This morning before the land acknowledgment in Los Angeles at the big vegan feast, KPFK 90.7 FM interrupted normal programming ("Rootwork") and played a series of Indigenous voices, explaining the true meaning of "Thanksgiving" by UrbanRebal. See KPFK Archives, 7:00 am, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024, to hear it before it is taken down in natural rotation. It will be up for streaming for 90 or fewer days. Here are some of the highlights.
After every killing of a whole village, European whites celebrated. This was the basis of the first "Thanksgiving," cheering the deaths of Native peoples -- Indigenous, Native American, First Nations people, the American Indians.
Pres. Abraham Lincoln declared it an official "American" holiday celebrating the deaths of the many tribes lost to European (Anglo, British, Spanish, French, American) ethnic cleansing and genocide (on the heels of Spain's mass murder spree in the Americas, particularly in Mexico.
He ordered 38 Lakota men to be hanged for "war crimes" after the Christmas holiday.
So you're tell me you believe Hebrews are entitled to the land of Israel...?
The Pilgrims and Wampanoag had a feast and party: The British "Pilgrims" (not on a pilgrimage but settler colonialists or "Colonists" like today's murderous Israelis in depopulated Palestine) were celebrating a bountiful harvest and got so excited, they shot off cannons. "Chief" Massasoit (Ousamequin) and 90 warriors came to investigate and were invited to eat. They stayed for three days playing games and sharing foods -- as mentioned in Mourt's Relation in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED? British colonists were celebrating killing off another village and feasted their murderous triumph with a Christian party, and one time Mourt wrote a page about a party that became the basis of the myth we celebrate.
Was the plague of disease the whites brought accidental? Records suggest sickly individuals were put off a European fishing ship in Maine, according to Wampanoag scholar Linda Combs (American Indian Airwaves, KPFK, 7:00 pm, 11/29/24)
(The Real News Network) On Reality Asserts Itself (RAI), for Israeli government soldier Miko Peled tells RAI Host Paul Jay that his father, a famous Israeli general, was ostracized for saying it was necessary to negotiate with the PLO and respect Palestinian self-determination.
But he never gave up his belief that the expulsion of the hundreds of thousands of native Palestinian inhabitants ("Arabs of Israel") in 1948 for the creation of a "Jewish state" was justified.
2/3: General's Son: From Privileged Zionist to Activist for Palestinian Rights
ABOUT: Miko Peled is a Jewish author, writer, speaker, and human rights activist living in the United States. He is considered by many to be one of the clearest voices calling for justice in Palestine, support of the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) and the creation of a single democracy with equal rights in all of historic Palestine. More: Miko Peled
3/3: General's Son: From Privileged Zionist to Activist for Palestinian Rights
Miko Peled with Host Paul Jay, Reality Asserts Itself, The Real News Network, 12/12/16; Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
The Jewish general's son: From privileged Zionist Jew to activist for Palestinian rights
(The Real News Network) On Reality Asserts Itself (RAI), Jewish Miko Peled tells Paul Jay that he's come to understand about the Israeli occupation and apartheid of Palestinian lands.
"Conspiracy theories" against Jews or just coincidences or something rotten about Israel?
"Hurt people hurt people" - victims of racism sometimes become worst perpetrators of it.
It did not begin in 1948. That is when it culminated. Peled broke with the liberal Zionist belief in the "secularization of the Bible."
The Bible is not a history book, its biblical figures are not historical figures, and tracing some imagined lineage from the ancient Middle East to modern Europe (Ashkenazi racism) for the purpose of saying, "We own this land" is the racist mission -- not actually sanctioned by the British, as many have been led to believe, because its Balfour Agreement states that the people already living on the land, the "Palestinians" and their land, will be respected -- of inventing a "Jewish state" on top of other peoples' heads even if that means exterminating them like "vermin," a Nazi (and Trumpian) sentiment due to Hitler's rhetoric.
Those people are called "Palestinians," which racist Zionist Jews say, "are not a people and have never been a people and will never be allowed to be a people...because only 'Jews' are actual people."
Peled says BDS (the Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Israel movement) is an effective strategy that should be supported by all caring people around the world, other than Zionists, who should view it as an existential threat to their genocidal project in Palestine.
Blaming "Jews" for everything bad, when many Ultra-Orthodox have lived at peace alongside Muslims, Arabs, and Christians for centuries until European Jews (the Ashkenazim) arrived.
Let's get to know the Jews
I will be dictator one day. The CIA promised me.
It's doubtful there are even 1 million American Jews, much less 7 million, a number we have never heard, which would mean there are more Jews in the U.S. than in all of Israel. Jews are a minority in Israel, which is why a constitution cannot be ratified, a legal state declared, and an actual functioning democracy established: If it were, Jews would be in the minority. Few Jews want to move to this Zionist settler colonial project of perpetual war, forced enlistment, and genocide and ethnic cleansing, apartheid and illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine (e.g., in the West Bank), and constant state spying and oppression involuntary detention without charge, torture, and murder with impunity. Israel has to keep lying, because if people knew the truth, the whole colonial project might fall apart.
The General's Son: From Privileged Jewish Zionist to Jewish Activist for Palestinian Rights - RAI (3/3)
(The Real News Network) On Reality Asserts Itself, Miko Peled tells Paul Jay that he's come to understand that Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands began in 1948 and he broke with the liberal Zionist belief in the "secularization of the Bible" and the mission of a Jewish homeland state; he says BDS ("boycott, divest, sanction") is an effective strategy that should be supported to save human beings and stop this CIA/Mossad political project.
(TheRealNews.com) Klein speaks about President Barack Obama and the intellectual and political integrity of the Progressive movement. He may sound good covering, and look saying it, but beloved Obama is so far simply upholding the status quo and being used as the greatest pawn the US has yet seen.
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