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The Palestinians are absolutely indigenous to Palestine. Israel is a synthetic European creation, no one is indigenous to Israel.
by lorecore 4mo ago
The Palestinians are absolutely indigenous to Palestine. Israel is a synthetic European creation, no one is indigenous to Israel.
- diffs 4mo ago[flagged]
- lorecore 4mo agoThis is blatantly false. Palestinians are indigenous to Palestine. No one is indigenous to Israel, which was created in 1948. Israel is a colony, defined by its non-indigenous population.
- throw402672 4mo agoAre Palestinian Jews indigenous to Palestine or when you say “Palestinian” you mean only non-Jews?
- diffs 4mo ago[flagged]
- dang 4mo agoWe've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological/political/religious battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling for or against. See 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... for past explanations. (Single-purpose accounts aren't allowed in general, btw.)
- diffs 4mo agoThis is both harsh and untrue. While I've allowed myself to be baited here, I've clearly discussed other topics. This is (was?) a somewhat new account as well. How big of a buffer should I have before I'm allowed to discuss controversial topics without fearing the ban hammer?
- dang 4mo agoWe have no interest in being unfair, and anyone who genuinely wants to use HN as intended should have no trouble getting unbanned. In this context, the test for whether an account is using HN as intended or not is whether it is primarily using the site for ideological/political/etc. battle. If an account is mostly using HN for the latter, which yours plainly is, then it's not using the site as intended. I think that answers your question, no? It's not about buffer size, it's about what an account is primarily using HN for. It's supposed to be used for intellectual curiosity in a kind of meandering random walk. It's not supposed to be used for prosecuting fixed agendas, regardless of what the agenda is.
- diffs 4mo agoI disagree on what is plain here. Having said that, how does one go about getting unbanned?
- dang 4mo agoI counted about 20 comments on political topics and 4 on others. That's plainly on the wrong side of the "primarily" test. If you want to commit to using the site primarily for intellectual curiosity and only secondarily for politics/ideology/etc., we can unban the account.
- sosomoxie 4mo agoArab Jews were encouraged to move to Israel. It’s part of the Zionist project.
- throw402672 4mo agoThe Arab countries were ethnically cleansed of Jews, and the Jews were forced to leave all their property behind.
- Sabinus 3mo agoThe actual answer is it was a bit of both, but the majority of it was the rising antisemitism and anti Jewish laws in Arab countries (as a result of the Israel Palestine conflict)