{"id":537,"date":"2023-07-25T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/?page_id=537"},"modified":"2023-08-10T03:42:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T03:42:34","slug":"is-israel-a-racist-supremacist-ethno-state","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/is-israel-a-racist-supremacist-ethno-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Israel A Racist Supremacist Ethno-State?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The accusations being made around this world by Arab-European Colonizer nations and their successfully assimilated colonized citizens \u2013 that Israel is a \u201cracist\u201d \u201csupremacist\u201d \u201cethno-State\u201d, an \u201cApartheid state\u201d for denying non-citizen Arab \u201cPalestinian\u201d land-squatters (who are occupying Jewish ancestral land to deny Jewish sovereignty<\/em> upon the Land of Israel) equality with Israeli citizens (Jews, Arabs, Druze, Bedouin, and Europeans) \u2013 belies an undeniable truth: Israel is the first successful partially decolonized Indigenous nation<\/em> on this planet Earth (since 1948!). In addition to this truth, the nation-State of Israel is literally 3 times smaller<\/em> than the Navajo Nation Reservation in the United States of \u201cAmerica\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Israel is 21,937 sq km (8,469 sq mi) in physical size and has an Israeli citizen population of 9.2 million \u2013 and<\/em> \u2013 is occupied by 5.3 million land-squatting non-citizen Arab \u201cPalestinians\u201d. The Navajo Nation Reservation is 71,000 sq km (27,413 sq mi) and it is slightly larger than the USA State of West Virginia, and has only 399,494 Din\u00e9 Indigenous members. Israel is 3x smaller in physical land size, with an Indigenous Judean population of 7.1 million Jews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine the Navajo Nation being as obsessed over<\/em> by USA citizens, as Israel is daily obsessed over by United States citizens (and the entire Arab-European Colonial world)! With this clarification now stated, we can begin to answer the question of this page: Is Israel a racist supremacist ethno-State? Let\u2019s explore, below!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Robust debate\u2019 or Jewish hate? The anti-Israel movement\u2019s messaging centers around an obsessive need to whitewash<\/em> Jewish and Israeli history. Turning Israel, comprised mostly of Indigenous \u201cMiddle Eastern North African\u201d Jews, into a Colonial European nation upon our 1948 forcibly decolonized<\/em> ancestral land. After the Arab Colonizers, with their British-French handlers, invaded to re-colonize the Levant and Southwest Asia during<\/em> WWI, we Jews had no choice<\/em> but to fight these occupiers for Israeli Independence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAnd here is where we have an opportunity for a call to action: What if we have had the answer all along?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The anti-Israel movement\u2019s messaging centers around whitewashing Jewish and Israeli history. Some of the movement\u2019s repeated tropes include accusing Israel and Israelis of being white European colonizers, or categorizing Israel as a guilt-ridden gift for the Jewish people after the atrocities of the Holocaust, which in effect denies and delegitimizes Jewish indigenous presence in the land and region for over 3,000 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from the blatant inaccuracies, the claims also reflect a deep ignorance of the holistic Jewish experience. They completely exclude Mizrahi and Sephardic communities and their very raw, very recent histories in the region. In the 1940s, approximately one million Jews lived in Arab-Muslim lands. Before and after Israel declared independence in 1948, countries across the Middle East became increasingly hostile to their Jewish habitants. As a result of discrimination, violence, expulsion, dispossession, and fear, 850,000 Mizrahi Jews urgently fled their homes and became refugees, forced to leave everything behind. Often regarded as the \u201cforgotten refugees,\u201d about 650,000 settled in refugee camps in Israel and the remaining 200,000 headed West to the United States and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politics, media, pop culture, academia, and even mainstream Jewish institutions and communal leadership too often exclude the Mizrahi refugee experience. The Jewish community, in Israel and abroad, has its own history of marginalizing Mizrahi voices and prioritizing education about the Central and Eastern European Jewish experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[M]anifestations of contemporary antisemitism, which through anti-Zionist rhetoric and activity seeks to demonize Israel and Israelis, delegitimize indigenous Jewish connections to the land of Israel and the right to self-determination, and hold Israel to a severe double standard not expected of any other country\u2026. To authentically represent ourselves on campus [and in social media], it is imperative that we amplify diverse Jewish voices. This is critical in the fight against antisemitism and misinformation, as Mizrahi stories tell the history that often is omitted from the Arab-Israeli narrative\u2026. [W]e have a grave responsibility to define ourselves, our identities and our histories before others do that for us. This must be a united effort that reflects the vibrant diversity of the Jewish people, because anything less is simply not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n