Lester Golden
2 min readOct 30, 2023

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They also spoke Hebrew, Greek, Turkish and Arabic. The linguistic differences between them and me didn't alter our belonging to the same people one iota.
If it did, then Siciliani, Calabresi, Pugliesi, Napoletani, Umbri, Toscani, Emilia-Romagna, Romagnoli, Veneti, Freudian, Lombardi, German speaking Altotesini and Piemontesi aren't Italians and the French in Corsica, Perpinyá and Hendaya aren't French and the Ticinesi and Genevois aren't Swiss.

The Baghdadi Muslims murdering their Jewish neighbours who'd lived in the city for 1200 years before the Arab conquest shows the issue wasn't about land but hatred for all Jews when any Jew dared to challenge Dhimmitude subjugation, as Jews in British mandatory Palestine did.
The pogrom was a direct outgrowth of German anti British propaganda.
Before the war the Nazis had carefully edited out from the Arabic translation of Mein Kampf passages that would offend Arab and Muslim sensibilities.
The Baghdad pogrom was an early example of the "every Jew is an Israeli Embassy" slogan that appeared in Geneva in 2014. There is, of course, no equivalent on the Jewish side. No French imams murdered by Jewish terrorists, no Muslim community centers blown up by the Mossad, as Iran did in Buenos Aires in 1994, no Arab students threatened and barricaded in college libraries, no Aussie, American or British Jews chanting "gas the Jews" or carrying signs with a red crescent in a trash can like the demonstrator in Sydney with the Judenrein sign of the Star of David in a trash can with the words "clean up the world", no Jews in London chanting "fuck the Jews, rape their daughters".
And no police guarding mosques from attack by Jews:
Police Guarding Cornell University's Jewish Center After Antisemitic Threats
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cornell-university-antisemitic-threats_n_653fafa1e4b0a78a26a40422

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Lester Golden
Lester Golden

Written by Lester Golden

From Latvia & Porto I write to share learning from an academic&business life in 8 languages in 5 countries & seeing fascism die in Portugal&Spain in1974 & 1976.

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