Max J. Joseph
@DeadmanMax
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Mostly words and pictures. Assyrians, patronage systems, transnationalism. PhD Political Science⏳
Chicago | London
Joined July 2009
To make people without histories, to make them without futures. To make them prisoners of the present.
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Relentless 👇 https://t.co/cwPQQqCaLD
Idiots like this must hate seeing our graves. It's just another reminder of where Assyrians belong and our connection to the land. (One of the most common features of ethnic cleansing is breaking that connection)
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An Assyrian cemetery in Enishke, Nohadra (Dohuk) province was desecrated yesterday.
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A crucial feature of genocide involves erasing or co-opting a peoples past alongside an assault on its present and future. Cemeteries are not just where our family members rest, but where our memories are anchored. "You were never really here."
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On the Nineveh Plain being "disputed territory": "Disputed by who?” an Assyrian parish priest experiencing the pressures of demographic change said to me. “We have always lived here. Show me the Kurdish cemeteries, if they claim this is their land.” https://t.co/BeIVQpuI0k
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The KRG promotes "coexistence" while Assyrian graves are desecrated. With this level of hatred, even our dead can't rest in peace.
Assyrian Christian cemetery desecrated in the village Armota, Erbil province, Kurdistan Region, The inhabitants of the area are Assyrian Christians and Kurdish Muslims.
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After watching the video of the Assyrian businessman in Nohadra (Dohuk) appealing for justice directly to PM Barzani after his legal project was bulldozed at midnight, I couldn't help but notice how he was flanked by his staff of solemn, young men (Assyrian and Kurdish) trying to
An Assyrian businessman, Roben Markos from Nohadra Dohuk, had his Kanafa shop bulldozed by the Barzani Gov, which falsely claimed he didn’t have a permit for the restaurant.He employed 14,4 Assyrians and 10 Muslims. This is how the Barzani mafia operates in northern Iraq
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Iraq’s election law has enabled certain large parties (notably KDP and Babylon) to dominate the quota seats reserved for religious and ethnic minorities, effectively overriding the will of the communities those quotas were meant to protect. @the_amargi
theamargi.com
In Iraq’s 2025 parliamentary election, the country’s large parties have dominated the quota seats reserved for religious and ethnic minorities in the Council of Representatives. Christian activists...
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I don't think they will ever make hardware as simple and perfect as a Google Pixelbook Go ever again.
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midwest meets middle east assyrian presbyterian church, gary, in (1926)
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The statement was published in English, Arabic and Kurdish. No Assyrian. Remember that too 👍
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150,000+ Kurdish and Arab votes determined the Christian quota in Iraq's elections this week. This is how the US responded, and how it responded under Biden, and how it responded under Trump 1.0. Never forget.
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Seriously though, by spending over 150k Kurdish and Arab votes towards these candidates, the KDP stole 3 seats and Babylon/PUK stole 2 seats - all with Iraq's blessing since there are no protections to safeguard the integrity of these seats. Iraqi Democracy™
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Over 150k votes were reportedly cast for Christian Assyrian candidates for quota seats in Iraq's election, representing maybe a 300% turnout among eligible Christian Assyrian voters. We're so back!
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Iraq was constructed as a majoritarian Arab state. Until the very premise of the state itself is reformulated in earnest, reaching into other histories and cultures to imbue it with deeper layers of meaning is just a feature of statecraft tied inextricably to the spoils of war.
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This is how shallow a modern Iraqi identity is. Let's claim all of the good stuff, the monuments, the material heritage, the history, but lets quietly discard the uncomfortable facts: the genocides, the erasure, the theft.
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I remember voting in Iraq's elections in 2010. Despite presenting all required docs, the Iraqi polling staff were trying to find ways to bar me, asking whether my grandfathers were born in Iraq: "No." "A ha! So you're not really Iraqi." "They are both older than Iraq itself."
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