• maness300@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Imagine how much better the world would be if Jews migrated to the US instead of directly in the middle of people who hate them the most.

    Zionism is a plague that is responsible for untold damage.

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      11 months ago

      People in Palestine actually welcome them, and it is not Jew it is the Zainoist movement that were supported ( not sure who exactly gave them guns ) and started two organizations that committed multiple massacres before forming Israel.

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          11 months ago

          These were already after Zionists were already moving to the land in droves and trying to set up the Israeli state. That’s like saying the Native Americans were violent anti-Americans for attacking settler colonies during the Wild West. The process of displacement and settler colonialism was already way underway by that time and seen in real time by the local. Rather than give them their own state as promised after WWI, Britain instead not only kept Palestine, but used it so all the antisemitic European countries had somewhere to put their Jews. Revisionist Zionists happily accepted this arrangement and once they had the numbers, started setting up terrorist and paramilitary groups and prepping for their future state.

          But Jewish immigration has been happening for awhile before the violence had started, and during that time, relations between the groups were almost entirely peaceful and accepting. Keep in mind that migrations were happening in the 1800’s and even earlier, way before your Wikipedia time line starts.

          Btw, some of these Zionist groups tried to coordinate with the Nazis, too. And they’ve never reconciled with that. One of them became prime minister, and Netanyahu has a figure of the founder of Lehi behind his desk, too.

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      11 months ago

      The majority of Israeli Jews are Mizrahi Jews who fled to Israel after almost all of them, some 850,000 in total, were expelled or pressured out of Muslim-majority Middle Eastern countries from 1948 through the 1950s. About 72% (650,000) settled in Israel.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world

      The notion that Jewish Israelis are just Europeans is a profoundly racist and ignorant belief.

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        11 months ago

        A couple notes:

        1. Mizrahi is a modern term used to erase the European origin of many Jewish communities living in the former Ottoman empire.

        2. This argument is often used by Zionists to suggest that the majority of the modern Israeli population is made up of indigenous groups. This is not correct.

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        11 months ago

        Even if that’s true they certainly jumped on the settler colonialism bandwagon from Europe quick enough.