Anonymous #1 26w

Because they won’t be satisfied by merely removing all the Palestinians. They need to rewrite history to kill the memory of them too.

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Anonymous OP 26w

I feel like it’s something similar with trying to portray Zionism as not being a form of colonialism. The prominent Zionists back in the day called it colonization. But I guess now colonization is viewed negatively in a way it wasn’t back then so they need to call it something else.

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Anonymous #1 26w

The revisionism is something that’s really prominent in Israel. Changing Arabic place names to Hebrew. Back in the 50s-70s there was a ton of razing of historic Palestinian villages, so much so that several Arabic Jewish synagogues were destroyed.

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Anonymous #1 26w

Revisionism pains me almost as much as the genocide does, more than it should. Like if they’re pushing this hard now to revise history, when information has never been easier to get, imagine how much of our known history is just revision after revision?

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Anonymous OP 26w

There has been a lot of revisionism in the United States, but I think fortunately at least in the scientific fields there is still a push to develop the most accurate view of things. Like even if the public or politicians commonly views something which is incorrect, usually the historical community at least knows what is true.

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Anonymous #1 26w

A good example of historic revisionism of this sort in the United States is the various mounds scattered across the Midwest and southeast. English settlers claimed that the mounds couldn’t have been built by native Americans, so attributed them to Vikings, Israelites, Toltecs, Egyptians, or welsh. They even claimed that colonization was “avenging” these people which had presumably been killed off. But as the archaeological field developed, it was proved that they were made by native Americans.

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Anonymous #1 26w

Similarly, the site of Great Zimbabwe in what was then Rhodesia was commonly attributed to Phoenicians or Egyptians, but archaeologists proved it was made by indigenous Africans.

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Anonymous #1 26w

🎵 ~Hello Mississippi~ 🎶 Look at those Mounds 👀

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Anonymous OP 26w

I was just at Cahokia two days ago I was thrilled

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Anonymous #1 26w

I’ve never been in person to any of the sites, but I’d love to go! I’ve spent hours exploring them with the USGS National Map Viewer, they have LiDAR layers that can get you like 1ft resolution so the amount of detail you get is INSANE The layer I use specifically is the 3D elevation profile (3DEP) hillshade stretched which exaggerates vertical relief a bit

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Anonymous OP 26w

What region do you live in? I’ve visited a few in Ohio and Cahokia. I’d like to visit great circle earthworks next, or maybe some of the really ancient ones down in Louisiana

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Anonymous #1 26w

I’m east of the blue ridges so most native settlements in my area have long been altered. Pretty much the epicenter of Creasps war if you’re familiar. We have barely any native sites around us here unfortunately. The earliest map of the area I could find was just European settlers’ land patents

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Anonymous OP 26w

Ah darn. I’m from southeast Virginia. While we don’t have any mounds, there’s some pretty good native archaeology here just due to the historical importance of the Powhatan.

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