Brilliant (copyright fair use) re-use of This Land Is Mine, a parody of “The Exodus Song,” by Nina Paley, the creator of the acclaimed Sita Sings the Blues animated film (2008). Acclaimed before she was canceled by the left for her “heterodorx” views on trans issues.

Youtube:

A brief history of the land called Israel/Palestine/Canaan/the Levant.

Who’s-killing-who viewer’s guide here: blog.ninapaley.com/2012/10/01/this-land-is-mine/

In spite of YouTube’s ContentID auto-bots making 3rd-party copyright claims on this, it is in fact FAIR USE (parody). This work is also Copyleft, CC-BY-SA, although YouTube says “Videos with a third-party copyright claim cannot have a Creative Commons license.” Copying is an act of love, please copy and share.

See her blog post This Land Is Mine is yours. For a viewer’s guide to her This Land Is Mine video, see This Land Is Mine, and below.

Nine became a friend after discovering my anti-IP work when she encountered artistic copyright censorship when producing Sita Sings the Blues; see my appearance on her Heterodorx podcast, KOL328 | Heterodorx Ep. 10 with Nina Paley: I.P. Everywhere! She’s also on the Advisory Board of my anti-IP Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom (C4SIF). She hosts the Heterodorx podcast (now on substack) with de-transitioner Corinna (now Cori) Cohn; their show opens with “Hello TERFs and Trannies!”

And see her great concise demolition of the logic behind copyright and patent law, below. Actually once when I debated IP at NYU,¹ when she still lived in New York, Nina and her retinue came and sat in the audience to support me.

On her cancellation:

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From her post This Land Is Mine:

Who’s Killing Who? A Viewer’s Guide

Because you can’t tell the players without a pogrom!

 

Early Man
This generic “cave man” represents the first human settlers in Israel/Canaan/the Levant. Whoever they were.

 

 

Canaanite
What did ancient Canaanites look like? I don’t know, so this is based on ancient Sumerian art.

 

 

Egyptian
Canaan was located between two huge empires. Egypt controlled it sometimes, and…

 

 

Assyrian
….Assyria controlled it other times.

 

 

Israelite
The “Children of Israel” conquered the shit out of the region, according to bloody and violent Old Testament accounts.

 

 

Babylonian
Then the Baylonians destroyed their temple and took the Hebrews into exile.

 

 

 

Macedonian/Greek
Here comes Alexander the Great, conquering everything!

 

 

Greek/Macedonian
No sooner did Alexander conquer everything, than his generals divided it up and fought with each other.

 

 

Ptolemaic
Greek descendants of Ptolemy, another of Alexander’s competing generals, ruled Egypt dressed like Egyptian god-kings. (The famous Cleopatra of western mythology and Hollywood was a Ptolemy.)

 

 

Seleucid
More Greek-Macedonian legacies of Alexander.

 

Hebrew Priest
This guy didn’t fight, he just ran the Second Temple re-established by Hebrews in Jerusalem after the Babylonian Exile.

 

 

Maccabee
Led by Judah “The Hammer” Maccabee, who fought the Seleucids, saved the Temple, and invented Channukah. Until…

 

 

Roman
….the Romans destroyed the Second Temple and absorbed the region into the Roman Empire…

 

 

Byzantine
….which split into Eastern and Western Empires. The eastern part was called the Byzantine Empire. I don’t know if “Romans” ever fought “Byzantines” (Eastern Romans) but this is a cartoon.

 

 

 

Arab Caliph
Speaking of cartoon, what did an Arab Caliph look like? This was my best guess.

 

 

Crusader
After Crusaders went a-killin’ in the name of Jesus Christ, they established Crusader states, most notably the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

 

 

Mamluk of Egypt
Wikipedia sez, “Over time, mamluks became a powerful military caste in various Muslim societies…In places such as Egypt from the Ayyubid dynasty to the time of Muhammad Ali of Egypt, mamluks were considered to be “true lords”, with social status above freeborn Muslims.[7]” And apparently they controlled Palestine for a while.

 

 

Ottoman Turk
Did I mention this is a cartoon? Probably no one went to battle looking like this. But big turbans, rich clothing and jewelry seemed to be in vogue among Ottoman Turkish elites, according to paintings I found on the Internet.

 

 

Arab
A gross generalization of a generic 19-century “Arab”.

 

British
The British formed alliances with Arabs, then occupied Palestine. This cartoon is an oversimplification, and uses this British caricature as a stand-in for Europeans in general.

 

 

Palestinian
The British occupied this guy’s land, only to leave it to a vast influx of….

 

European Jew/Zionist
Desperate and traumatized survivors of European pogroms and death camps, Jewish Zionist settlers were ready to fight to the death for a place to call home, but…

 

 

PLO/Hamas/Hezbollah
….so were the people that lived there. Various militarized resistance movements arose in response to Israel: The Palestinian Liberation Organization, Hamas, and Hezbollah.

 

1. KOL071 | “Intellectual Property Law and Policy” at NYU School of Law Symposium (2011).  [↩]