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shinraelectricpowercom · 1 year ago

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love seeing goyische Takes™ about israel that conveniently and unsubtly ignore that the modern state of israel was founded in the wake of the holocaust

like, was european (and later american) states’ support of zionism an explicitly colonial project? yes. did european jews in the wake of the holocaust (and frankly before it) have a VERY GOOD REASON to want to have a nation-state controlled by jews? also yes. does that excuse the colonial way in which the nation of israel was founded and its national status enforced? no. is israel the only state involved and the only government at fault? also no.

#mine #ce #israel/palestine for blacklist #EVERY DAY i am forced to see Takes.#like. the british empire’s defeat of the ottoman empire in palestine and the existence of Mandatory Palestine are #SO FUCKING IMPORTANT to the context of how israel got The Way It Is. so is the history of antisemitism in europe & in n africa & west asia #but you don’t get to pick and choose what parts of history you acknowledge either. jews did imperial-backed colonialism before the holocaus #AND then the fucking holocaust happened and that had a massive influence on the international viability of the zionist project.#jews everywhere faced violent antisemitism AND jews in palestine faced justified backlash to their settlement of occupied land.#it’s more complex than ‘X group was wrong abt everything and Y one was right’. nuance nuance nuance.#if you’re gonna cite history do it right. fucking. please.

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