I speak academic. The comment is saying you’re nitpicking over what words mean to the point you’re equating expulsion from an area to two different groups of people living in the same area simultaneously. In this case you’re equating the ideology of Zionism, which seeks to expel or subdue the Palestinian population, to the idea of a free Palestine. There’s also a historical basis for Palestine having Jews and Arabs live together in the area for hundreds of years.
Personally I don’t think you’re equating these two things, I think maybe you’re asking stuff in good faith
Yeah i’m not trying to equate them, and I do genuinely want to learn since i’m new to Marxism. I guess I need to study the history of the levant more, I have no idea how life was for Jews in the area before Israel was founded
You’d be very interested in reading specifically about British Palestine. Jews and Arabs (often those two groups weren’t distinct) coexisted in the area for centuries during the Ottoman Empire. British control coincided with the rise of political Zionism and settlement of Palestine by European Jewish immigrants. These immigrants set up their own communities, complete with their own armed soldiers who would do things like burn down the homes of Arab families. It got so bad the UK had to try limiting Jewish immigration into the area, which resulted in the Zionists attacking British military facilities. So on so on, the Zionist Entity declares independence in 1948.
I speak academic. The comment is saying you’re nitpicking over what words mean to the point you’re equating expulsion from an area to two different groups of people living in the same area simultaneously. In this case you’re equating the ideology of Zionism, which seeks to expel or subdue the Palestinian population, to the idea of a free Palestine. There’s also a historical basis for Palestine having Jews and Arabs live together in the area for hundreds of years.
Personally I don’t think you’re equating these two things, I think maybe you’re asking stuff in good faith
Yeah i’m not trying to equate them, and I do genuinely want to learn since i’m new to Marxism. I guess I need to study the history of the levant more, I have no idea how life was for Jews in the area before Israel was founded
You’d be very interested in reading specifically about British Palestine. Jews and Arabs (often those two groups weren’t distinct) coexisted in the area for centuries during the Ottoman Empire. British control coincided with the rise of political Zionism and settlement of Palestine by European Jewish immigrants. These immigrants set up their own communities, complete with their own armed soldiers who would do things like burn down the homes of Arab families. It got so bad the UK had to try limiting Jewish immigration into the area, which resulted in the Zionists attacking British military facilities. So on so on, the Zionist Entity declares independence in 1948.
Is wikipedia a good source for reading about this topic or is it biased?
Yeah just check the sources and it’s often fine