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Happy Hanukkah? Thanks, but no thanks.

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  Happy Hanukkah? Thanks, but no thanks. My original article 'Happy Hanukkah? Thanks, but not for me', was published on Mondoweiss, 12th December 2012 AVIGAIL ABARBANEL This is the original image that Mondoweiss used when they published my article. For some reason the link is now broken. (The Israeli media and the military show images of female soldiers at every opportunity. It is a deliberate effort to portray a ’soft’ image of the Israeli military to the world). I have decided to re-post another old article of mine, which was  originally published on Mondoweiss .  Mondoweiss  chose the image above to accompany my article, so I am using it here. For some reason, the link to the image on  Mondoweiss  is broken. Before you read the original article, please read my up-to-date commentary from this morning: It is this time of year again, and I am more than fed up with all the  Hanukkah  recipes that appear on my news feed. I have never seen so many in the UK before, since arriving

1787 Project - The Founders Were All Black Women

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  1787 Project - The Founders Were All Black Women Newz you can afford to lose WILLIAM HUNTER DUNCAN From the AssAssicated Press, for immediate release: The New York Times is recording history again, with the release of a full Sunday addition on N’HiJole’ aXtu-Grynd’s 1787 Project. New research has come to light proving without any doubt, America’s founders were all, every last one of them, black women. “There really cannot and will not be any doubt from this moment on,” said Ms N’HiJole’ aXtu-Grynd, “The founders were righteous sista’z, powerful black women. The first president was Georgia Washington.” A journalist who has since disappeared and shall not be named asked, “but, what about slavery? Weren’t black people….” Ms N’HiJole aXtu-Grynd can't believe she has to lower herself to the level of having to answer such a pathetically ridiculous question. “Everybody knows it was white people in chains. In the 1860’s there was a civil war, black people were cast down from power, suppl