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Probably most people ignore the good relationship between Jews and Arabs because it is not taught or communicated, sadly, often. They participated in math, medi

• hersko 3y ago
  From what i understand, at the time this thing was made, Islamic society was more advanced and way better for jews than Christian Europe.
  • myth_drannon 3y ago
    Right, while the Christian Europe was amidst a Dark Ages and was torturing and burning Jews and others, Islam was in its Golden Age period. Too bad it was short and Mongol hordes ended it, leaving a significant mark on the Islamic culture. Just realized we are witnessing at the moment two wars (there are more, but these two just get significant news coverage) by cultures who were scarred by Mongols - Russia and Islamic Empire
    • gattilorenz 3y ago
      The idea of "dark ages" is a myth (pun with the username intended), but if anything it applies to the early medieval age, which is exactly when anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe was... not very common, since persecution of Jews started later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism
  • cess11 3y ago
    Yes. And zionism as a global political force is in large part, possibly mainly, funded and promoted by christian zionists, and not by jews. Comment above implies a dichotomy between arab and jew which is wildly ahistorical. To an extent the migration of jews to Israel from arab countries post-WWII was done by Israel, infamously the 'magic carpet' from Yemen for example. As an aside, the urge among zionists to claim that muslims are the worst, OG colonizers is probably related to zionism being an explicitly colonial project, as stated by pretty much every influential early zionist. Cecil Rhodes was begged to help out due to his experience in this area, and the intimate relation between apartheid South Africa and Israel was in part made possible due to this similarity.
• ars 3y ago
  It's probably not taught in the US, but it's certainly taught in Israel, but they also include the periods after that when Arabs started massacring and prosecuting Jews. It's not a single time period, a lot of stuff happened, and the relationship changed - and not because of Israel (history didn't start in 1948).
  • wslh 3y ago
    Israel is tiny and not influential in terms of global education. It is also studied in Jewish schools around the globe but also this is tiny comparing to the world itself.
  • aprilthird2021 3y ago
    1000% the current state of Islamo-Judaic relations is because of Israel. I really cannot fathom what alternate reality is otherwise. How you want to decide who to blame for what is a different story, but the fact is what it is. History didn't begin in 1948, but the formation of Israel (which began before WWII) is what kicked off the current colder than ice relations between the two religions.
    • ars 3y ago
      > I really cannot fathom what alternate reality is otherwise. So all the massacres of Jews by Arabs before 1948 were done via time machine? > is what kicked off the current colder than ice relations between the two religions. This is laughably false.
      • aprilthird2021 3y ago
        You didn't read my comment. The formation of Israel began earlier than 1948. Arabs and Jews didn't begin killing each other out of nowhere. They did it over land disagreements which began because of Zionism which was almost a century old and being implemented well before WWII came around. Please learn history and stop spreading disinfo
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