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Trying to frame the violent expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland as just "Jews trying to live in their own homeland".. isn't working in 2026 and nobody
by rowanseymour 9mo ago
Trying to frame the violent expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland as just "Jews trying to live in their own homeland".. isn't working in 2026 and nobody needs to read the thoughts of a man who saw Cecil Rhodes as a kindred spirit.
- incrudible 9mo ago[flagged]
- siltcakes 9mo ago[flagged]
- xdennis 9mo agoHow is Arab conquest of Palestine "resistance"? Palestine was at the time controlled by the Byzantine Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Muslim_conquest_of_Jerusalem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Muslim_conquest_of_Jerus...
- angra_mainyu 9mo agoYarmuk 636 is one of the most depressing events in history. Whenever I read about that or the disasters that ensued in the following centuries I always spend a day depressed. Grim.
- deleted 9mo ago[deleted]
- incrudible 9mo agoRemember when Germany lost the second world war, lost a third of its territory, had millions ethnically cleansed from said territory and then proceeded to not maintain a goal to wipe Poland off the map (again)?
- siltcakes 9mo agoZionists are the Nazis in this scenario, and yes we will ultimately defeat them.
- nailer 9mo ago[flagged]
- siltcakes 9mo ago[flagged]
- rowanseymour 9mo agoIn your opinion, if an American converts to Judaism, at what point does America cease to become their homeland?
- FunnyUsername 9mo agoOne can similarly become Palestinian by immigrating to Palestine (and "fitting in", which involves speaking Arabic etc). Arafat was born in Egypt, for example. Does this refute the notion that Palestinians are from Palestine? I would say no. Similarly Jews are from Judea, despite the existence of a small number of converts with "impure" lineage.
- dang 9mo agoWould you please stop posting flamebait and perpetuating flamewars? You've been doing this a ton lately and your account is crossing over the line (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comment&storyText=false&prefix=false&page=0&query=primarily%20test%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). We've repeatedly asked you to fix this and your latest run has been one of the worst. That's not good. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- nailer 9mo ago[flagged]
- mattfrommars 9mo agoJews left Arab stats on their own accord because of rise of Zionism. Arab were the only folks who accepted Jews in the first place as they sought refuge from Nazi Europe
- nailer 9mo ago[flagged]
- Amir_A 9mo agoYou mean the well-documented terrorist operations by Israel against Jews in the Arab disaspora? The terrorist state started with terrorism and sustained through it.
- yoavm 9mo agoI actually think he is referring to these events, both happening before the establishment of Israel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farhud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz_pogrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiraz_pogrom
- incrudible 9mo agoI don't know where you got this narrative from, but it doesn't align with historical accounts at all.
- yeasku 9mo agoJews were not only expelled from Arab counties, catholic too.