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Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Grandpa on a Camel: A Family Story (Judean Rose)

Disclaimer: Family stories vary according to the teller and also change over time. This story is based on memories my mother shared with me. I have likely embellished it greatly with my imagination. Any inaccuracies belong solely to me. It was hard for Haiman Kopelman, my great grandfather, to leave Vashilishok. He was not only leaving the city he called home, but his widowed mother,...

200 years ago: The Pope forces Jews of Rome, including children, to attend Catholic sermons weekly

From the Stockport Advertiser, Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, Dec 17, 1824:The pope was the recently installed Pope Leo XII, whose papacy started in September 1823.This edict seems to have been only for the Jews of Rome.Wikipedia mentions this along with another edict that Leo issued against the Jews:Laws such as that forbidding Jews to own property and allowing...

It Took Only 150 Years To Revise The Reputation of General Sherman. How Long Will It Take For Israel? (Daled Amos)

By Daled Amos“Those people made war on us, defied and dared us to come south to their country, where they boasted they would kill us and do all manner of horrible things. We accepted their challenge, and now for them to whine and complain of the natural and necessary results is beneath contempt."General William Tecumseh ShermanGeneral William Tecumseh Sherman was one...

The UN's history of the "Question of Palestine" omits every single Palestinian attack on Jews

The UN has a webpage where it shows a timeline on the "Question of Palestine."It is biased as hell. It starts with "1885 – The term 'Zionism' first coined by the Viennese writer, Nathan Birnbaum."There is no mention of Jewish history in the region for thousands of years. No mention of Jewish kingdoms. No mention of the centrality of Eretz Israel and Jerusalem to Judaism. ...

End the Lebanese and Jordanian occupation of Palestine!

I love when I tweet and the Israel haters are reduced to gibberish in response.I had tweeted, Proof #619 that calling Israel "apartheid" is antisemitic:Lebanon treats Palestinians worse than Israel by every conceivable yardstick. Discrimination is enshrined in law. Yet no one accuses Lebanon of "apartheid."The responses from modern antisemites were all along the...

The British didn't leave Palestine on May 15, 1948 - but on June 30

The last British soldiers did not leave Palestine until six weeks after Israel declared independence.The British continues to control Haifa's port until June 30, when they finally left and Israel took over.And within hours of the withdrawal, Israel introduced its new navy. (London Daily Herald, July 1 1948)It was so small that United Press put the word "navy" in scare...

1639: The Jews of Jerusalem escape destruction when their prayers end a drought

This story was written as an appendix to "AN INFORMATION, CONCERNING The Present STATE OF THE JEWISH NATION IN EƲROPE and JƲDEA," probably written by Henry Jessey of England in 1658.The state of the Jews at Jerusalem hath been many hundred years of late such, as that they ever lived of the supply and Contributions from their brethren abroad; because the place doth yield...

Did the Kingdom of Israel control the lucrative "royal purple" and "royal blue" dye trade?

Pottery that contained the argaman dye found at ShikmonaHaaretz publishes a fascinating theory:Israeli archaeologists are rethinking the history of an ancient factory that, thousands of years ago, was one of the largest sites for the production of “royal purple,” a dye that adorned the robes of the rich and powerful across the Mediterranean.Tel Shikmona, located on the shore...

"Tantura massacre" is a conspiracy theory

The Guardian reported last week:An investigation into a massacre in a destroyed Palestinian village carried out by Israeli forces in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation has identified three possible mass graves beneath a present-day beach resort.Palestinian survivors and historians have long claimed that men living in Tantura, a fishing village of approximately 1,500...

The emancipated Jewish women of Jerusalem, 1823

This article from 200 years ago - May 1823 - describes the lives of (Sephardic) Jews in Jerusalem then, and pays particular attention to the women.Excerpts:Many of the Jews are rich and in comfortable circumstances, and possess a good deal of property in Jerusalem, but they are careful to conceal their wealth, and even their comfort, from the jealous eye of their rulers, lest...

January 1920: Palestinian Arabs pledge to boycott Jews forever until either Zionism is eradicated - or until they all die

On January 16, 1920, prominent leaders of Nablus - both Muslim and Christian - met in a conference where they pledged, under oath:: (1) To boycott the Jews completely as n counter-measure against their covetous spirit toward this country. (2) To refuse them dwelling space in our district, and to binder their admittance thereto in every way. (3) To persevere In this...

Palestinian preacher at Al Aqsa: "Palestinians Have No Historical Right to Palestine"

From MEMRI:In an address at the Al-Aqsa Mosque posted on the Aqsa Call YouTube channel on April 14, 2023, Palestinian Islamic scholar Issam Amira said that Palestinians are no more Canaanite than Egyptians are Pharaonic. Rather, he said that the Palestinians are Muslims, and had had no rights whatsoever prior to the advent of Islam. He added that when late PLO leader Yasser...

The Mufti tried to establish an anti-Jewish university in Jerusalem

World Islamic Congress in Jerusalem, 1931In the Winter 2022 edition of the Institute of Palestine Studies journal, pseudo-historian Ilan Pappe puts forth a theory:This article asks, why was there no Arab university in Mandatory Palestine (while there were two Jewish universities). Apparently, the colonial mentality of the British authorities who deemed the Palestinians yet...