April 22, 2026 The BPOE, or Elks, began in 1868 as a social club for minstrel show performers, so minstrel-show culture was part of its origin story. READ
goodshit Edwin Black’s The Farhud argues that the 1941 Baghdad pogrom was not an isolated eruption but part of a larger Nazi-Arab alliance shaped by anti-Jewish politics, anti-British sentiment, and wartime strategy.