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0 pointsDiogenesKynikos7mo ago0 comments

And Israelis have only called themselves Israelis since 1948. But if someone were to go around calling them "Palestine Jews," you'd rightly suspect that person of antisemitism.

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nailer7mo ago

But Israelis aren’t an ethnicity, they’re Jewish and Arab and druze and Christian. if someone called Israelis Palestinian Jews, it would sound like they know very little about Israel, and think that most diverse society in the Middle East is an ethnostate - basically your standard online conspiracy theorist.

Whereas the people that call themselves Palestinians are trying to pretend Palestinian is an ethnicity and rebrand themselves from being Arab colonists.

DiogenesKynikosOP7mo ago

The "Arab colonists" you're talking about are people whose ancestors have generally lived in the region for as long as they can remember. They were kicked out by people who had just arrived from Europe a few years earlier.

bigyabai7mo ago

> people that call themselves Palestinians are trying to pretend Palestinian is an ethnicity and rebrand themselves from being Arab colonists.

That reminds me, isn't there some traditional eschatology that co-opted the word "semite" to similarly rebrand their colonial habit?

nailer7mo ago

The word antisemitism was used many years before Israel existed. And arabs colonised the levant, Israel is easily the most successful decolonisation project in history.

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nailer7mo ago

Whereas the people that call themselves Palestinians are trying to pretend Palestinian is an ethnicity and rebrand themselves from being Arab colonists.

DiogenesKynikosOP7mo ago

bigyabai7mo ago

> people that call themselves Palestinians are trying to pretend Palestinian is an ethnicity and rebrand themselves from being Arab colonists.

That reminds me, isn't there some traditional eschatology that co-opted the word "semite" to similarly rebrand their colonial habit?

nailer7mo ago

The word antisemitism was used many years before Israel existed. And arabs colonised the levant, Israel is easily the most successful decolonisation project in history.

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