Adding stupidity to enmity, we have this priceless pearl of wisdom:
“Israel is a racist European ethnostate built on stolen land from its indigenous population!”
Let’s take this little sentiment apart, shall we?
If we’re talking Israelis and Arabs, it can’t be “racist”, you flaming asshole, because both Israelis and Arabs are of the same race, i.e. Semitic. It’s like a Londoner being accused of racism for calling a Liverpudlian a “fucking Scouser” — they’re the same people.
If your hostility is directed towards the concept of an “ethnostate”, then yes, Israel is by definition an ethnostate — Jewish — as are all the -stans: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Iran, Iraq, etc. — all Muslim. (Also, Arabs and Christians may live and practice their religion in Israel — unlike the reverse in any Muslim nation.)
And the Jews are “European” only in recent historical terms — having had their land stolen from them by Romans and Arabs, and forced to flee north into Europe, a.k.a the Diaspora. In terms of heredity, they’re as European as, say, Pakistanis living in London.
We brushed on the “stolen land” concept above, but the continuing fallacy of Jews having pushed Arabs out of Palestine is nonsense — Jews have lived in Palestine for thousands of years, and have just as much if not more right to the land than the scattered Arab tribes (indigenous, my ass) in the area. You may as well say that the Jews stole the land from the Hittites while you’re about it. (Speaking of Palestine: there’s no such thing as “Palestinian” — they’re Arabs.)
Finally, it should be known that this asswipe, Hussain Altamimi, is a legislative assistant to Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (Soc, NY), and it’s small wonder that he’s found a happy home there, she being of the same anti-Semitic persuasion as he, the Commie bitch.
Up until 1948, Palestinians were Jews and Arabs were Arabs. After 1948, Jews were Israelis, Arabs were still Arabs and the Palestinian label was unclaimed until 1966 when it was appropriated by Arafat who prior to that insisted that Arabs were Arabs.
Also, I doubt that there is a speck of occupied land on the planet that wasn’t taken from another group multiple times.
Not quite true. True for Sephardic Jews. Their genetics trace almost directly to the Levant. Ashkenazi Jews are more Slavic and European than Semitic.
So, for the Ashkenazi, they are less like Pakistanis living in London, and more like that guy who says his great great grandmother was Sioux moving trying to move back to the rez.
I LIKE ethnostates. A people should have a homeland. On the “stolen” part, if you can’t be bothered to keep a land, it isn’t yours. Suck it muslims.
The real trick is to get ALL of the bloody Jews to return home.
Most of the land in Israel was purchased from it’s Palestinian, Arab or Turkish owners.
But mostly they were absentee landlords.
The Jewish National Fund, which is the organization that did most of the land buying, had a particular rule–once they bought a piece of land ONLY JEWS could work it.
So it would buy land from absentee landlords–olive groves, date farms–that had been worked by Palestinians for generations, then kick the workers off. Which would have *almost* been acceptable if they had replaced the Palestinians with Jewish workers…but they didn’t. They just let the land go fallow.
And the Palestinians didn’t really have anywhere to go, because many other places would only hire Jews for “good” jobs, leaving the Palestinians to do day labor and live in really bad conditions.
Most of the Jews moving to Israel at the time were not Semitic Jews, but Jews who’d lived in Europe–mostly Eastern Europe for hundreds or thousands of years, and had been abused the whole time by Christians.
See the Martyr Made podcasts “Fear and Loathing in New Jerusalem”.