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Who said, “What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow”? Hillel, a Jew.
Who wrote Mark, the first gospel? A Jew.
Who pioneered Western alchemy and laid the basis for chemistry? Maria the Jewess.
Who commanded Granada’s Muslim army in the 11th century? Samuel ibn Naghrillah, a Jew.
Who introduced algebra to Europe? Abraham bar Hiyya, a Jew.
Who printed the Ottoman Empire’s first book? David and Samuel ibn Nahmias, Jews.
Who composed the first scientific writing on deaf-mute people? Jacob Rodrigues Pereira, a Jew.
Who established England’s first mosque? Gottlieb Leitner, a Jew.
Who struggled for Indian women’s rights to practice law? Regina Guha, a Jew.
Who escaped his captors and warned the world that the Fascists were devastating his people? Lt. Zulmati Schlomo, a Jew.
To whom did the Axis commander General von Paulus surrender on January 31st, 1943? Lt. Colonel Leonid Vinoukur, a Jew.
Who pioneered the practices of cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy? Aaron Beck, a Jew.
Who invented the defibrillator? Naum Gurvich, a Jew.
Who created an apparatus and surgical techniques for repairing the broken bones of damaged limbs? Gavriil Ilizarov, a Jew.
Who repeatedly risked his life so that Canadians had a right to abortion? Henry Morgentaler, a Jew.
From whom do the Palestinians descend? Jews.
‘The Jew — is the symbol of eternity. […] He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear. The Jew is eternal. He is the embodiment of eternity.’
— Leo Tolstoy, 1908
I felt like creating something positive to counterbalance the negativity floating around lately. Nothing fancy; I don’t expect this to completely change somebody’s mind.
I know that I could have added plenty more names to this, but I wanted to focus on unsung heroes and keep the length manageable. I hope that it isn’t hard for anybody to read. I am dissatisfied with how the text flows, but I could not space the questions and answers apart without shrinking everything too much. Oh well.
Source for the background. Source for the image that inspired the format.
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This is very strange. I am confused about why the original document is being mimicked, although admittedly I don’t think I understand the cultural context there. As best as I understand, catechism is like a tool for indoctrinating people, primarily in the rules of christianity.
It is published in a Republican magazine so I suppose these are all intended as accusations? The ending clears nothing up for me:
Who, with the above facts, and many others, staring them in the face, are continually whining about “negro suffrage” and negro equality? The Democratic party. All these things were done by Democrats, and yet they deny being in favor of negro equality, and charge it upon the Republicans—just like the thief who cries “stop thief” the loudest.
But just to read it plainly with modern eyes. It opens in praise on slaver Thomas Jefferson’s beneficence towards black people. Then it lists all the nice gifts of the democartic party upon Black people. (Some of which sound like they might be forms of sexual violence?) But ultimately, while the author’s opinion on the matter is somewhat muddled through time, you can understand their intention to clarify the collective character and project of democrats.
I felt like creating something positive to counterbalance the negativity floating around lately. Nothing fancy; I don’t expect this to completely change somebody’s mind.
Like the original I am struggling to read through the layers of what is attempted to be communicated, and what is communicated. At first I thought this was some sort of backhanded anti semitism but now I think it probably isn’t.
When I read this, it sounds like trying to give a few individual Jews credit for a lot of other people’s work and stuff. Chemistry, algebra, WW2, abortions, mosques.
I am sure someone with more education in history could provide better insight and context regarding other assertions, but the overall vibe is very pointed here:
Who struggled for Indian women’s rights to practice law?
I don’t have to know anything about the history to catch that suggesting any single person as an answer to such a question is absurd. The whole thing has a same tone. The product of many people’s labor is credited to a single person. Or it could be described that all the other labor is ignored and erased in favor of a skewed perspective to over emphasize one person’s role. 10s of millions of people died fighting fascism ww2, and many other millions participated in it. The person to whom 1 general admitted defeat is very rando to pluck out.
From whom do the Palestinians descend? Jews.
I am extremely skeptical that “Palestinians descend” from Jews. like all human groups, neither are at all coherent enough historically or today to make any such claim. I searched it up and very unsurprised to find numerous right wing zionist sources claiming this. Top of the list, good old The Times of Israel The Genetic Origins of the Palestinians. Some “race science” to show that palestinians do not even exist really.
I am confused about why the original document is being mimicked
Because the format is straightforward. Otherwise, my image has basically nothing to do with any ancient Republican commentaries on Democrats.
At first I thought this was some sort of backhanded anti semitism but now I think it probably isn’t.
I can only assume that you are a pessimist, because otherwise I don’t know why an antisemite, of all people, would begin a catechism by quoting Rabbi Hillel saying, ‘What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow.’
When I read this, it sounds like trying to give a few individual Jews credit for a lot of other people’s work and stuff. Chemistry, algebra, WW2, abortions, mosques.
That… isn’t the purpose of the image. If I wanted to drastically oversimplify history then I would have spoken more absolutely. Saying ‘Einstein gave us the theory of relativity’ is not code for ‘Einstein gave us the entire field of physics.’
I don’t have to know anything about the history to catch that suggesting any single person as an answer to such a question is absurd.
I’ll grant you that the way that I phrased that item was misleading: I was not trying to argue that only one person fought for Indian women’s rights to practice law, but I can see how someone could misinterpret it as such anyway. I trusted my readers to know better, but maybe I should not have.
I am extremely skeptical that “Palestinians descend” from Jews.
It is only a slight exaggeration. Yes, Palestinian heritage also includes Arabs as well as Canaanites, but too many people are unaware that many of their descendants also included ancient, lower-class Jews and that many Palestinian families inherited Jewish customs such as hanukkiot, mezuzot, tefillin, and so on. I myself was unaware of their Jewish heritage until 2023, though that did not prevent me from opposing the occupation regardless. Illuminating Palestinian identity further humanizes Palestinians, showing that there is more to their lives than suffering and that they are ordinary people like us.
I searched it up and very unsurprised to find numerous right wing zionist sources claiming this.
This is fringe knowledge amongst Herzlians. Most of them are either unaware of or deny that Palestinians have any Jewish heritage. It is commoner to see Herzlians claim that they descended from an obscure Arab tribe that came from Syria or whatever after somebody presumably expelled all of Palestine’s Jewish inhabitants.
Some “race science” to show that palestinians do not even exist really.
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Because the format is straightforward. Otherwise, my image has basically nothing to do with any ancient Republican commentaries on Democrats.
Saying ‘Einstein gave us the theory of relativity’ is not code for ‘Einstein gave us the entire field of physics.’
As per your line of, “Who introduced algebra to Europe? Abraham bar Hiyya, a Jew.”, it would be more like ignoring Einstein and all other physicists and naming the person who ran his book publisher as the one who distributed physics to the world.
I trusted my readers to know better, but maybe I should not have.
It is your composition and I don’t think I was reading it incorrectly.
It is only a slight exaggeration.
Here is the most important sentence from your linked post:
These local inhabitants, in turn, were descendants of the core population that had lived in the area for several centuries, some even since prehistorical times
Race “science” aside. don’t you think that it is a little rude to post that the people of palestine, who have been resisting a genocide by zionist jews for decades, and in these past years an acute campaign of extermination so that they might be replaced by jews, are actually jews themselves? “there is no such thing as palestinians”. I’m sure the whole “genetic” research in this zone serves ultimately to justify zionist ethnostate. the original historical document is quite relevant in its mixedupedness.
In the North American context there is a popular (wrong) idea that indigenous people are actually “recently” arrived themselves. I have heard people say “We’re all immigrants here” without any hint of a caveat. Similar to the idea here, it is arguably an attempt to equalize everyone, to convey a commonality of experience. So there is a patina of niceness on it. The ideological implication though, the reason why it was so tenacious, is to dispute pre-columbian land claims by making out like the whole place is kind of up for grabs really. Nobody really has a legitimate claim of ownership. So the colonialist claims are actually then perfectly valid.
too many people are unaware
Why “too many”? Why do you think they should know about this racial “science”? It is important to you, because it led to a revelation of mutual humanity, but who are you to tell others how they ought to understand?
Even if I stipulated to the credibility, there is really no reason why anyone outside of scientists and nerds need to care. It is irrelevant unless someone decides for themselves that it would be relevant.
I myself was unaware of their Jewish heritage until 2023, though that did not prevent me from opposing the occupation regardless.
Wow what incredible grace. Only support occupations where you are reasonable certain to be as different as a person can be from the victims? Of course.
Illuminating Palestinian identity further humanizes Palestinians, showing that there is more to their lives than suffering and that they are ordinary people like us.
What did you think they were before?
Human beings are 99.9999999% genetically identical. Whoever on this planet has the most different genetics from you is still a full human being “like you”.
I’m glad you were able to make this connection, whatever it took to click it into place. But hopefully you will eventually outgrow the need to justify on this basis at all.
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