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🇹🇷 SHORT THREAD 1/6 The "Dönmeh" of Türkiye are crypto-Jews, that is, ethnic Jews who outwardly profess Islam but in reality perpetuate the idea of Sabbatai Zevi, a 16th-century fake Messiah whose approach to morality was grounded in particular interpretations of the Talmud and especially the Kabbalah tradition, notably the idea of "redemption through sin" : that the Messianic era would be precipitated the *more* you'd sin, thus Sabbateans indulged in overtly sinful activities such as orgies [see my article at the end for more information on their metaphysics]. The Dönmeh have played a major role in the modernization of Türkiye, over-represented when looking at their population, e.g. as members of the Young Turks (see Mehmed Cavid, Doctor Nazım, Hasan Tahsin or Sabiha Sertel, the first Turkish female journalist); this has been detailed by Marc Baer in a major book on the question (published in 2010), even if he argues that it was a form of self-sabotage as the "cosmopolitan" Ottoman Empire was more welcoming of them than the "secular-nationalist" Turkish Republic they'd shape. It's said that, despite assimilation (marriage with Turkish Muslims), there are still 10s of 1000s of Dönmeh, often in influential positions, even in recent times (İsmail Cem, the leftist Foreign Minister from 1997 to 2002, during his last year the controversy rising as many said that he'd succumb to the US pressure to invade Iraq due to his ethnic background). I want to share an article written for the Jewish Chronicle in 2003, which is a profile of the group (the London-based JC is the oldest continuing Jewish newspaper.) As the Jewish author Mordechai Beck asserts, the Dönmeh are no representatives of traditional Judaism, obviously, being the followers of a false Messiah. Still, while not (normative) Jews when it comes to *religion*, they're Jews in terms of *ethnicity* and thus a parcel of "Jewish identity politics", that can be manifested through different ideologies (*not* limited to Zionism).
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2/6 He begins by talking of a bomb attack on a synagogue, and the perpetrators blamed Dönmeh for various ills of the Turkish society :
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3/6 "Outwardly (...) (Dönmeh) have taken on the apperance of Muslims (...) its members are also said to engage in a range of secret rituals, said by some to include orgies and wife-swapping and rites meant to produce a messiah, a transmigration of Shabbetai Tzvi's soul."
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4/6 "Turkey's then Foreign Minister, Ismail Cem, was rumored to be a member of the sect (...) he was associated with the pro-Western tilt of the Turkish government (a major issue at the time, as US President George W. Bush was trying to persuade the Turks to support his policy in Iraq)."
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5/6 "For Islamists in Turkey, the original sin of the Donmeh was the group's tie to the "Young Turks" who, under Kemal Ataturk, overthrew the Ottoman Empire (...) Ataturk was surrounded by Dönmeh supporters and advisers (...)"
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6/6 You can read my article for @MuslimSkepticHQ on the ideas of the Sabbateans (of which Dönmeh are an emanation) as well the Frankists (put crudely, "the Dönmeh equivalent in Europe"). Worth adding that Jews have themselves written on how that sect has aimed for the destruction of not only Islam but also Judaism as well Christianity, most famously, Rabbi Marvin Stuart Antelman, who influenced others such as Barry Chamish. https://muslimskeptic.com/2023/08/31/sabbatean-frankism/
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SHORT THREAD 🧵 1/11 A lot of people seem to be surprised at the "full support" shown by Indians 🇮🇳, at least its Hindu 🕉️nationalists, for Israel. 🇮🇱 Many seem to think that it all began when BJP got into power in 2014, yet in 1978 already a book unveiled such a union, "The Unholy Alliance: Indo-Israel Collaboration Against the Muslim World". The book shows that both Hindu nationalists and secularists have favored Israel, a "full support" which has been manifested both at the level of the elit as well among the general public of the Hindus. Let's go through some of its points.
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2/11 In the foreword by an Arab scholar originally from Palestine, Ihsan Haqqi, the book begins by comparing the Zionist onslaught on Palestine to that of India in the Hyderabad State, a princely state which was the richest in India and also headed by a Muslim who financed Islamic causes.
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3/11 In the introduction, the author says that both Hindus and Jews got their independence through the British and both have historically feared a united Muslim front. https://t.co/BgSI4X9BwT
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4/11 The military collaboration dates from the 1950s, something that displeased Arabs, as some noted that it went against India's claim of "neutrality" in the Arab-Israeli conflict. https://t.co/ewg6eNRrdO
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5/11 Why Indians/Hindus are less frontal in their war against Arabs as compared to Zionists, even paying lip-service for the Palestinian cause. https://t.co/qOVo4CDWCO
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6/11 A Lebanese 🇱🇧 journalist notes the Indian duplicity in the 1960s. https://t.co/udlqiUfxO9
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7/11 After mentioning at length the economic ties, he then mentions Indian politics, or how the Jana Sangh, "ancestor" to Modi's ruling BJP party, was openly pro-Israel. A Jana Sangh ideologue even wrote : "India will have to take on the Muslim world one day." Also a visit of Vajpayee, future Indian Prime Minister, in Israel. They even lobbied for Arab delegations to not be welcomed as they aimed for the "extermination of Israel by force".
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8/11 Not only the Hindu nationalists, even "secularist" parties have been pro-Israel, including the Congress. https://t.co/9RrJdSOQZ7
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9/11 He then concentrates on the Indian press, goes as far as saying that "Indian press is more pro-Israel than Israelis themselves." https://t.co/x6cnMLnvsI
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10/11 Not only the elite (politicians and writers) either : polls/surveys demonstrated that the public opinion was in favor of Israel (arguably higher if you only take into account the Hindus). https://t.co/Vtf6FjRgQo
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11/11 This short thread covered just around half of the book, yet it demonstrates that Indian, specifically Hindu, support for Israel goes beyond right/left or elite/masses and predates the Gaza ethnocide by decades.