cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3508466

Israeli origins vs Palestinian origins

    • italktothewind
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      5 months ago

      and how many of them are literally just 2nd immigrants instead of 1st gen?

      and yeah antisemitism is awful but it doesn't excuse someone to persecute another group of people to make up for it. fuck off with this liberal and literally Zionist bullshit.

      • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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        5 months ago

        and how many of them are literally just 2nd immigrants instead of 1st gen?

        The real issue here is that they're doing a settler colonialism, this would be bad even if they were 3rd or 4th or 10th generation. Focusing on how long they've been in the region starts soundings like "blood and soil" ethnonationalism.

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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      5 months ago

      If only Palestine had Australians running their immigration policy then

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      (for context, hundreds of people have drowned trying to seek asylum)

      I think it's fine to be dismissive of people regardless of their reason for leaving if their intent is to dispossess the local people

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Damn, I guess Captain Cook should have taken this message to heart

      • oregoncom [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        The fact that anglos whose ancestors literally moved to where they live on boats (both in the Americas/Australia and in the initial anglo-saxon migration to pedo island itself) go around calling immigrants they don't like "boat people" is proof that anglos aren't sentient and incapable of self awareness.

        • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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          5 months ago

          Australia is a good example in terms of Israel too because of the number of irish settlers fleeing the potato famine

    • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      You can have a good reason to move away from bigotry. Doesn’t give you the right to move into a stolen house on stolen land

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      Although Israel does have a lot of right-wing immigrants who moved there for noxious settler aspirations, it’s still the case that most of Israel’s current population (70-80%) were born in (the land currently controlled by) Israel.

      Yeah, but in the same way that most of the US's population was born in the US lol