Alon

Alon, 2 hours ago

@esther_alter @dynamic @scott The history of anti-Zionist Jews is not at all the same as JVP, is the point. On the left, the alternative to Labor Zionism was Bundism... but the Bundists' views of Israel in the 1960s and 70s, and even into the 2000s among the ones who were still alive were the same as those of Meretz and the left side of Labor. The forced Yiddishization we see in some radical left spaces is much more like Soviet anti-Semitism than like any Jewish ideology.

Alon, 2 hours ago

@esther_alter @dynamic @scott The article is especially bad, since it lumps Labor Zionist criticism of Revisionist Zionism with anti-Zionism. Calling the Irgun a fascist militia was basically state policy under Ben-Gurion; it took Herut 15-20 years of dediabolization to get treated as a serious political party. In the 1990s, to launder the assassination of Rabin, some right-wingers accused him of having personally ordered the attack on the Altalena, their anti-state grievances are so deep.

Alon, 1 hour ago

@esther_alter @dynamic @scott Well, Ratz didn't exist until 1973. In the 1960s, the Bundists' take on Six-Day War was similar to that of Labor Zionists. The Meretz invocation is of Marek Edelman's criticism of Israel's behavior in the Second Intifada.

The prewar Bundists were, well, prewar. It matters how their ideology evolved later (again, Edelman), just as it matters that as Stalin's crimes became better known, Mapam (a party that had always IDed as Zionist) dropped the Stalin worship.

Alon, 5 hours ago

@CelloMomOnCars @DiegoBeghin @Colinvparker Some articles online about Naypyidaw:

https://www.yangongui.de/thematic-essays/naypyidaw-built-by-lonely-kings/
https://disegnojournal.com/newsfeed/naypyidaw-urban-design-myanmar-junta
https://averyreview.com/issues/24/auspicious-urbanisms
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/02/06/myanmars-military-built-new-capital-haven-power-other-countries-have-tried-that-too/
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/mar/19/burmas-capital-naypyidaw-post-apocalypse-suburbia-highways-wifi

And on Egypt's New Administrative Capital (NAC):

https://www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/50877/cairos-panopticon-20
https://dawnmena.org/egypts-new-administrative-capital-is-another-desert-folly/
https://www.nyusternedg.org/blog/the-new-administrative-capital-smart-city-vanity-project-or-military-stronghold
https://edition.cnn.com/world/egypt-new-administrative-capital-spc-intl/index.html

Alon, 5 hours ago

@Truckasauruslex @ww3real They're all in the same folder in my computer, so for me it's very easy to do this scrolling. Only question is whether I have to upload a .png for each map or if there's a way to generate this from one .svg to save space.