Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, on Saturday condemned Israel as a racist state, warning activists that there is an organized opposition against progressive critics of Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians.
The sharp criticism from the lawmaker from Washington state marks among the highest-level condemnations of Israel, as several members of her caucus plan to boycott Israel President Isaac Herzog’s address to a joint session of Congress later this week.
Speaking on a panel at Netroots Nation, an annual progressive activist conference in Chicago, Jayapal was addressing pro-Palestinian attendees interrupting the session.
Kicking people off their land so your own people can move in has a term, it’s called ethnic cleansing. It is considered a crime against humanity under the genocide convention.
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Damn, try to relax. I think they were agreeing with you and just adding too the conversation.
Accusing me of wanting ethnic cleansing doesn’t sound like agreeing with me in any sane world.
They were clearly not accusing you in any way, it’s weird that you’re so intent on taking offense and fl freaking out about it
a significant amount of jews moved to mandatory palestine before israel was even established, due to the loose immigration laws. the other portion of the israeli population arrived as refugees in the 50s after several states in the middle east expelled their jewish populations post independance. the people kicked out of their homes are not being kicked out for forigners to move in usually, but rather for native israelis to move into, though there are some small american groups in the west bank settler movement. (i am not pro israel or pro palestine, just trying to educate people)
Look up Theodor Herzl. He is the father of Zionism and is buried in Israel’s national cemetery.
Im sure many moved for ideological reasons, but that number is dwarfed by the amount that immigrated due to the loose laws.
Right. Let me kick you out of your house that you’ve had for generations because I can “claim” the land as mine as my ancestors resided there a thousand years ago. This is the dumbest argument to justify ethnic cleansing. Stop trying to pass this revisionist idiocy off as “education”.
Actually, the Jewish National Fund purchased land from subjects of the Ottoman Empire. Often when the Jews showed up to claim their purchase, they found that there were Palestinian Arabs living there. That’s a result of misappropriations under the Ottoman Land Act of 1858.
That doesn’t make the situation any less horrible, but it’s a far cry from the way you describe it.
I’ll need a source on this claim.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080916054748/http://www.beki.org/landlaw.html
Alot of pro palestine people exadurate the situation emensely, which loses them supporters in the general public.
I think people are just ignorant of the deep, complex historical roots of the conflict. That’s not a personal failing; ignorance can be treated with education. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is very difficult to understand. I just wish people would take a little time to think about their blind spots before commenting on it.
Yeah, theres misinformation coming from both sides on this issue.
Those practices mostly started in 48 during the nakba, and resumed after the six day war, predominently done in the west bank now, and in 48 in the panhandle near jerusalem.