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Michael Ackerman retweeted
The “Zionism is settler colonialism” claim rests on early Zionists using the word “colony.”
In the 1880s–1910s, that word simply meant a new agricultural settlement. The Jewish Colonization Association used the same term for farms in Argentina.
There was no metropole and no resource extraction for an empire. Just Jews buying land and building self-governing communities in their ancestral homeland.
Michael Ackerman retweeted
Imagine the Jewish State kept the name Palestine. How would Palestinian Arabs be called today?
Michael Ackerman retweeted
Around 40 million (as a tentative midpoint) Muslims have been forcibly displaced from their original homes since 1947 who did not subsequently return, excluding Palestinians.
Absolutely nobody cares or mentions it.
Michael Ackerman retweeted
The most effective weapon against Israel has been redefining words until self-defense becomes the crime.
“Genocide” once meant the deliberate attempt to destroy a people. Hamas wrote that goal into its charter, yet the army fighting it is the one called genocidal.
“Apartheid,” “colonialism,” “occupation”—same method. Change the meaning and repeat the new one so many times it becomes gospel.
The only real "offense" to those fighting linguistic warfare is the very existence of the world's only Jewish state.
Michael Ackerman retweeted
1965: Brian and local Girl Scout Troop celebrate the new Beach Boys single release, “The Little Girl I Once Knew”
Michael Ackerman retweeted
We had to request it, and here it is. The Clerk turned our plain text email into unreadable garbled hash! 23 of 25 oppose renaming.
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Michael Ackerman retweeted
It seems wrong that you can ascend City Hall, view a portrait of every rogue and mensch who ever swore allegiance as mayor, yet old Don Carlos is not on display. His portrait, by rOrpha Klinker Carpenter, was gifted to the City to be hung above his old tower desk in 1935.
Michael Ackerman retweeted
This article is from 1926... Wait! The Moslem supreme council begins Arab... WHAT??!
Michael Ackerman retweeted
Glass Telescope Model
Before they built the great Hale Telescope of Mt. Palomar, they made a glass model. And a winged pin became known too at the same time. 1937
Michael Ackerman retweeted
Deputy City Attorney Strefan Fauble is allowing people to speak on Item #5, which is not agendized for comment today PLUS a minute for general public comment.
A total Brown Act violation.
And he's allowing people to speak longer than a minute on general public comment IF they are in favor of renaming Pershing Square.
Michael Ackerman retweeted
Renaming Pershing Square Biddy Mason Park is a City Hall hustle.
This is all about money, not about honoring anyone.
And this Labor Day, we're hard at work getting the story locked down, because YOU, dear gaslit Angeleno, deserve the truth from your so-called "leaders."
Michael Ackerman retweeted
Pershing Square is a War Memorial
Courtland Jindra's stories of the remains of fallen servicemen brought home to Los Angeles to lay in state in Pershing Square, our dedicated memorial to all who fought under General John J. Pershing in the American Expeditionary Forces,
Michael Ackerman retweeted
Beware the rapacious self storage warehouse expansion! 6839-6845 Woodley Ave got a zone change and poof, there went 14 households (1925-1956). Maybe they'll each get a unit and go see America. Bye, friends!
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