Israelis Are Not 'Indigenous' (and other ridiculous pro-Israel arguments)

Showing that Zionism is in fact a colonial endeavour, & refuting other dumb pro-Israel stuff

Sources:
[5] Memory at the Surface: Colonial Forgetting in Postcolonial France, Abdelmajid Hannoum.
[8] Zionism and Imperialism: The Historical Origins, Abdul-Wahab Kayyali.
[17] The Rhetoric of Romanità: Representations of Caesar in Fascist Theatre, Jane Dunnett.
[21] Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes, M. F. Hammer, et al.
[23] The Persistence of the Palestinian Question, Joseph Massad.

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[jasondaveries]

i know its cliche to call things "orwellian"
but spining israelis as an "indigenous people" and zionism "decolonization" truly is orwellian in the most literal sense

[dogblessamerica]

Imagine denying Palestinians the right of return after 70 years, when you ejected them on the basis of your own ancestors' expulsion 2000 years ago.

[howardbonds]

He literally said" If I dont steal it, someone else will"...outstandingly horrific. I really didnt expect him to be so casual and honest about it.

[superluminal]

"If I don't steal it, someone else will."

[YaBoiHakim]

Brilliant video, absolutely excellent work.

[jranteesi]

As a Palestinian that is unable to visit his home country, I really appreciate the effort you put into making this video to educate others

[stepaioneldon]

The most ridiculous thing about this indigenous argument is that Ben Gurion regarded the Palestinians as being descended partially from the Jews that stayed after the Roman expulsion. Though when that fact became too inconvenient it was dropped and the Palestinians became the scary arab invaders

[shoedil]

My father lives in Palestine. He's a doctor.
I live in Belgium and cannot visit my father in Palestine like my Ukrainian collegue and friend that can visit his parents and vice versa because they live in Israel....
Fck this world for real!

[jacksonduruy]

It would be funny if France invaded Southern England with the justification that it was Norman land they were taken back from Danish occupation.

[KendrixTermina]

wait, converts can move to Israel & get free houses?
So if I convingly pretend to believe, my 100% european ass could in theory get the house of some Palestinian grandma? Well, if I was an uncrupulous asshole without morals, I would start learning Hebrew right now.

[winesap]

I love the New Yorker in Israel saying “if I don’t steal your house, someone else will”. That really solves the issue for this Palestinian you stole the home of.

This is also the same thing anyone benefiting from an exploitative system says to justify what they do..

[toontrooper]

Oh wow the Liberia/Israel connection makes perfect sense. Not just from being colonial states, but also in how they were supported by the countries that originally oppressed them because those countries didn't feeling like reckoning with their own racism, so they sent the oppressed people somewhere else.

[redpillrat]

Repeat a LIE often enough and it becomes ISRAEL.

[yusufibrahim]

The audacity of that Ukrainian guy from New York stealing someone's else land!!

[akindatallmidget]

Ain’t no way I got an ad from the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry on this video 💀💀

[-MO]

proof(of colonization by Israel):

David Ben Gurion, quoted on pp 91-2 of Chomsky's Fateful Triangle, which appears in Simha Flapan's "Zionism and the Palestinians pp 141-2 citing a 1938 speech.

"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."

Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.

"We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!"

Moshe Dayan, April 1969, Ha'aretz; quoted in Edward Said, 'Zionism from the Standpoint of Its Victims', Social Text, Volume 1, 1979, 7-58.

"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population."

David Ben-Gurion (Quoted on pp 855-56 in Shabtai Teveth's Ben-Gurion in a slightly different translation).

"If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel."

Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky


Jabotinsky helped lead Revisionist Zionist Movement which eventually evolved into the post-1948 Herut Party and eventually the Likud Party. His Secretary, a historian Benzion Netanyahu is the father of Binyamin Netanyahu. Benzion’s final book, The Founding Fathers of Zionism, described Israel as a country that—like America—was built on the intellectual foundations of its founders: Leo Pinsker, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, Israel Zangwill, and Ze’ev Jabotinsky.

Jabotinsky also set up the party's youth movement, Betar, which was characterized by militaristic, almost fascist, appearance including dark brown uniforms. Jabotinsky admired Mussolini. His movement repeatedly sought affiliation with and assistance from Rome.

In his IRON WALL article that was published in Ha'aretz Daily in 1923. He stated:

".... Settlement can thus develop under the protection of a force that is not dependent on the local population, behind an IRON WALL which they will be powerless to break down. ....a voluntary agreement is just not possible. As long as the Arabs preserve a gleam of hope that they will succeed in getting rid of us, nothing in the world can cause them to relinquish this hope, precisely because they are not a rubble but a living people. And a living people will be ready to yield on such fateful issues only when they give up all hope of getting rid of the Alien Settlers. Only then will extremist groups with their slogan 'No, never' lose their influence, and only then their influence be transferred to more moderate groups. And only then will the moderates offer suggestions for compromise. Then only will they begin bargaining with us on practical matters, such as guarantees against PUSHING THEM OUT, and equality of civil, and national rights."

"Eliminate the Diaspora, or the Diaspora will surely eliminate you." (From "Tisha B'av 1937").

“the source of national feeling … lies in a man’s blood … in his racio-physical type, and in that alone … a man’s spiritual outlooks are primarily determined by his physical structure … For that reason we do not believe in spiritual assimilation. It is inconceivable, from the physical point of view, that a Jew born to a family of pure Jewish blood … can become adapted to the spiritual outlooks of a German or a Frenchman … He maybe wholly imbued with that German fluid but the nucleus of his spiritual structure will always remain Jewish”

“A Jew brought up among Germans may assume German custom, German words. He may be wholly imbued with that German fluid but the nucleus of his spiritual structure will always remain Jewish, because his blood, his body, his physical-racial type are Jewish. ... It is impossible for a man to become assimilated with people whose blood is different from his own. In order to become assimilated, he must change his body, he must become one of them, in blood. ... There can be no assimilation as long as there is no mixed marriage. ... An increase in the number of mixed marriages is the only sure and infallible means for the destruction of nationality as such. ... A preservation of national integrity is impossible except by a preservation of racial purity, and for that purpose we are in need of a territory of our own where our people will constitute the overwhelming majority”

He stated in 1923:

"The Arabs loved their country as much as the Jews did. Instinctively, they understood Zionist aspirations very well, and their decision to resist them was only natural There was no misunderstanding between Jew and Arab, but a natural conflict. .... No Agreement was possible with the Palestinian Arab; they would accept Zionism only when they found themselves up against an 'iron wall, ' when they realize they had no alternative but to accept Jewish settlement." (America And The Founding Of Israel, p.90)”

Arthur Ruppin :


He headed the Jewish Agency between 1933 and 1935, ‘The Father of Jewish settlement in Palestine’ and helped to settle the large numbers of Jewish immigrants.

"This very likeness to the Asiatic peoples, from whom they have been separated for 2000 years, shows that the Jews have remained unchanged, and that in the Jews of today we may say we may have the same people who fought victoriously under King David, who repented their misdeeds under Ezra and Nehemiah, died fighting for freedom under Bar-Kokhba, were the great carriers of trade under between Europe and the Orient in the early Middle Ages….Thus the Jews have not only preserved their great natural racial gifts, but through a long process of selection these gifts have become strengthened. The terrible conditions under which the Jews lived during the last 500 years necessitated a bitter struggle for life in which only the cleverest and strongest survived… The result is that in the Jew of today, we have what is in some respects a particular valuable human type. Other nations may have other points of superiority, but in respect of intellectual gifts the Jews can scarcely be surpassed by any nation.” (The Invention of the Jewish People, Shlomo Sand)

“I do not believe in the TRANSFER of an individual. I believe in the TRANSFER of entire villages.” (The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited, Benny Morris)

What ‘The Father’ had in mind? Arthur Ruppin (1876–1943), cultural identity, weltanschauung and action
What ‘The Father’ had in mind? Arthur Ruppin (1876–1943), cultural identity, weltanschauung and action
“Ruppin’s constant aspiration for racial purity in the Jews emerged from within the scientific and medical discourse which praised racial purity”

More recently:

Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of the Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, Nov. 15, 1998.

"Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them."

[alexisreva]

Omg!! Throughout this whole Israel/ Palestine conflict and learning more about it. The resemblance to the colonization of Liberia was all I could think about. And what happened there? The indigenous people revolted and Liberia has never been the same sense. It was that same logic that brought AA settlers there. The white population wanted to get rid of their freed slaves. So of course America endorsed them migrating, even furthering the lie that they deserved the land. 35:25 it’s disgusting. #freepalestine.

[FeastMajora]

Not enough people make the Liberia analogy but it’s perfect for this situation

[wileyjaycomedy]

Obviously anyone rational knows who the indigenous ones are but breaking it down in this much bulletproof detail takes major skills

[mariammontaser]

As an egyptian whose grandfather was a war veteran of all the 3 wars we fought against Israel, I'm extremely happy to see non arabs bring attention to this