My thoughts on why
@JoeBiden
should recognize the
#ArmenianGenocide
, a genocide that also claimed the lives of Assyrians & Greeks.
The souls of genocide victims and their descendants both seek justice to end a painful past and present.
@NewsweekOpinion
#Armenians
is trending!
Assyrians and Armenians have a long history together.
Pictured is a painting by Vardges Sureniants of the legendary Assyrian Queen Shamiram/Semiramis and the Armenian King Ara titled "Semiramis at the Corpse of Ara the Handsome (1899)."
#ArmenianGenocide
is trending worldwide—a genocide orchestrated by Ottoman Turks and Kurds (which Turkey still denies today) that targeted not only Armenians but also Assyrians and Greeks, among others.
An estimated 3 million were killed in the early part of the 20th century.
Here’s photos of one of the world’s first churches—Jubail Church, an Assyrian church—located in modern day Saudi Arabia.
It was built in the fourth century—some 300 years before Islam was founded.
Enjoy!
My heart is bleeding when I see this, people come to our countries for Hijra to flee those shit, we don’t have to let the Christian’s decide for our religious policies, they decided to move in our countries, who asked them tf ???
Leaders of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Hungary signed an agreement to bring Azeri energy to Europe, aiming to cut the continent's reliance on Russia
What about the three Assyrians (among many) who were executed by ISIS?
Nothing for them.
Remember their names:
—Dr. Abdel-Maseeh Aniyah of Tal Jazirah (Al-Hasakah)
—Ashur Rustam Abraham of Tal Jazirah
—Bassam Issa Michael from Tal Shamiram (Al-Jazirah)
This is big. It's not every day that the pope adds the names of 21 Coptic Christians, adherents to Oriental Orthodoxy, to the Roman Martyrology - the official list of saints recognized by the Catholic Church, according to their feast days. 1/
If Dr.
#Oz
—1915 Armenian/Assyrian/Greek genocide denier—wins, it will open the floodgates for any and all genocide deniers to enter Congress, including Holocaust deniers.
🇪🇹 "The hunger crisis in
#Ethiopia
extends beyond the northern conflict zone in
#Tigray
. Ethiopia is also suffering from drought, flooding, desert locust invasions, high food prices and the COVID-19 pandemic."—
@WilliamLambers
for
@NewsweekOpinion
"Eyewitnesses told
@CNN
that a group of
#Eritrean
soldiers opened fire in November on Maryam Dengelat church in Dengelat village, in
#Tigray
's east, while hundreds of congregants were celebrating mass."
#Ethiopia
Today we mark 30 years of diplomatic relations between Israel and
#Armenia
, a friendship built on the long standing connection between our peoples.
We look forward to broadening our relations in the years to come 🇦🇲🤝🇮🇱
#ARMIL30
🇦🇿📍"We Are the Mountains" sculpture was built in 1967 in Khankendi city of Azerbaijan .
Monument is a sign of Azerbaijan's multicultural and ethno-religious tolerance alongside many other examples.
Remembering all innocent
#Assyrians
murdered for simply being themselves throughout the centuries today on
#AssyrianMartyrsDay
.
🕯️🕯️🕯️
Never forgotten.
✨Some personal news✨I am now Deputy Opinion Editor
@Newsweek
(I started last week)!
I learned a lot being
@POLITICO
for almost 5 years. I’ll be remote but I can’t wait to visit the Manhattan office when it’s ~safe to meet my colleagues!
"The head of the
#Ethiopian
Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in the country’s
#Tigray
region is sharply criticizing
#Ethiopia
’s actions, saying he believes it’s
#genocide
: 'They want to destroy the people of Tigray.'"
You can’t “two side” an issue—the
#LachinCorridor
blockade—when human lives are at risk, coupled with a possible genocide.
Azerbaijan is the aggressor and must be stopped.
#Artsakh
"On April 24, Biden has the normative, legislative and historical legacy of the USHMM (
@HolocaustMuseum
) as the foundation and inspiration to make the decision to build a U.S. Armenian genocide memorial." —
@EldadBenAharon
for
@NewsweekOpinion
They are wearing ASSYRIAN clothes.
Caption on the
@GettyImages
site needs to be edited.
❌"Young women dressed in traditional Kurdish clothing wave flags of the Holy See as they wait for the arrival of Pope Francis in Arbil, on March 7, 2021."
@AFPphoto
@AFP
@AFPFactCheck
Reuters videographer, Issam Abdallah, was killed in the shelling in Lebanon, the news agency confirmed. Abdallah was part of a crew in southern Lebanon providing a live signal.
🕯️ Today Assyrians/Chaldeans/Syriacs remember the Oct. 31, 2010, attack on a Syriac Catholic church in Baghdad by terrorists.
🕯️ Over 40 worshippers, young and old, priests included, were killed in Sayedat Al Najat/Our Lady of Salvation Church.
🕯️ They will never be forgotten.
Assyrian Church of the East Patriarch Mar Awa announced clergy will meet with Ancient Church of the East officials in Chicago next month to discuss uniting both churches.
The churches split in the ‘60s over a difference of opinion concerning patriarch succession & calendar use.
"Erdogan & Aliyev intend to continue the genocide of 1915 & wipe Armenians off the map. Referring to the Armenian genocide, Erdogan said they will 'continue to fulfill this mission, which our grandfathers have carried out for centuries.'"—
@NewsweekOpinion
‼️ It’s time for Turkey to follow Germany’s lead and pay 1915 genocide-affected communities.
“Germany has agreed to fund 1.1 billion euros of reconstruction and development projects that would directly benefit the genocide-affected communities.”
An Assyrian church in Chicago was set on fire after 9/11.
“‘They must have missed the huge cross outside our church,’” said Sarah Benjamin, a lifelong parishioner whose parents were born in Iran.”
Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn't a mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence, which could all too easily have happened. And while GW Bush was a terrible president, to his credit he tried to calm prejudice, not feed it 2/
"The silence of world leaders, the media, & other influential actors paved the way for Azerbaijan's showering of bombs upon
#Artsakh
, some were even aimed at civilians for an "'anti-terrorist operation.'"—
@DemandForAction
's
@KinoNuri
for
@NewsweekOpinion
Your friend enjoys starting unnecessary wars with its neighbor Armenia.
Your friend also denies the 1915 genocide of Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks by the Ottoman Empire, where an estimated 3 million were killed.
Turkey, worst thing that happened to the region since 1923, not just for the Kurds but for Greeks, Cypriots, Armenians, Arabs, Christians, Jews and everybody in between.
🌸🌺🌼🌹 Happy
#Assyrian
New Year 6774! Wishing Assyrians around the world a wonderful year filled with endless blessings. From inventing everyday essentials to being treated like second-class citizens on our own land and enduring genocides, the Assyrian people remain resilient!
On
#IndigenousPeoplesDay
I am sharing this 1909 photo (one of my favorites) of an
#Assyrian
man standing next to an ancient Assyrian relief carving in modern day Turkey.
Assyrians are
#indigenous
to the Middle East.
Photo source:
Assyrian singer Janan Sawa’s song “Nina” is playing in the video.
Iranian Jews don’t dance like that, either.
I could go on …
The misinformation on this app is insane.
Happy Republic Day to the people of Türkiye and President
@RTErdogan
. As you approach the 100th anniversary of modern Türkiye, we in Israel look forward to building on the great strides we've made over the past year together.
A U.S. “ally” is celebrating and honoring genocide.
The Hamidian Massacres are named after Abdul Hamid.
Thousands of Assyrians and Armenians were killed between 1894-1896 as the Ottoman Empire was in its decline.
A fact students in Turkey will never learn about in schools.
🌍 "Human rights standards are powerful because they apply to all governments—the strong and the weak, friends and foes. Biden knows that. Now he should live by that principle." Via
@KenRoth
🦚 I visited
#Lalish
—a holy city for the
#Yazidis
. It is located north of Mosul.
🦚 To enter, all visitors must take their shoes off.
🦚 Yazidis were heavily persecuted when ISIS militants controlled parts of Iraq in 2014. Yazidi & Assyrian women and girls still remain missing.
This
#Assyrian
man has been missing for ~166 days. Turkish authorities have provided no concrete info on his whereabouts.
His wife’s lifeless body was found in their village — a village emptied of Assyrians because of constant PKK Kurdish-Turkish fighting.
#Hurm
üzDirilNerede
Maybe start with something more important—like recognizing the genocide of 3 million Assyrians, Greeks, Armenians and others during the beginning of the 20th century?
Former President Donald Trump mispronouncing “
#Assyrians
” was not on my 2024 Bingo Card.
At least now mainstream media finally isn’t afraid of using the term
#Assyrian
instead of the umbrella, nonsense term “Iraqi Christians.”
"The earthquake struck where Indigenous Armenian, Assyrian, and other non-Muslim communities flourished for thousands of years until they were erased during a WWI-era genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire—a genocide officially denied by Turkey."
Wow. Makes you wonder how much ISIS looted (church manuscripts in Aramaic/Syriac, ancient Assyrian/Mesopotamian art, etc) and sold off while the heirs of these pieces get $0.00.
Them: How can you claim to be
#Assyrian
? The Assyrian Empire existed thousands of years ago?
Me: Greeks exist don’t they? Egyptians? Persians? So why wouldn’t Assyrians exist?
Them: *silence*
~A real conversation I had yesterday.
The film will be released on Netflix after Aug. 7, a day Assyrians commemorate their dead.
This day is held every year to remember those that were killed for their ethnic identity + Christian religion.
“The Promise” reminds all that Greeks, Armenians + Assyrians were killed.
The Promise on Netflix! The blockbuster
#ArmenianGenocide
-era epic,
@thepromisefilm
will reach even broader audiences on Aug. 8th, the latest addition to the
@netflix
film library. Host a Netflix Stream Party and send us your pix for posting!
🕊️ "To the Assyrians, the KRG represents a continuation of cultural repression, assimilation and disenfranchisement. ... Mainstream media has been complicit in reinforcing the systematic erasure of these ancient communities." Via
@ANCA_DC
's
@algalitsky
🇪🇹 "We implore Prime Minister Ahmed to act swiftly to end the suffering of Ethiopians afflicted by war in
#Tigray
." —José Ramos-Horta, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for
@NewsweekOpinion
Mar Aprem Athniel,
#Assyrian
Church of the East bishop of
#Syria
, during his sermon today said there used to be 25,000 Assyrians in northeast Syria.
Today? Less than 2,000 Assyrians remain.
📸 Ruins of the Assyrian Church of the Virgin Mary in Syria's northeast, 2019.
@AFPphoto
Ninos Tahbit, a young Christian sculptor from Qaraqush of Nineveh plains, with support of his father, sculptor Thabit Mikhael, makes a statue for Mother Gully, symbol of Ezidi woman stood in face of ISIL militants, following below story by KirkukNow
Shame on Morgan Freeman for shilling for
#TurkishAirlines
- a state air carrier that illegally ferries radicalized mercenaries around the world to fight Recep Erdogan’s proxy wars.
“Making war feel close. Bringing fear to here.”
#BoycottTurkishAirlines
#ShameOnMorganFreeman
"As the world is distracted with the bloodshed in Ukraine, Baku projects power over newly conquered territory by destroying cultural artifacts." Via
@simonforco
Trump’s election meddling comments echoed recent remarks by White House national security adviser John Bolton, who pointed the finger at China without giving concrete evidence of Beijing’s interference with U.S. elections. More on
@POLITICO
: