I have this lady to thank for finally teaching me what cultural appropriation is. Like I knew what it was intellectually, but she actually showed me the visceral reality of it on an emotional level. She posted a video once of her showing off what she claimed was “traditional Israeli cuisine.” And it was things like hummus and tabbouleh, which are more general Levant/Mediterranean cuisine and not specific to Israel. In fact they predate the formation of the zionist entity entirely.
And in that moment I finally got it. Zionism isn’t content to stealing lives and land, they even steal food.
Their entire fucking culture is artificially divorced from the Ashkenazi European culture of their parents/ grandparents. Like they could’ve organically spoken Yiddish, but they chose to revive Hebrew all bc of the Torah. Hebrew was a dead Afroasiatic language, and their revived version of it is so Europeanized and distorted that you could barely even call it Hebrew. Their accent literally sounds like a Frenchman attempting a racist impersonation of an Arab
They also changed their surnames in mass to sound less European (e.g. Netanyahu’s dad’s surname was “Mileikowsky” before he changed it to Netanyahu). Not to mention the decades of gross racism, cultural theft, and forced assimilation of the native Mizhrahis/ Arab-Jews; with many European-Jewish settlers even straight up kidnapping Arab-Jewish children to raise as their own
Israel is like if the Italian-American Mafia violently colonized modern Italy, changed Italy’s name back to the Holy Roman Empire, sloppily brought back the Latin language of their ancient ancestors, and changed their last names from Sopranos and Marios to Caesars and Corneliuss
I have this lady to thank for finally teaching me what cultural appropriation is. Like I knew what it was intellectually, but she actually showed me the visceral reality of it on an emotional level. She posted a video once of her showing off what she claimed was “traditional Israeli cuisine.” And it was things like hummus and tabbouleh, which are more general Levant/Mediterranean cuisine and not specific to Israel. In fact they predate the formation of the zionist entity entirely.
And in that moment I finally got it. Zionism isn’t content to stealing lives and land, they even steal food.
in case you’d like to lean into that subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2jFuLsGPfs
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Their entire fucking culture is artificially divorced from the Ashkenazi European culture of their parents/ grandparents. Like they could’ve organically spoken Yiddish, but they chose to revive Hebrew all bc of the Torah. Hebrew was a dead Afroasiatic language, and their revived version of it is so Europeanized and distorted that you could barely even call it Hebrew. Their accent literally sounds like a Frenchman attempting a racist impersonation of an Arab
They also changed their surnames in mass to sound less European (e.g. Netanyahu’s dad’s surname was “Mileikowsky” before he changed it to Netanyahu). Not to mention the decades of gross racism, cultural theft, and forced assimilation of the native Mizhrahis/ Arab-Jews; with many European-Jewish settlers even straight up kidnapping Arab-Jewish children to raise as their own
Israel is like if the Italian-American Mafia violently colonized modern Italy, changed Italy’s name back to the Holy Roman Empire, sloppily brought back the Latin language of their ancient ancestors, and changed their last names from Sopranos and Marios to Caesars and Corneliuss
Heus, hac via ambulo!