it's funny that rather than criticize the regional governments that this diaspora comes from, which are often brutal dictatorships that likely required these kids' parents to flee to america in the first place, instead the thing they are focused on instead is blaming the jews and israel. truly delusional. but, have fun in new york i guess?
First, I have to say that Kubeh is my favorite restaurant in Manhattan, after Azura in Jerusalem’s Iraqi shuk. A Druze kosher restaurant opened up in the diamond district by an entrepreneur who survived Oct 7. Second, the premise of the magazine issue is odious.
Eli, this one really landed. What conceivable definition of Southwest Asian identity excludes a Jewish community that lived continuously in Southwest Asia for roughly 2,500 years? And the irony of ending on sumud while overlooking the Jews of Baghdad—and their own word for staying and persisting—is hard to miss. Sometimes an omission reveals the boundaries of a worldview more clearly than an argument does.
Really interesting fact filled piece. Obviously, very sad as well.
it's funny that rather than criticize the regional governments that this diaspora comes from, which are often brutal dictatorships that likely required these kids' parents to flee to america in the first place, instead the thing they are focused on instead is blaming the jews and israel. truly delusional. but, have fun in new york i guess?
Zionism is a n inherently racist illiberal ideology built upon racial superiority
Now do America
you are an inherently racist illiberal dope
First, I have to say that Kubeh is my favorite restaurant in Manhattan, after Azura in Jerusalem’s Iraqi shuk. A Druze kosher restaurant opened up in the diamond district by an entrepreneur who survived Oct 7. Second, the premise of the magazine issue is odious.
Jews are not now, never were, and never will be “cool” in the way that Arabs, black Americans, and Asians have managed to be. It is what it is.
Silly. Go to Israel. Hang out some with Mizrahis. You’ll find it’s
Exactly
Eli, this one really landed. What conceivable definition of Southwest Asian identity excludes a Jewish community that lived continuously in Southwest Asia for roughly 2,500 years? And the irony of ending on sumud while overlooking the Jews of Baghdad—and their own word for staying and persisting—is hard to miss. Sometimes an omission reveals the boundaries of a worldview more clearly than an argument does.