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Steve Murray
Steve Murray
1 year ago

Thanks for this insight. I guess many Unherd readers won’t be familiar enough with the subtleties of the Iranian situation to comment, but as ever, the oppression/suppression of minorities is a more complex issue than just about whoever is in charge of government.

Steve Murray
Steve Murray
1 year ago

Thanks for this insight. I guess many Unherd readers won’t be familiar enough with the subtleties of the Iranian situation to comment, but as ever, the oppression/suppression of minorities is a more complex issue than just about whoever is in charge of government.

CF Hankinson
CF Hankinson
1 year ago

Tragic reading

CF Hankinson
CF Hankinson
1 year ago

Tragic reading

Michael Drucker
Michael Drucker
1 year ago

I woke at 4 am this morning and did what you must never do: I picked up my phone. I looked at the Telegraph app, but there was nothing fresh yet. I thought I’d open Unherd. My first thought was, maybe I should cancel the subscription. Nothing that I had read of late felt truly Unherd, unavailable elsewhere. Eye-opening. Maybe even mind-blowing. Then I read this article. It is by far the best I have read in Unherd in months. The world’s media has justifiably given huge coverage to the protests in Iran, but to simplify the narrative for mass media consumption they have erased the Kurds from it.
Unherd: my subscription is safe for now. I am now lying in bed trying to calculate when it will be socially acceptable to inform all my friends about this article.

Michael Drucker
Michael Drucker
1 year ago

I woke at 4 am this morning and did what you must never do: I picked up my phone. I looked at the Telegraph app, but there was nothing fresh yet. I thought I’d open Unherd. My first thought was, maybe I should cancel the subscription. Nothing that I had read of late felt truly Unherd, unavailable elsewhere. Eye-opening. Maybe even mind-blowing. Then I read this article. It is by far the best I have read in Unherd in months. The world’s media has justifiably given huge coverage to the protests in Iran, but to simplify the narrative for mass media consumption they have erased the Kurds from it.
Unherd: my subscription is safe for now. I am now lying in bed trying to calculate when it will be socially acceptable to inform all my friends about this article.

Samir Iker
Samir Iker
1 year ago

The treatment of Kurds by Iran and Iraq is despicable, but even so doesn’t compare to how Turkey has behaved towards them. And it’s truly mind boggling the extent to which Turkey has gotten away with it. Iran is a parish state, Iraq has been at war…but Turkeys is supposedly a western ally, and armed liberally with western weapons. Bizarre!

Samir Iker
Samir Iker
1 year ago

The treatment of Kurds by Iran and Iraq is despicable, but even so doesn’t compare to how Turkey has behaved towards them. And it’s truly mind boggling the extent to which Turkey has gotten away with it. Iran is a parish state, Iraq has been at war…but Turkeys is supposedly a western ally, and armed liberally with western weapons. Bizarre!

Gayle Rosenthal
Gayle Rosenthal
11 months ago

Islam and the Arabs are the most vicious colonizers in the history of the planet. Far worse than Europeans or Christians ever thought to be. Islam is a political ideology at every level, masquerading as a religion. it will stamp out any ethnic minority that gets in its way.
“But Kurds are also unusual in that they tend to venerate their ethnicity over religion. ”
Mahsa Amini was given a Kurdish name by her parents which was not recognized by the Islamic Regime. Only Arabic and Persian names are recognized. Why aren’t human rights organizations labeling Islamic governments the same way as communist governments ? By definition they are totalitarian and intolerant. The seek to oppress any kaffir or ethnic minority. Islam is poison to the world and to liberty and autonomy.

Gayle Rosenthal
Gayle Rosenthal
11 months ago

Islam and the Arabs are the most vicious colonizers in the history of the planet. Far worse than Europeans or Christians ever thought to be. Islam is a political ideology at every level, masquerading as a religion. it will stamp out any ethnic minority that gets in its way.
“But Kurds are also unusual in that they tend to venerate their ethnicity over religion. ”
Mahsa Amini was given a Kurdish name by her parents which was not recognized by the Islamic Regime. Only Arabic and Persian names are recognized. Why aren’t human rights organizations labeling Islamic governments the same way as communist governments ? By definition they are totalitarian and intolerant. The seek to oppress any kaffir or ethnic minority. Islam is poison to the world and to liberty and autonomy.

Gayle Rosenthal
Gayle Rosenthal
1 year ago

The the 21st Century will be about the Right to One’s Identity. Many Jews were denied their identity when Jewish parents left their children in the care of the Catholic Church. Children of the Desaparacidos (the Disappeared Ones) in Argentina were claimed under laws regarding stolen property. See research by Prof. Laura Oren.
Christianity (especially in the form of white culture and the context of colonization and the Holocaust) has already had to reconcile its imperialistic leanings.
Islam is ruthless in its mission to erase and homogenize ethnicities. Only Islam can make them “minorities” in their own lands. The Kurds were the most feared by the Arabs in the time of dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Europe the victor, cowed to the sheiks and royal families in denying the Kurds their own homelands. Kurdistan has survived but only as an oppressed people under Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey.
This is why the Palestinian problem is so important today. The Palestinians are not an ethnicity. They are all Arabs who have Islamized the Levant which was formerly pagan, Canaanite, Christian and Jewish – Judeo Christian. And many of these Arabs’ family connections hail from Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq and other post-Ottoman Arab countries, having come to Israel in the 20th century. I recommend this video on bronze age “Palestine”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe4TCYGYQ68&t=159&ab_channel=Kedem
There are no more Canaanites, Midianites, Amorites, etc. and so on. The only Mycenaeans (DNA, and not an ethnic identity) are in Greece. There are no more Philistines either. One can read about Canaanite DNA but no one calls themselves Canaanites any more.
It’s simply the way of the world ……

Paul Devlin
Paul Devlin
1 year ago

Do you have make everything about Jews and Israel? Let it go

Last edited 1 year ago by Paul Devlin
CHARLES STANHOPE
CHARLES STANHOPE
1 year ago

The are NO real Greeks left but even worse NO Romans, more’s the pity!

Paul Devlin
Paul Devlin
1 year ago

Do you have make everything about Jews and Israel? Let it go

Last edited 1 year ago by Paul Devlin
CHARLES STANHOPE
CHARLES STANHOPE
1 year ago

The are NO real Greeks left but even worse NO Romans, more’s the pity!

Gayle Rosenthal
Gayle Rosenthal
1 year ago

The the 21st Century will be about the Right to One’s Identity. Many Jews were denied their identity when Jewish parents left their children in the care of the Catholic Church. Children of the Desaparacidos (the Disappeared Ones) in Argentina were claimed under laws regarding stolen property. See research by Prof. Laura Oren.
Christianity (especially in the form of white culture and the context of colonization and the Holocaust) has already had to reconcile its imperialistic leanings.
Islam is ruthless in its mission to erase and homogenize ethnicities. Only Islam can make them “minorities” in their own lands. The Kurds were the most feared by the Arabs in the time of dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Europe the victor, cowed to the sheiks and royal families in denying the Kurds their own homelands. Kurdistan has survived but only as an oppressed people under Syria, Iraq, Iran and Turkey.
This is why the Palestinian problem is so important today. The Palestinians are not an ethnicity. They are all Arabs who have Islamized the Levant which was formerly pagan, Canaanite, Christian and Jewish – Judeo Christian. And many of these Arabs’ family connections hail from Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq and other post-Ottoman Arab countries, having come to Israel in the 20th century. I recommend this video on bronze age “Palestine”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe4TCYGYQ68&t=159&ab_channel=Kedem
There are no more Canaanites, Midianites, Amorites, etc. and so on. The only Mycenaeans (DNA, and not an ethnic identity) are in Greece. There are no more Philistines either. One can read about Canaanite DNA but no one calls themselves Canaanites any more.
It’s simply the way of the world ……