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minus-squareDragonTypeWyvernlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49arrow-down5·3 个月前Uh oh, it’s USS Liberty time
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up43arrow-down3·edit-23 个月前“I’m so sorry, we just couldn’t stop repeatedly attacking the Irish troops in an area we were informed Irish troops would be flying the Irish flag shouting at us to stop because they’re Irish, we thought they were Arabs”
minus-squareraynethackery@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·3 个月前Wasn’t there some conspiracy theory that the Irish are the lost tribe of Israel?
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-22 个月前So many groups have ‘lost tribe of Israel’ claims. There must have been hundreds of lost tribes. I’m more amused by the “Jesus came to England” myths which led to one of the most well-known of British hymns. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time Edit: I should have read that Wikipedia page first. The myth post-dates the poem.
Uh oh, it’s USS Liberty time
“I’m so sorry, we just couldn’t stop repeatedly attacking the Irish troops in an area we were informed Irish troops would be flying the Irish flag shouting at us to stop because they’re Irish, we thought they were Arabs”
Wasn’t there some conspiracy theory that the Irish are the lost tribe of Israel?
British Israelism
So many groups have ‘lost tribe of Israel’ claims. There must have been hundreds of lost tribes.
I’m more amused by the “Jesus came to England” myths which led to one of the most well-known of British hymns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time
Edit: I should have read that Wikipedia page first. The myth post-dates the poem.