Unite for Palestina

"Ancient Israel is an invention of western scholarship in the image of a European nation state. It has led to the construction of an imagined past which has mon...opolized the discourse of biblical studies, an imaginative past which has come to dominate and deny Palestinian history. - Keith W. Whitelam, "The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian history." (1996). See more

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"Zionism is described by Zionism as a reaction to the constant bigotry faced by all Jews everywhere always. The Zionist project reaped what the Alliance* had so...wn in Jewish communities throughout the Arab worldthe view that the rest of the world had continually brutalized us and that the only answer was to unify with people beyond our immediate countrymen to form an international Jewry as envisioned by European Jews. The Alliance taught this in Tunis and even in the British colonies like Iraq where the Alliance had operated schools. The Zionist project simply redirected Jewish Arab attentions away from France and toward Palestine.... the Zionist project appeared to be a logical conclusion to the Alliance’s project of unifying international Jewry through victimhood. If the world’s Jews were indeed unified by a common struggle against bigotry and existed as a transnational people, as the Alliance taught, then they clearly needed to safeguard themselves from hatred with borders and a military. Had the Alliance, in its education, led the way for Zionism? Benbassa asks. In the Jewish Arab experience, it most certainly had....Were it not for the Alliance, Zionism would have had to work from scratch, convincing the likes of Daida and Oscar that they had more in common with Jewish Russians and Germans than the Muslim and Christian Arabs with whom they grew up and shared customs, a language, and a history.... Jewish Arabs had already begun to emigrate to Israel to increase the Jewish population there, even as the Israeli military was engaging in a campaign to raze Palestinian towns, killing hundreds and driving hundreds of thousands more from their homes. If there is little discussion of the Palestinian Nakba here, it is in the hope that you will endeavor to hear not me but Palestinians tell it. For too long, that storyof Palestine’s past and futurehas been told by non-Palestinians. Jewish Arab colonists went to Palestine for a variety of reasons: sometimes it was out of fear of the rising animosity toward them in their homelands; sometimes it was out of a genuinely felt religious or political commitment to the Zionist project. Others were taken there in what many have called human trafficking by Zionist agents; they had no clue where they were headed when they were spirited away on buses and boats in the dead of night. Zionist agents were engaged in a multipronged effort to inspire Jewish Arabs to move to Palestine, sometimes even by firebombing Arab capitals and pitting those countries’ national security apparatus against them. In the way that the Islamic State and similar terrorist groups have relished Western Islamophobia because it supports their dualistic, clash-of-civilizations worldview and supports their drive to draw more recruits, Zionists did nothing to stop the criminalization of Jewish Arab communities. Instead, they appeared to provoke it unabashedly, despite risking Jewish Arab lives. Even long after Oscar left the Arab world, a deluge of events continued to plant a wedge between Jewish Arabs and the societies in which they lived, who began to fear and resent their very presence. What nuance there had been in Jewish Arab political identities very quickly disappeared under the onslaught of Zionist efforts in Arab states. In 1947, there was a violent clash in Cairo between the Zionists and the Anti-Zionist League, an advocacy group started by Jewish Egyptian communist Ezra Harari on decolonial principles and concerns that the colonization of Palestine would turn Egyptian society against Jewish Egyptians. King Farouk’s government, however, determined that anti-monarchal communists were the greater concern, and the League was banned. Beginning in 1948 the Israeli intelligence’s Operation Goshen smuggled about ten thousand Jews out of the country into Palestine to bolster the number of Jewish settlers there.The operation indicated the extent to which early Israeli intelligence had already infiltrated Egypt and other Arab nations. Zionist agents reportedly received instruction in codes transmitted on Israeli public radio, and many of the Jewish Egyptians traveled via Swissair to Palestine. Once more, Europe proved central to dragging Jewish Arabs into a colonial project." When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family's Forgotten History by Massoud Hayoun (2019) *The Alliance israélite universelle (Hebrew: ) is a Paris-based international Jewish organization founded in 1860 by the French statesman Adolphe Crémieux to safeguard the human rights of Jews around the world

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