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JM: While Ottoman politics made it difficult for the Zionist movement to register land, the British did the exact opposite. Basically, the British took over what was miri land (state land) from the fallen Ottoman Empire. And then the newly established Israeli state took over from the British who ended their mandate overnight. What this meant was that large swaths of land were taken over by the settler-state – obfuscating varying communal relationships and practices that had taken place on it for centuries – only then to ban Palestinian use-right with the excuse that they were not registered as property. After ’48, the Palestinians who remained would be fined for herding their livestock on so-called state-land, and decades later foragers would be fined for collecting wild growing herbs on their ancestral lands. NA: Palestinians did not need these land registration documents — they had natural boundaries and oral agreements based on liability, kinship, and social relations. There were no clear demarcations of the borders of the land. Hence, the land is not just a resource, but it’s also a social relation. And until now there are lands in Palestine where the ownership is still not registered.  JM: Historically we managed without it for many hundreds of years.  NA: And that troubled the British; not being able to read the land properly and not knowing who owned it, which directly affected the land transfers to the Zionists. Therefore, waging a war on the mushaa’ and breaking it into private parcels was the way to exert control over it, for the sake of development, and to facilitate the transfer of land to the Zionists.  Just to give you some numbers, by 1947, Zionist ownership did not exceed 6-7% of the land of Palestine, so it wasn’t really that much, and the Jewish population composed less than a third of the entire population. During the British Mandate, the gates of Palestine were open for Zionist settlers to come, but even with this the numbers are not that high. JM: I think these numbers are important, because they reflect that even with this war on the mushaa’, the Palestinians refused its abolition in so many ways. The majority of land owners did not sell. The majority of Palestine remained in Palestinian hands up until 1947. Israel confiscated most of Palestine through ethnic cleansing, which continues in the West Bank, particularly in the last few decades.

Y'all this is word for word what's happening to Moroccans in Morocco.

"And that troubled the British; not being able to read the land properly and not knowing who owned it, which directly affected the land transfers to the Zionists. Therefore, waging a war on the mushaa’ and breaking it into private parcels was the way to exert control over it, for the sake of development, and to facilitate the transfer of land to the Zionists."

There are 11 examples that accompany the IHRA's definition of antisemitism. 7 of those 11 examples specifically reference the state of Israel. It's meant to protect Israel more than Jews.

The ADL has used this definition to overinflate numbers. In fact they self reported that 58% of the "antisemitism" they recorded in 2025 included criticism of Israel and Zionism

This is why we have been seeing over-inflated reports of antisemitism. And when you lift the hood its just criticism of Israel. The worst part about this tactic is that it waters down real acts of antisemitism.

1) gaslighting

2) erasure of Palestinian history in the arab world

I remember always hearing my family members hate on Shitrael and I always found that criticism *too much* because they never talked that harshly against khaleeji countries who were just as deep in the trenches of zionism/white supremacy as Shitrael. On the other hand, those same relatives NEVER taught me or my siblings about the reasons behind their resentment towards the entity. They kind of assumed that Al Jazeera did that work for them, since we always watched its coverage of war crimes on Palestinians. This was a major problem that my family was too oblivious and careless about. Al Jazeera and all other Arab news channels only ever portrayed Palestinians, especially Gazans, as helpless victims. Sure, they might've aired a Hamas speech here and there, but the context flew over my head: no one ever bothered to guide me in connecting the dots, and frankly who tf relies on TV to teach their kid about world affairs? Over time it got worse, because the combination of the abovementioned factors led to growing sympathy for Shitrael, with many falling for its "hated martyr" propaganda.

I blame my parents' generation for their laziness and detachment from worldly affairs. That entire class embodied the west's nuclear family wet dream so well it led to the current divide between liberal zionists and antizionists. And much of it is built on Arab self-hatred and antagonization too, because now the Moroccan state is capitalizing on the global anti-arab sentiment to de-arabize Moroccans.

The half-circles are called zaï! They're a traditional farming practice in the Sahel desert, and their introduction + reintroduction can be largely credited to Yacouba Sawadogo, the man linked above! He reintroduced and innovated on the zaï on his own farm in the 1980s, and did extensive outreach (along with scientist Mathieu Ouédraogo) to encourage other farmers to adopt them as well.

He also promoted the use of cordons pierreux, which are basically just lines of rocks to reduce erosion, preserve sediments, and increase water absorption.

Moreover, this thread further asserts the colonial narrative that deserts are a barren environmental anomaly that our planet needs to be cured of. That's total bullshit and extremely offensive to the millenia-old traditions of human desert settlements and migrations. It's also misleading to think that those areas remain unchanging throughout the year, when life is inherently cyclical and they will dry up again with time, hence the relevance of humans' role in the seasonal adaptability of land itself. These zaïs aren't a "solution" to the desert, they are a part of its ecosystem. The humans who maintain this environmental management tradition are no different from the thousands and thousands of other species that make up that ecosystem, each contributing to its balanced existence in synergy with one another.

And "men without degrees built this" is the other side of the "Aliens built this" white supremacy coin.

I can't talk about all of Spain with certainty, but I would assume it's the same as here. Here in the Catalan Countries university education is VERY valued. The reason is because we come from a time of extreme poverty. Back in the time of our grandparents (the generations born before the 1960s), poverty was very generalized. Many people didn't have food every day, so lots of kids couldn't finish school because they had to work full time in factories, workshops, etc. For example, my grandparents left school at age 13 or 14. But whatever little education you could get, that was considered with great importance.

I have a grandmother who could continue to high school (working only after school), and to see what the mindset I'll give you an example she has told me many times. Back then, in schools they studied French as the foreign language (instead of English like we do now), she found it difficult and one time she complained at home saying "why do I need to learn French? It's not like I will ever go to France anyway!" (we live 2 hours by car from France, but back then this seemed like a luxury). Her relatives reprimanded her harshly for it saying "they can take everything from you, but they can never take what you know". This was something very important during a fascist dictatorship who had, in fact, taken a lot from many people.

When this generation started having kids, it was the baby boom of the 1960s-1970s. The 1960s is when things started changing, the extreme poverty of the post-war period gave way to industrialization and better material conditions for a large part of the population. And when this new generation grew up, in 1975 the dictator died. The 1980s was a new time where the working class could suddenly go to university, and people did. These parents who grew up considering that going to high school was lucky were very enthusiastic about sending their children to university, because they saw it as a way to ensure their children wouldn't go hungry like they did. University was seen as a social elevator, but even besides this, education was highly valued for its own merit.

Our generation were raised by these children, the first working class people who could go to university. Thus, the importance of education has been passed down to us. For this reason, nowadays there's the problem that too many people go to university, and as a consequence university graduates can't find jobs while we can't find people with practical formations like electricians, carpenters, machine operators, etc. But still, it feels almost "mandatory" for everyone who can to go to university, to the point that the alternatives are barely even considered by many young people.

I Gen Z is the first generation where maybe education isn't as valued because it's almost given for granted? I don't know. But either way, people are still going to university en masse.

I've searched for numbers and Spain is the 2nd state in the EU with a highest amount of people getting PhDs, only after Germany (source). So yeah, I don't think that tweet is representative of a general mindset at all. But fascists (Vox and PP voters) would be more inclined to think like that tweet. In the whole world fascist are anti-intellectual. So, considering how the person who runs that account talks about the Spanish historical troops and wars, I think we all can make a guess on where he stands.