I wrote in this post that I’m uncomfortaple to argue “genetical[ly] or genealogical[ly]” why people “belong” in some place or another. I think that’s ethno-nationalist reasoning and a “weapon of the enemy” reasoning applies. Even if it’s in favour of Palestinians.

But apparently, that’s “settler-colonialist apologism” for dessalines. Ethno-nationalism is ok if it’s targeting “the right” people, I guess. /s

I think the reasoning of the comment removal is bollocks. Just because I don’t want to argue why someone “belongs” someplace because of their genes, I’m not all of a sudden in favour of settler-colonialism.

  • mrdown@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Palestinians are descendants of the Canaanites and never left the land, so they had the right to reject settler-colonial projects whose intention was to colonize all the land.

    After the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine. – Ben Gurion

    It is true that Jews are also descendants of the Canaanites. The difference is that most Zionists were foreign Jews who had lost connection to the land by living elsewhere for centuries. Those Zionists had no valid justification to impose a state on people who had lived in historic Palestine for centuries.

    Using genetics and ancestry against Zionists to expose their hypocrisy and illogical arguments is both valid and important.