Imagine being a Copt in Egypt. Your people are descended from the actual ancient Egyptians, dating back to 3200 BCE.
Then, Arab invaders come in 641 AD, and not only claim to be Egyptians with thousands of years of rich history on your land, but then forcibly occupy your land, burn down your places of worship, destroy your history, while converting you (under punishment of death) to their foreign ideology.
This is how Jews who know history feel when there are 2.5 million Arab occupiers, mostly Egyptians, who's ancestors, in reality, were occupiers of Egypt who came from the Arabian Peninsula, living in Gaza (Jewish land since 145 BC), and claim it’s their land and that they are ‘Palestinans’ - a colonizer term for Jews who lived IN Israel from 136 AD - 1948 and endured 1,812 years of occupation.
This was written by Lauren Lipsky, CEO and Founder of "Taking Back The Narrative."
https://tbtnisrael.com/about-taking-back-the-narrative/
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On today's episode of, "It's Only Bad When Whites Do It," we have an African "Community" in Roman Britain.
In reality, they were a unit of the occupying Roman military. But when you are trying to steal the ethnic homeland of native Brits, you call it a "community."
I guess US military forts in the Dakotas were "Anglo Communities."
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Just seeing the genocide. Witnessing it through a screen, from the comfort of my own bed. Even as I am mad at my family, I am still grateful for them and sick with the thought that many in Palestine do not have family to be mad at. Many in Palestine do not have a bed to lay in or a screen to look at. And it makes me sick. It makes me angry. Enraged. How could such unspeakable acts be committed by humans onto other humans? Asking is pointless because I know the answer, studied it, said out loud, and, on many occasions, even wittnessed it first hand. I have whispered it in prayer, sang it, and heard it whistling in the wind.
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Colonialism is a disease
Imagine being an Arab Muslim and having the audacity to call someone else a colonizer. The illustration below is a snapshot of Islamic colonialism and occupation of other people's lands, from the 7th-9th centuries. Islam went on to attack, destroy, occupy and colonize vast swaths of Europe and southeast Asia, as well as what is now called Turkey.
The world has witnessed many colonial empires since the beginning of time. Most notably, the Mongols, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, Egyptians, Islam/Ottomans, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Spanish, British, and American. The only empire that didn't take land, even after winning world wars, were the Americans. They actually gave back the Philippines. But I digress.
All of these empires were in large part, created by bloody conquest, and built on the backs of the newly subjugated. The Hebrews were, famously, slaves in Egypt.
No one seems to teach this in the west, focusing more on the Romans, but of all the colonialists, one of the most deadly brutal and expansionist empires were the Muslims aka the Islamists. The Islamic empire expanded by sheer, from Medina (where Muhammad massacred and enslaved the 50% majority Jewish population) all the way into western North Africa, much of Europe, and large populations of Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, parts of India now called Pakistan, etc).
As it expanded using violence and fear, Islam literally took 100 million slaves out of Africa, and was responsible for one of the greatest mass murders in history: killing 10 million (or more) on the forced march from their homelands to the Middle East.
Some examples of Islamic slavery include the Al-Andalus slave trade, the Trans-Saharan slave trade, the Indian Ocean slave trade, the Comoros slave trade, the Zanzibar slave trade, the Red Sea slave trade, the Barbary slave trade, the Ottoman slave trade, the Black Sea slave trade, the Bukhara (Uzbekistan) slave trade, and the Khivan slave trade from which Islam took millions of slaves out of Persia to the Islamic khanates. There are Arab/Islamic societies today (Libya, a well-known example) that still trade slaves.
Compare this to Israel. Israel/Judea was never colonial nor expansionist. The Hebrews (aka Jews) were often properties of and were subjugated by, colonial empires, including the Islamic colonial empire.
They Hebrews themselves, as noted above, were most famously slaves of the the colonial Egyptian empire, some 4,000 years ago, before being murdered and subjugated by Islam starting in the 7th century. Somehow able to escape Egyptian tyranny through their own efforts (some say, by the grace of Hashem), the Hebrews settled in their current indigenous homeland 3.600 years ago - a small area by global standards, smaller than Belize, Albania, or Montenegro. They were happy there, and even at their peak, did not attempt to force convert others or expand much beyond their lands.
As historian Barbara Tuchman wrote, Israel is “the only nation in the world that is governing itself in the same territory, under the same name, and with the same religion and same language as it did 3,000 years ago.” Despite all the occupations and forced exiles, the Jews/Hebrews/Israelites have maintained a continuous presence in Judea/Israel/Samaria for some 3,600+ years. And even though Israel was granted modern statehood in 1948, it is one of the oldest continuously maintained countries in the world.
The 'modern' state of Israel came to fruition post WWII, in 1948; the redefinition of borders and modern statehood after the fall of the big colonials was in no way unusual to Israel. Many country's modern borders came to be defined in the post colonial period (post WWI & WWII). While Israel and Lebanon and Iraq and Iran and Syria and Egypt were all ancient civilizations, dating back thousands of years, modern statehood came in the 20th century: For example, statehood was granted to Egypt in 1922; Saudi Arabia and Iraq in 1932; Lebanon in 1943; Indonesia, South Korea & Vietnam in 1945; Syria & Jordan in 1946; India & Pakistan in 1947; Israel, & Myanmar in 1948; Laos, Libya & Bhutan in 1951; Cambodia in 1953; Morocco, Sudan & Tunisia in 1956; Ghana & Malaysia in 1957; and so on.
The problem is, the tribalism and supremacy of Islam, can't stand that it's once-conquered land is now in the hands of the original owners. Islam believes that once it puts a flag in the sand somewhere, it's theirs.
Oh, and by the way, Andalusia (Spain) is next in Islam's sights.
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