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PonticPlains

PonticPlains@hear-me.social

<p>Guy who likes plenty of things about Jews and Israel, not everything but a lot. I live in Europe and am not a Jew myself. I will try to disrupt current antisemitic discourses by sharing my (limited) knowledge about Jewish or Israeli art, culture, traditions, and other achievements.</p>

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    And now it is time to talk about a woman. An Israeli writer who has built up a remarkable body of work over the years. I can almost hear some of you exclaiming, ‘Oh no, not another one trying to introduce us to Zeruja Shalev. We already knew about Zeruja Shalev 10 years ago, thank you very much!’ I agree with you. Zeruja Shalev is famous enough; her achievements are great enough (my wife considers her one of the three greatest contemporary authors); nobody needs me to help them discover her wor...

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    Meine Sicht auf Israel verdanke ich zu einem grossen Teil Amos Oz. Er hat mir ein Land offenbart, in dem ich gerne gelebt hätte. Oder vielleicht nicht gerne, wegen der ständigen Bedrohung, aber sinnvoll. Keines seiner Bücher hat mir jedoch einen so starken Eindruck gemacht, wie «Wie man Fanatiker kuriert», die 2004 auf Deutsch in der Edition Suhrkamp erschienen ist. Das Buch enthält drei Vorlesungen, die Amos Oz 2002 in Tübingen gehalten hat, ergänzt durch eine seines Freundes und Mitstreiters...

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    Kilchberg—a picturesque, quiet suburb of Zurich—is getting more attention in the Swiss media these days than it really deserves. One of the most important Schwingen tournaments will take place soon: the Kilchberger Schwinget, which is held only once every six years. And I love Schwingen. However, if I end up going to Kilchberg in the near future (I haven’t decided yet), it won’t be for that reason, but rather for the Joseph Roth reading at the C. F. Meyer House. Joseph Roth is a criminally negle...

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    @vicfroh I disagree. Birobidzhan was a Soviet initiative to get Jews out of the European part of the USSR. It was intended as an &amp;quot;an alternative to Zionism&amp;quot;. Not a Zionist idea. Madagascar: The Madagascar Plan (German: Madagaskarplan) was a plan proposed by the Nazi German government to forcibly relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar. Not a Zionist idea. Sinai Peninsula: was briefly occupied by Israel and then returned to Egypt. That was some 20 y...

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    Many people ask me whose picture I used for this account. The portrait looks like something by Rembrandt or one of his contemporaries. It evokes a sense of time-honored education, of required reading in school—dusty and boring. And yet I chose it deliberately. The portrait belongs to a revolutionary: Baruch de Spinoza. Spinoza, born in Amsterdam in 1632 to a family of Portuguese refugees, was a true rebel. Today’s rebels buy into or adopt ready-made rebellions by blindly joining a group, hangin...

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    I wanted to write again about an Israeli or Jewish artist or writer. However, I stumbled upon a video that delivered a condensed version of so many ideas about Jews, antisemitism, and the Middle East that I have decided to share it with you guys. I don&#39;t usually share links from the established social media platforms. I have migrated from FB and am very happy I did. So this is an exception. Bill Maher on terrorism and a lot more: https://youtu.be/8xbwnnQPXR4?si=rjfc7duOZ7FJ6LMr I hope you&#...