This is true. I was officially told that we must reorient our research towards the importance of the BLM in Hispanic countries to get funding. When I said that BLM is a US fad with no relevance to anybody else, this was greeted with shock. “So you don’t want to get funded?” I was asked.
Please take a moment to ponder this. The federal government prioritizes funding to people who manufacture evidence that American ideological hangups are shared by the rest of the world. People are desperate for funding. The only research that counts for anything is often the research that receives external funding. Nobody cares that I have publications coming out the wazoo in prestigious peer-reviewed journals around the world because I get zero external (meaning, outside the university) funding. I don’t get tempted but many people will. Think about the consequences of that. A quarter of all funding is an enormous figure. We are destroying our country’s scholarly advantage by doing this.
This will have terrible effects down the road.
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Racism found everywhere. As an Israeli and a Jew have personally experienced racism in my life. Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr were the heroes of my youth.
Currently my homeland fights a multiple front war which we might lose. This war all about racism and its ensuing violence. May I present my latest article on the Crisis of War?
The phrase: From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free. In Arabic its: From water to water Palestine will be Arab. [[[[من الماء إلى الماء، فلسطين ستكون عربية.]]] Some argue that it rhymes better and is linguistically more elegant. Arab racism absolutely rejects as absurd the idea that dhimmi Jewish slaves have equal rights to self determination. This Arab racism does not limit itself to Arabs. Britain France and Germans too. This racism flows in the blood of European barbarians guilty of the Shoah. Europeans reject the Jewish state just as emphatically as do racist Arabs. Not limited to Nazis, the British White Paper and French UNSCR242 absolutely rejects the Israeli victory in the June 1967 War.
Einat Wilf on Israel, Antisemitism and a New Middle East / The Macdonald-Laurier Institute (youtube.com)
While some argue that the conflict is primarily cultural or political, others recognize the importance of religious components. Israel’s process of “rejudaization” since 1967 exemplifies this paradox. Zionism, initially a secularized messianic movement, has grappled with its religious undercurrents and conflicts throughout its history. The use of religious ideas remains psychologically and ideologically consistent with political strategic objectives.
The cultural differences between Arabs and Jews are substantial. These communities differ in religion, language, culture, nation, and identity. The Arab minority (approximately 18% of Israel’s population) maintains its distinct identity, language (Arabic), and cultural practices. They are subdivided into Muslims, Christians, and Druze. Arabic is the mother tongue of most Arab citizens, while Hebrew serves as the state’s language for Jews. Respective communities remain separate, with distinct schools, civil society organizations, and social classes.
Historical grievances, territorial disputes, and conflicting national narratives have fueled animosity between Arabs and Jews. The contested nature of religious sites, such as the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif in Jerusalem, adds another layer of complexity. These sites hold immense religious significance for both communities.
Both Arab and Jewish nationalist movements have sought self-determination and sovereignty, often at the expense of the other. Within each society, political factions and leaders have shaped public opinion, sometimes exacerbating tensions. Radical elements on both sides have perpetuated hatred and mistrust.
The involvement of external powers (such as Britain during the Mandate period and the United States today) has further complicated the conflict. Geopolitical interests intersect with religious and nationalist dynamics. Media narratives, historical revisionism, and propaganda have contributed to negative stereotypes and mutual distrust. The Arab-Jewish conflict is deeply rooted in historical, cultural, and religious factors. Acknowledging these complexities is essential for any meaningful path toward a negotiated face to face direct negotiations.
The presentation of a theory which explains the Arab/Israeli wars, it seems to me, requires a simplification of an overly complex conflict. The conflict basically began with post WWI the French and British mandates which carved up Ottoman Greater Syria. The strategic interests of the victors of WWI held the Arab and Jewish populations of the Middle East in very low regard. The Foreign policies of both these triumvirate European empires viewed the ruled subject peoples comparable to the relationship of feudal lords to their peasant serf populations. Divide and conquer, pitting one set of conquered serfs against an opposing set of conquered slaves. Better that racial conflicts prevail than active organized revolts against the ruling empires.
The British employed this policy throughout post WWI Indian rule. Britain actively pitted Hindus against Muslim populations. The Great War had slaughtered an entire generation of European youth. Together with the wealth and resources of both empires. In this context, African political movements seized the opportunity to assert their demands and shape their futures.
The French developed strong settler populations, known as pieds-noirs. Just as had the British in Northern Ireland. African political parties demanded universal suffrage and an end to reserved seats for settlers in territorial legislatures. Real power sharing in matters of legislation, directly compares to revolutionary American condemnation of “taxation without representations” made against the British Crown. These historical events highlight the intricate dance between colonial powers and the aspiration of colonized peoples. The struggle for independence, citizenship, and representation shaped the destinies of these regions.
Greater Syria particularly focuses upon the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement which President Wilson refused to either recognize nor validate in his post war peace proposals. The Sykes-Picot Agreement did not limit itself to Britain and France but enjoyed the imperialist assent of both Russia and Italy. Its purpose: to define the respective empires mutually agreed-upon spheres of influence and control in the eventual partition of the Ottoman Empire. It effectively divided the Ottoman provinces outside the Arabian Peninsula into areas of British and French control, consequent to the fall of Czar imperial Russia to Germany.
Had Russia not fallen in defeat, Russia would have seized as their spoils of war Istanbul and renamed it Constantinople. The victory of the Bolshevik revolution antagonized huge Western bigotry and racism against Communism. McCarthyism serves as a powerful example of this Western racism and bigotry.
The French pitted Muslim and Xtian hatred and distrust against one another like the British did with the Arabs and the Jews in mandate Palestine. The imposition of colonial rule by British and France often exacerbated existing ethnic and religious tensions, leading to unrest and resistance. The legacy of these decisions continues to impact the Middle East today with ongoing conflicts rooted in historical divisions and power struggles.
French colonial policy in Vietnam, marked by several key factors that deeply affected the Vietnamese population. The native population, especially the educated minority, had no civil liberties under French oppressive rule. Their political freedoms, the French secret police severely restricted. The Vietnamese the ruling French feudal aristocrats excluded the subject feudal serf Vietnamese from the modern sector of the economy, including industry and trade. This economic Apartheid, a powder-keg of native resentment and hatred.
Historian Shawn McHale notes that while race-bigotry shaped French attitudes toward the Vietnamese. There existed little or no evidence of Vietnamese notions of race superiority and bigotry during the First Indochina War. But racist ideas of social Darwinism did infiltrate Vietnamese intellectuals before WWII. This influence shaped their discourse on race, adding complexity to the racial dynamics in Vietnam.
The rise of Nazism and the crimes of the Shoah conclusively proves beyond any shadow of doubt that racism dominates European 20th Century societies. To assume that racism played but a minimal role in the current Middle East conflicts utterly juvenile.
Throughout the 20th century, great power rivalries significantly shaped the fate of the Middle East. Colonial competition between Britain and France after World War I led to the creation of modern borders and nation-states in the region. These historical events set the stage for the complex relationships we see today. The Arab-Israeli conflict, with its roots in the British Mandate for Palestine, involved not only Jews and Arabs but also Christians. The arrival of Jewish immigrants and land purchases by Jewish organizations led to tensions and evictions of Arab peasants.
Racism and bigotry, whether overt or subtle, impact how great powers interact with different communities in the Middle East. Arab, Christian, and Jewish populations experience varying degrees of influence, protection, and marginalization based on historical legacies and current geopolitical interests. The complexities of identity, religion, and ethnicity intersect with power dynamics, shaping alliances, conflicts, and economic ties.
The Middle East, a mosaic of cultures, faiths, and histories. Great power involvement—whether driven by racism, strategic interests, or economic opportunities—adds layers of nuance to this intricate tapestry.
The lastest Korean War Chapter VII UNGA ultimatum of war, this UNGA Resolution attempts to dictate vile revisionist history; “the defeat” of Israel in the June 1967 War. The 5 Security Council Members all voted unanimously for the 242 revisionist history of that all-encompassing Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian Arab national defeat.
After Oct7th “Hamas does not represent the Palestinians” the statement made by Biden when he visited Israel after that heinous abomination war-crime. Hamas, in point of fact – does represent the Palestinians. Oct 7th led to a wave of Gazan euphoria! Hamas not some “new” phenomenon! The 1972 slaughter of Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich Germany definitively serves as proof that Arab racism which absolutely rejects Jewish equal rights to self determination shapes the entire history of the Arab Israeli wars.
All Arab Israeli wars that has witnessed the defeat of Arab Armies draws immediate EU, Russian, American cease fire interventions which prevents Israel winning a war by forcing Arab countries to unconditionally surrender. UN demands for a Cease-Fire, French demands for an arms boycott of Israel, antisemitic attack across France – all seeks to prevent an earthquake like balance of power shift in the Middle East.
Russia today compares to LBJ’s war in Vietnam after the June 1967 war. Pelosi’s criminal attempt to impeach President Trump, her trip to Taiwan – an attempt to seize the reign of US Foreign Policy from President Trump; President Trump rejected the Ukraine joining NATO. Hence the criminal Pelosi attempted to impeach President Trump.
The rigged 2020 US Presidential elections brought Joe Biden to power. Almost immediately thereafter Russia invaded the Ukraine. Why this war? Putin absolutely rejected the notion after Napoleon and Hitlers’ Armies invaded Russia through the Ukraine plains, that NATO trusted to put its troops on the Russian Ukraine border. President Kennedy rejected for the same exact reason Soviet nuclear missiles positioned in Cuba.
Assuming (tefillat that the enemies of Israel in this more than 7 front war that Israel does not fall before the combined efforts of our enemies) that Israel WINS these wars and compels the signed unconditional surrender of Hezbollah in Lebanon. UNWRA, together with the Red Cross, ceases to exist across Gaza, Samaria and Israel. The eternal days of Palestinian refugees established by UNWRA have ended. An Arab government in Gaza can never again use Foreign Humanitarian Aid to enrich the 1% Arab militarist elite, who feels they have absolutely no responsibility to pay the salaries of school teachers across Gaza etc. That the common Arab feudal peasants exist as the wards of the United Nations humanitarian aid. UNRWA a Palestinian fraud.
The “Not in our Name” assimilated kapo G’lut Jews, who dwell abroad and who oppose the Jewish state. They directly compare to the Torah story of Jewish cowards who demanded to return to Egypt in the days of Moshe; Jewish cowards who condemned the call of pre-Shoah Zionist leaders pleading to the Jews of the world to make aliyah to British Mandate Palestine. The Wilderness Generation has no portion in the world to come.
The UN-nations only united in matters of Israel. The latest Chapter 7 UNGA ultimatum that Israel must pretend that it lost the June 1967, this ‘smug’ racism resembles racism that infiltrated and eventually collapsed the Weimar Republic. Anti-Zionism, it attacks where Jews live. Canada, the US, France, & Britain the primary g’lut locations where Jews dwell. The word de-escalation has replaced Chamberlain’s “appeasement”! Israel resembles the ’38 Czech Republic that collapsed consequent to that coward PM’s 2-State Solution with Hitler!
Hamas Oct7th attack seeks to dismantle the Jewish State in the Middle East. The latest UNGA Resolution/ultimatum too seeks to dismantle the Jewish State. That Oct7th pogrom atrocities traumatized Israelis to re-experience the Shoah. Hamas refusal to return the stolen hostages and the no-strings attached international support for the establishment of a Palestinian state duplicates the intent of Security Council nations 242! Israel post the current War must issue its own ultimatum to the UN-nations: 1) Annul 242. 2) Recognize Israel as a State in the Middle East. Israel rejects the UN racism of pursuit of Arab racism which refuses to recognize Jewish equality to self determination.
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Dude, I’m begging you. No more sheets of text. You are murdering the thread for everybody else.
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el walked so mosckerr could run.
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Man, you have really slayed with this one.
I’m weeping.
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This is what I was referring to as the DEI-fication of institutions in the other thread and you dismissed it. Your exact quote:
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And that’s precisely why I decided to go all in for Trump after seeing this post today. And then 2 minutes later I saw the “we are a failed nation” video.
And that’s how it’s been for months.
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Structural changes in all american institutions VS a couple of sentences in a stump speech.
Anyone who places equal weight on these two issues is a democrat. 🙂
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A couple of sentences rubbishing this country in the most egregious manner. And we are supposed to pretend it didn’t happen because Dems are worse.
Well, if I wanted to pretend I wasn’t seeing reality, I’d definitely remain a Democrat.
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Yeah, writing a 2,000-word, thirty-paragraph article for a website comment is a total waste of time and effort. Nobody’s going to read it.
Dreidel
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