Almanzor. All Jewish owned land is handed over to the Count of Barcelona.”
1009: “Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah orders the destruction of synagogues, Torah scrolls and Jewish artifacts among other non-Muslim buildings.”
1011: muslim mob attacks jews conducting a funeral. 23 jews are arrested, because clearly jews are at fault here.
1011: pogrom against sephardim in cordoba. (this was when it was muslim)
1016: jewish community of kairwan forced to convert or be expelled
1033: “Temim ibn Ziri conquers Fez, Morocco and decimates the Jewish community, massacring 6,000 Jews during the Fez massacre.”
1040: hezekiah gaon imprisoned and tortured to death by muslim rulers
1066: grenada massacre. muslims storm the royal palace, crucify a jewish vizier, and slaughter most of the jews in the city (around 4,000 people).
1071: “Jerusalem falls to the Seljuk Turks, many synagogues are destroyed and life for Jews in Jerusalem becomes much more restricted.”
1090: “The Jewish community of Granada, which had recovered after the attacks of 1066, attacked again at the hands of the Almoravides led by Yusuf ibn Tashfin.” golden age of sephardim ends.
1108: “Many Jews are massacred and their houses and synagogues are burned following a Muslim victory at the Battle of Uclés (1108).”
1135: muslims storm jewish homes, steal our stuff and kill us. cordoba.
1145: jews of sijilmasa given the choice of conversion to islam or death.
1146: “100,000 Jews are massacred by the Almohad Caliphate in Fez, Morocco and 120,000 in Marrakesh.”
1147: Jews expelled from al-Andalus, i.e., Muslim ruled Iberia. rambam flees.
1148: Lucena captured by Muslims. Local community given the “choice” of Islam or death.
1165: jews converted to islam en masse, yemen.
1165: almohad ruler decrees jews in fez shall convert or die. rambam flees, again.
1198: jews of yemen forcibly converted.
1205: jews expelled from many parts of spain. by muslims.
1229: jews banned from living in jerusalem. again.
1232: forced conversion in marrakesh; over a thousand jews murdered
1260: “Mongols are defeated and Syria is brought under Mamluk rule. Anti-Jewish laws are once again decreed, and Jewish life becomes a lot more restricted in the Levant.”
1260: “Jews are banned from ascending above the 7th step on the Cave of the Patriarchs. This ban would last 700 years.” If I had to guess, it lasted 707 years, until the six-day war, i.e., until it fell under jewish control. so, no muslims ever lifted that ban.
1276: attempted massacre in fez. to be fair the local ruler stops it.
1290: jews slaughtered, baghdad
1291: jews persecuted, persia
1301: “Riots break out in Egypt, which are encouraged by the Mamluks. Many Jews are forcibly converted to Islam, including the entire Jewish population of Bilbeis. Many synagogues are appropriated into mosques”
1321: mob destroys shul, damascus.
1333: mass conversions, baghdad
1392: “The Jews of Damascus are accused by Muslims of setting fire to the central mosque. Although there was no evidence presented, one Jew was burned alive, the leaders of the community were tortured, and the local synagogue was appropriated into a mosque”
1438: mellahs (ghettos) established, morocco. this was almost a century before the first ghetto in christian lands.
1465: jewish community slaughtered because of accusations against one (1) jew, fez
1467: jews of tlemcen persecuted
1468: jews ransomed, cairo.
1491: preacher orders expulsion/murder of jews of tlemcen.
1492: same preacher inspires a pogrom of jews of tuat.
1492: jews forced to convert to islam, leave, or die; judaism illegal in mali. this inspired by guess what preacher? (fuck you, Muhammad al-Maghili)
1493-7: jews forced into mellahs and prohibited from doing business outside of them. persia and afghanistan.
1517: “Jews are beaten, raped and killed in Hebron, as their homes and businesses are looted and pillaged.”
also 1517: “The Jews of Safed is attacked by Mamluk forces and local Arabs. Many Jews are killed and their homes are plundered.”
1576: “Deportation of Jews from Safed to Cyprus by Ottoman authorities”
1619: “Shah Abbas I of the Persian Sufi dynasty increases persecution against the Jews, forcing many to outwardly practice Islam. Many keep practicing Judaism in secret.”
1656: “All Jews are expelled from Isfahan because of the common belief of their impurity. The ones who stay are forced to convert to Islam.”
1657-1662: “Jews throughout Iran (including 7,000 in Kashan alone) are forced to convert to Islam as a result of persecutions by Abbas II of Persia.”
1679: mawza exile. on the orders of the ruler of yemen, jews were banished from pretty much everywhere and sent to a barren desert area, called mawza, to die.
1706: jews, already impoverished, ransomed, algiers.
1721: “Arab creditors set fire to an Ashkenazi synagogue, fed up with debts. Ashkenazi Jews are banned from Jerusalem along with anyone who looks like an Ashkenazi Jew. Some Ashkenazim dressed up like Sephardic Jews in order to fool the authorities”
1775: “A blood libel spread in Hebron, in which Jews were falsely accused of murdering the son of a local sheikh. Mob attacks took place. At first the Sheikh demanded to kill all the Jews but after pleas settled on a large fine that nearly destroyed the community”
1783: jews expelled, morocco. we didn’t pay a ridiculous ransom.
1790: “Yazid becomes the Sultan of Morocco and immediately orders troops to massacre and plunder the Jewish quarter of Tétouan.”
1790-92: “Destruction of most of the Jewish communities of Morocco.”
1805: 200-500 algerian jews slaughtered
1806: jews slaughtered, tlemcen, algeria
1818: “Turks from Algiers attack Constantine, massacre and pillage Jewish homes, and abduct 17 young Jewish girls whom they bring to their commander”
1830: jews attacked, tabriz
1830: forced conversions, shiraz
1834: “The 1834 looting of Safed was a month-long attack on the Jewish population of Safed by local Arab and Druze villagers. It was full of large scale looting, as well as the killing and raping of Jews and the destruction of many homes and synagogues. Before the attacks Jews made up over 50% of the population, but many of them fled to nearby cities which reduced their presence drastically.”
1839: “Forty-plus Persian Jews are killed and the entire Jewish community of Mashhad is forced to convert to Islam in the Allahdad”
1841: blood libel, mosul, iraq
1860: “The Jews of Hamadan are accused of mocking the Ta'zieh ceremonies for Imam Husain, several of them are fined and some have their ears and noses cut off as punishment.”
1864: jews massacred, marrakesh and fez
1866: jews forcibly converted, barforush, iran. when, after intervention by brits and french, they are allowed to keep practicing judaism, a muslim mob kills many of them.
1875: jews killed, demnat
1886: jews attacked, petach tikva
1892: “Mulla Abdullah issues a fatwa to kill all the Jews of Hamadan if they refuse to abide by Jewish restrictions. The local Persian Jews were later ordered to become Muslims or face death.”
1892: “Two Persian Jews go out to sell merchandise and end up killed with all of their property stolen. Their relatives went out to search for the bodies and when they found them, they were killed by the same villagers. Even after many attempts to plea for their lives, the governor of Savojbolagh County paid them no mind”
1897: pogroms; oran, tripolitania
1907: “Over 60 Jews in the Mellah of Casablanca are killed in a pogrom by Kabyle Muslims. Many more were wounded, and a large number of women and children were carried off”
1910: “The 1910 Shiraz blood libel was a pogrom of the Jewish quarter in Shiraz, Iran. It was sparked by accusations that the Jews had ritually murdered a Muslim girl. By the end of the pogrom, 12 Jews were killed, 50 or so were wounded, and 6,000 were robbed of all their possessions.”
1912: “The Tritl or the 1912 Fez massacre left 42 Moroccan Jews dead.”
1917: “The 1917 Jaffa deportation was a forceful expulsion and confiscation of property of 10,000 Jews from Jaffa and Tel Aviv by Ottoman authorities.” to be fair it also applied to muslims, but to be unfair, the muslims were allowed to come back shortly after, while jews were not.
1920: pogrom in jerusalem
1922: “The government of Yemen, under Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, re-introduced an Islamic law entitled the “orphans decree”. The law dictated that if Jewish boys or girls under the age of 12 were orphaned, they were to be forcibly converted to Islam, their connections to their families and communities were to be severed, and they had to be handed over to Muslim foster families.“ pretty sure this counts as genocide.
1923: JTA: ‘Yemen Jews ask relief from persecution’: "Kidnapping of Jewish brides, torture of aged men and women, and the compulsory conversion of Jews to Mohammadism are among the grievances enumerated in the communications from the Yemite [sic] Jews.”
1929: pogrom, hebron and safed
1934: According to the JTA (July 31, 1934) Yemeni Jews send a letter boiling down to “yeah shit sucks in germany but don’t forget us please”. No, really: “This community is screaming with pain in a remote corner of the world and nobody listens to her…She is starving in darkness and there is no one to rush help.It is true that the misery of our brethren is great in Germany. Yet there is no comparison between this and the plight of the Yemenite Jews. Who can count the number of restrictions against the Yemenite Jews? Laws prohibiting the Jew to ride a donkey or any other means of transportation and similar humiliations worse than those applied to the untouchables of India are now matters of course to us.”
1934: 2k afghan jews expelled
1934: pogrom, constantine, algeria
1935: “In 1935, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported that "Ghetto rules” had been imposed on Afghan Jews, requiring them to wear particular clothes, that Jewish women stay out of markets, that no Jews live within certain distances of mosques and that Jews did not ride horses.“
1936: jews attacked, jaffa
1938: jews (mostly children) killed, kiryat shmuel
1941: pogrom, french tunisia
1945: pogrom, tripoli. (JTA, Nov. 11: "Tripoli was quiet last night, following the pogroms which culminated in the burning of Jewish homes and a synagogue at Zanzura, west of the town, and caused the death of more than 100 Jews. A seven-day mourning period was proclaimed by the rabbinets [sic] in Tripoli following the burial of the dead. Tension is still running high in the city, and Jews are afraid to appear in the streets.”)
1945: “The 1945 Anti-Jewish riots in Egypt started as an anti-Zionist demonstration, but it ended with the killing of 5 Egyptian jews by a Muslim mob and over 300 other Jews were injured.” sound familiar?
so, tell me again how israel caused this?
