Wait What?! Golda Meir, a Jew, was a Palestinian!

[MartyNYC]

Most people don’t know that the fictional “Palestinian” identity originated in the British Mandate, which the British nicknamed “Palestine,” a conventional European/Western term for the land of Israel. It dates back to Roman use, imposed on Jews and ancient Israel, intended to erase the Jewish heritage of the country. In British Mandate Palestine, all inhabitants, Christians, Muslims, Arabs, etc., and also notably Jews were designated as Palestinians, though Muslims rejected those names as Western inventions. Only much later, after Jews became Israelis, did Arabs and Muslims adopt the Palestinian moniker. Here, Golda Meir explains why she was designated as a Palestinian…

 

[Confederate Soldier]

A scholar among the midst of fools you are. /s.

 

[surada]

Most people don’t know that the fictional “Palestinian” identity originated in the British Mandate, which the British nicknamed “Palestine,” a conventional European/Western term for the land of Israel. It dates back to Roman use, imposed on Jews and ancient Israel, intended to erase the Jewish heritage of the country. In British Mandate Palestine, all inhabitants, Christians, Muslims, Arabs, etc., and also notably Jews were designated as Palestinians, though Muslims rejected those names as Western inventions. Only much later, after Jews became Israelis, did Arabs and Muslims adopt the Palestinian moniker. Here, Golda Meir explains why she was designated as a Palestinian…

Jews were a tiny minority in Palestine for 1800 years. They were all called Palestinians.

 

[MartyNYC]

Jews were a tiny minority in Palestine for 1800 years. They were all called Palestinians.

There was no place named Palestine until British Palestine in 1923. Duh!

 

[MartyNYC]

Jews were a tiny minority in Palestine for 1800 years. They were all called Palestinians.

Historian James Parkes: “Through the centuries, the region called Palestine became a national home for the Jews, and for no other definable people.”

 

[surada]

There was no place named Palestine until British Palestine in 1923. Duh!

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Yeah there was. Palestine was a province of Syria in 500 BC. Read Herodotus.

 

[surada]

Historian James Parkes: “Through the centuries, the region called Palestine became a national home for the Jews, and for no other definable people.”

He's a piss poor historian.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Jews were a tiny minority in Palestine for 1800 years. They were all called Palestinians.

And now they're the majority in Israel.