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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Credibility of Ynet aside, there was indeed once a thriving Jewish community in Syria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Jews

There was also one in Yemen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenite_Jews

In that case, most of them were intentionally driven out. There were even pogroms.

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Would you care to enlighten me regarding the credibility of Ynet? Been coming back to them on & off for many years and they always seem to have well written articles. MBFC also ranks them highly.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s an Israeli source and I wanted to stop a credibility discussion before it started.

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes. Worried it might've been something else. Even being at war, Israel does rather well when it comes to press freedom. There are a wide variety of perspectives.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

The proposal, put forward by communications minister Shlomo Kar’i, will end government advertising in the newspaper and cancel all subscriptions for state employees and employees of state-owned companies.

Not exactly something that'll prevent them from continuing their work, nor does it limit press freedom. On the whole that entire situation actually reinforced my confidence in Israeli media since it clearly shows that it isn't under government control.

[–] FantasticDonkey@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They shut down Al Jazeera entirely and they murder journalists in Gaza & Lebanon systematically, they’ve killed literally hundreds since October 7 and have been doing it before. I don’t know in what world you’d consider that doing press freedom “rather well“

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism

Al Jazeera has a long history of islamist propagandism and affiliating with terrorists.

[–] FantasticDonkey@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So the usual, got it. Maybe they’re hamas too? Also, no word about assassinating literally hundreds of journalists? Were they also all terrorists?

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago

Maybe they’re hamas too?

There have been Al-Jazeera journalists who are Hamas members.

Also, no word about assassinating literally hundreds of journalists?

Nope. It's rather clear you aren't interested in a good faith discussion on the topic. Don't have the time or energy to put up with that right now.

Were they also all terrorists?

There are almost certainly some journalists who have been wrongly killed, as in any war.

[–] FantasticDonkey@reddthat.com 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There was a lot of ugly shit happening. Part of it was unfortunately also due to Zionist psy-ops after they realized most Arab Jews didn’t want to leave their home countries.

All that shit probably wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for the British and French doing their divide and conquer shit so well to drive a wedge between people who were living together more or less peacefully before.

Unfortunately all the meddling worked really well.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, are you blaming Jews for pogroms against Jews?

[–] FantasticDonkey@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago

Nope, the pogroms didn’t happen in a vacuum that’s what I’m saying. They were horrible and I blame the Arabs for carrying them out. But nevertheless it was a calculated strategy by the British, French and the Zionists to support whatever dirtbags would be willing to roll with their strategies.

Examples are the Jews in Morocco: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_of_Moroccan_Jews_to_Israel Ironically, they have been living there for 2,000 years and their trouble began when the French Nazi collaborators started persecuting the Jews and eventually Israel had to pay money to the Morroccan Jews because they didn’t want to come there.

Many migrants became disgruntled at what they perceived to be racist attitudes among the Ashkenazi towards them. In this early period the majority (70%) either wished to return to Morocco, or advised their families not to follow them to Israel, given the discrimination they encountered.

Whole article is worth reading and there are similar stories in other countries, because they were Arabs first and then Jewish, Muslim, Christian whatever, but this changed drastically thanks to imperialism and their divide and conquer strategy.

The Zionists didn’t give a shit about Arab Jews, they were just an instrument to get a Jewish majority in Palestine, because even Palestinians Jews were divided on Zionism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Jews

Until today there are Palestinian Jews who are anti-Zionist because they are native to that land and Zionism has ruined their lives equally.