The timing of the middle eastern category feels weird considering what’s going on in Palestine. White people really like racially demoting other white people they find politically inconvenient. First it was Russians whom the slava Ukraini crowd considers Asian, and now it’s Palestinians, I guess.
On a related note, have Israelis reached level of Apartheid delusion where they larp as the people they despise and constantly demand to be called Palestinian/Mena? Are they like white South Africans who get angry when descendants of the transatlantic slave trade call themselves African?
On a related note, have Israelis reached level of Apartheid delusion where they larp as the people they despise and constantly demand to be called Palestinian/Mena?
The timing of the middle eastern category feels weird considering what’s going on in Palestine. White people really like racially demoting other white people they find politically inconvenient. First it was Russians whom the slava Ukraini crowd considers Asian, and now it’s Palestinians, I guess.
On a related note, have Israelis reached level of Apartheid delusion where they larp as the people they despise and constantly demand to be called Palestinian/Mena? Are they like white South Africans who get angry when descendants of the transatlantic slave trade call themselves African?
It's sometimes done in relation to the whole claim about being "indigenous" to the Middle East. Read this article for some particularly embarassing examples, featuring the appropriation of Native American headdresses for a double slam of racism.