In the 1920’s-1930’s, an equal number of Jews and Arabs emigrated to Palestine – approximately 450,000 for each ethnicity. In the 1930’s, 60,000 European Jews, refugees from World War II, were allowed entry into Palestine. After 1948, 140,000 Jewish refugees from Europe, all Holocaust survivors, were admitted into Israel. 400,000 Read more…
I love education! By definition, “colonizing” is the act of taking over of a land that is not your parent land (aka, “someone’s elses). Every census from BCE time period to present day CE, by every occupier of Judea-Israel (aka, historic Palestine), has recorded Jews in the land. Explain to Read more…
“From 1890 to 1947, in less than sixty years, the population [of Arabs, Jews, and Europeans in Palestine] grew from 532,000 to 1,845,560. The Arab population of Palestine grew more from 1922 to 1947 than it had over the previous 400 years.” – UNSCOP*, pp. 12-13 The *myth* of “colonization” Read more…
“It is not the facts about the vulnerable but the feelings of the powerful that are to be protected. The language used to attain this goal is very carefully chosen.” – Timothy Snyder, Professor of History Fact: Both white Christians and Arab Muslims understand this, and wield their revisionist histories Read more…
Let’s learn who/what *”colonizes”*! Shall we? Colonialism: first known use 1864, and meant “the quality or state of being colonial” Colonial: first known use 1768, and meant “of, relating to, or characteristic of a colony” Colony: first known use 14th century CE and, by established definition, meant “a body of Read more…
An open letter to *ALL* Christians and Muslims: Happening to Jews, as always, everywhere Christianity and Islam have conquested. In a town, in a city, in a neighborhood near you! But absolutist “faith” religions are not the problem??! … All hate and violence is justified, when one has faith (the Read more…