please stop these games

In my last years in the Australian Taxation Office when older Gen Z were just starting to get management positions, was when I started to notice that these younger people didn't have skills Millennials have always mocked our Baby Boomer colleagues for lacking.

It's not even their fault. They went through school with the myth of the "Digital Native". They weren't taught typing skills, they weren't taught how to convert a .PDF, they weren't taught how to make a digital slide show, but they sure were taught to use Adobe Photoshop as though it isn't a comparatively niche use skill.

Humans didn't evolve to use the computer, or computer programs, this is tool use and tool use is transmitted culturally... We have to teach it to the next generation or the knowledge is lost in as little as one generation. We already knew this and invented the myth of the Digital Native anyway.

#as a teacher the problem is my bosses still dont think the kids need time to learn computer skills #keep throwing tech at them but dont actually TEACH them anything

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You only have to look at how many footballers who have rape accusations against them that happily represent their countries in huge tournaments like the World Cup without anyone really giving a shit to see what bollocks that is.

You only have to look at how many footballers who have rape accusations against them that happily represent their countries in huge tournaments like the World Cup without anyone really giving a shit to see what bollocks that is.

Hii!!! I'm super flattered - sadly I might not be the best person to ask, tbh: I definitely need to read more english writing on Israel, because I'm super sad to tell you that the major books and other resources on Israeli history I've read have all been in Swedish (without any English translations as far as I can see).

I will get back to you with a proper recommendation list at some point, bli neder, but for now I'll try to provide at least some other things that at least I've found very useful to check out:

Benny Friedman interviews are something I've found intensively valuable. He's hands down my favorite Israeli historian (so far). I haven't bought and read any of his books yet, but I will 100% recommend them anyway. He's one of the so called "new historians" who challenged a lot of narratives that permeate Israel's understanding on its own history - in particular the war of independence - and honestly grappling with the actual injustices Israel has committed against Palestinians (without becoming Norman Finklestein or Ilan Pappe - a.k.a. the types of sources you should stay miles away from). Recently he's focused more on Israel advocacy, given the state of things. I don't really have any particular video to recommend, so I'll pick this one.

For an academic historian available online who is more generally focused on jewish history overall (but has also made some great videos on Israeli history), there is Henry Abramson - his videos are very long and in depth, as opposed to content like Unpacked (>). His videos massively helped my deradicalization process, I can't really overstate how much. I can very much recommend this video.

Haviv Rettig Gur is a personal favorite resource, not so much on Israeli history specifically, but more contemporary issues. He's a journalist and a senior analyst at The Times of Israel, but I will always recommend his youtube channel to anyone and everyone. He's still taught me a lot about Israeli history and politics, and he's a pretty solid provider of good takes and information, and was one of the most important sources in my antizionist deradicalization. This video is really great, and as an aside this video was very improtant to me changing my mind on Israel.

Unpacked on youtube is an Israeli advocacy project that produces pretty good surface-level summaries on lots of Israeli history and contemporary politics and culture that I've used as surface introductions to many topics - in my experience their approach to historiography and Israel advocacy is pretty good at being nuanced without losing focus (They have an israeli history podcast too, I listen to it every once in a while!). They were particularly important to me starting to change my opinions on Israel, and I appreciate them for that. (I've linked their playlist on Israeli history.)

In the improbable case anyone who knows Swedish reading this, I'll still mention my favorite books and resources I've read so far (not including books about judaism more specifically)

1. Israel och hennes fiender by Bengt G Nilsson ("Israel and her enemies")

This book taught me pretty much everything I know about the swedish left and its antisemitism. It also includes lots Israeli history that have been incredibly insightful, and central to me deradicalising myself and changing my opinions regarding Israel. Bengt Nilsson is a journalist, which is the style of his writing, who was a figure in the swedish antizionist left for nearly 40 years (the guy even met Arafat), before he changed his mind and wrote this incredible exposé on the ugliness of the antizionist movement - specifically the Swedish one, but a lot of it can be applied to the western antizionist movement in general.

2. Den Vilda Rättvisan - judisk hämnd efter Förintelsen, by Kenneth Hermele ("Wild Justice - jewish vengeance after the Holocaust")

This one isn't really primarily Israeli history that much, but I'm still including it because of how important it is to me. It's taught me so, so much about modern jewish history and jewish nazi hunting and the "prosecutions of the nazis", the consequences of the Holocaust, and how jews processed and dealt with it - both positively and negatively. It goes into great depth on how judaism and jews have tackled the concepts of vengeance and justice historically. It does a great job talking about Israeli nazi hunting - like capturing Eichmann - and its responses to Islamist violence against jews - like Munich. If you are able to read this book you absolutely should (I would horrible things to get it translated). His precurser to this book is his book on jewish resistance during the Holocaust, which is nr 2 on my "to buy" list, and he's also written a book on Golda Meir, Ethel Rosenberg and Hannah Arendt.

Most of my knowledge about Israeli military history is a podcast by two Swedish military historians, but sadly they've only made a few episodes on Israel, it's not really their focus. But I'll still link if for any stray Suedis.

If anyone has book recommendations on Israeli history in english, please add them - I also want recommendations myself lol, so pretty please and thank you for any help

Howard M. Sachar, "A History of Israel" ("a bit old but preserves outlook and knowlege of the time which is important")

Michael Oren, "Six Days of War June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East"

Lee Yaron, "10/7 a Hundred Human Stories,"

"The Massacre That Never Was: The Myth of Deir Yassin and the Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem" is a very deeply-researched history of just that one battle. Seeing the chasm between what actually happened and what people today claim happened, and some of the history of how the myth diverged from the history, is a really good eye-opener.

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