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< Beirut, Lebanon – Israel’s attacks on Lebanon are putting a massive strain on the Lebanese healthcare system, in what experts and analysts say is part of an effort to force people out of the south of the country.

One month into the latest intensification of strikes on Lebanon, Israel has killed 53 medical workers, destroyed 87 ambulances or medical centres, and forced the closure of five hospitals, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health. >

I'm a Muslim living in Queensland, Australia with South Asian roots. If you're curious about interfaith perspectives, AMA!

I'm a Muslim living in Queensland, Australia.

I'm 3rd generation Australian.

Assuming that nobody minds that I joined, ask me anything.

All views are my own, and not representative of other Muslims, Islam, Queenslanders, or Australians.

Edit: just realised that because of timezones, there may be a delay in responses. Australians are usually sleeping when the rest of the world is online in full force.

Edit 2: re-posting after adding my user flair.

Long-time lurker, first time poster. I wanted to bring this recent article to peoples' attention. I've been following Prof. Devin Naar's writing for a while and I think this article is a great on-ramp to both the rest of his work, as well as the history of the Ladino-speaking Jewish left overall.

I think Prof. Naar leaves us all with a great next step in the closing paragraph:

>Though the Ladino Left must be reclaimed for its own sake, si kere el Dio, if it can also help strengthen the Jewish left, zay gezunt. There are other radical Jewish American histories waiting to be reclaimed, too—whether of early 20th-century Greek-speaking Romaniote Jews from Ioannina or Arabic-speaking Syrian Jews who joined the ILGWU or the CP. A wider range of Jews must see their heritages reflected, and activated, in our liberation movements to make it clear that they, too, are poised to play an essential role in them.

I agree that Ashkenazi leftist history shouldn't be privileged as a model for the contemporary Jewish left, and that we all stand to gain by treating all these Jewish histories more co-equally. We should be examining their differing contexts, their ideas, and their methods of organizing, and the ways that they agree or clash with one another can be instructive.

I'm very thankful for Prof. Naar and other writers who are making these histories more accessible to English-speaking audiences. I hope we can get away from the over-centering of Yiddish and the Bund (or sometimes, an imaginary pseudo-Bund that are transmogrified into anarchists and divorced from the broader context of the socialist left and broader Jewish responses to modernity) in anti-Zionist spaces.

I hope I'm not coming off as too bitter. There aren't a lot of other non-Ashkenazi Jews where I am. I know I sometimes have trouble being in community with my fellow anti-Zionist Jews when I end up feeling like I need to perform a kind of pan-Sephardiness to inject Sephardic practices, history, etc. into the conversation, or like the burden of doing so is always on me. Sometimes that means I end up being silent. I have more to say on that general subject, but I hope people will also engage with the article itself in the comments.

Event talking about rising right-wing antisemitism, the weaponization of antisemitism to crush critics of Israel, and how to build an antifascist fight against antisemitism rather than the vertical alliances of the anti-antisemitism complex.