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The idea that things could be different is talked about exponentially more than it is thought about.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

4 years

Turkey still has 0 cases of coronavirus like

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Max J. Joseph

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1 year

Left: Assyrian genocide memorial vandalised in Qamishli, Syria (Feb, 2023) Right: Assyrian genocide memorial vandalised in Sydney, Australia (Aug, 2010) Whether in our homeland or in diaspora, profound hostility towards Assyrians is one of the most enduring realities.

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Max J. Joseph

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Nobody knows how happy these photos make me. After genocide and displacement by ISIS, ongoing neglect from the Iraqi Government, and pressure, violence and intimidation by the KRG, tens of thousands of Christian Assyrians celebrate Palm Sunday in Bakhdida, Nineveh Plain today.

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7 years

60+ Chaldean Catholic Assyrian refugees in Detroit face deportation after they were detained at a Sunday Church service by ICE border patrol

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

9 months

BBC making it seem like 120k Armenians chose to leave their homes because they're scared of detergent.

BBC News (World)

@BBCWorld

9 months

Nagorno-Karabakh: Ethnic Armenians leave amid cleansing fear

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

A portrait of this woman appeared on the front page of a major British newspaper, yet not once have they provided the same space to any of the victims brutalised by the organisation she joined - this simply speaks of a profound Western narcissism and lack of empathy.

The Times Pictures

@TimesPictures

5 years

Bring me home #tomorrowspaperstoday @MsHelicat #ISIS

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Max J. Joseph

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6 years

Some rich asshole is going to put it in his spare dining room whilst we're struggling to even assert ourselves as a people in the 21st C after periodic campaigns of extermination and erasure waged against us.

CNN

@CNN

6 years

A rare, 3,000-year-old Assyrian sculpture is expected to fetch more than $10 million at auction

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Max J. Joseph

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5 years

The Assyrian Church of the East Relief Organisation is being investigated by UK Metropolitan Police for allegedly paying the ransom of 200+ Assyrians kidnapped by ISIS in Syria. The UK did nothing to help and would have preferred we watch their execution.

Bishop’s charity ‘paid ransom for Isis hostages’

A charity whose chairman helped free 226 Christian hostages from Isis is being investigated by the Metropolitan police on suspicion of paying ransom money that financed terrorism.The Assyrian Church...

www.thetimes.com

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Max J. Joseph

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5 years

On 12th November, an Assyrian fighter with the MFS named Said Abdullahad was killed in action defending Tel Tamer and surrounding areas in Khabour, Syria from Turkey's Islamist militias. Three of his comrades were also captured. What "ceasefire"--?

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5 years

Assyrians and Yazidis together in Tesqopa (Telskuf) wearing respective traditional dress and celebrating International Mother Language Day, Nineveh Plain

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Max J. Joseph

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6 months

The moment when Yonadam Kanna, veteran Iraqi politician and former leader of the ADM, walks out of a sham interview. The ADM represents Assyrians recovering from genocide whose seats in parliament are stolen, and he's asked why he's always complaining. No words left.

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Max J. Joseph

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4 years

An Iranian general responsible for heinous crimes across MENA/the world in the pursuit of one state's agenda was dusted in a foreign country and people online think Iran is going to enter into a conventional war against the biggest military power on earth. The hysteria. [1/22]

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Max J. Joseph

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9 years

Profound western narcissism: thinking violent acts perpetrated by non-westerners are deeply rooted in the actions & beliefs of westerners

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Max J. Joseph

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8 years

CNN has picked up the wonderful story of 17 year old #Assyrian artist Nenous Thabit as he builds what our enemies seek to destroy.

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Max J. Joseph

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1 year

Kurds have been living in Assyria for not one, but hundreds of years and don't know Assyrian. Funny stuff.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

7 years

On this day in 1969, Ba'ath party thugs rounded up and massacred the inhabitants of the Assyrian village of Soriya, Iraq. Nobody was spared.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

This is incorrect. These are the ruins of an ancient Assyrian village called Mar Yaqo before it was destroyed and abandoned during Anfal. You can see the ruins of the old Catholic Monastery it was named after very clearly.

Intira T.

@IntiraT_

3 years

Beautiful place with ruins of unfortunate Qashafir village in #Duhok , #Kurdistan

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Max J. Joseph

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3 years

Ghoulish thread covering a new "museum" Azerbaijan has opened where its president can exalt himself for droning Armenian teenagers to death in their homeland. You won't really hear anything about it in the West because its not deemed sufficiently interesting, unless...

Neil Hauer

@NeilPHauer

3 years

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev today, at a newly opened exhibition displaying the helmets of Armenian soldiers killed in last year's Second Karabakh War

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3 years

"The Pope can't save Iraq's Christians" me for @unherd

The Pope can't save Iraq's Christians

Having endured genocide and ISIS, the religious minority is fighting for survival

unherd.com

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Max J. Joseph

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3 years

Assyrian saying of the day: "leeshana litleh garma" (the tongue has no bone), used to express sarcastic disapproval in someone who is all talk and no action.

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Max J. Joseph

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7 years

Delighted to contribute to this landmark paper w/ Reine Hanna, Mardean Isaac and Matthew Barber "Erasing Assyrians"

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Max J. Joseph

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8 years

#Yezidis react appropriately to the new ban on the sale, import and production of alcohol passed by the Iraqi Parliament today.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

The women who joined ISIS are not "ISIS wives"; they are ISIS.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

Members of the Yazidi community are protesting peacefully outside the White House today. They are calling for justice, international help and the return of thousands of missing women and children. For Yazidis, the genocide is ongoing. How many are standing with them?

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

Quick primer for noobs: - Chaldeans are Catholic Assyrians after a schism within the Church of the East in the 16th C - Syriac Orthodox are ethnic Assyrians after a much earlier schism - Syriac Catholics are ethnic Assyrians after splitting from their Orthodox brethren in 17th C

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

9 years

a turkish man at the protest today, the sign reads: "my brother. i am sorry. forgive me!" #armeniangenocide #assyrian http://t.co/k5AV9G6ipP

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

Arbil International Airport was built in 2010 for $550m on Assyrian farmland seized by the Kurdistan Regional Government. The Assyrians received no compensation. Now journalists and human rights observers fly into it and write about how kind and generous the KRG is to Assyrians.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

If this latest crisis in Syria has proved anything to Assyrians, its that the world - in all of its performative solidarity, masturbatory projections and bureaucratic initiatives - does not even acknowledge us as a people, let alone give credence to our existential plight.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

Merry Christmas everyone, but especially to those who are gathering in burnt out Churches in Assyria hoping for better tomorrows. We can all learn a lot from their strength and their spirit #Nineveh #Iraq #ChristmasDay

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

4 months

Recognise his crimes too. Among them in the 1960's, he commanded 3,000 of his bandits to slaughter the inhabitants of the Christian Assyrian village of Annune in 1961, "killing every male above the age of 15 and 2 priests."

U.S. Consulate General Erbil

@USCGERBIL

4 months

We recognize the life and legacy of Mala Mustafa Barzani (1903-1979), who is still remembered for his remarkable contributions to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and the Kurdish people.

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Max J. Joseph

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Six years ago, ISIS assaulted Sinjar and committed a genocide against Yazidis as the world watched on. Tonight, Turkey is bombing the survivors of that genocide.

Gian Aldonani ( Rojan )

@GianAldonani

4 years

#Breaking : Turkish warplanes bomb Mount Sinjar. There are still hundreds of #Ezidi IDP families on Mount Sinjar. More than 30 airstrikes are being reported now. #Turkey #Sinjar #Iraq

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

2 years

Israel: going from not recognising the old Armenian genocide to helping cause the new one.

i24NEWS English

@i24NEWS_EN

2 years

NEW: Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has returned from an official visit to Azerbaijan Gantz met with President Ilham Aliyev during the visit 'to foster defense cooperation between the two countries'

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

7 years

Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi gave an interview on 26th October. Here's a clip that stood out for me.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

2 years

The Ottomans and their mercenaries exterminated and exiled every citizen they could that wasn't Sunni Muslim when the state came under external pressure. The millet system you celebrate provided them the administrative framework to do this efficiently and effectively.

Bruno Maçães

@MacaesBruno

2 years

The Ottoman millet system remains one of the best ways to organize a genuinely plural society, arguably superior to the liberal solution

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

A reminder: you cannot have reconciliation without accountability.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

One guy from Iraq "Boo! Its ours now!" @therealrussellp

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

The Churches are there because Assyrians built them, on Assyrian land, which Assyrians still call Assyria. We're not guests in our own lands. Imagine committing to this level of erasure and historical revisionism. Propagandist coward and colonist @pollagarmiany

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

Assyrians celebrating Palm Sunday in order: Tesqopa, Alqosh, Ankawa, Bakhdida. The message is loud and clear: we are here to stay #Assyria

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

When you congratulate and erase a whole people at the same time.

U.S. Consulate General Erbil

@USCGERBIL

3 years

We congratulate the #Christian community on the Assyrian Babylonian new year #Akitu , which represents a bright example of pluralism in the Iraqi #Kurdistan_Region and #Iraq .

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Max J. Joseph

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6 years

Chaldean Catholic Assyrians of Alqosh dancing in traditional dress with the ancient and majestic 7th Century Rabban Hormizd monastery carved out of a mountain behind them. Stunning backdrop #Assyria Credit:

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Max J. Joseph

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3 years

Turkey has just sentenced a Syriac Orthodox priest to over two years in prison for "membership in a terrorist organisation". Absolutely sickening, but who is going to run this story and demand his unconditional release? All eyes are on you.

Assyrian Policy Institute

@AssyrianPolicy

3 years

The sentencing of Fr. Sefer "Aho" Bileçen to 25 months in prison on the grounds of terrorism—for acts of charity—is an grave injustice and represents another attack on human rights in Turkey. Background:

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Max J. Joseph

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2 years

8 years ago, the brave peshmerga disarmed and abandoned Assyrians and Yazidis to ISIS in lands far from home their commanders sent them to occupy, fleeing without a single shot fired.

Sirwan Barzani

@SirwanBarzani_

2 years

8 years ago, the brave #Peshmerga of #Kurdistan were able to halt #ISIS advancements and force them to retreat.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

2 years

100% One of my favourite pubs has become cashless and I don't want to support the outcomes, real and potential, of that service model. Contrary to big tech gospel, a cashless society is less free and mostly hammers the poor.

Peter Hitchens

@ClarkeMicah

2 years

In France it is *illegal* for traders to refuse cash payments in lawful currency. Article 642-3 of the French penal code states that traders cannot “refuse cash payments for the settling of accounts,” and they can be fined up to €150 for doing so. We should copy this .

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

2 years

This slow form of ethnic cleansing is institutionalised within the KRG. An ordinary Kurdish farmer - provided they have a connection, tribal or otherwise, with police or a government official - can do this. "Coexistence" = these types prosper while we struggle to exist.

athra kado

@athra_kado

2 years

1-3 Live streaming from Badirash village, showing a new case of Assyrians owned land grabbing by a Kurdish tribe,started by making a small fence & when the Assyrians destroyed the Iron fence,the Kurds (trespassers) called the police & as you can see,the police came on their call!

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

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Beyond the cowardly act itself, there's something uniquely terrible about hearing our Assyrian language - a language spoken by our ancestors that we keep alive often with our blood, sweat and tears - being abruptly cut due to frenzied stabbing.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

Iraqi Jews whose families are from Nohadra (Dohuk) still speaking a dialect of Assyrian Aramaic among each other in Israel after leaving Iraq in the 1950's. "How many people like you speak it here?" "Maybe three to four hundred thousand in Jerusalem and across all of Israel."

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

7 years

On this day 24 years ago, Francis Yousef Shabo was assassinated on his way home in Nohadra (Dohuk) by the KDP. We will never forget. RIP.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

9 months

Yeah definitely looks like the leader of a state that wants peace.

James Sharp

@JamesSharpUK

9 months

I appreciate the worries and concerns out there, but it would be good to give the Azerbaijanis a chance to live up to their commitments. They’ve made quite a number of public promises. If the Armenian PM is willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, shouldn’t we all?

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Max J. Joseph

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3 years

They look like Assyrians because they are Assyrians, regardless of what Western travellers write. This 'dress style' is worn by Tkhumnaye north of Nineveh - a tribe of Assyrians particularly decimated by the genocide Kurds participated in/benefited from throughout this region.

Kurdish History

@BitlisnameEng

3 years

1920, Aleppo - Syria Kurds in traditional clothes... The dress style of the Kurds around Aleppo is similar to the style of the Assyrians. Three Kurdish men also have daggers.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

There has been a huge bomb attack outside the Church of the Virgin Mary in the Assyrian Wusta neighbourhood of Qamishli, Syria.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

Assyrian journalist from Iraq @Khlapieel has been arrested and detained by KDP asayish in Nohadra (Dohuk) on his return after visiting Assyrian communities in N. Syria and filming a new documentary. Phone has been taken, no contact has been made for days.

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Max J. Joseph

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8 years

My new piece: "What it Means to be Assyrian"

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Max J. Joseph

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7 years

Its Assyrian New Year - Kha b'nisan! 6767 years old and still here despite nearly everyone's best efforts.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

This is Arabist. He claims the history of entire continents because some Arabs showed up there and made everyone speak their language.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

4 years

FYI: this was criticism of the Turkish regime. Instead of replying with bullshit like Turks are immune or they wash their asses, maybe understand that its basically impossible for an imminent global pandemic to bypass a giant landmass with 8 borders, a megacity and busy airport.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

So I discovered tonight that I'm completely banned from Wikipedia - global lock on account and IP - for using social media to draw attention to the relentless edits and deletions made to Assyrian pages by racists online.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

4 years

I have only ever heard stories about these kind of nights since my family all left Iraq before I was born. Sometimes it feels like I have these vivid memories myself even though I don't actually possess them. A disembodied existence living through the memories of others.

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Max J. Joseph

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5 years

@AFTVMedia

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

7 years

The Assyrian flag is everywhere #Akitu6767 Via

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

People wander around Nineveh, the heart of Assyria, surrounded by towns and villages with historic Assyrian names, inhabited by people with Assyrian names wearing traditional Assyrian clothing, who speak Assyrian Aramaic, and then go "wow, look at all of these Christians."

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

Happy Assyrian New Year 6771. Khooba, Khadootha o Kherootha Attoraya.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

9 years

In response to: "Assyrians had it good under Saddam"

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

You're living in a state that has the takbir on its national flag, made Kurdish an official language, gave Kurds privileged status over other ethnic groups, and gives your own autonomous corrupt government hundreds of millions of dollars every year effectively with no conditions.

Iman Ibrahim, MD

@imanarazzaq

5 years

My name is Iman. I am a woman, a Kurd, a Muslim and I am from Kurdistan. I’m calling for an end to racism against Kurds, Islamophobia and misogyny. #4Peace

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Max J. Joseph

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8 years

The story of Shamiran Shiba, an incredibly brave Assyrian woman from Syria. "My life is not worth more than yours."

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

Happy Assyrian New Year. It is 6768. There is so much work to do, but I've met and spoken to many more Assyrians this year who are serious about doing it. Like every beautiful shape within this lamassu, we can all make a difference. (Painting: "Fractured Roots" by @lil_smfL )

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

7 years

This Assyrian woman was 10 yrs old the day she watched Saddam's regime parade her uncle's body through the streets #DiasporaDiaries (Part 1)

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

Ah yes, Mardin. Where nearly all of the Assyrians, Armenians and Greeks were tortured, murdered and deported after being humiliated by their own neighbours. All of their wealth stolen. Women and children raped in churches. Abductions. Just two pages.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

Tired of snobs insisting on referencing our language as Syriac Aramaic. This is too academic for everyday usage. Its Assyrian. Its like telling someone "you don't speak English, you speak Anglo-Saxon Germanic Latin". Its English.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

4 years

Syriac Orthodox Assyrians in the mountains around Tur Abdin and the Mor Yaqub Monastery, modern day Turkey, sometime in the 1900's before the genocide.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

Assyrian journalist Hermiz Mushi was arrested today by KDP Asayesh in Nohadra (Dohuk) for posting this video last month of an Assyrian heritage site while criticising federal and regional governments for not doing more to protect them. Read more:

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6 years

On the Nineveh Plain being "disputed territory": "Disputed by who?” an Assyrian parish priest experiencing the pressures of demographic change said to me. “We have always lived here. Show me the Kurdish cemeteries, if they claim this is their land.”

The U.S. Is Not a Serious Ally, Say Middle Eastern Christians | National Review

Iraq Christians look to an administration that promised them much.

www.nationalreview.com

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

Must be nice to butcher an entire population of people and drive them out and then just name the whole place after yourself in nice photos years later.

Kurdistan 24 English

@K24English

5 years

An aerial view of the Kurdish city of Wan. #TwitterKurds 📸 Karwan Yara

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

A new Assyrian lamassu is found with excavations of the palace of King Esarhaddon in Nineveh. The site lies underneath the Nabi Younes Shrine east of Mosul which ISIS demolished. Assyrian heritage is discovered every day in Iraq whilst its living heirs are relentlessly erased.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

2 months

Nice of them to put an occidentalized, white-looking Christian priest front and centre here. Somehow, Christianity is still depicted in Iraq as Western and foreign to the region when indigenous Christian Assyrians endured a genocide there - in our homeland - a decade ago.

Zaid Al-Ali

@zalali

2 months

Palestinian solidarity poster in Baghdad

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

Men, women and children from all of our Church denominations: Church of the East, Chaldean and Syriac celebrate Palm Sunday watched over by the @NinevehPU . This is Assyrians for Assyrians; self-help and self-love. We're not going anywhere.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

"For many national groups, to have endured a genocide is almost a badge of honor, which they can use for political ends." Ah yes, there is great honour here. Makes up for generations of theft, dehumanisation and being a foreigner where you go.

Thomas de Waal

@Tom_deWaal

3 years

In 1944 Raphael Lemkin coined the word genocide in a book published by the @CarnegieEndow Last weekend Pres Biden formally recognized the Armenian Genocide as such. Here is my column for Carnegie on the meaning of the US recognition

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

Assyrians have been talking about oppression by the KRG for decades and we have been met with almost total indifference. But if PKK presence in KRG areas is threatened? Western delegations, journalists, NGOs, various individuals on here all come out of nowhere to the rescue 👏🏼

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

4 years

Assyrian is always what we have called ourselves in our own language (endonym), whereas the names "Nestorian", "Aramean", "Chaldean" and even "Syriac" (as it is often deployed) were names used by non-Assyrians to describe only parts of our culture or religious identity (exonyms).

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Max J. Joseph

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4 years

Some quarantine entertainment: A thread of screenshots I was sent of some ugly racists on Twitter and their obsession with Assyrians and Yazidis. We truly occupy all of their time, don't we? This group has more than 50 people in it acting like they run the Kingdom of Kurdistan.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

French-Algerian striker Karim Benzema once candidly told an interviewer "if I score I'm French. If I don't, I'm an Arab." I imagine Swedish-Assyrian Jimmy Durmaz can now relate. Failures, whether real or perceived, are always punished more. The bad is othered, the good embraced.

Guardian sport

@guardian_sport

6 years

Sweden squad rally behind midfielder Jimmy Durmaz after racial abuse online | By @m_christenson

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

A crucial feature of genocide involves erasing or co-opting a peoples past alongside an assault on its present and future. Cemeteries are not just where our family members rest, but where our memories are anchored. "You were never really here."

CaucasusHeritageWatch

@CaucasusHW

3 years

CHW has made a high-confidence assessment that a centuries-old Armenian cemetery north of Shusha/Shushi has been partially destroyed. A portion of the grounds on the west side of a road leading into the city was leveled in the construction of a building complex. 1/4

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

ISIS had executed 3 Assyrians on video and promised the rest would follow. What these bureaucracies call "funding terrorism", we also call saving entire families. Who remembers those 3 Assyrian martyrs? The UK doesn't. Nobody was interested in helping us, so we helped ourselves.

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@DeadmanMax

4 years

I wonder what happened to all of the Assyrians in Mardin.

Turkish Museums

@TurkishMuseums

4 years

The intricate vessel tells an amazing story from the Assyrian era. Used in offering ceremonies to the gods, the windows symbolize the temple and the city walls, the eyes defend against evil and the bull symbolizes fertility. #Turkey #MardinMuseum #MuseumFromHome

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Max J. Joseph

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The genocide against Assyrians was so successful, it created a world order where not only was our population decimated while those of our brutalisers simultaneously boosted through mass abduction and rape, it erased the very idea that we could have rights anywhere, at any time.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

7 years

For e.g, the Christian population in Baghdad has declined tenfold since 2003. And its declining everywhere else in the region too. I don't care if this upsets people. Kicking us out *then* using our symbols to brag about being tolerant of us creates a sad correlation.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

Ah yes, those "racist" Assyrians--the ones whose families are scattered across the world having endured displacement and genocide with no recompense or resettlement--being called racist by people who use our dead bodies as fertilizer; by people who flourish where we fall.

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@DeadmanMax

4 years

August 7th is Assyrian Martyrs Day. I wrote this two years ago about the still unrecognised massacre of thousands of Assyrian men, women and children at Simele, Iraq by the Iraqi Army and Kurdish tribes in 1933, and the role of the UK in these events.

The Simele Massacre in Iraq: A Legacy of Trauma and British Neglect

August 7th is a special date for Assyrians, a nation so obscured in our modern world that many people will still raise their eyebrows at…

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

4 years

An Assyrian nurse named Bianca working in an Iran ICU records message in Assyrian, advising people to stay indoors, look after each other. She asks people not to worry about her, that we will get through these dark days and then celebrate together. So brave and selfless #COVID19

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

An emboldened Azerbaijan makes moves into Armenian territory and starts killing Armenians, various MPs, NGOs and analysts will look on and shrug, pointing to the complexity of the conflict. Rinse and repeat until there is nothing left.

Armenian Alliance

@ArmAlliance

3 years

Breaking News: Armenia's Ministry of Defense has just reported that Azerbaijan's soldiers fired on Armenian soldiers in the border region of Verin Shorzha and Gegharkunik. One Armenian soldier was fatally shot in the chest.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

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Old women from depopulated Christian areas in Turkey/nearby with these kind of tattoos were often young girls abducted by Turks & Kurds during the genocide. Contextually, crosses often symbolized their origins as a Christian, whilst the crescent asserted Turkish/Muslim ownership.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

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Many Christian doctors in the Ottoman Empire were torn away from their families (who were deported and slaughtered) and then forced to treat wounded Turkish soldiers. In one account, one of the surviving doctors had said "they did not kill me because I could heal them".

🇹🇷 Umut Acar

@AcarUmut

5 years

Looks like the Ottoman government had provided funds from the state budget to the Armenian hospital in İstanbul in 1916, during the “genocide!! against 1.5M #Armenians ” #LetHistoryDecide

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

6 years

People are still buying and selling Assyrian heritage for millions of dollars whilst Assyrians today live in half-destroyed towns with no electricity or clean water.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

4 years

Strictly an Assyrian and Yazidi filter: Never forget that almost 6 years after the onslaught of ISIS against our communities in Nineveh, almost nobody outside of our own communities has normalised the fact that the KDP peshmerga disarmed and abandoned our people to genocide.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

4 years

Opening of first Burger King in Dohuk Province (2020) vs Site of the 1933 Simele Massacre of thousands of Assyrians in Dohuk Province (2019)

Assyrian Policy Institute

@AssyrianPolicy

4 years

On August 28, 2020, a coalition of Assyrian civil society representatives met virtually with the @KRG_USA , including Representative Bayan Rahman, to discuss proposals for safeguarding, surveying, and excavating sites related to the Simele Massacre of 1933 in Dohuk Governorate.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

4 years

You only murdered Iraqis tonight you clown.

Saeed Jalili | سعید جلیلی

@DrSaeedJalili

4 years

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

4 years

This story originates from a Sept 2019 Rudaw article and it's receiving renewed attention now because they reposted it. A Chaldean Assyrian woman from the historically Assyrian town of Shaqlawa is described as a "Christian from Kurdistan" - erasure dressed up as "coexistence."

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

7 years

There is nothing disputed about places like Alqosh. The town has literally zero Kurds living in it, yet its "disputed" by the KRG--?

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

3 years

Regarding Assyrians, everyone recalls the ISIS years and the media frenzy that came with it. What many people have seemingly forgotten is the full decade of relentless violence that preceded it. This history will be told one day, along with all of its ongoing policy failures.

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Max J. Joseph

@DeadmanMax

5 years

Turks are being whipped up into a frenzy by their leaders. They exterminated almost all Christians from Turkey, 19% (1914) to 0.2% (2005), so apart from shouting at old buildings long emptied of Christians, how will this kind of thirst for blood be quenched? Outside its borders.

المجلس

@Almajlliss

5 years

آلاف الأتراك يتظاهرون أمام جامع ومتحف أيا صوفيا منددين بحادث نيوزيلندا ومطالبين بعودة أيا صوفيا مرة أخرى كجامع تقام فيه الصلوات كما كانت.

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