• branchial@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    That’s a disgusting reversal of the facts. For anyone interested in what really happened I can recommend decolonizepalestine.com Sources are linked everywhere so you can make your own judgment on where the Palestinian narrative makes sense and where it doesn’t.

    • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      1 year ago

      It is not. The fact you call it a disgusting reversal of facts is a disgusting reversal of facts.

      And decolonize Palestine is idiotic too, the Palestinian Arabs are colonizers as well.

      • branchial@feddit.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        1 year ago

        You can find an academic account on the 1947-48 war here https://www.jstor.org/stable/2537591 .

        I dont know how the arabs in palestine are to be seen as colonizers given that the notion of “palestine” came around the turn of the century but frankly I’m not interested in such mental gymnastics.

        • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          1 year ago

          Most of the Palestinians moved to the area following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War 1.

          And the region has seen mass migrations of people for millenia as it has changed hands between the Ottoman Empire, the Abbasid Caliphate, the Roman Empire, the Greek Empire, the Persian Empire, the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonians, and plenty of others in between.

          Everyone who lives there is a colonizer at some point in the last few hundred years.

          • branchial@feddit.de
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            1 year ago

            Well thanks for sharing I suppose. Its rare to see a definition of colonialism this dumb and a lie so brazen.

            • Tavarin@lemmy.ca
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              1 year ago

              The Palestinians took the lands from previous peoples. Sounds like colonization to me.

              Either everyone currently in the Palestine area is a colonizer, or no one is.

              • branchial@feddit.de
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                0
                ·
                1 year ago

                I mean I probably shouldnt bother but here is some reading material on US colonialism in case you want to see what people actually mean by colonization (it’s not immigration)

                https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html

                do with it what you will. There is a text at the very end comparing Zionism and US Settlerism.