"When Israel is compared with Algeria directly, by contrast, the analogy falls because Jews in Israel most resemble Algeria’s indigenous Berber population, not her later Arab settlers."
They don't just resemble the Berber; at the time of the Arab Conquest they WERE the Berber: "By the late seventh century, the only thing standing between the Arab forces and the Atlantic Ocean was a [Berber] Jewish warrior-queen known as the Kahina."
Anyone who refers to the human species as this (and not the correct Homo sapiens; the -s is not a plural marker here since it is a Latin nominative singular adjective) is ill-educated and probably too lazy to look things up on Google/wikipedia/wiktionary.
I have lost this argument multiple times with editors, so many times now I have given up. It is conventional among biologists to drop the s in most contexts. I have argued over it with both biologists and editors. Me: “dropping the ‘s’ is wrong”; editor: “when you cite and draw on biological arguments, you follow their conventions”.
While I’m here, may I suggest being less of a smart-arse? No-one, except a mother or a wife, likes a smart-arse.
You know what’s unfair? You’ve always got the great-looking cat willing to pose so you can toss in an image of him. You’re doing a great job with words, but the real game is becoming clearer over time. El Gato is the shot-caller.
My wife and I visited Australia in the Fall of last year (Spring, I guess, in the Southern Hemisphere), and we had a great time. The people were uniformly really friendly and very upbeat. Honestly, nicest, in a good way, place to visit that I've ever been.
The Australian land acknowledgments became kind of a marital joke after a while. We started making up farcical land acknowledgments of our own, and we decided to start our next dinner party at home with a land acknowledgment. In the US, these performances are uniformly performed in left-coded spaces. University speaking events and the like. And people make fun of them. I mean, it was a matter of some ridicule that, at the meeting where they elected their next chairman, the Democrats started with a land acknowledgment. Sort of a "nothing has changed moment."
But in Australia, they are EVERYWHERE. I mean, every airline flight, when the plane is about to land, we got a land acknowledgment. The Sydney Symphony, before starting its performance (yes, we saw the Sydney Symphony perform at the Sydney Opera House -- how cool is that?) began with a land acknowledgment. A couple of wineries had little land acknowledgment plaques at their cellar doors. One restaurant had a land acknowledgment on its menu!
We started making up farcical land acknowledgments, and we decided to do a land acknowledgment at our next dinner party where we served Australian wine. Given that the Aborigines are not going to get the land back, I'm not sure what the point of the whole rigamarole is.
The land acknowledgements in Australia are thinning out now (the airlines' willingness to do them has become very patchy, for example). Admittedly, some of this has come about because many followers of monotheistic religions (Jews, Christians, Muslims) consider them idolatry. Like the US, Australia has an anti-establishment clause in its Constitution, so this has given various Aboriginal organisations and their boosters pause.
"When Israel is compared with Algeria directly, by contrast, the analogy falls because Jews in Israel most resemble Algeria’s indigenous Berber population, not her later Arab settlers."
They don't just resemble the Berber; at the time of the Arab Conquest they WERE the Berber: "By the late seventh century, the only thing standing between the Arab forces and the Atlantic Ocean was a [Berber] Jewish warrior-queen known as the Kahina."
https://aish.com/kahina-the-jewish-warrior-queen-of-north-africa/
> Homo sapien
Anyone who refers to the human species as this (and not the correct Homo sapiens; the -s is not a plural marker here since it is a Latin nominative singular adjective) is ill-educated and probably too lazy to look things up on Google/wikipedia/wiktionary.
I have lost this argument multiple times with editors, so many times now I have given up. It is conventional among biologists to drop the s in most contexts. I have argued over it with both biologists and editors. Me: “dropping the ‘s’ is wrong”; editor: “when you cite and draw on biological arguments, you follow their conventions”.
While I’m here, may I suggest being less of a smart-arse? No-one, except a mother or a wife, likes a smart-arse.
You know what’s unfair? You’ve always got the great-looking cat willing to pose so you can toss in an image of him. You’re doing a great job with words, but the real game is becoming clearer over time. El Gato is the shot-caller.
My wife and I visited Australia in the Fall of last year (Spring, I guess, in the Southern Hemisphere), and we had a great time. The people were uniformly really friendly and very upbeat. Honestly, nicest, in a good way, place to visit that I've ever been.
The Australian land acknowledgments became kind of a marital joke after a while. We started making up farcical land acknowledgments of our own, and we decided to start our next dinner party at home with a land acknowledgment. In the US, these performances are uniformly performed in left-coded spaces. University speaking events and the like. And people make fun of them. I mean, it was a matter of some ridicule that, at the meeting where they elected their next chairman, the Democrats started with a land acknowledgment. Sort of a "nothing has changed moment."
But in Australia, they are EVERYWHERE. I mean, every airline flight, when the plane is about to land, we got a land acknowledgment. The Sydney Symphony, before starting its performance (yes, we saw the Sydney Symphony perform at the Sydney Opera House -- how cool is that?) began with a land acknowledgment. A couple of wineries had little land acknowledgment plaques at their cellar doors. One restaurant had a land acknowledgment on its menu!
We started making up farcical land acknowledgments, and we decided to do a land acknowledgment at our next dinner party where we served Australian wine. Given that the Aborigines are not going to get the land back, I'm not sure what the point of the whole rigamarole is.
The land acknowledgements in Australia are thinning out now (the airlines' willingness to do them has become very patchy, for example). Admittedly, some of this has come about because many followers of monotheistic religions (Jews, Christians, Muslims) consider them idolatry. Like the US, Australia has an anti-establishment clause in its Constitution, so this has given various Aboriginal organisations and their boosters pause.