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[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 64 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This article tries very hard to imply that it's a fundamentally novel concept (adopted by naive young activists) to conceive of Israel as a colonial enterprise. He doesn't say this directly, but this works very well with the "youth support Palestine because they're brainwashed by TikTok" narrative.

It doesn't seem to occur to the author that the reason he'd never heard it before is because the US has just never really seen such vocal defense for Palestine.

Anyways in case anyone encounters this bird-brained position in the wild I'm linking to Fayez Sayegh's Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965)

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 46 points 9 months ago

Very inconvenient that theodore fucking herzl calls it colonization. Or it would be if liberals ever encountered history in a dark alley.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 42 points 9 months ago

Or go further back and listen to jabotinsky's words in "the iron wall", a formative document that explicitly frames the Zionist national project in terms of colonialism and ethnic cleansing http://en.jabotinsky.org/media/9747/the-iron-wall.pdf

Except for those who were born blind, (moderate Zionists) realised long ago that it is utterly impossible to obtain the voluntary consent of the Palestine Arabs for converting "Palestine" from an Arab country into a country with a Jewish majority.

Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised.

Zionist colonisation must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population – behind an iron wall, which the native population cannot breach.

[-] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 30 points 9 months ago

Whoah good pull I'd never heard of that

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 9 months ago

One thing I've noticed with liberals is that when they hear about something they've never heard before, they assume it must be brand new and no one else has ever heard of it either. They can't imagine that someone else knows more than they do.

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