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Mar 12 6 tweets 3 min read
Le Nuove Indicazioni per la Scuola (mim.gov.it/documents/2018…) contengono tesi a cui ho dedicato 2 libri (routledge.com/History-Below-…letture.org/ripensare-la-s…).
Mi limito a 5 punti:
1)"Solo l’Occidente conosce la Storia. Ha scritto Bloch: "I greci e i latini, nostri primi maestri.." Image 2) "Altre culture, altre civiltà hanno conosciuto qualcosa che alla storia vagamente assomiglia.."

a) Se non si conoscono gli storici degli "altri" non significa che non esistono o che sono stati ininfluenti.
b) Cosa ci dice la letteratura sulle culture?
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May 19, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
•in 2023🇮🇱intelligence indicated that Raisi was chosen as successor of Khamenei (source founded by🇺🇸gov.: )
•last February, "Iran International" (funded by🇸🇦) claimed that Raisi was chosen as 1 of 3 main figures designated by Khamenei to succeed himself.radiofarda.com/a/israeli-mili… •If Raisi is dead, Khamenei’s son (M.Khamenei) might have open road to replace him.
•Presidency in🇮🇷mainly focus on domestic agencies & is quite secondary (hardly comparable to that of the Supreme leader).
•Raisi & M.Khamenei are largely unpopular in🇮🇷
Jan 23, 2024 4 tweets 2 min read
In the coming days,🇮🇱's army will try to take control of #TzirFiladelfi (Egypt-Israel corridor) and will then "convince" many Palestinians in Rafah (which hosts 1,5 million people) to "self-expel" themselves to Egypt.
#Today—precisely 16 years ago—this happened in "free Gaza":🧵 No external press can enter Gaza independently.

Motaz Azaiza (which left Gaza today) and almost all the remaining Palestinian journalists have been evacuated (83+ were previously killed): there will be no footage of what will happen.


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Dec 30, 2023 19 tweets 8 min read
Rape is a war crime: all cases involving Hamas must be #condemned as #atrocious. The same #must apply to the higher number of Palestinians who suffered rapes/sexual violence since 1948.

If this🧵was a book, its title would be:

“Also Palestinian women #matter”.

1/19 Image Due to social stigmatization, documentation of wartime rape is difficult, especially in more “traditional” societies.

Yet, rapes of Palestinian women/girls have been widely #documented, and also, at times, #justified.

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Dec 12, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
When someone tells you that "this is #Israel-#Hamas war", and that "Israel gave back the Gaza strip to the Palestine people back in 2005 with nothing in return as a gesture of #peace", please consider to reply with my thread 🧵
1/7 Image "Since the 1st Qassam rocket fell on Israel in April 2001, 59 Israelis have been killed - and 4,717 Palestinians. The numbers don't lie [...] and this proportion is horrifying".
(article written in 2012, just 1 year after "Iron Dome").
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haaretz.com/opinion/2012-1…
Nov 16, 2023 9 tweets 4 min read
Rape is a war crime: all cases involving Hamas must be #condemned as #atrocious

The same applies to the higher number of Palestinian women raped since 1948. And us—historians—have provided primary sources on that

Why all the focus is on 1 side only? A🧵
Due to social stigmatization and the reluctance of the survivors to speak up, documentation of wartime rape is very difficult, especially in certain societies.

Yet, rapes of Palestinian women/girls have been widely documented, and also, at times, justified.

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Oct 6, 2023 10 tweets 5 min read
#NargesMohammadi won the Nobel: it's great news.
But there're so many women in other MENA countries which are brutalized also thanks to US/Eu’s direct role: yet, they’re #invisible in the West.
This 🧵is for Palestinian women, and agst instrumentalization for self-interests.
1/9 Where are Eurocentric feminists when it’s not about structural violence against women in countries which are geopolitically useful to them, and which are financially supported by them?
#PetiteBourgeoise
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Jul 13, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
#Palestine, July 14 - 1948.
Today, 75 yrs ago, started the largest single expulsion of the war: 60.000 inhabitants of #Lydda & #Ramla were forcibly expelled on direct orders of Yitzhak Rabin.
But the aggression started many years earlier.
This 🧵starts with Ahad Ha'am, 1891: Image The same year (1891), Moshe Smilansky, a Zionist leader who advocated peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians, arrived in "Eretz-Yisrael" from Kiev.

22 years later he wrote the following: Image
Dec 29, 2022 17 tweets 5 min read
The most religious and hard-line government in Israel's history has just sworn. 
Time for a thread to show how much the ethnic cleansing and the mass killing of Palestinians are considered acceptable well beyond "fringes". Mavet La-Aravim ("kill the Arabs")
Dec 3, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Germany has just declared the famine in #Ukraine in the 1930s a #genocide.
They forgot to declare "a genocide" the one in Namibia 30 years earlier, when, among much else, Eugen Fischer carried out the 1st eugenics experiments on Herero women & kids.
dw.com/en/how-german-… No doubt that the German MPs, from their self-assigned high moral ground, will now also work on this:
"Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined"
www-aljazeera-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.aljaze…
Apr 15, 2022 21 tweets 7 min read
Back in 1989, Janet Abu-Lughod predicted that the era of Western hegemony would have been superseded by “a return to the relative balance of multiple centers exhibited in the 13th-century world system”.
🧵 on my #new article for @TheNatlInterest:
nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/has-… It might be too early to assess to what extent Abu-Lughod’s predictions hold true, but it does not seem far-fetched to claim that future generations will consider the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war as one of the meaningful moments in the #shift of the power balance from West to East Image
Apr 1, 2022 12 tweets 5 min read
In the US-led war on #Iraq the military contingent sent by #Ukraine was 3rd-largest of the coalition.
#1million died, also due to #DepletedUranium.
#NoAccountability.
#NoWeapons supplied to the invaded country.
#NoSanctions.
🧵on my latest for #AsiaTimes:
asiatimes.com/2022/03/ukrain… as confirmed by the inquiry commissioned (2009) by British PM Brown to Chilcot, the intervention in Iraq was:
1)“#Unnecessary”
2)#LegalBases for military action were “far from being satisfactory”
3)#MainJustification for the attack was based on false data army.mil/article/15056/…
Aug 5, 2021 8 tweets 3 min read
When in 1925 the Yeshiva Slobodka was opened in #Hebron, its large number of Ashkenazi students expressed the will to live in #complete #separation from the local #Arab population, as well as from the local #Jews (the "old Yishuv"👇)
1/8 Image “During the 30 years we have been here”, wrote in 1913 Moshe Smilansky (1874-1953), a writer emigrated to Palestine in 1891 from Kiev, “it is not they [the Arabs] who have remained alien to us but we to them”.
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