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“Settler/colonizer” arguing people here when it comes time to celebrate our ancient holidays revolving around growing seasons in Israel
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Anonymous 2w

You realize there’s a big difference between the modern political nation state of Israel and Eretz Israel… right? Nation states are a modern European invention 😭 stay in school, kids

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Anonymous 2w

last Sukkot i saw a post by an antizionist jew (i think it might have been satire and i’m really hoping it is but i couldn’t tell for sure) about how she built an antizionist sukkah and she was going to look for stuff to use to make a “locally sourced lulav and etrog”

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Anonymous 1w

Someone can be a settler or colonizer in a land they have heritage from, Liberia is the most prominent example of this that comes to mind off the top of my head but there have definitely been others

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

😭😭😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

I don’t they’re arguing that the modern state of Israel is biblical Israel. They’re saying (correctly so) that Jews are indigenous to the land of israel. So you can’t be a colonizer of land that you are from.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 2w

That’s not what indigenous means tho

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

Maybe we have different definitions of indigenous. Google says inhabiting land from the earliest of times. I mean the post is literally making a joke that Sukkot only really works if you have plants native to Israel and are follow Mediterranean seasons.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 2w

Not only Sukkot but yes!

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 2w

I don’t really understand this logic because people have migrated all over the world since the beginning of time. Like, where do u draw the line of who is indigenous where? Technically speaking we all actually came from Africa, but that definitely doesn’t mean I can go claim land in Africa, and if I did wouldn’t it be colonialism?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 1w

“Inhabiting land from the earliest of times” is not the same thing as having inhabited land at a point in the past Judaism is indigenous to Eretz Yisrael and Jews have heritage indigenous to the holy land as well but the relationship between diaspora communities and Indigeneity is complicated and doesn’t classify as indigenous or not, people with heritage from an area can certainly be colonizers there though (the colonization of Liberia being a clear example of this)

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