That famed Judeo-Christian English history in which Jews were expelled and then banned from openly living in the country for 350 years - ThreadSky

jewdas.org • 90 days ago

That famed Judeo-Christian English history in which Jews were expelled and then banned from openly living in the country for 350 years

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trousersofdoom.bsky.social•90 days ago

And were largely only invited back because Oliver Cromwell was broke and wanted them back to convert and/or tax them.

asocialistjew.bsky.social•90 days ago

Jews were only formally allowed to live in Leicester from 2001.

jewdas.org•90 days ago

A few sneaked in to film Shalom Salaam in the 1980s https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0416422/

asocialistjew.bsky.social•90 days ago

My mother was an illegal for the first 20 years of her life.

satiricalplanet.bsky.social•83 days ago

Suella Braverman wants to redefine Englishness by bloodline, not belonging, because nothing says national pride like rewriting history to exclude half the country. Let’s unpack this absurdity, shall we?
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/i-will-never-be-truly-english-here

eeyore68.bsky.social•45 days ago

Why I will never by fully human.

why-not-zoidberg.bsky.social•90 days ago

Also why is the beginning talking about British values when the rest talks about Englishness? I don't Scotland has too much Englishness, right?

ladygeeke.bsky.social•90 days ago

I was in York last week where in 1190 a mob trapped all the city's Jews in a tower and set fire to it. Most took their own lives but survivors were killed.

flugennock.bsky.social•83 days ago

Cricket and ale, a stiff upper lip, and the Beatles.

sfingleby.bsky.social•90 days ago

The last paragraph is more the history of the upper classes than the majority of what she wants to call English

macleginn.bsky.social•90 days ago

I always understood ‘Judeo-’ here as referring to Jews until ~100 A.D. Otherwise why not ‘Jewish-Christian’?

bthalpin.bsky.social•90 days ago

Excuse the tangent, but there were no English between the arrival of the Romans and the arrival of the Angles and Saxons (in small boats across the channel) because the latter immigration marks the start of English history.

soozuk.bsky.social•90 days ago

Back in the heady days of 2011 I had a housemate who was really nice and didn't know a lot about World War II. She said "why did Hitler pick Jews? It's so weird, like, hi, I have a new kind of hate!" and I went "right, so, got something to tell you about that".

disenfranchised147.bsky.social•90 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/disenfranchised147.bsky.social/post/3ljakb622vc2v

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