oatmeal on Nostr: Indeed, there aren’t any masks now. However, as any Israeli kid will tell you, we ...

Indeed, there aren’t any masks now. However, as any Israeli kid will tell you, we lied, and we lied, and we lied. But Palestinian intellectuals were actually on to them quite quickly. For instance, Sakakini and friends sounded the alarms already in the 1910s, warning that the hospitality Arabs are showing to Jews coming in as refugees is a mistake. Unfortunately, it was easy to bribe Ottoman officials, and very difficult to stop the flood. Even before WWI, they tried to petition against immigration permits for Eastern European Jews who were buying land, sometimes using local Arab straw-men to avoid restrictions. Did I say they lied?

On the racism component, it’s a shame he didn’t know or didn’t include Arthur Ruppin. Biological racism, the kind you Germans perfected (kudos, we can’t thank you enough), was and is the foundation of #Zionism, as we can clearly see today.

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