I hope they keep it up. But I also wish they’d march like this in solidarity with Palestinians. I know some Israelis do support a just peace, but I wish they’d get a mass movement like this in support of peace with their neighbors.
It’s linked chain.
And then
And of course
As often happens with religious groups, there are different sub-groups, and depending on which one is in a local area, there can be wildly different opinions about them.
I had an equipment manager who was one, and she and her household were indistinguishable in their faith from Orthodox Jews, other than their skin color. (Not ultra-orthodox, I hasten to add.) But there are certainly some who seem more cult-like rather than historic. Still, any African-heritage Israelite who makes a point of moving to Israel by definition should be recognized as worthy of of the benefits of Aliyah.
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Whoah, this is much, much better than I expected
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If we could just get people out of the mindset that history is something that happens to us, and if the media would stop pushing those kinds of narratives, we might have a chance to right this stupid ship…
As India gears up for a general election in 2024 — where Modi is likely to be up for re-election for a third term — social media influencers have become hot property. They are being chased not just by the BJP but several other political parties, who are willing to pay top bucks to ride on their popularity to drive the election campaigns. In June 2023, the government of Rajasthan — the western Indian state where the primary opposition party Indian National Congress is in power — said it would pay influencers between $120 and $6,000 to promote its welfare schemes on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.
“This election would be an election of influencers,” a YouTube influencer, who has been making political videos for over two years, told Rest of World. They requested anonymity as they feared retaliation from the BJP. “Influencers have replaced mainstream TV anchors to a large extent. However, influencers are not journalists, they are entertainers.”
A political commentator with nearly 200,000 Twitter followers told Rest of World they had been approached by multiple ad agencies offering up to 45,000 rupees ($548) for a politics-related tweet. “Some political parties ask us to make six tweets in a month, which easily makes more than two lakh rupees ($2,437) in a month. It’s a very lucrative market,” they said. Such posts don’t carry disclosures “because the moment we add a disclosure, that political post loses its value,” they said.
Maybe someday we’ll figure out why.
Maybe he too wanted two teacups?
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