When work and hobbies collide! Stained glass Dome of the Rock panels made over the last few weeks in the studio.
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When work and hobbies collide! Stained glass Dome of the Rock panels made over the last few weeks in the studio.
It's important to put a stop to religious fundamentalism in the Middle East and the fanatical power hungry expansionist of brutal regimes which threaten their neighbours. Oh wait, who are we talking about again?
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Any Cambridge people interested in the New Censorship?
Please join Prof Yaron Peleg & me to discuss Netanyahu's war on the media, Trump's copy-paste moves, & much more, tomorrow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.
Wed, 25 Feb, 5:15 PM
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Join us tomorrow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in Cambridge at 17:15, Room 10, for a fascinating talk by @swsamols.bsky.social on Ruth Gruber, photography, and the legitimization of Israel via the medium of photo books!
My review of 'Uncertain Empire: Jews, Nationalism, and the Fate of British Imperialism' by Elizabeth E. Imber, now out in the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies:
Oh god, how embarrassing - I shall do some updating!
I took it from the University of Staffordshire's website! It seems they don't update the web pages very often in that case 😂
In Cambridge next week to talk about the long history of canals that are proposed, but not built, across Palestine, from the mid-19th century to the present day, and how that history has made its way into the world of conspiracy theories:
An excellent start to the Israel Studies Seminar Series at Cambridge this evening. If you're around next Wed (4th feb.) do join us for a talk by @drtermagant.bsky.social about canals, colonialism, and conspiracy theories!
Meanwhile the Irgun did not engage in violence against the British until the latter stages of the Revolt in 1939, and this was fairly limited unlike it's suggested here. It would be 1944 before a concerted campaign of such violence began.
Similarly, we have known the extent of the colonial violence by British forces for some time - it's not a new or shocking revelation. Matthew Hughes has written extensively on this for well over a decade & it's been covered extensively in the wider literature (i.e Segev's 'One Palestine, Complete').
Some good points here but the idea that the Arab Revolt is one of the 'least remembered events' in the conflict is exaggerated: copious volumes have been written on the Revolt for both academic & non-academic audiences. The Revolt arguably signifies a final separation between two nationalist camps.
We've got @swsamols.bsky.social on photobooks and legitimizing Israel, we've got anticolonial resistance and colonial policing, Hebrew poetry, and discussions of Israeli democracy's crisis - a real treat of a term!
If you're in Cambridge this term, come along to our Israel Studies Seminars at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies every Wednesday! We have an exciting line up - from @drtermagant.bsky.social on waterways & conspiracies to Moshe Behar talking Mizrahi politics. Something for everyone!
At the NA researching Zionist terror group campaign to assassinate British MPs. Got 1/2 way through a file on letter bombs sent to the UK, a scientific report on how deadly they were, then pulled one of the letter bombs out & nearly sh*t myself. Luckily it was safe. Dined out on that story for ages.
Given the president's close ties to a convicted sex offender, perhaps Gill Sans would be a more apposite font...
Open to all! @campolis.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social
If you're in Cambridge tomorrow do join us for the final Israel Studies Seminar in Cambridge this term at 17:15 at FAMES, to hear @stevenbwagner.bsky.social talk about Israel's intelligence failings prior to October 7th 2023. Promises to be a fascinating talk!
You may think you have a cool academic profile picture, but none of us can ever live up to this!
More bizarrely, there was a whole debacle over what to feed a Kosher premier. Messages flowed back and forth over this issue. The Gov. were keen to avoid repeating the faux pas of feeding the Israeli Economic Delegation the very un-kosher treat of... prawn cocktails.
There were huge security concerns as the FCO feared someone might try to attack Begin for his terrorist past. FCO officials and the PM's office received many angry letters about the visit. One letter required a special response, coming from the last High Commissioner of Palestine who condemned Begin
The visit of Menachem Begin to Britain in Dec.'77 is truly fascinating. Previously barred & then discouraged from visiting Britain, when Begin became Israeli PM, the Callaghan Gov. scrambled to decide how to deal with his visit. All sorts of madness in the files, not least this comedic 'transcript.'
The Association for Products of Eretz Israel ran many of these posters telling buyers to look for the symbol shown which indicated that the watermelon was grown on a 'Hebrew farm.' This was part of efforts to protect Jewish labour by Zionist groups, against cheaper Arab labour and foreign imports.
Just seen Palestine36 at the cinema & there's a momentary nod to current Palestinian symbols during a scene at a wealthy Arab dinner party where the camera lingers for a moment on a large chunk of watermelon. But fascinatingly, during the British Mandate the watermelon was often a Zionist symbol!
I'm speaking tomorrow in Cambridge. Come if you want to hear of Smotrich's Palestinian family
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Civil Service-ese English = bureaucratic, opaque, often means the opposite of what it seems to say or requires careful reading between the lines to gain an understanding of its meaning.
American Dunce-ese English (Trump variant) = bombastic, self-congratulatory, content bereft of much meaning.
When studying Palestine under the British I always say I can operate in three languages for my research: English, Hebrew, & Civil Service-ese English. I pity future historians looking at today who will need Hebrew, Arabic, & American Dunce-ese English to try and fathom the blundering of US in Pal.
contracts, often non-renewable or ballotable, and with gaps over summer so that you have to move out. It’s exhausting. I’ve lived in 16 different addresses since I moved to uni. That’s insane! And it’s not that (some of) these properties are not nice or in excellent locations: I've lived in […]
Two years ago this month I started stained glass as stress relief between thesis writing. My 1st piece was a mess. But this Mon. I completed the latter pieces which will be a surprise gift for two friends not on here. Sometimes progress is only visible in hindsight.
Life repeats first as tragedy, then as farce, then apparently as a bad rendition of the British Mandate (which, to be fair, combined tragedy and farce quite spectacularly).
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