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Reflecting on 65 years since the Tibetan uprising and the formation of the Tibetan refugee community. Tibet’s unique cultural and religious identity has faced immense challenges, especially since the occupation by the People’s Liberation Army in 1950 and the imposition of the 17-Point Agreement. Despite ongoing efforts by the 14th Dalai Lama to negotiate peace, the struggle for autonomy and preservation of Tibetan culture continues. Let’s take this moment to learn, reflect, and support the Tibetan cause. #Tibet #TibetanRefugees #CulturalIdentity #HumanRights #InternationalRelations Tenzing Dhamdul བསྟན་འཛིན་དགྲ་འདུལ་, tenzin tsundue, Foundation for Non-violent Alternatives- an institute for peace studies

#counteringwhitesupremacy The same populations that raided Hebrew Israelite settlements on the behest of Ashkanazi slave merchants, are the same groups given control of Africa. Sahel just as East Africa is destabilised, these two regions are home to settlements of Portuguese and Spanish Jews who arrived into Africa following the Edict of expulsion of the Jews by Manuel I (1496) and the official establishment of the Portuguese Inquisition by John III (1536) came a period of intolerance and prejudice that lasted for several centuries and led to the almost complete extermination of Judaism and the Jews in Portugal. In 1493 Portugal expelled its Jews, as the year before Spain expelled it’s Jews. Uganda hosts over 1.7 million refugees and asylum seekers.This is the largest refugee population in Africa and the 6th largest in the world. Refugees mainly come from South Sudan (55%) and from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (31%). Almost 5 million people were forcibly displaced across Burkina Faso, Mali, the Niger, Mauritania, and the coastal countries of Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Togo as of August 2024 – an increase of 25% since 2020. In the first half of 2024 alone, approximately 130,000 Malians sought refuge in Mauritania. One can see a pattern, the targeting of regions of 'the people of the book'. Muslims believe that Jews and Christians have strayed from God's true faith but hold them in higher esteem than pagans and unbelievers. They call Jews and Christians the "People of the Book" and allow them to practice their own religions. The one's being targeted are Jews, the Sahel in the 15th century maps was known as NEGROLAND, before maps were altered to conceal the identity of black Jews. It is these black Jews that are terrorised in the guise of military partnerships between corrupt African leaders and there western masters, and the weaponization of democracy projects to target and isolate Iberian Peninsular diaspora population. Example is East Africa; in Luo settlements Collective West have planted upwards of 35,000 hostile NGOs in Luo settlements, the region receive upwards of $8 billion USD yearly, the conditions imposed is that the state 'must' brutalise 'black jews' the Luo. For instance in Kenya, a darling of U.S, France, Isreal and U.K governments, Luo Nyanza region and settlements of Luo are crisis mongered. According to a recent report, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) operating in Kenya's Nyanza region receive a total of Sh45 billion from donors yearly, the result the Luo body is denigrated by the state, stripped of its life, and has been at the receiving end of state brutality, time and time again. August 12, 2023 Judge throws out case to have Luo community secede from Kenya Justice Lawrence Mugambi dismissed the case seeking a referendum to allow the Luo community to secede from the Republic of Kenya and form their own country, citing alleged discrimination by successive governments. https://lnkd.in/diENebkf

BRILLIANT: "Progressives might disagree with despots and death cults, but they also can accept that they exist; on the other hand, if a country like Israel can shake off its colonizers and then rise up from a multicultural, multinational, multiethnic group of refugees that has suffered ubiquitous persecution on an unprecedented scale, then what implications does that have for the assertion that oppression, poverty and tragedy are insurmountable facts of life that must be pandered to rather than triumphed over? It is Israel’s present successes, rather than their “settler colonial” foundation, that poses the threat to progressive worldview, and one does not need to look so far for proof [read the full article]:"

" Why Israel questions in UN Assembly about Jews population vanishing from Muslims countries" ? ----------------------------------------------- Until the 1960s, approximately one million Jews lived in Iran and other Arab countries , the founding population of those countries, for more than 2000 years. As on 2024, it is estimated that only around 15,000 remain, since they were forced to flee their homes, after establishment of Israel. This mass expulsion and exodus is part of modern history, but inexplicably, it’s neither taught at schools nor remembered within the context of the conflicts in the Middle East. India also must adopt the Israel pathways for establishing its Hindu Strength. Ref --> https://lnkd.in/gaREzxZB https://lnkd.in/gn5g5RN8 https://lnkd.in/gQMfGVbX #mseswaranpremiummember

This May and every May, Palestinians around the world mourn over 70 years of what they term “Zionist imperialism” and the “nakba” (catastrophe) they have endured. Activists ignore the flight of Assyrians (300,000 from 1914-1920), Armenians (1.5 million from 1914-1923), and Greeks (450,000-750,000 from 1913-1920). Victims of expulsion and persecution leading to emigration include Lebanese Maronites (8-14 million in the diaspora, 4 million in Lebanon), Assyrian Christians (15 million in the diaspora and in Syria), and Armenians under the Turkish Empire (11 million in the diaspora today). In Lebanon and Syria, nationality laws deliberately bar Christians from returning, ensuring a Muslim Arab majority in these countries. From North African and Middle Eastern Jewish communities, 850,000 Jews were expelled or forced to flee, with one million Copts leaving Egypt. Where expulsions or emigrations did not occur, widespread persecution did. Forced assimilation affected Berbers, Kurds, and Sudanese, with Arabization policies implemented in schools and government institutions since the 1960s. Berber only became an official language in Algeria in 2002; Kurdish was forbidden in Turkish media until then; and in Yemen, Jewish children were taken from their families for forced conversions. When confronted with the historical realities of Turkish and Arab oppression, these crimes are often whitewashed, with claims that the Ottoman and Arab Empires were peaceful and tolerant. These narratives overlook the fact that many groups, such as Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Jews, and Lebanese Christians, sought independence from these empires. Minority groups appealing to Western Europeans for help were met with violence from the imperial powers seeking to preserve their dominance. From the 1880s to 1923, Pan-Turkish and Pan-Arab movements claimed lands conquered under their rule as settler colonialists. The Pan-Turks pursued genocides against Greeks, Assyrians, and Armenians, while ensuring forced assimilation for Kurds and Assyrians and expelling Greeks and Armenians. Pan-Arabs claimed areas settled during medieval times as original Arab homelands, and after aiding the British in overcoming the Ottoman Empire, pursued imperialistic goals in multicultural countries, forcing Arab culture upon Assyrians, Amazigh, Maronites, and Egyptian Copts. By the 1940s, the Arab League sought to Arabize North Africa and the Middle East, implementing policies of Arabization and forced assimilation. At the Versailles Treaty (1919) all indigenous peoples of the Middle East— Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Maronites—called for national self-determination. Only the Jews and Armenians, under British and Russian rule respectively, achieved independence. Activists campaign to commemorate Palestinian Arab refugees of the Arab-Israeli conflict, ignoring million truly oppressed by imperial powers throughout history and today.

While Israelis were celebrating Independence Day, thousands (probably much more) Ham*s supporters were preparing Nakba posts for Nakba day. Do actual historical facts support the Nakba narrative? Let's check the facts, all of it very easily Googled (and I'm not even talking about history books, recorded evidence and many other proofs): 1. First thing you notice in these photos is Palestinian flag, but it was invented in the 60-ies, when Palestinian identity was created. In 1948 if someone said "Palestinians" they meant Jews, and Arabs were just Arabs. It is easy to prove that Palestinian identity was invented in the 60-ies. In addition to huge amounts of historical evidence, you can simply ask any "Free Palestine" supporter, from which year to which year Palestine belonged to Arabs Palestinians. None of them answers in years because the answer is "never". 2. "Palestinians with Israeli citizenship" are Israeli Arabs, descendants of Arabs who didn't leave in 1948. There are 2 million of them, they are 20% of Israeli population, they are Israelis exactly like Jews and have full rights. Majority of them support Israel. 3. West Bank belonged to Jordan before 1967 and people living there were Jordanians, Gaza belonged to Egypt before 1967 and people there were Egyptians. They all started calling themselves Palestinians only in the 60-ies when Palestinian identity was created. So they have nothing to do with whatever happened in 1948 except being part of countries that attacked Israel. 4. Arabs weren't ethnically cleansed in 1948, the opposite, they are the ones who tried to ethnically cleanse the Jews, since much before 1948. In 1948 all Arab countries started war against Israel state, a moment after it was officially established. Arab leaders told local Arabs to leave for a few days, and to return when all the Jews are m*rdered. To everyone's surprise, Jews won. 5. Then UN and Arab countries created refugee status that passes through generations, as political tool against Israel. They also created "right of return", there is no such thing anywhere else in the world. 6. So "Nakba" (catastrophe) is Arabs still talking about the fact that they lost the war that they started and left their homes (most of them voluntarily) because of war that they themselves started. 7. And as we all know very well, there is no genocide in Gaza, there is a war, that again, they themselves started.

This week, we highlight the fifth reason why it is important that African Christians need biblical resources that are contextual. While a story may be interpreted in a certain way based on a typical situation or behaviour in a Western context, Christians in Africa may see that situation in a different light. Some good examples of this are the characters and stories of people in the Bible who are displaced or become refugees. While that part of their stories may not resonate in a significant way with Western audiences, as most Westerners have not been in the position of being a refugee, many Africans have had this experience or know people who have. Learn more here:https://lnkd.in/g3ei5Seq #oasisbooksandbibles #ASB #ChristianityInAfrica #context

Nothing has changed: https://lnkd.in/gFNeBqFH Between 1920 and 1970, 900,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries. The 1940s were a turning point in this tragedy; of those expelled, 600,000 settled in the new state of Israel, and 300,000 in France and the United States. Today, they and their descendents form the majority of the French Jewish community and a large part of Israel’s population. In the countries that expelled Jews, a combination of six legal, economic, and political measures aimed at isolating Jews in society was instituted: denationalization; legal discrimination; isolation and sequestration; economic despoilment; socioeconomic discrimination; and pogroms or similar acts. It is the custom to say that Zionism was responsible for this development. However, the region’s anti-Semitism would have developed even without the rise of the state of Israel because of Arab-Islamic nationalism, which resulted in xenophobia. The fact that these events have been obscured has served in the campaign to delegitimize Israel, and therefore to a large extent, the same population that suffered this oppression. The fate of Palestinian refugees, their proclaimed innocence, and the injustice they endured form the main thrust of this delegitimization. The Jewish refugees have suffered more than the Palestinian refugees and undergone greater spoliations. However, they became citizens of the countries of refuge, especially Israel and France, while Palestinians were ostracized from the Arab nations. Between 1920 and 1970, 900,000 Jews were expelled from Arab and other Muslim countries: from Morocco to Iran, from Turkey to Yemen, including places where they had lived for twenty centuries. The 1940s were a turning point in this tragedy; of those expelled, 600,000 settled in the new state of Israel, and 300,000 in France and Canada. Today, they and their descendants form the majority of the French Jewish community and a large part of Israel’s population.

✋Interested in #indigenouspeoples and #humanrights? @IWGIA published the 38th edition of the Indigenous World, 🙌 Download it at http://bit.ly/2nTAsKO - Curious about developments in Libya? 👉: https://bit.ly/4bZCv2u The Indigenous World 2024 report by IWGIA highlights the ongoing challenges faced by Indigenous communities in Libya, including the Amazigh, Tuareg, and Toubou. Key issues include: Lack of Recognition: Indigenous Peoples are not officially recognized in the Libyan constitution, limiting their rights and cultural expression. Political Instability: Ongoing conflict and divided governance hinder the protection and advancement of Indigenous rights. Cultural Suppression: Policies continue to marginalize Indigenous languages and cultural practices. Land Rights Violations: Historical land dispossessions remain unresolved, impacting Indigenous communities' access to their ancestral lands. Economic Marginalization: Indigenous populations face significant economic challenges and lack access to resources. 🔗 Learn more about the situation #IndigenousRights #Libya #Amazigh