• Samskara@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    any Israeli citizen currently living there (that wasn’t born there) is a first generation colonizer

    Israel is a country of refugees. They came in many waves fleeing from pogroms in the Russian Empire, persecution in Yemen, the Holocaust, the Farhud in Iraq, and so on. They didn’t come to a land of opportunity to become rich like in the USA. They came looking for a safe place to live, not a persecuted minority for once, a place that would have them. Most did not have any other place to go.