Dot in History

History beyond the mainstream.
Not lost-just ignored.

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⚠ TW: Sexual Violence.
The most detailed report on the sexual crimes committed during & after the Oct 7 massacre is out.
The Dinah Project reveals Hamas terrorists used rape, gang rape & sexual torture systematically.
This is hard to read, but vital. 🧵

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3/3 Some people arrived in 1948. Some were waiting for the country to catch up.
2018. Israel turns 70, and Margalit lights a torch at the Independence Day ceremony.
#DidYouKnow #History #FamilyHistory #EstBC
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 Everyone says Jews "came" to Israel.
Margalit Zinati's family says it never left.

Peki'in, a village in the Galilee.
The Zinati family tradition traces an unbroken Jewish presence there back to the destruction of the Second Temple, nearly 2,000 years ago.

CREDIT: Shlomo Roded / PikiWiki Israel

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During the Arab revolt of 1936-39, most of Peki'in's Jews left. In 1940, one Jewish family came back. Hers.
Margalit was born there in 1931.
For decades she looked after the village's ancient synagogue. In 2018, Israel asked her to light a torch on its 70th birthday.

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"Jews have no history in Jerusalem."
Funny. This Jewish coin was made there 2,000 years ago.

Around 67 CE.
Read it. Not Arabic. Not Latin. Ancient Hebrew:
"Shekel of Israel."
"Jerusalem the Holy."
And a date: Year 2. Year 2 of what? Of the Jewish revolt against Rome. The rebels counted time from their own independence.
The coin answered. In silver.
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Quick quiz: who was the largest group in Jerusalem in 1845?

Not according to Israel.
According to the Prussian consul.

His estimate: 7,120 Jews. 5,000 Muslims. 3,390 Christians.

That's 103 years before Israel existed, and decades before the word "Zionism."
Population numbers from the 1800s are estimates, and historians argue about them.

This one came from a European diplomat.
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CREDIT: Photo: Félix Bonfils

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Pharaoh Merneptah carved this line in a victory poem in stone around 1208 BCE.

"Israel is laid waste, his seed is not."

It's the oldest known mention of "Israel" outside the Bible, and it's a pharaoh bragging.

Flinders Petrie found the stone at Thebes in 1896. It's in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
About 3,200 years old.
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CREDIT: W. M. Flinders Petrie, Six Temples at Thebes (1897)

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74 members of his family were shot by the Nazis. 40 years later, the KGB made him the face of its campaign against Israel.

David Dragunsky. A tailor's son from a small town called Sviatsk.

A tank commander who fought from Kyiv to Berlin. Twice named Hero of the Soviet Union. In June 1945 he took part in the Victory Parade in Moscow.

That year he wrote in a letter that 74 members of his family had been shot in his home region. His two brothers died fighting in the Red Army.

In 1983 the KGB set up an Anti-Zionist Committee to attack Israel and push back against Soviet Jews who wanted to leave. It needed a Jewish face. A war hero was perfect. They picked him.

He chaired it until he died in 1992.

Propaganda doesn't just lie. It borrows the people you'd never doubt.
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CREDIT: Yevgeny Khaldei / Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

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Imagine finding out the protest you reposted was being cheered on by a foreign government.

Not hypothetical. On July 9, 2024, the US Director of National Intelligence said actors tied to Iran's government were posing as activists online, encouraging the Gaza protests and "even providing financial support to protesters."

The trick is old. In 1971 the KGB planned to bomb a Black neighborhood in New York and blame the Jewish Defense League, to turn Black and Jewish Americans against each other (the Mitrokhin Archive).

Different regime. Same playbook: find a real fight, pretend to be one side, pour gas on it.

Before you repost, ask who's holding the match. Being an unpaid extra in someone else's campaign is peak #NpcActivities
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CREDIT: Wikimedia Commons (public domain)

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April 2022. Russian troops pull out of Bucha, near Kyiv. Journalists find civilians dead in the streets.

Russia's answer: it's staged. A "provocation."

Satellite images taken while Russian troops were still in the town showed bodies on the same street.

When the evidence comes in, the propaganda starts. Don't be the NPC repeating "it's staged" for the people who did it.
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CREDIT: U.S. Embassy Kyiv

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And Qatar hosts Hamas's political leaders. Doesn't mean every professor is bought. Does mean you should know who's paying.
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Qatar doesn't interest you? You interest Qatar.
$6.6 billion is how much Qatar has given US universities, according to the Education Department's own data, more than any other country.
Cornell alone: about $2.29 billion.

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Qatar owns Al Jazeera. In 2020 the Justice Department ordered its youth brand, AJ+, to register as a foreign agent.

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5/5 On December 16, 1991, the UN repealed it, 111 to 25. The resolution died. 
The talking point didn't.
Just because the UN is a NPC in the Soviets' game, doesn't mean you need to be one too. 

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One UN vote in 1975, that messed up how people talk about Israel till today.

Image credit: Bernard Gotfryd / Library of Congress

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4/5 Right after the vote, Israel's ambassador Chaim Herzog took the podium: "For us, the Jewish people, this is no more than a piece of paper and we shall treat it as such." Then he tore it in half.(https://t.co/aRUT5uiN5L)

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 One girl's story, used to turn a country against its own refugees and police.

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In January 2016, a 13-year-old girl in Berlin went missing for about 30 hours. Russian TV turned it into an international crisis.

Image credit: U.S. Department of State

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 Berlin police said she had not been kidnapped and the story was not true.

Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, accused Germany anyway of "covering up reality."