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>I think the point of GP’s comment is that the situation is substantially more complicated than the settler-colonial framing Did you read his original comment?
by mamonster 2y ago
>I think the point of GP’s comment is that the situation is substantially more complicated than the settler-colonial framing
Did you read his original comment? He was talking about how the Jews got chased out of their homeland by a "pedophile warlord" and how Jews have to make a last stand for Judaism. If they weren't both dead, it might as well have come from Baruch Goldstein or Meir Kahane themselves.
I don't disagree with anything you say, but if you look at his own numbers of Jews that had to flee Muslim countries after the establishment of Israel they are in the ballpark of what Palestinians went through with the Nakba. There were a lot of massive ethnic cleansings and deportation events post-WW2 based on the "ethnostates are good" / "minorities are the fifth column" ideas that were all fucked up and Sephardi/Mizrahi don't have a privilege in saying theirs was uniquely evil.
- woodruffw 2y agoI think maybe we’re talking about different comments, or it was edited. The one I’m referring to is this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40089785 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40089785 (If it was edited away from what you’ve said, then I’m not going to defend the original comment. And I agree that what happened to middle eastern Jews is not uniquely evil; only that it ought to color our understanding of the overall situation.)