Yasmine Aker Instagram – “This Land is Mine” — animation by Nina Paley
Little known fact, I’m obsessed with religious history and theology. As a child I was raised Baha’i but went to Christian Bible class Wednesdays, Muslim Quran study on Saturdays and had and continue to have many close friends who are Jewish. I converted to Buddhism in 2018/2019. I am now a Zen Buddhist. I speak, read and write many languages, including Arabic, even though I am not ethnically Arab. I consider myself a world citizen, and have a deep respect for all humans.
🕊️More Fun Facts:
☀️ Before 1948,
Palestine was home to a diverse population of Muslims, Christians, and Arab Jews especially in the city of Jerusalem.
☀️ Christianity, Judaism and Islam are all different branches of the same Abrahamic tree.
☀️ They are sister religions in the Semetic line of Religions.
☀️ British colonizers took over Jerusalem & surrounding area after WW1, from the Ottoman Empire, which held Jerusalem from 1517-1917.
☀️ The inhabitants of the land remained Arab Christians, Arab Muslims, and Arab Jews.
☀️ The land is indigenous to the Semites, meaning the Semetic line of religions which includes Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Baha’is. They all have a right to live there as a free people.
☀️ Little known fact: the Baha’i religion is also a Semetic religion. This is why when you go to Israel/Palestine you can see holy temples from all 4 religions: Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Baha’i temples exist there.
☀️This is why they call that land the Holy Land!
☀️ Many people on the internet like to claim that Jewish people are indigenous to Israel, but according to the Torah — Jewish people are the descendants of Abraham who is NOT from Israel.
☀️ Technically speaking, Abraham comes from what is now known as present day Iraq.
☀️ Einstein (who was Jewish himself) never supported Zionism. He was scared of the genocidal tendencies of zionists like Herzl and Ben Guiron.
☀️ Zionism is NOT Judaism. Zionism is a specific form of racial and religious nationalism and a form of fundamentalism.
☀️ A brief history of the land and who’s-killing-who by Nina Paley can be found here:
blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/ | Posted on 30/Oct/2023 21:42:00