Thanks Vanessa, first class article and absolutely correct in every detail.
The 'Palestine' issue has been out of control for decades, but the current fanatic salience is relatively new; I don't believe this is coincidental.
It's impossible to ignore the utter lack of demonstrations, protests, MSM profile on the previous week of state murder in Iran, nor to fail to compare that lack to the global 'Palestinian' publicity and faux outrage.
And of course, there are no Jews, no Israelis and no IDF involved in the tens of thousands of deaths in Iran.
However, noting - just in the UK - the sharp, logarithmic rise of antisemitism, the antisemitic violence, murders and two tier lawfare increasingly being applied; it is no coincidence this is happening against a backdrop of literally millions of legal and illegal immigration of a certain religion and culture. Against a political situation where British parliamentary candidates are quite literally elected on a 'Gaza' ticket.
Where British police openly defer to Muslim requirements.
Where British schools refuse admission to their own Jewish Members of Parliament.
(I could fill the page with further examples)
The point is that a deliberate attempt is being made not just to change the British culture, but to change it in a very specific direction and in favour of a very specific significant minority.
And the point is also that any attempt to recognise these things results in political, professional and public cancellation.
That's just Britain - but from New York, to Berlin, to Paris, to Stockholm, across Western Europe, the same thing is happening.
The only question is whether it is too late to stop it.
And the only answer to that question is whether to join the only UK Party with the will and the aim of stopping it - or just to sit back and accept it.
The "Palestinian movement (worse than an uncontainable bowel movement)" is the most well funded and global propaganda campaign in history. Years in the making, it has rotted Western civilization while bringing us down to the level of jihadists. It's going to take political courage and resolve to reverse, starting with cutting off Qatari money flowing into our universities, and expelling foreign agitators who hate us.
I’m not sure I concur with what I perceive to be your point.
Yes, post WW1, the UK was given the administration of former Ottoman territories by the League of Nations with the specific intention of forming a Jewish homeland whilst safeguarding Arab rights.
By & large this was accomplished, resulting in a UN Resolution to recognise the State of Israel.
And a State of Palestine.
The Jews accepted a very small State of Israel - the Arabs (not ‘Palestinians’) immediately started a genocidal war of extermination.
I don’t quite understand how you view that through any lens that appears to justify the Arabism and the Antisemitism of the current British government, state & establishment.
It wasn't my intention to justify the Arabism and antisemitism, I'm not sure where I did justify it. What I'm trying to say is that Palestine, and antisemitism, were already part of what Britain is. Not Arabism, that's not, although there are points of easy alliance there, including antisemitism and an imperial mentality.
I think, though, that Britain has contributed greatly to the rise of Arabism. The dissolution of the British Empire paralleled a growth in what is perceived to be the "Arab World", and Britain had a pretty big part in that.
"Further Arab migration to the area occurred after the Jews eradicated it of malaria in the 1920s" and "Many families now identified as Palestinian trace roots to Egypt, Syria, or the Arabian Peninsula, settling in the area during periods of economic development and labor growth produced by — you guessed it — the Jews." Those statements from the article says it all for me. Would the phony Palestinians rather have malaria and economic squalor because they came from the efforts of the Jews?
"So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population." — Winston Churchill in 1938
“The Arab immigration into Palestine since 1921 has vastly exceeded the total Jewish immigration during this whole period." — Franklin Roosevelt in 1939
All good points that I hope do not fall upon deaf ears. Here is more to that point and a simple question I like to ask: What is the origin of the word "Palestine"? The answer: The Origin and Appropriation of the Word ‘Palestine’ May Surprise You.
Nick, correct as to interpretation in today's world. Read the article link and you will see Palestine (Philaestina) was the name given to the Israelite territory by the Roman Emperor Hadrian ~135 CE. After the Philistines, who were absorbed into the Assyrian Empire 750 years prior. In other words, Israelites are the true Palestinians.
2. As always the jewish people and the Israelis will just get on with life and be successful.
3. The Palestinians, who have been a burden on the world for nearly a century, will act like crybabies while living in the cesspit called Gaza, and focus their time and energy on destroying Israel and the Jewish people. Look how well that has gone so far.
Because the glorification of the Palestinian cause is, as you accurately point out, beyond belief and a betrayal of fact, it points to the Jew hatred that has not left the western world and reveals the total moral collapse of the West which heralds its downfall. People have simply no idea of the depravity the embrace of the Palestinian cause has in store for the civilization they think announces the future, which will look more like the Flood that followed Cain's founding of cities after he murdered his brother.
2. (Sorry Substack has been cutting off longer comments)
2) The Western Left can only be roused when their narrative has an opening for a white-savior protagonist, where the heroic white ally helps the poor brown oppressed defeat those OTHER evil whites on their road to justice and liberation. If a country or event is a civil dispute between POCs or other people with high oppression scores (such as Iran, Yemen, Sudan etc), there's no place for their script and starring role and thus they have no interest. The narrative is so crucial that they even had to invent a "white" Israel, while the real Israel is multiracial and at least half Sephardic, not to mention the thousands of Ethiopians and 20% Arab citizentry.
The entire project of the Western Left is a post-religious psychodrama to find all the meaning, community and confessions of sin/guilt that religions provide. And once again, one of the most important rituals is roasting the Jewish scapegoat, who serves the purpose of bearing all our fears, anger, sins, etc.
I think there are two reasons for Palestinian-mania, both based on the political, psychological, social and emotional needs of Western left-liberals, who produce, direct and star in this production, and where the actual Palestinian people are props or extras at best, designed to be a colorful and flattering background for the Westerner to perform in front of.
1) Getting to partake in a fight against Western colonialism and to publicly act out your opposition to all of Western Civ and the many crimes of our ancestors is as rare a treat as an anthropologist finding their own Stone Age tribe or a biologist stumbling upon the last surviving dodo. The Decolonization fetish is a crusade for the Western Left, where they get to occupy the moral high ground and use the many crimes of History as their credential and foolproof argument winner: these people deeply NEED to be seen as heroic radicals helping lead the oppressed on the road to liberation, white saviorism is their sacred faith, life purpose and totalizing cause. That Israel isn't "white" or a colony of any other country, and that Jews are a tiny sliver of humanity protecting a small oasis surrounded by a desert of bloodthirsty theocrats is irrelevant. If you squint hard enough, Israel/Palestine can be a black/white morality play and they've been squinting and creating their fantasy narrative for decades now; and...
Nice work! You show how global media is exploiting Palestinian suffering for profit, while pretending that it is about morality. When systems consistently produces nothing but destruction for Palestinians, one has two choices. 1) blame the system that perpetuates and exploits, or 2) blame the jews.
Few are willing or able to see how the media business model, the UN operating system, or progressive political ecosystem are literally benefiting from supporting lies and distortions that support Hamas, PIJ, etc. The systems condemn Palestinians to remain trapped in their own hatred and victimhood.
I would like to see a documentary about how the UN and UNRWA have been exploiting the Palestinians for 70 years, fostering global support for the hatred and terrorism that incarcerates Palestinians in a Pan-Muslims gulag system.
Thank you so much for your wonderful/illuminating essay!!!!!!!..... The fact that the proPalestine were SILENT over the multiple DEATHS of the Iranians protesting their diabolic government, clarity show us, they are NOT with the people of Iran........they're with the terrorists/murderers sponsored by Iran' s putrefact /lunatic regime !!!!!.....
"The irony is that many of the people most aggressively promoting Palestinianism are undermining the very values they claim to champion: peace, pluralism, coexistence, and self-determination": The so-called Palestinians do not actually believe in peace, pluralism or coexistence; self-determination IF it means the extermination of Israel. It's all a hypocritical scam and the Left West are complicit either because they are ignorant, stupid, or anti-semitic. I suspect the third most often.
Re the arts. I was at a NYC Film Forum last night. Two of the various films being shown....one about Israeli family after Oct. 7th and one "voice of Hind Rajab" which uses this child's death as a means of further vilifying Israel. I didn't see either film. A previous hit film that won an Oscar ran for weeks. Didn't see it. Adelaide Book festival is canceled out of solidarity with a woman whose vile racism is off the charts....but she's Pal-Australian. No other racist comments would be tolerated. She we learn is being unfairly "silenced" by "anti Palestinian racism." Which is non existent. We can expect no more films like Exodus. I'm not even sure about The Band's Visit being performed. The Palestine in the arts movement which carries with it all you write is an ever snowballing propaganda effort and each and every respected venue aside from the Trump-Kennedy Center will be emboldened to showcase it.
The following is so transgressive for its political impious, heretical, and blasphemous statements, were they able to do so, the Guardians of PC Correctness would perform an auto da fe on me in the market square [marshmallows included for a nominal cost].
"There is nothing inherently or uniquely compelling about Palestinians as a people . . . "
Like it or not, this statement assumes what needs to be proven. To claim the "Palestinians" constitute a people does not, ergo, make them a people. In a word, the statement commits the logical fallacy of begging the question.
"Palestinian narratives are frequently presented in ways that require little contextual knowledge"
They are narratives told by the Arabs themselves and by the news and entertainment media, politicos, NGOs, Academia, the UN and its agencies and affiliates, and not least the Red-Green axis SJWs.
The disciplines Anthropology and Sociology have well established objective criteria for determining who constitute a people.
The Googled phrase "Anthropology and Sociology criteria for determining what constitute a people" returned the following response, "The core criteria emphasize shared culture, ancestry, and, critically, the recognition of boundaries that set them apart from other groups.and less susceptible to revisionist definition "
More specifically Anthropology, which is less susceptible to definitional revisionism to suite current political sensibilities, defines a people as having a
SHARED CULTURE: A set of beliefs, practices, symbols, and norms that define a unique way of life.
COMMON ANCESTRY/KINSHIP: Shared genealogical or historical ties, which can be real or perceived (fictive).
SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION: The use of a shared language or dialect. "We-Feeling" or Consciousness of Kind: A sense of shared identity and distinction from other groups.
SHARED TERRITORY/ENVIRONMENT: Historically, being linked to a specific location. Also defined as TERRITORIAL OR INSTITUTIONAL COHESION: A connection to a specific homeland, region, or, in the case of diasporas, a symbolic attachment to a place of origin.
LONG TERM TRADITION: Possession of a common history and set of customs, often maintained through endogamy (marrying within the group)"
The article's observation that "Like most populations, ['Palestinians'] are diverse, historically complex, and shaped by migration, economic opportunity, and regional movement. Many families now identified as Palestinian trace roots to Egypt, Syria, or the Arabian Peninsula, settling in the area during periods of economic development and labor growth . . . " attest in the first instance that they do not meet established criteria.
The second recognition that identifying "Palestinians" as a people may be a misnomer is the Geneva Genocide Convention (Article II) which identifies four protected groups: Race, Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationality.
'Palestinians' do not constitute a race because they do not have unique physical markers that set them apart from other Middle Eastern peoples.
They do not constitute a religion. The religion they follow is Islam, a religion shared by the majority of Middle Easterners.
They do not constitute an ethnicity. That would be Arab, or in Arabic, Ummah., as they commonly refer to themselves.
They do not constitute a nationality because they do not now nor ever have formed a country within distinct territorial boundaries, with its own government, and having carried out the usual business of government like entering into treaties with other countries.
In point of fact, the terms "Palestinian" and "Palestinian Nation" were invented only 66 years ago by Yasser Arafat in 1964 in Moscow with the help of the KGB. They are not national or ethnic identities but political labels designed to promote not the creation of a state but, according to their charters, a larger, Levantine caliphate.
Striped of the propaganda (taqiyyah) element, what so-called Palestinians really are is Judean, Samaritan, and Gazan Arabs.
"Palestinian stories are elevated . . . on a scale equal to or greater than anything seen in the Palestinian Territories."
Palestinian Territories? Are we talking about Judea and Samaria, the very heart of the historical, unceded ancestral Jewish homeland?
Who designated any territory as Palestinian? By what authority?
If local Arabs are living on Palestinian Territory, then that makes Israel conquerors, and any Jews on the land, colonial, settler apartheid genocidists. To be redundant, since when are Jews enemy alien occupiers of their own ancestral homeland?
When Jews themselves use terms like "Palestinian Territory," they legitimize Arab claims to Jewish land. As the aphorism goes, "The day you describe your enemy the way he describes himself, you lose the battle. The day you describe yourself the way your enemy describes you, you lose the war."
Excellent article. It's quite simple. Vote for giving Jews a sliver of land that had been settled by Jewish tribes for over 2,000 years, declare war against them because Jews shouldn"t have sovereinty over their own land, lose the war and create refugees that will become pawns for a Palestinian state right next to Israel. The only refugees that somehow no Arab country wants to absorb. Despite incurring "harassment" since it's creation, as well as absorbing hundreds of thousands of refugees, Israelis have shown the world how it's done. Am Yisrael Chai!
Palestine is disproportionately on people’s radar because the masses don’t want our taxes being used to murder babies in a genocide.
There are other genocides in the world, but there isn’t another one that my tax dollars are funding.
In terms of Palestinians being from the land, well, genetics tells you absolutely everything you need to know on the subject, but you won’t find a zionist that will listen to what genetics has to say on the matter, because it is very obvious when you do that Israel is an Eastern European colony in the Middle East doing a genocide of the native people.
Imagine not being capable of understanding that genocide is wrong.
Imagine being that much of a failure at life, and a failure at becoming human.
What you likely mean is that antiZionists like to interpret dna data to to draw adverse conclusions about Jews. Genetic data is interesting, but we have to be careful about how we interpret it, especially as we go further back in time.
It's often used a bit like the way Nazis used "race science".
Nick, genetics is about as deterministic as any science gets.
This is not, "do you have superior Aryan cranial shape," this is, "if you take set A and compare it to set B, how much do they overlap?"
The scientific legitimacy of genetics is beyond doubt, but when your world view is that genocide is good, actually, I suppose up might as well be down, and science might as well be propaganda.
Take a deep breath, and realize you're rejecting reality to legitimize a genocide that doesn't even materially concern you.
You might also be an Eastern European.
So am I.
That notwithstanding, I don't want shitbags doing genocide, whether they share my DNA or not.
I don't give a shit if we are "kin." Literally starving babies is a line that shouldn't be crossed; if it was my own brother, my own father, I would gladly see them publicly hung, for the crimes they've committed.
And I say that with absolute moral clarity. Because I'm not a pack monkey.
Why is this hard for you to understand?
How is it possible to be so completely dispossessed of moral principles?
"One related question keeps reappearing in academic and in popular discourse, and that is whether genetic testing can constitute a concrete tool for validating the 'Jewishness' of individuals."
The answer is obviously "no." Because Jews are overwhelmingly mixed-race Europeans (in this case I'm using "race" pretty unusually to mean "the races of Europe," but later we will conclude this is simply the concept of "white" in practical terms.)
What is the "alchemy" of Jewishness?
Well.
It's a dab of Italian, a pinch of German, and 2 cups of Eastern European.
That describes a whole lot of Europe, broadly.
"Jewish" is a cultural and ideological construct, not a race.
And race already is less than an acquaintance with science.
So, "Who are the Jews?"
It depends on who you ask, because a genetic test is not going to tell you the difference between a Jew and a Christian, in the same way it won't tell you the difference between a Christian and an atheist, so science doesn't make claims about "who the Jews are;" it can only tell you what the genetic makeup of people that call themselves Jews happens to be.
And those people are overwhelmingly as we described them above; white Europeans.
Where's your evidence for all this? It's just wishful thinking as far as I can see.
Clearly you were wrong about Zionists having nothing to say about genetics. You're wrong when you say that "some are desperate to forget" about latkes.
I don't think you have anything solid to say, judging by all this.
How do you know that Jews are "overwhelmingly mixed race European"?
This is wildly out of date; the current information couldn't be more clear; there is no tie to the Levant, genetically speaking or culturally speaking (you grew up eating latkes, not falafels, although some are desperate to forget the fact.)
Out of date? What kind of nonsense is that? Evidence is evidence. The 2013 evidence is now "out of date"?
So, for example, Dna from Canaanite graves must be really out of date.
What is this "current information", and where did you get it?
No tie to the Levant culturally speaking? You appear to know very little about this . Why latkes? Do you know the significance? Or why sufganiyot are also eaten at Chanukah?
Thanks Vanessa, first class article and absolutely correct in every detail.
The 'Palestine' issue has been out of control for decades, but the current fanatic salience is relatively new; I don't believe this is coincidental.
It's impossible to ignore the utter lack of demonstrations, protests, MSM profile on the previous week of state murder in Iran, nor to fail to compare that lack to the global 'Palestinian' publicity and faux outrage.
And of course, there are no Jews, no Israelis and no IDF involved in the tens of thousands of deaths in Iran.
However, noting - just in the UK - the sharp, logarithmic rise of antisemitism, the antisemitic violence, murders and two tier lawfare increasingly being applied; it is no coincidence this is happening against a backdrop of literally millions of legal and illegal immigration of a certain religion and culture. Against a political situation where British parliamentary candidates are quite literally elected on a 'Gaza' ticket.
Where British police openly defer to Muslim requirements.
Where British schools refuse admission to their own Jewish Members of Parliament.
(I could fill the page with further examples)
The point is that a deliberate attempt is being made not just to change the British culture, but to change it in a very specific direction and in favour of a very specific significant minority.
And the point is also that any attempt to recognise these things results in political, professional and public cancellation.
That's just Britain - but from New York, to Berlin, to Paris, to Stockholm, across Western Europe, the same thing is happening.
The only question is whether it is too late to stop it.
And the only answer to that question is whether to join the only UK Party with the will and the aim of stopping it - or just to sit back and accept it.
The "Palestinian movement (worse than an uncontainable bowel movement)" is the most well funded and global propaganda campaign in history. Years in the making, it has rotted Western civilization while bringing us down to the level of jihadists. It's going to take political courage and resolve to reverse, starting with cutting off Qatari money flowing into our universities, and expelling foreign agitators who hate us.
I see what you're saying, but in many ways Palestine reflects Britain.
Britain resurrected Palestine after defeating the Ottomans there. It hadn't existed for centuries except in the western mind.
It's their baby, they'll protect it.
I say "they", although I'm British, too.
I’m not sure I concur with what I perceive to be your point.
Yes, post WW1, the UK was given the administration of former Ottoman territories by the League of Nations with the specific intention of forming a Jewish homeland whilst safeguarding Arab rights.
By & large this was accomplished, resulting in a UN Resolution to recognise the State of Israel.
And a State of Palestine.
The Jews accepted a very small State of Israel - the Arabs (not ‘Palestinians’) immediately started a genocidal war of extermination.
I don’t quite understand how you view that through any lens that appears to justify the Arabism and the Antisemitism of the current British government, state & establishment.
It wasn't my intention to justify the Arabism and antisemitism, I'm not sure where I did justify it. What I'm trying to say is that Palestine, and antisemitism, were already part of what Britain is. Not Arabism, that's not, although there are points of easy alliance there, including antisemitism and an imperial mentality.
I think, though, that Britain has contributed greatly to the rise of Arabism. The dissolution of the British Empire paralleled a growth in what is perceived to be the "Arab World", and Britain had a pretty big part in that.
"Further Arab migration to the area occurred after the Jews eradicated it of malaria in the 1920s" and "Many families now identified as Palestinian trace roots to Egypt, Syria, or the Arabian Peninsula, settling in the area during periods of economic development and labor growth produced by — you guessed it — the Jews." Those statements from the article says it all for me. Would the phony Palestinians rather have malaria and economic squalor because they came from the efforts of the Jews?
"So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population." — Winston Churchill in 1938
“The Arab immigration into Palestine since 1921 has vastly exceeded the total Jewish immigration during this whole period." — Franklin Roosevelt in 1939
All good points that I hope do not fall upon deaf ears. Here is more to that point and a simple question I like to ask: What is the origin of the word "Palestine"? The answer: The Origin and Appropriation of the Word ‘Palestine’ May Surprise You.
https://thetruthfulproject.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-origin-and-appropriation-of-word.html
Yes. But I'd like to emphasise that the concept of Palestine is western. Europeans gave that name to what they'd previously accepted was "Judea"
Nick, correct as to interpretation in today's world. Read the article link and you will see Palestine (Philaestina) was the name given to the Israelite territory by the Roman Emperor Hadrian ~135 CE. After the Philistines, who were absorbed into the Assyrian Empire 750 years prior. In other words, Israelites are the true Palestinians.
Great article, but I don't think Iran can be described as an "Arab country", even though there are Arabs living there.
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1. Great article.
2. As always the jewish people and the Israelis will just get on with life and be successful.
3. The Palestinians, who have been a burden on the world for nearly a century, will act like crybabies while living in the cesspit called Gaza, and focus their time and energy on destroying Israel and the Jewish people. Look how well that has gone so far.
4. Am Yisrael Chai
Because the glorification of the Palestinian cause is, as you accurately point out, beyond belief and a betrayal of fact, it points to the Jew hatred that has not left the western world and reveals the total moral collapse of the West which heralds its downfall. People have simply no idea of the depravity the embrace of the Palestinian cause has in store for the civilization they think announces the future, which will look more like the Flood that followed Cain's founding of cities after he murdered his brother.
2. (Sorry Substack has been cutting off longer comments)
2) The Western Left can only be roused when their narrative has an opening for a white-savior protagonist, where the heroic white ally helps the poor brown oppressed defeat those OTHER evil whites on their road to justice and liberation. If a country or event is a civil dispute between POCs or other people with high oppression scores (such as Iran, Yemen, Sudan etc), there's no place for their script and starring role and thus they have no interest. The narrative is so crucial that they even had to invent a "white" Israel, while the real Israel is multiracial and at least half Sephardic, not to mention the thousands of Ethiopians and 20% Arab citizentry.
The entire project of the Western Left is a post-religious psychodrama to find all the meaning, community and confessions of sin/guilt that religions provide. And once again, one of the most important rituals is roasting the Jewish scapegoat, who serves the purpose of bearing all our fears, anger, sins, etc.
I think there are two reasons for Palestinian-mania, both based on the political, psychological, social and emotional needs of Western left-liberals, who produce, direct and star in this production, and where the actual Palestinian people are props or extras at best, designed to be a colorful and flattering background for the Westerner to perform in front of.
1) Getting to partake in a fight against Western colonialism and to publicly act out your opposition to all of Western Civ and the many crimes of our ancestors is as rare a treat as an anthropologist finding their own Stone Age tribe or a biologist stumbling upon the last surviving dodo. The Decolonization fetish is a crusade for the Western Left, where they get to occupy the moral high ground and use the many crimes of History as their credential and foolproof argument winner: these people deeply NEED to be seen as heroic radicals helping lead the oppressed on the road to liberation, white saviorism is their sacred faith, life purpose and totalizing cause. That Israel isn't "white" or a colony of any other country, and that Jews are a tiny sliver of humanity protecting a small oasis surrounded by a desert of bloodthirsty theocrats is irrelevant. If you squint hard enough, Israel/Palestine can be a black/white morality play and they've been squinting and creating their fantasy narrative for decades now; and...
It's more than ironic to realise that Palestine is essentially and practically colonial. It always was.
Originally a western colonial name and concept, it's only been taken up by the Arab world since roughly the middle of the twentieth century.
Nice work! You show how global media is exploiting Palestinian suffering for profit, while pretending that it is about morality. When systems consistently produces nothing but destruction for Palestinians, one has two choices. 1) blame the system that perpetuates and exploits, or 2) blame the jews.
Few are willing or able to see how the media business model, the UN operating system, or progressive political ecosystem are literally benefiting from supporting lies and distortions that support Hamas, PIJ, etc. The systems condemn Palestinians to remain trapped in their own hatred and victimhood.
I would like to see a documentary about how the UN and UNRWA have been exploiting the Palestinians for 70 years, fostering global support for the hatred and terrorism that incarcerates Palestinians in a Pan-Muslims gulag system.
Thank you so much for your wonderful/illuminating essay!!!!!!!..... The fact that the proPalestine were SILENT over the multiple DEATHS of the Iranians protesting their diabolic government, clarity show us, they are NOT with the people of Iran........they're with the terrorists/murderers sponsored by Iran' s putrefact /lunatic regime !!!!!.....
"The irony is that many of the people most aggressively promoting Palestinianism are undermining the very values they claim to champion: peace, pluralism, coexistence, and self-determination": The so-called Palestinians do not actually believe in peace, pluralism or coexistence; self-determination IF it means the extermination of Israel. It's all a hypocritical scam and the Left West are complicit either because they are ignorant, stupid, or anti-semitic. I suspect the third most often.
Re the arts. I was at a NYC Film Forum last night. Two of the various films being shown....one about Israeli family after Oct. 7th and one "voice of Hind Rajab" which uses this child's death as a means of further vilifying Israel. I didn't see either film. A previous hit film that won an Oscar ran for weeks. Didn't see it. Adelaide Book festival is canceled out of solidarity with a woman whose vile racism is off the charts....but she's Pal-Australian. No other racist comments would be tolerated. She we learn is being unfairly "silenced" by "anti Palestinian racism." Which is non existent. We can expect no more films like Exodus. I'm not even sure about The Band's Visit being performed. The Palestine in the arts movement which carries with it all you write is an ever snowballing propaganda effort and each and every respected venue aside from the Trump-Kennedy Center will be emboldened to showcase it.
The following is so transgressive for its political impious, heretical, and blasphemous statements, were they able to do so, the Guardians of PC Correctness would perform an auto da fe on me in the market square [marshmallows included for a nominal cost].
"There is nothing inherently or uniquely compelling about Palestinians as a people . . . "
Like it or not, this statement assumes what needs to be proven. To claim the "Palestinians" constitute a people does not, ergo, make them a people. In a word, the statement commits the logical fallacy of begging the question.
"Palestinian narratives are frequently presented in ways that require little contextual knowledge"
They are narratives told by the Arabs themselves and by the news and entertainment media, politicos, NGOs, Academia, the UN and its agencies and affiliates, and not least the Red-Green axis SJWs.
The disciplines Anthropology and Sociology have well established objective criteria for determining who constitute a people.
The Googled phrase "Anthropology and Sociology criteria for determining what constitute a people" returned the following response, "The core criteria emphasize shared culture, ancestry, and, critically, the recognition of boundaries that set them apart from other groups.and less susceptible to revisionist definition "
More specifically Anthropology, which is less susceptible to definitional revisionism to suite current political sensibilities, defines a people as having a
SHARED CULTURE: A set of beliefs, practices, symbols, and norms that define a unique way of life.
COMMON ANCESTRY/KINSHIP: Shared genealogical or historical ties, which can be real or perceived (fictive).
SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION: The use of a shared language or dialect. "We-Feeling" or Consciousness of Kind: A sense of shared identity and distinction from other groups.
SHARED TERRITORY/ENVIRONMENT: Historically, being linked to a specific location. Also defined as TERRITORIAL OR INSTITUTIONAL COHESION: A connection to a specific homeland, region, or, in the case of diasporas, a symbolic attachment to a place of origin.
LONG TERM TRADITION: Possession of a common history and set of customs, often maintained through endogamy (marrying within the group)"
The article's observation that "Like most populations, ['Palestinians'] are diverse, historically complex, and shaped by migration, economic opportunity, and regional movement. Many families now identified as Palestinian trace roots to Egypt, Syria, or the Arabian Peninsula, settling in the area during periods of economic development and labor growth . . . " attest in the first instance that they do not meet established criteria.
The second recognition that identifying "Palestinians" as a people may be a misnomer is the Geneva Genocide Convention (Article II) which identifies four protected groups: Race, Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationality.
'Palestinians' do not constitute a race because they do not have unique physical markers that set them apart from other Middle Eastern peoples.
They do not constitute a religion. The religion they follow is Islam, a religion shared by the majority of Middle Easterners.
They do not constitute an ethnicity. That would be Arab, or in Arabic, Ummah., as they commonly refer to themselves.
They do not constitute a nationality because they do not now nor ever have formed a country within distinct territorial boundaries, with its own government, and having carried out the usual business of government like entering into treaties with other countries.
In point of fact, the terms "Palestinian" and "Palestinian Nation" were invented only 66 years ago by Yasser Arafat in 1964 in Moscow with the help of the KGB. They are not national or ethnic identities but political labels designed to promote not the creation of a state but, according to their charters, a larger, Levantine caliphate.
Striped of the propaganda (taqiyyah) element, what so-called Palestinians really are is Judean, Samaritan, and Gazan Arabs.
"Palestinian stories are elevated . . . on a scale equal to or greater than anything seen in the Palestinian Territories."
Palestinian Territories? Are we talking about Judea and Samaria, the very heart of the historical, unceded ancestral Jewish homeland?
Who designated any territory as Palestinian? By what authority?
If local Arabs are living on Palestinian Territory, then that makes Israel conquerors, and any Jews on the land, colonial, settler apartheid genocidists. To be redundant, since when are Jews enemy alien occupiers of their own ancestral homeland?
When Jews themselves use terms like "Palestinian Territory," they legitimize Arab claims to Jewish land. As the aphorism goes, "The day you describe your enemy the way he describes himself, you lose the battle. The day you describe yourself the way your enemy describes you, you lose the war."
Unaddressed: how is it that Hollywood is honoring "Palestinian" films? Were there no Israeli ones? If not, why not? If so, why ignored?
Excellent article. It's quite simple. Vote for giving Jews a sliver of land that had been settled by Jewish tribes for over 2,000 years, declare war against them because Jews shouldn"t have sovereinty over their own land, lose the war and create refugees that will become pawns for a Palestinian state right next to Israel. The only refugees that somehow no Arab country wants to absorb. Despite incurring "harassment" since it's creation, as well as absorbing hundreds of thousands of refugees, Israelis have shown the world how it's done. Am Yisrael Chai!
This might be the worst article I’ve ever read.
Palestine is disproportionately on people’s radar because the masses don’t want our taxes being used to murder babies in a genocide.
There are other genocides in the world, but there isn’t another one that my tax dollars are funding.
In terms of Palestinians being from the land, well, genetics tells you absolutely everything you need to know on the subject, but you won’t find a zionist that will listen to what genetics has to say on the matter, because it is very obvious when you do that Israel is an Eastern European colony in the Middle East doing a genocide of the native people.
Imagine not being capable of understanding that genocide is wrong.
Imagine being that much of a failure at life, and a failure at becoming human.
It’s truly shocking.
That doesn't explain UNRWA. The obsession with Palestine predates the recent war.
Of course Zionists will listen to discussions about genetics. But will you listen to Zionists discussing genetics?
Zionists don't have anything to say about genetics because the conclusions are so profoundly not in favor of their self-serving "stories."
What you likely mean is that antiZionists like to interpret dna data to to draw adverse conclusions about Jews. Genetic data is interesting, but we have to be careful about how we interpret it, especially as we go further back in time.
It's often used a bit like the way Nazis used "race science".
Nick, genetics is about as deterministic as any science gets.
This is not, "do you have superior Aryan cranial shape," this is, "if you take set A and compare it to set B, how much do they overlap?"
The scientific legitimacy of genetics is beyond doubt, but when your world view is that genocide is good, actually, I suppose up might as well be down, and science might as well be propaganda.
Take a deep breath, and realize you're rejecting reality to legitimize a genocide that doesn't even materially concern you.
You might also be an Eastern European.
So am I.
That notwithstanding, I don't want shitbags doing genocide, whether they share my DNA or not.
I don't give a shit if we are "kin." Literally starving babies is a line that shouldn't be crossed; if it was my own brother, my own father, I would gladly see them publicly hung, for the crimes they've committed.
And I say that with absolute moral clarity. Because I'm not a pack monkey.
Why is this hard for you to understand?
How is it possible to be so completely dispossessed of moral principles?
What are you going on about?
https://tatup.de/index.php/tatup/article/download/6898/11619
"One related question keeps reappearing in academic and in popular discourse, and that is whether genetic testing can constitute a concrete tool for validating the 'Jewishness' of individuals."
The answer is obviously "no." Because Jews are overwhelmingly mixed-race Europeans (in this case I'm using "race" pretty unusually to mean "the races of Europe," but later we will conclude this is simply the concept of "white" in practical terms.)
What is the "alchemy" of Jewishness?
Well.
It's a dab of Italian, a pinch of German, and 2 cups of Eastern European.
That describes a whole lot of Europe, broadly.
"Jewish" is a cultural and ideological construct, not a race.
And race already is less than an acquaintance with science.
So, "Who are the Jews?"
It depends on who you ask, because a genetic test is not going to tell you the difference between a Jew and a Christian, in the same way it won't tell you the difference between a Christian and an atheist, so science doesn't make claims about "who the Jews are;" it can only tell you what the genetic makeup of people that call themselves Jews happens to be.
And those people are overwhelmingly as we described them above; white Europeans.
You're talking nonsense: "as we described them
above"??
Which "we"? There are two of you? A tag team?
Where's your evidence for all this? It's just wishful thinking as far as I can see.
Clearly you were wrong about Zionists having nothing to say about genetics. You're wrong when you say that "some are desperate to forget" about latkes.
I don't think you have anything solid to say, judging by all this.
How do you know that Jews are "overwhelmingly mixed race European"?
Google it you fucking moron.
I'm not your mother. I don't need to spoon feed you reality.
Google it you fucking moron.
I'm not your mother. I don't need to spoon feed you reality.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/insights/2013/12/new-genetic-study-more-evidence-for-modern-ashkenazi-jews-ancient-hebrew-patrimony.html
This is wildly out of date; the current information couldn't be more clear; there is no tie to the Levant, genetically speaking or culturally speaking (you grew up eating latkes, not falafels, although some are desperate to forget the fact.)
Out of date? What kind of nonsense is that? Evidence is evidence. The 2013 evidence is now "out of date"?
So, for example, Dna from Canaanite graves must be really out of date.
What is this "current information", and where did you get it?
No tie to the Levant culturally speaking? You appear to know very little about this . Why latkes? Do you know the significance? Or why sufganiyot are also eaten at Chanukah?
A myth, I'd say.
https://jppi.org.il/en/english-on-genetics-and-jewish-history/
This is a good article, actually.
I suggest you read it.
Your claim was that Zionists have nothing to say about genetics. You're clearly wrong. And why did you put "stories" in inverted commas?