Years ago we lampooned how Palestinians and their pals would freak out when Israelis would make their own
Jewish versions of keffiyehs. Apparently
Palestinian culture is so weak that the every existence of Jews eating hummus or wearing a headdress that Jews have worn for thousands of years threatens their cherished "symbol of resistance."
One Israeli, Rudy Rochman, is
marketing his own sudrawith a Star of David pattern, and he made this video describing it and its Jewish roots.
Yes, Jews wearing a scarf like their own Middle Eastern ancestors did is "genocide." Just like Israeli versions and adaptations of Middle Eastern foods are "
genocide." Just like Israeli versions of Middle Eastern dance are "
genocide."
Perhaps the ubiquitous olive wood camels that Arabs eagerly sold to Jewish tourists in the 1950s and 60s are also "genocide."
The constant associating Jews with genocide is, of course, deliberately meant to invert the Holocaust, the event that the term to be coined for. It is ironic that the people who pretend to care about genocide by using it for everything Israelis do are
redefining and trivializing the term so that it becomes meaningless - and therefore all but ignored in cases that it really happens.
To the modern antisemites, applying the term to Jews is far more important than genocide itself.
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