“Jews lived there for hundreds of years in peace with Muslims”

No this is a myth designed to bolster the narrative that everything was fine until those evil, greedy Jew started actually campaigning for their rights.

If everything was fine them please tell me what the fuck things like this were about?

Palestinians, Philistines, or Canaanites”

Not the same group of people at all. Philistines were non-Semitic coastal people who showed up from the Aegean. The name “Palestine” was used by the Romans specifically to purge the land of its Jewish roots by naming it after their ancient enemy.

Jews are native and indigenous…

TIL: Jewish refugees fleeing European white supremacy and/or who were systemically purged from the middle east by Arab nationalists (who themselves reside there due to actual imperialism) are “imperialists”.

Yep, a bunch of Jews just woke up one day and decided to be mean to Arabs. That’s totally what happened.

1930s: “Jews go BACK to Palestine!!!!!!”

2000s: “Jews get out of Palestine!!!!”

No way to win.

The OP wasn’t saying pushing someone to commit murder was debunking magic she was challenging the assertion that the presenter was dabbling in pseudo science.

Dr. Bart Ehrman actually just released a book about the thing you are interested in. He writes pretty accessible popular history about early Christianity. Dr. Kenneth Harl also does a really good lecture series about this topic too. Also, the first half of Diarmaid MacCulloch’s book might interest you. Elaine Pagels…

The whole saga of the Israelite kings is very Game of Thrones-y. I am still sad that we never got any more seasons of Kings on NBC.

As a Jew, I am always a little perplexed at how Christians view our stories. My reaction is often “Interesting. Not what we were going for there, but you do you I guess.”

For example, many people are surprised to discover that the whole concept of “Original Sin” from the garden of Eden story is not and was never part…

Semites are Caucasian actually, but I take your point.

I am clapping for you in front of my computer. This is what actually being an ally is. People who are not gay simply just need to remove themselves from this conversation.

I would never sashay into any given group of black people and give them my unsolicited opinion about the use of the n-word within the black…

God forbid people actually read the article.

No, you’re actually NOT an ally. Coming down into a comments section trying to police and gatekeep the way we refer to each other in our own community is not “ally” behavior. It’s the default position of what straight people have been doing to us for centuries.

Why can’t you just accept that this isn’t your hill to…

How do you function in the world being this breakable? If you’re getting physically ill from seeing a nasty word (that many people in our own community use) then you need psychiatric help.

Which no one here actually did, but that’s not going to stop you from using this as a springboard for an ax that you have to grind with gay men.

The Nazis’ problem was with gay men specifically. Lesbians were not seen as a social threat.

So Norton would be in the clear I guess.

Don’t worry. I hear there are support groups for people who were devastated by Rian Johnson. Just take it one step at a time.

You sound pretty upset.

If I want realistic space physics I’ll read The Expanse. Star Wars has never given a fuck about how space actually works and I doubt it ever will. And I don’t care.

Yeah, I don’t need to know at all why the downed destroyers are there. It’s clearly just texture and worldbuilding to remind us about the wars of the past and establish that scavenging is the main economy on Jakku.

Of course, the reason the destroyers are there is explained in the new canon stuff for all the…

Please, please, please cry about it more.