Anonymous #2 2w

Frankly I suspect to a degree it’s intentional, as a method to make the diaspora feel more unsafe so they to come to Israel. Seeing Israeli officials go “YOU HAVE TO FLEE FROM NEW YORK CITY RIGHT NOW AND COME TO ISRAEL” right after mamdani was elected contributes to this feeling.

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No I’m just a nerd for Jewish diasporic history and the history of Zionism. Y’all always seem to stop talking to me as soon as it’s clear I actually know what I’m talking about and my opinions on Israel are informed by a strong love for Jewish culture and a knowledge of the history of Israel itself.

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Are we talking ancient Jerusalem? That was built by Jews certainly. During the Bar Kochba Revolt, the city was almost entirely razed and its Jewish population was massacred or expelled, and Jerusalem was replaced with the pagan settlement of Aelia Capitolina. Following Constantine it was then Christianized. Jews were not allowed back in Jerusalem until 638, when it was captured by Muslims and Caliph Omar allowed Jews to once again live in the city and access the Temple Mount.

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Anonymous #2 2w

The post-Hellenic history of the Levant is very complex and modern narratives tend to intentionally leave out how many religious groups were involved. Samaritans in particular tend to be ignored in modern narratives. The genetics though are pretty clear. The actual genetic composition of the Levant hasn’t changed that much. Modern Palestinian communities are primarily the descendants of local Jews, Samaritans, and Canaanites who converted to Christianity, and most then to Islam

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Anonymous #2 2w

Most modern people completely misunderstand the population dynamics of Arabic conquest and cultural expansion. It’s not a replacement of people groups, not like English colonization of Australia or North America. It’s local people adopting Arabic language, religion, and culture. Pretty similar to how Roman colonization worked.

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The state of Israel LITERALLY insists that they represent the Jewish people as a race and that anyone who condemns their atrocities are engaged in antisemitism. That itself is an antisemitic ideology that Israel demands the world adhere to.

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No the Romans took Hasmonean Judea from the Selucids, and then later destroyed Jewish society as punishment for revolts. The Muslims arrived in a land which had already been overwhelmingly Christianized (the Byzantine atrocities during the Samaritan revolts are an important event). Most of the Christian population (as well as many Jews and Samaritans) then converted to Islam.

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I am not antisemitic, I’m literally here CONDEMNING the antisemitism perpetrated by the Israeli government. I’m an ally of the Jewish people, always have been always will be. Why do you keep attacking my character and saying I’m a Nazi?

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Palestinians are indigenous. They are the local people who never left, but converted to another religion and adopted another language. The Irish did not stop being indigenous after they adopted Catholicism and later the English language.

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Anonymous #2 2w

The concept of “indigeneity” is one that only exists in contrast to a colonizing force. During the Hellenistic and Roman eras, Jews were indeed the indigenous inhabitants being subjugated by Roman and Greek officials, soldiers, and settlers. However, over the last century, Palestinians are the indigenous population being subjugated and displaced by Jewish colonists.

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Anonymous #2 2w

Historically, Greeks in Anatolia were an indigenous population that were being subjugated by Turks. However, if Greece was somehow able to launch a conquest of Turkey and replaced Turks with Greek settlers, those Turks would be the indigenous population being replaced by Greek colonists, despite Anatolia being historically Greek prior to Islam.

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And early Zionists acknowledged that Palestinians were native and they were a colonizing force. I suggest you take a look at the essay “Iron Wall” by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism. He repeatedly refers to Palestinian Arabs as “natives” and compares them to the Sioux and Aztecs. To quote him directly: “Zionist colonisation must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population.”

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I see that my “you’re gonna disappear when I show that I know what I’m talking about” prediction holds true.

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