You know, it is kind of a sign of baffling alienation from our traditional culture that people would expect "but there were...
You know, it is kind of a sign of baffling alienation from our traditional culture that people would expect “but there were people already living there who would have to be exterminated or repressed!” to be understood as an forbidding barrier to the establishment of a Jewish state in Israel
how alienated we are, that people being thrown out of their land two millenia ago is not considered an excuse for exterminatory settler-colonialism, facilitated by the genocidal monsters who won the war against the other genocidal monsters, in the present day.
Zionism is not jewish culture, it’s bourgeois jewish culture allied with settler colonialism. Our bourgeois-colonial society erases the progressive, working class, side of jewish culture, bundism and pitches the regressive bourgeois side as equivalent to jewishness.
Have you ever heard of The Book of Exodus?
I didn’t say they weren’t around there 2000 years ago , or that they weren’t driven out violently.
These questions are distinct from whether they should violently displace people there in the present day. Bundists said no, zionists said yes. Zionists got the genocidal British regime to give them the land and started a campaign of dispossession.
You missed the point. A large portion of the Old Testament is about the Israelites exterminating previous inhabitants of the Levant. Scripture makes no claim that the Israelites were “natives” to that specific region but that rather they were giving direct license by God to exterminate those that were there before them. There are no moral injunctions from the Old Testament against genocide per se, in fact it is encouraged.
ohhhh there’s some galaxy-brain stuff going on here. I just assumed i knew what exodus was, because the story on wikipedia seemed familiar. apologies for the mistake @kontextmaschine
That was originally written “have you ever read” the Book of Exodus, maybe I shouldn’t have changed it to “heard of”