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eumeliaItem the First.
Via Racialicious, addressing the issue of being Black in Israel (the comments indeed show the lack of quality information about this under-represented population and general misconceptions about Israel).
Israeli film maker Shmuel Beru has written and directed the movie Zrubavel:
Once I actually watch this movie, I'll write a review.
The misconceptions about the Beta Israel who immigrated to Israel are great. Some Rabbinical courts have been known to say that the Ethiopian Jews are not "real Jews" (fuck I hate that. A lot!), etc. The prejudice does not only come from the white (predominantly Ashkenazi) establishment, but also from the poc populations (predominantly Mizrahi) because an "Other" needs an "Other" of their own.
Vicious and destructive and really debunks the ideal of the melting pot.
And Item the Second.
Honour killings have always been a way of marking Muslim populations as primitive, backward and generally speaking morally bankrupt.
I mean, when a man kills his girlfriend out of Passion, it's not "okay", but it's "understandable".
Right.
All that to put things in perspective.
Today I read a report about
Anti-gay attacks on rise in Iraq.
On the rise?
Really?
It's just finally being reported about on the News. Though there have been reports of homophobic violence coming out of Iraq since 2003, but now, now there's an explanation as to why this is happening.
These are not "real" men.
They are lesser than, because they are like women.
"Feminised" men bring dishonour, in the same way that an immodest woman brings about dishonour.
It's not really who you fuck, but how and in what circumstances.
The phenomena may have different names and look different in different parts of the world, but the motivation of exterminating any phenomena that is perceived as gender non-conforming is the same.
We who are in charge will suffer Others who who do not know their rightful place.
Add the stress of being in a War-Zone and the violence unleashed can go untethered and create a spiral that is very, very difficult to stop.
Edited to Add: You can download Human Rights Watch report about these gender and sexual orientation crimes in Iraq in PDF They Want Us Exterminated.
Via Racialicious, addressing the issue of being Black in Israel (the comments indeed show the lack of quality information about this under-represented population and general misconceptions about Israel).
Israeli film maker Shmuel Beru has written and directed the movie Zrubavel:
About two years ago, Shmuel Beru decided he was fed up. Fed up with the image of Ethiopian Jews among the Israeli public; fed up with the glass ceiling stopping Ethiopian actors like himself from fulfilling their potential in theater and cinema here, and fed up because the average Israeli's knowledge of Ethiopians is gleaned mainly from the police news in the newspapers. So he sat down at the desk in his small Tel Aviv apartment and began to write.
[...]
"Zrubavel" portrays a few incidents that occurred in the Zrubavel family, Israelis of Ethiopian origin. There is the father, a janitor who insists on sending his son to a prestigious school, despite the racist principal's refusal to accept the boy; and the father's dream that this son will be an Israeli Air Force pilot, even though another of his sons was killed during his army service in the Israel Defense Forces. There is the daughter who is romantically involved with a neighborhood youth, a distant relative, in violation of the community's rules; and another son who becomes religious. There is also the boy with the camera, who dreams of becoming another Spike Lee and films a documentary about the neighbourhood's residents.
Once I actually watch this movie, I'll write a review.
The misconceptions about the Beta Israel who immigrated to Israel are great. Some Rabbinical courts have been known to say that the Ethiopian Jews are not "real Jews" (fuck I hate that. A lot!), etc. The prejudice does not only come from the white (predominantly Ashkenazi) establishment, but also from the poc populations (predominantly Mizrahi) because an "Other" needs an "Other" of their own.
Vicious and destructive and really debunks the ideal of the melting pot.
And Item the Second.
Honour killings have always been a way of marking Muslim populations as primitive, backward and generally speaking morally bankrupt.
I mean, when a man kills his girlfriend out of Passion, it's not "okay", but it's "understandable".
Right.
All that to put things in perspective.
Today I read a report about
Anti-gay attacks on rise in Iraq.
On the rise?
Really?
It's just finally being reported about on the News. Though there have been reports of homophobic violence coming out of Iraq since 2003, but now, now there's an explanation as to why this is happening.
These are not "real" men.
They are lesser than, because they are like women.
"Feminised" men bring dishonour, in the same way that an immodest woman brings about dishonour.
It's not really who you fuck, but how and in what circumstances.
The phenomena may have different names and look different in different parts of the world, but the motivation of exterminating any phenomena that is perceived as gender non-conforming is the same.
We who are in charge will suffer Others who who do not know their rightful place.
Add the stress of being in a War-Zone and the violence unleashed can go untethered and create a spiral that is very, very difficult to stop.
Edited to Add: You can download Human Rights Watch report about these gender and sexual orientation crimes in Iraq in PDF They Want Us Exterminated.
