Historic Palestine, when all religions lived in relative peace. Until Zionism entered the fray, and like a cancer that was small to begin with, which then began to grow and consumed all that was good between the three Abrahamic religions in the Holy Land.
A gross lie often gets peddled by Zionist extremists where they begin history with the Israelite tribes in the Holy Land, as if they fell into there from the sky. By some great divine intervention.
But they never talk about how the Israelites got there, and the history of Jews prior to the twelve tribes.
Oren Barsky is the typical Zionist extremist. He talks about other nations being “made-up, but the Israelite nation as “evolving and preserving”. He deliberately or otherwise, leaves out the made-up part for the Jews in the Holy Land, which was known as Canaan pre-Israelite era.
Pre the “Israelite nation”, Jews (Israelites) marching in from Egypt where they were slaves, perpetrated a genocide in Canaan against the Canaanites, to make-up the “Israelite nation”.
Just like how history didn’t begin on the 7th of October, the history of the Holy Land didn’t begin with the Israelites.
The Jews have no superior right to the Holy Land over Christians or Muslims, or any others who have resided in the land over the past three thousand years.
Non-Abrahamic religions, Christians and Muslims by the way, have resided in that land for exponentially longer than Jews over the past circa three thousand years. Jewish rule over the land is relatively tiny compared to the others.
The historical timeline of which groups ruled the land.
It is unfortunate that so many Jews are insistent on having a “Jewish state” in the Holy Land, especially when the historical and moral case for it is so weak. And it doesn’t seem like it will ever be allowed to happen IF that patch of land also wants see lasting peace. Zionism and peace in that patch of land have proven to be mutually exclusive.
If history is anything to by, then it is a choice between one or the other: peace or a supremacist Jewish state.
It’s a shared Holy Land for Christians, Muslims and Jews. No one group has supremacy over the other.
That is just simply the fate of that patch of land.
There is a growing argument amongst people of all religions, that if Jewish people wish to have a supremacist Jewish state, then they should do it in the vast swathes of empty land many places else that exists on Earth.
Never mind one state for Jews, I don’t think anyone minds if Jews had many states.
Many have often cited places in the USA where this could take place.
Denying Jewish people a right to self-determination, as per the UK government’s definition, can be deemed to be antisemitism.
Saying Jewish people can’t have their right to self-determination in historic Palestine but they can have it elsewhere, is not denying Jewish people the right to self-determination. And therefore, the plethora of false accusations that may follow against people making this argument, are precisely that; false accusations.
Those who make false accusations of antisemitism are guilty of a hate crime themselves, for making the false accusations.
