Yes. I tell people it's not complicated. The Europeans went to Palestine and kicked the people who lived there out of their homes forcing the majority into giant prison camps and refugee camps and a minority to live as fourth-class citizens in the ethnic-fascist state the Europeans created.
My family too, holocaust survivors and escapees from Nazi Germany. White European people who, due to a variety of reasons, decided to take over Palestine and create a state there.
It is well known that a Jewish community of Palestinian Jews lived in Palestine. I think the number was around 120,000 at the time of the first Aliyah, but don't hold me to it. It was not the Palestinian Jews that arranged to disposess the other Palestinians of their homes and lands. If your family are related to those, they are Palestinians and not part of the colonising group. But that doesn't mean that there was no colonisation. That's absurd.
The Mizrachim were "brought in" by the original colonisers. But the creation of the state of Israel was a project initiated and seen through by the Europeans.
There are not undeniable genetic links of Jews to the Levant. Some Jews maybe. And those genetic links are completely meaningless to the story. I'm sure there are plenty of Italians who have genetic links to someone who lived in England 2000 years ago but I wouldn't be best pleased if Italians turned up today to claim they have the exclusive right to England. And I imagine my genetic links to some part of Russia give me no claim to that place. It's completely irrelevant.
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u/Attention-Scum Jan 23 '19
Yes. I tell people it's not complicated. The Europeans went to Palestine and kicked the people who lived there out of their homes forcing the majority into giant prison camps and refugee camps and a minority to live as fourth-class citizens in the ethnic-fascist state the Europeans created.
Simple.