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7th Rangers: Commemorating ‘Sayfo’: The untold genocide of the Aramean Christians By OHAD MERLIN
 
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Commemorating ‘Sayfo’: The untold genocide of the Aramean Christians By OHAD MERLIN
Saturday, June 22, 2024
I am Aramean' T shirt with Aramean Eagle and Flame Symbol

JPost : “In my view, we must cultivate and strengthen our community’s sense of collective identity not to seclude ourselves, but to fit in and take part in our societies,” says Khalloul, Aramean activist.

The Jerusalem Post reached out to Shadi Khalloul, an Aramean activist and educator from the northern community of Gush Halav (Jish), to hear more about the tragic affair and the community today.

“Our memorial day is very similar to Holocaust Memorial Day,” explained Khalloul. “We hold commemorative ceremonies and learn about the history of our people and the hardships they faced.

“The meaning of the word Sayfo is ‘sword,’” he continued. “On this occasion, we remember the hundreds of thousands of Arameans who were murdered by the Ottomans and all kinds of criminals who were released from prisons and carried out the ethnic cleansing in our villages, pillaged them and took away our land and properties.”

The Sayfo is less known than its Armenian counterpart, despite the fact that it took place in the same period of time, by the same perpetrators, and for the same reasons.

Remnants of Biram (credit: Avital Perelshtein)Enlrage image
Remnants of Biram (credit: Avital Perelshtein)

“Though a more ‘silent’ ethnic cleansing of our people by the Ottomans began as early as 1895, when World War I broke out, the Ottomans accelerated their actions in their effort to purge the areas under their control of any trace of millions of the indigenous Christian populations,” added Khalloul. 

“This includes Armenians, Pontic Greek, and even the Maronites of Lebanon, who faced systemic starvation in the disaster known in Aramaic as ‘Kafno’, or 'the hunger.'" 

Who exactly are the Arameans?

“The Arameans are a Semitic people who attribute their past to Aram, the son of Shem who was son of Noah. We are also related to the patriarchs and matriarchs of the Jewish nation, as Abraham, Rivka, Leah, Rachel – all of them are mentioned in the Bible as Aramean.

“Originally, we lived in what is now Southeast Turkey and the Northern part of the Levant. There were several historical Aramean kingdoms, including Aram Zoba, Aram Naharayim, and others, including Tadmor, which is now known as Palmyra in Syria, most of them following a polytheistic religion.

“Our forefathers accepted Christianity very early on, as Jesus himself spoke Aramaic, just like them. According to tradition, St. Peter himself, who was from Galilee, founded the first church in Antioch, and to this day, the patriarch in Lebanon is called Butrus after him. 

Over time, we split into different denominations, and today, there are several ones with varying names, including Maronites, Syriac, Assyrian, Chaldeans, and others. Some of us use Aramaic as a liturgical language, and others even as their daily spoken language. So yes, we have our own customs, a flag, and even a sense of collective memory as persecuted people who went through hardships and massacres.”

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