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Israel has incredible history and cultural diversity! Ofc the state has tried to destroy all of that for decades. Bulldozing Palestinian villages so people forget they ever existed, ethnic cleansing of diverse communities, and forced assimilationism
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The Golan heights used to be home to a diverse array of ethnic communities. Syrian Turkmen, Circassians, Druze, Alawites, metoualis, antiochan Christians, abazins, Bedouins, and Sunni Syrian Arabs. Israel destroyed and expelled every single village except for 4 Druze villages and one alawite one, then they built new settlements over the ruins.

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Numerous historic Palestinian villages were razed in the 1950s, and this destruction included some historic Palestinian Jewish synagogues. But destroying Jewish history was worth it to try to erase the memory of Palestinian inhabitance. The Israeli military even went through the effort to destroy Muslim religious sites like the Shrine of Husayns Head.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 1w

And let’s not forget how the state has treated its Jewish communities either. In their effort to create a unified Hebrew-speaking state, they made sure to try to erase diasporic identity as much as possible. The dozens of unique Jewish communities from around the world must all be assimilated into a single Hebrew Israeli identity. And with it comes the decline of Yiddish, Ladino, and the judeo-Arabic dialects.

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