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6 votes
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Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of April 22
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8 votes -
Is there a documentary from a reputable source that documents the relationship between the Jews and Israel/Palestine?
Ever since the Hamas attack, I think I have understood the position of the Palestinians, that they were there first and then Britain unfairly divided up the landed and gave some of it to Jews so...
Ever since the Hamas attack, I think I have understood the position of the Palestinians, that they were there first and then Britain unfairly divided up the landed and gave some of it to Jews so they could have a homeland where they wouldn't have to deal with Anti-semitism after what they went through during WWII.
But Jews/Zionists claim that they have some ancestral right to that land and I have not found it easy to come across anything from a reputable source that explains what backs up their claim (wikipedia and random YouTube videos don't count).
16 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of April 15
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5 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of April 8
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9 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of April 1
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18 votes -
Historian Avi Shlaim: ‘I remain hopeful Israel will start to act rationally’
2 votes -
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
36 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of March 25
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11 votes -
Israel is a strategic liability for the United States. The special relationship does not benefit Washington and is endangering US interests across the globe.
33 votes -
The Israeli settlers shrugging off sanctions to menace the West Bank – Measures against extremists do little to temper a movement emboldened by the Gaza war
18 votes -
Jared Kushner says Gaza’s ‘waterfront property could be very valuable’
27 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of March 18
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8 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of March 11
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3 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of March 4
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14 votes -
“Between the hammer and the anvil” – The story behind the New York Times October 7 exposé
13 votes -
After George Galloway’s triumph in Rochdale, urgent questions loom for Keir Starmer – and the left, too
14 votes -
Opinion - Israel must decide where it’s going—and who should lead it there: the case for early elections
10 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of February 26
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9 votes -
The Israeli settlers attacking their Palestinian neighbors – With the world’s focus on Gaza, settlers have used wartime chaos as cover for violence and dispossession
24 votes -
Palestinian pop singer Bashar Murad is hoping to represent Iceland at the Eurovision Song Contest and bring “a Palestinian voice to the main stage”
12 votes -
Shaun on Palestine
23 votes -
Active US Air Force serviceman self-immolates himself in front of the Embassy of Israel
36 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of February 19
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20 votes -
The West is losing Muslim Liberals – Indifference to Palestinian suffering in Gaza is alienating moderates across the Islamic world and tarnishing the appeal of liberal democratic values
36 votes -
India’s water transport workers' union says won’t help ships carrying arms bound for Israel
14 votes -
Israel to launch Rafah offensive unless hostages home by Ramadan
16 votes -
California's push for mandatory ethnic studies classes runs into the Israel-Palestine conflict in designing a curriculum
22 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of February 12
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6 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of February 5
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10 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of January 29
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16 votes -
Gaza ceasefire deal matters more than deterrence
10 votes -
The UN agency that aids Palestinians fired several workers and is investigating charges of their involvement in the 7 October attacks
24 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of January 22
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4 votes -
Why is Israel sending Palestinian taxes to Norway? Public money destined for Gaza has been frozen by Israel since November.
13 votes -
A Louisiana teen traveled to the West Bank to learn about his roots. He was shot dead.
17 votes -
EU seeks ‘consequences’ for Israel over opposition to Palestinian statehood
13 votes -
Weekly Israel-Hamas war megathread - week of January 15
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12 votes -
Arab nations develop plan to end Israel-Hamas war and create Palestinian state
19 votes -
Benjamin Netanyahu tells US he opposes creation of Palestinian state after Gaza war
19 votes -
The price of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ambition – the Prime Minister seems unable to distinguish between his own interests and his country’s
21 votes -
Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and other major newspapers heavily favored Israel, analysis shows
35 votes -
Israel is murdering Palestinian journalists in Gaza – The pattern of killing cannot be denied. Is there a lack of sympathy because the victims aren’t American or European?
35 votes -
Hannah Arendt would not qualify for the Hannah Arendt prize in Germany today
27 votes -
Al Jazeera journalist Samer Abudaqa killed in Israeli attack in Gaza
32 votes -
Thoughts on anti-Zionism?
I have been pretty consistently pro-Palestine and critical of injustices perpetrated by Israel, but the anti-Zionist stance has always seemed to me to be counterproductive. On the issue of just...
I have been pretty consistently pro-Palestine and critical of injustices perpetrated by Israel, but the anti-Zionist stance has always seemed to me to be counterproductive.
On the issue of just the legitimacy of the state of Israel, here's my basic stance: All land controlled by all governments was taken at some point through conquest (this is not a whataboutist stance, it's a tautology), but in the post-colonial era we all decided that might isn't right and that a mixture of international law, norms, and democratic principles should dictate the legitimacy of territorial claims. So, the Ottoman empire fell. The British seized control of the land of Palestine and retained a moderately weak mandate over the land (moderately weak in the sense that they were the essentially undisputed administrators of the land and had a military presence, but the territory would likely try to break away if the British tried to exercise significant control over it). With this moderately weak mandate, they pushed for the creation of the state of Israel that, by extension, I would consider a moderately-weakly legitimate state under the pre-WWII paradigm. Israel fights a defensive war against the Arab states and succeeds, converting the state of Israel as defined by the original 1948 partition plan from a weakly legitimate state into a properly legitimate state. At this point, the post-WWII frameworks kick in, and all the developments in the conflict past this point should be a function of that lens (ie. Palestine wrongfully denied sovereignty, illegality of settlements, etc.).
Zionism, in the most basic sense, is the belief in the creation of a Jewish state of Israel. There are more extreme and moderate versions of it, but that's all that it is at its core. Anti-Zionism is opposition to the creation of a Jewish state of Israel (I would not consider opposition to settlements or, strictly speaking, even to the accession of new territory into Israel proper past the 1948 borders after the two wars to be anti-Zionist itself). The anti-Zionist stance before the establishment of Israel was reasonable, but past that point is primarily a claim of one nation over the land of another nation. It's perfectly understandable at the end of the day for the Arabs and, particularly the Palestinians, to be upset about the whole situation and even to feel that a great injustice was done unto them. But that should all be relegated to the world of international affairs between established states. Ultimately, in my eyes anti-Zionism is not anti-semitic, but it's definitely anti-peace.
36 votes -
Civilians make up 61% of Gaza deaths from airstrikes, Israeli study finds
47 votes -
Links forged half a century ago with Gaza City mean that support for Palestine goes well beyond gesture politics in Tromsø, Norway
8 votes -
Israel-Hamas War Megathread, November 27 to December 7
It seemed about time to roll it over. Here's the previous topic.
23 votes -
Israel knew Hamas’s attack plan more than a year ago
38 votes