My partner and I purchased a house earlier this year in Spain. Over the next couple of years we plan to retire there. One of the best decisions we ever made. The EU ref was the final straw for him. Back in the 1970s he helped to get us into the EEC. He is a baby boomer but the complete opposite of a gammon!
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If I had received a penny for everytime I have had to argue this in my life, then I would be a very rich man....sigh
The idea that Zionism = Judaism doesn't hold much water when you consider that Jews have also been victims of Zionism, albeit in different ways from those of Palestinians.
Arab Jews who arrived in the new state of Israel in the late 1940s and 1950s often faced descrimination and racism from European Jews. The state sought to "de-Arabize" these Jews. Ella Shohat's article "Shephardim in Israel: Zionism from the viewpoint of its Jewish victims" is a fascinating read on this topic, and provides some interesting points. David Ben-Gurion (first prime miniter of Israel) once said "We do not want Israelis to become Arabs. We are duty bound to fight against the spirit of the Levant, which corrupts individuals and societies, and preserve the authentic Jewish values as they crystallized in the diaspora." (p. 4) and described Morrocan Jews as "savages" (p. 5). Golda Meir also asked "Shall we able to elevate these immigrants to a suitable level of civlization?" (p. 5)
Shohat herself has written about how her father was told not to speak Arabic in the workplace and how she grew up with state-sponsored "mental colonization" which discouraged Arab Jews from ever seeing themselves as similar to Arabs.
There was also the Yemeni Children Affair in the 1950s where hundreds of children of Yemeni Jews were taken by doctors, nurses and social workers and given up for adoption to Ashkenazi/European Jews without the birth parents knowing about this.
To quote from Ella Shohat's article:
"Some Sephardim, most Yemenites, fell prey to a ring of unscrupulous doctors, nurses and social who provided some six hundred Yeminite babies for adoption by Ashkenazi couples (some of them outside of Israel), while telling the parents that the children had died. The conspiracy was extensive include the systematic issuance of fraudulent death certificates for the children and to ensure that over several decades Sephardi demands for investigation were silenced and information was hidden and manipulated by government bureaus."
Additonally, Zionist terrorists have deliberately targeted Jews with the aim of benefiting the Zionist state. For decades, it was rumoured that Zionists planted bombs to target Jewish communities in Iraq in the 1950s so that they could be scared into coming to Israel. A few months ago Israeli historian Avi Shlaim believed he had unconvered "incontrovertible evidence of Zionist underground involvement in the bombs".
Ethiopian Jews have also faced descrimination over the years, with the Israel state unable to decide if they counted as 'real' Jews entitled to the right of return until the mid-1970s. Ethiopian Jewish women have also claimed to have been given contraception without consent.
It's clear that Jews have been victims of Zionism over the decades, and I simply cannot understand how anyone can insist that criticising Zionism or the Israeli state is the same as attacking against Jewish people or wishing for their extermination.
I found this interview with Ella Shohat pretty interesting:
Arab Jews who arrived in the new state of Israel in the late 1940s and 1950s often faced descrimination and racism from European Jews. The state sought to "de-Arabize" these Jews. Ella Shohat's article "Shephardim in Israel: Zionism from the viewpoint of its Jewish victims" is a fascinating read on this topic, and provides some interesting points. David Ben-Gurion (first prime miniter of Israel) once said "We do not want Israelis to become Arabs. We are duty bound to fight against the spirit of the Levant, which corrupts individuals and societies, and preserve the authentic Jewish values as they crystallized in the diaspora." (p. 4) and described Morrocan Jews as "savages" (p. 5). Golda Meir also asked "Shall we able to elevate these immigrants to a suitable level of civlization?" (p. 5)
Shohat herself has written about how her father was told not to speak Arabic in the workplace and how she grew up with state-sponsored "mental colonization" which discouraged Arab Jews from ever seeing themselves as similar to Arabs.
There was also the Yemeni Children Affair in the 1950s where hundreds of children of Yemeni Jews were taken by doctors, nurses and social workers and given up for adoption to Ashkenazi/European Jews without the birth parents knowing about this.
To quote from Ella Shohat's article:
"Some Sephardim, most Yemenites, fell prey to a ring of unscrupulous doctors, nurses and social who provided some six hundred Yeminite babies for adoption by Ashkenazi couples (some of them outside of Israel), while telling the parents that the children had died. The conspiracy was extensive include the systematic issuance of fraudulent death certificates for the children and to ensure that over several decades Sephardi demands for investigation were silenced and information was hidden and manipulated by government bureaus."
Additonally, Zionist terrorists have deliberately targeted Jews with the aim of benefiting the Zionist state. For decades, it was rumoured that Zionists planted bombs to target Jewish communities in Iraq in the 1950s so that they could be scared into coming to Israel. A few months ago Israeli historian Avi Shlaim believed he had unconvered "incontrovertible evidence of Zionist underground involvement in the bombs".
Ethiopian Jews have also faced descrimination over the years, with the Israel state unable to decide if they counted as 'real' Jews entitled to the right of return until the mid-1970s. Ethiopian Jewish women have also claimed to have been given contraception without consent.
It's clear that Jews have been victims of Zionism over the decades, and I simply cannot understand how anyone can insist that criticising Zionism or the Israeli state is the same as attacking against Jewish people or wishing for their extermination.
I found this interview with Ella Shohat pretty interesting:
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Pretty Papi Pedro re-elected:
https://news.sky.com/story/pedro-sa...-days-after-amnesty-deal-controversy-13009335
Sadly, where I live in Spain is quite right-wing and anti-progress.
https://news.sky.com/story/pedro-sa...-days-after-amnesty-deal-controversy-13009335
Sadly, where I live in Spain is quite right-wing and anti-progress.
I'm still slightly angry about them basically kicking Irene out of the government (like... literally one of the best politicians that have graced our country), but it was this or... Franco-wannabes.
It's going to be a bumpy term, but if anyone can survive it, it's Pedro.
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Wasn’t the incumbent a left wing populist? Kinda curious why the Argentinian people pivoted so drastically? Anybody have an insight or more reading?
Once again emphasises that most people aren’t ideologues and voters are fucking weird and hold contrasting stances at times
Once again emphasises that most people aren’t ideologues and voters are fucking weird and hold contrasting stances at times
Both candidates were exceptionally bad. Argentines had the choice of an incumbent party candidate who as Economy Minister ran the economy to the ground, or a political outsider who is clueless but resonated with people wanting a protest vote. It will be another lost four years for Argentina.
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It just makes me sad that that vacuum of ethical leadership is still persisting. Argentina desperately needs a leader that wants to help people. Ugh. I resent Milei for taking advantage of a population who are very understandably fed up with the unsustainable status quo. It's so shitty how this keeps happening.
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Fucking hell that article was depressing. This is the real cancel culture, speaking out against a literal genocide. Everything feels so dystopian.
* Third attack in Lebanon since the start of the war
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It's definitely better than nothing, and will allow humanitarian aid in. But Israel have basically said they'll keep bombing once it's over.