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No surprises here. The settler colonialist project continues.
by Hikikomori 1y ago
No surprises here. The settler colonialist project continues.
- nailer 1y ago[flagged]
- Hikikomori 1y agoSo everyone living there now is not from another country? Either way, what we both stated is not mutually exclusive.
- nailer 1y agoThe majority of Jewish people in Israel are Mizrahi Jews, ie they remained in the Middle East in places like Israel, Iraq, Iran, Syria. There are also Ashekanzi Jews who are also Jewish but migrated to Europe, kept in isolated communities, and returned. 20% of the population are also Arabs that arrived from the Arabian peninsula.
- myth_drannon 1y agoSmall correction but that's Mizrahi Jews you are talking about... Sephards are from Al-Andalus(what is now white colonized Spain)
- jalapeno_a 1y agoIsrael is a European colony, it has nothing to do with the Bible.
- Sabinus 1y agoColonies send resources back to their motherland. Israel has no motherland, and is majority Middle East-origin Jewish.
- tptacek 1y agoI think this is directionally and importantly true, but, for the record, the notion of a "settler colony" was invented to capture the distinction between colonies that exist to shuttle resources and colonies that exist to create new homeland. (The Mizrahim fatally complicate any effort to sum Israel up as any kind of simplistic entity, and the term "European" to describe it is practically a slur.)
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- beardyw 1y ago> Arabs invaded during Arab colonisation in 650 A.D Oh, like Europeans invaded North America a thousand years later? So who has the rights to Noth America?
- nailer 1y agoYes. That's why we don't protest native Americans that want to live in America.
- runarberg 1y agoA lot of Palestinian activists do support the Land back movement in the USA. I‘m curious if you do? Or if you support indigenous rights in general (with the exception of Palestinians)? I‘m also curious why you seem so fixated on the Arab conquest of the region in the 7th century, but not the Roman occupation 6 centuries earlier, or the Ottoman conquest 8 centuries later (or the British occupation later still)? Especially since the Roman occupation was far more brutal and left a much greater wound in Jewish history than any of the later conquests and occupations of the region. For clarification, in 136 CE Hadrian banned Jews (as well as Christians) from living in Jerusalem after having ethnically cleansed the city of Jewish presence. Neither the Arabs nor the Ottomans did that. This was reversed a couple of centuries later. Ironically, the city remained unsegregated (where Jews, Christians, and Muslims were all allowed to live in the city and practice their respective religion) all the way until Israel conquered half the city in 1948, and occupied the other half of it in 1967, where it now excludes any Palestinian presence, be they Christian or Muslim.
- tguvot 1y agoJoran ethnically cleansed all Jews from East Jerusalem and West Bank. And then annexed it. With regards "unsegregated": " For example, in public baths in Jerusalem, where all residents are allowed to go, Jews must continue to be distinguished from Muslims. In everyday life, the Jew must wear a yellow turban. Removing it or wearing any other color is interpreted as an attempt to pass oneself off as a Muslim. Jewish women must wear a yellow garment or piece of cloth to distinguish themselves from Muslim women. The nudity of public baths meant that another distinctive sign was required: any Jew entering the baths had to carry a bell to signal his arrival." aka "the day to day live of dhimmi" Also, you make it sound like there are no Palestinians in Jerusalem. Wikipedia helpfully states: " In 2022, Jerusalem had a population of some 971,800 residents, of which almost 60% were Jews and almost 40% Palestinians.[14][note 4] In 2020, the population was 951,100, of which Jews comprised 570,100 (59.9%), Muslims 353,800 (37.2%), Christians 16,300 (1.7%), and 10,800 unclassified (1.1%)."
- SirFatty 1y agoYou have it backwards..