Levi Meir Clancy, at The Blogs

Oct 21, 2023, 9:45 AM

How the United States manufactures its islamophobia

Wadea Al-Fayoume, a Palestinian Arab boy killed by his landlord, is the first American to be killed in a hate crime connected to the current Arab-Jewish conflict. Will County investigators stated that Joseph Czuba stabbed six year old Wadea Al-Fayoume...

Oct 16, 2023, 2:40 PM

Jews are tired

Parking lot at Zikim Beach, one of the areas impacted by the Simchat Torah massacre. Photo by the author.

There are 15 million Jewish people in the world. There were over 70 million White Germans. There are over 400 million Muslim Arabs. There are about two billion each of Christians and Muslims. And sometimes they decide to try and wipe...

Oct 9, 2023, 4:28 PM

This massacre is not a response. It’s a tradition

At Zikim, a small Israeli village impacted by the massacre, a public menorah was made out of Hamas rockets. Photo by the author.

When you read Jewish history, it is filled with centuries of massacres, kidnappings, expulsions, and oppressive policies by Arab federations. Before Palestinian Arab leaders called themselves Palestinian, they had another name for their federation. And before that, an even earlier...

Sep 7, 2023, 2:42 PM

With her poetic lyrics, Narkis has lessons for all of us

This post is all about נרקיס Narkis, a Jewish singer of Teimani (Yemeni Jewish) and Parsi (Persian Jewish) ancestry, born and raised in the State of Israel. She is deeply under-appreciated. Narkis draws upon her Jewish, Yemeni, Persian, and Israeli identity...

Aug 27, 2023, 3:10 PM

Behind Amnesty’s Walid Daqqah advocacy, I found stomach-churning misinformation

Amnesty International's press release advocating for Walid Daqqah's release from prison included shocking misinformation about the murder of Moshe Tamam, the victim of the Walid Daqqah. Background of the case Walid Daqqah was one of four men who kidnapped Moshe Tamam...

Aug 23, 2023, 6:45 AM

The antisemitic worldview of Travis Ikeguchi, the alleged Laura Carleton killer

Black and white picture of pedestrians in hard lighting. Photo by the author, Levi Meir Clancy.

Across the United States this week, there have been headlines about the deadly shooting of Laura Ann Carleton in California, over her display of an LGBTQ pride flag. After an initial waiting period, law enforcement has named the alleged shooter,...

Dec 2, 2021, 11:58 PM

From the Nishul to Yom HaGirush, the DamGana emerges

Early 20th century haggadah, published in Baghdad. In the Damgana, the Babylonian Jews were completely removed after thousands of years of life in Mesopotamia.

First: Who, what, when, where? What is the דמגנע Damgana? The Damgana is the turning point at which Jewish populations in the Islamic world collapsed from almost one million to nearly zero, due to killings, riots, dispossession, expulsions, and the...

Nov 30, 2021, 9:19 PM

I moved to Erbil. Step by step, antisemites made a plan to murder me.

Two Hanukahs ago, I was shocked when charlatans broke into a Jewish holy site and staged a fake candle-lighting. A few months later, the FBI called me to tell me my life was under threat.

Note: This post is the second in a series about how I found myself targeted for my Jewishness by a cell of antisemites, and the collective indifference that allowed a small handful of people to cast a large shadow...

Sep 30, 2021, 9:54 AM

In the Kurdistan Region, antisemitic figures wanted me dead. They still do.

Note: This post is the first in a series about how I found myself targeted for my Jewishness by a cell of antisemites, and the collective indifference that allowed a small handful of people to cast a large shadow...

Mar 23, 2021, 10:15 PM

White supremacism. Arab supremacism. Supremacism.

This post is part of a series on the global reach of White supremacism and Arab supremacism. Supremacism is the belief that one group is superior to other groups. Obviously, an ideology is supremacist if it fulfills the definition of supremacism....

About Me

Levi Meir Clancy lives in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in Iraq, and is the founder of Foundation of Ours, which supports Jewish expression in the Kurdistan Region, and provides platforms for reconciliation and coexistence between all communities. He was born in Venice, California and moved to the KRI in 2014, after which he became involved in cultural, social, and religious affairs in addition to his work as a software developer, photographer, and videographer.

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