Jews were officially banished from Jerusalem and the ban remained strictly in place until the Muslim sultan Saladin recaptured the city in 1187. Shortly thereafter, he officially invited Jewish families back to safely repopulate the city, ending nearly nine decades of exile
Replying to @nick_matau
638: expulsion of the Jews from Jerusalem
1009: destruction of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem by the Fatimids
1073: start of persecution against Jews and Christians by the Turks in Jerusalem
1266: the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron is converted into a mosque and closed to Jews and Christians
1267: Mamluk Sultan Baybars forbids Jews from entering the vault of the Patriarchs in Hebron; the ban ended in 1967
1517: 1st pogrom in Safed, Ottoman Palestine
1517: 1st pogrom of Hebron, Ottoman Palestine
1660: 2 pogroms in Safed and Tiberias, Ottoman Palestine
1834: 2nd pogrom of Hebron, Ottoman Palestine
1834: pogrom of Safed, Ottoman Palestine
1838: Druze attack in Safed, Ottoman Palestine
1847: ethnic cleansing of Jews in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
1914: expulsion of Jews from Palestine old enough to bear arms by the Ottomans
1920: Irbid massacres: British mandate in Palestine
1920–1930: Arab riots, British Mandate Palestine
1921: 1st Jaffa riots, British Mandate Palestine
1928: massacres of Ikhwan, described in your list as occurring in Egypt and under the British Mandate in Palestine
1929: anti-Jewish riots in the British Mandate; violence in Jerusalem, Hebron, and Safed
1929: 3rd Hebron Pogrom, British Mandate Palestine
1929: 3rd Safed Pogrom, British Mandate Palestine
1933: 2nd Jaffa riots, British Mandate Palestine
1936: 3rd Jaffa riots, British Mandate Palestine
1948: 1st Arab-Israeli War
Yes chilling is essential after all the murdering and ethnic cleansing
I swear you come to Israel, especially Tel Aviv, and you would think no one here works.
You walk around all day by the beach, and it’s full of Israelis just chilling all day. And then you go out at night, and it’s full of Israelis partying and having fun. When do they have time to work?
It’s so awesome. They live life first, and they worry about work second. That mindset shift is so different coming from America, and it’s honestly refreshing and inspiring.
I’m still obsessed with my work, but it reminds me to also enjoy the moment and the journey. That’s why we’re on this earth anyways, right? But truly, the vibes here in Israel are unmatched.
Rex retweeted
Netanyahu is openly bragging that the Mossad can access anyone’s cellphone, plant evidence, and then portray that person as a monster. Worth keeping in mind when the Israeli military’s X account posts images of rocket launchers and copies of Mein Kampf in baby cradles and hospitals.
Israel sucks at a lot of things but genocide isn't one of them
Is this the most craven Israeli money grab or is there another taker?
Even AI had to cringe when creating this
The anti Israel movement has one intention: to bring about the end of the Jewish state. They would prefer the world cheers while they do it which is why you’re being subjected to constant propaganda.
Don’t condone genocidal intent. They intend to destroy a state and its people. That’s why they constructed the big lie. They created a fake genocide to prepare the ground for a real one
Tell the world you stand with Jews and Israel
Because as Israel steals more land and displaces the indigenous population they are forced to move to Gaza. A simple review would have told you this but zionists need to lie to try and justify their ethnic cleansing
I have been hearing about the “Genocide in Palestine” for as long as I can remember.
Gaza and the West Bank population: ~5.6 million people.
If Israel had been committing genocide for decades, that number should already be gone. Populations being wiped out don’t keep growing.
Hitler murdered ~6 million Jews in 6 years. Gaza’s population rose for decades.
So what genocide are you talking about?!
The math ain't mathing.
Next thing you know you’ll swear 2+2=10.
America: 6000 Racks
China: 5,000,000 Racks
Insane 'hold my beer' moment by China
By now, it's amply clear that the big bosses of US frontier AI labs are really, really scared of China.
And, fascinatingly, part of the answer why might be a tiny place in Inner Mongolia that you've probably never heard of: Ulanqab prefecture.
Heard of it? Didn't think so.
Even myself, who's traveled to Inner Mongolia twice, had never heard of it before researching this story.
This is because, at first glance, this place is pretty unremarkable. Check its Wikipedia page (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulanqa…) and you’ll see the only thing it’s famous for is being the birthplace of He Pingping, who briefly held the Guinness record for world’s shortest man.
That’s it, that’s the list!
Otherwise, it's just a sparsely populated - 1.5 million people, minuscule by Chinese standards - stretch of windswept grassland on the Mongolian plateau.
Except there is one number that tells you there is more to this place that meets the eye: this tiny prefecture consumes nearly 1% of all of China's electricity - and that number is growing by double digit numbers every year.
And yes, I did write **consume**, not produce.
In fact, when you divide Ulanqab's electricity consumption by the number of households living there, each household in this remote corner of Inner Mongolia "consumes" about 105,000 kWh in electricity, roughly 10 times the U.S. average. Insane electricity consumption numbers.
So what are the Ulanqabese doing? Are they all running 10 American households' worth of appliances?
Here is another number that might clue you in on the answer: over the past few years, this unremarkable prefecture has quietly signed over half a trillion yuan (and, yes, that’s trillion, with a "T") worth of investment deals from all the major Chinese tech giants.
What is going on, you'll have guessed by now, is the most ambitious data center buildup anywhere on earth - and it's really surprising this hasn't been talked about more because the scale is beyond anything else, and by an immense margin.
Take Elon Musk's so-called "Colossus" datacenter in Memphis, Tennessee which he pitches as "the world’s largest AI supercomputer."
According to their own numbers (x.ai/colossus), Colossus has 200,000 chips, which, let's be clear, is already super impressive.
In datacenter lingo, this converts to roughly 5000-6000 "racks": you know, the fridge-sized cabinets full of blinking lights you see in every movie scene set in a server room.
How many racks are they building in Ulanqab? Over 5 million.
Yes, about one thousand times the scale of "Colossus" 🤯
I tripled-checked the number: it is indeed the official number published by authoritative sources such as "Science and Technology Daily", the official newspaper of China's Ministry of Science and Technology (stdaily.com/web/gdxw/2026-08…).
This is an absurdly large amount of compute.
What we see appearing in this Inner Mongolian steppe may be the closest thing to a world brain humanity has ever built - a place where a large share of the world's thinking will physically happen.
And - as we'll see - what makes this story so fascinating is not just the scale, but why it's getting built in this particular patch of Inner Mongolian grassland which combines a number of characteristics unlike anywhere else.
If you believe, as I do - and as both China and the US obviously do as well - that AI will be the defining technology of the 21st century, this makes Ulanqab one of the single most relevant geopolitical places in the world right now.
The full story - the Chinese government plan Ulanqab is part of, energy prices, chips and the strategic questions this raises - is here: arnaudbertrand.substack.com/…























