georgephillip
Diamond Member
The character of Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine is racist in nature.Are you crazy ? The act of October 7th was born of the character in which Israel has been dealing with the whole time. You can't just separate the two as if they aren't connected, but nice try.
From its 19th century origins, Zionism centered on the idea of creating a Jewish majority in a territory where there were ten times as many non-Jews as Jews living there.
You can not separate that inherent racism on the part of European Jews from the events on October 7th.
Israel's 75 year-long destruction of indigenous Palestinian society began with ethnic cleansing, and October 7th was only the latest violent act of resistance to Israel's racist colonization of Palestine; it won't be the last.
For Jews Only: Racism Inside Israel - Colorlines
"By 1947, Jews were still only about 30 percent of the population of Mandate Palestine and owned only six percent of the land, but the UN Partition Resolution that year still assigned 55 percent of the land to a new Jewish state.
"However, by means of the 1947-48 war, Israel took over even greater expanses of land and forcibly expelled about 750,000 Palestinians.
"This travesty was the basis for the official founding of the Israeli state in 1948."