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  • queermunist she/her
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    -11 year ago

    Hmm, why would Palestinians hate European settlers that stole their land via the imperial edict of Britain? 🙄

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      “European settlers” in the sense that they hadn’t been in Israel since the Romans kicked them out in '65 for causing too much trouble with all their messiahs and religious zealotry.

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        1 year ago

        2000 years!

        They hadn’t ever been in Israel, they were born and raised in Europe by parents that were born and raised in Europe by grandparents that were born and raise in Europe etc. etc. They were Europeans, complete with white skin and European culture and European language.

        This wasn’t refugees returning to their home. It was settlers invading nonwhite people’s land and stealing it for themselves.

        • Hyperreality
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          01 year ago

          A third of Israelis are (family of) refugees/emigrants from the middle-east or north Africa.

          It’s not a ‘white european’ country, which you’d know just looking at them.

          Imposing simplistic American notions of race on a complicated conflict is stupid and embarrassing.

          • queermunist she/her
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            Yeah, now. That’s because they imported Jews from everywhere they could to become Israeli. It started as a European settler project.

            But if you look at the positions of power, the government and businesses and celebrities, you’ll see mostly white faces. Israel definitely has a white supremacist bent to it - you don’t think an Ethiopian Jew will ever be the prime minister do you?

            America’s white majority is going to disappear too, but you don’t think that will actually end American white supremacy right?

            • Hyperreality
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              01 year ago

              Out of interest, would you describe Romani people (pejorative ‘gypsy’) as being white?

              • queermunist she/her
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                -11 year ago

                If they were given their own settler colony and started being treated as an equal by all the other white countries? Yes.

                I wouldn’t consider a European Jew before the formation of Israel to be white, but they’re sure as fuck white now.

                • Hyperreality
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                  01 year ago

                  If someone of white European heritage burns down a synagogue frequented by what you consider people of white European heritage, would you still consider that racist given they’re the same race? Or would you consider that less racist than someone burning down a church frequented by black people?

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          Yeah, if we stretch this logic even further down, we all get to claim our ancestral land in Africa from 200 millennia ago.