Israel and the Jewish diaspora are marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, amid the ongoing war in Gaza. During the official ceremony, one Holocaust survivor defied protocol by calling for the release of hostages.
People in the Middle East aren’t generic and interchangeable. Jews from India or Iraq or Yemen or Ethiopia or Iran or Morocco or Tunisia are still foreign invaders and not indigenous to Palestine. Netanyahu is still European as are the majority of political leaders and every prime minister Israel had so far. The culture that dominated and still dominates Israel’s political and social life is a European culture that is foreign to Palestine and the region.
Okay and? I’m from Egypt and I wouldn’t call myself a native of Iraq. Note that Middle Eastern Jews, having been expelled by the locals, were very much justified in going anywhere that would take them, but that’s neither here nor there.
They were expelled by Egyptians in what was by all means a crime against humanity and affront to human decency. Now are you willing to say the same about the Nakba?
The majority of Jews in Israel are from the Middle East.
People in the Middle East aren’t generic and interchangeable. Jews from India or Iraq or Yemen or Ethiopia or Iran or Morocco or Tunisia are still foreign invaders and not indigenous to Palestine. Netanyahu is still European as are the majority of political leaders and every prime minister Israel had so far. The culture that dominated and still dominates Israel’s political and social life is a European culture that is foreign to Palestine and the region.
Okay and? I’m from Egypt and I wouldn’t call myself a native of Iraq. Note that Middle Eastern Jews, having been expelled by the locals, were very much justified in going anywhere that would take them, but that’s neither here nor there.
Why are there no Jews in Egypt anymore? Where did they go?
They were expelled by Egyptians in what was by all means a crime against humanity and affront to human decency. Now are you willing to say the same about the Nakba?
The Nakba was a crime.
Okay great.