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Joel Veldkamp
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Christian | PhD: Geneva Graduate Institute | Work: Christian Solidarity International (@csihumanrights.bsky.social) | Editor: Syrian Studies Association Bulletin | Home country: 🇺🇸 | Languages in progress: 🇸🇦🇫🇷🇦🇲🇩🇪
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The penultimate article is "‘So that we can safeguard your lives’: the Jews of Aleppo between colonialism, nationalism, and Zionism, 1918–1946" by @joelveldkamp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘So that we can safeguard your lives’: the Jews of Aleppo between colonialism, nationalism, and Zionism, 1918–1946
In the Middle East, as elsewhere, the protracted transition from empire to nation-state was accompanied by a brutal tide of ethnoreligious homogenisation. One of the more dramatic examples was the ...
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March 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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In the 7th, "‘So that we can safeguard your lives’: the Jews of Aleppo between colonialism, nationalism, and Zionism, 1918–1946", @joelveldkamp.bsky.social traces how ordinary Syrian Jews negotiated the complex politics of the mandatory period:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘So that we can safeguard your lives’: the Jews of Aleppo between colonialism, nationalism, and Zionism, 1918–1946
In the Middle East, as elsewhere, the protracted transition from empire to nation-state was accompanied by a brutal tide of ethnoreligious homogenisation. One of the more dramatic examples was the ...
www.tandfonline.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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UPDATE: Overnight, #Aleppo was totally occupied by jihadist forces backed by Turkey.

CSI's contacts in the city tell us that they are sheltering indoors. It is not possible for civilians to leave the city, as the main highway is blocked by fighting. They ask for prayers.

#ChristiansinAleppo
November 30, 2024 at 8:26 AM