Israel chose apartheid over democracy.

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Zachary Foster

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Hi Judea, I'm a historian of Palestine. I'm an anti-Zionist. (full disclosure: I'm Jewish & grew up Zionist & discarded it when I reached intellectual maturity after having studied its history). The Zionist movement said: let's create a Jewish state in a country that's 97%+ non-Jewish. That's why, when Zionists bought land in Palestine from the 1900s-1948, they uprooted the people living on the land because they weren't Jewish. That's why, when Zionists created cooperatives in Palestine in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, they insisted on "Hebrew Labor", i.e., "Jews only" & they tried to expel Palestinian Arabs from working at Jewish-owned enterprises. https://jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2007.36.2.25 That's why, in 1948, Zionists militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. That's why, from 1949-1956, Israeli forces shot & killed b/w 2,700-5,000 overwhelmingly unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes after the war. They had the wrong DNA! (source: B. Morris, Border Wars, p.416). That's why Israel expelled another ~30-40,000 Palestinians from Israel from 1949-1959. https://palestinenexus.com/articles/israel-ethnic-cleansing-1949-1965 That's why Israel expelled another ~250,000 Palestinians from Gaza & the West Bank when it occupied those territories in 1967. That's why Israel continued to expel Palestinians from the occupied territories from 1968-1993, many hundreds of thousands of them. They had the wrong DNA. https://palestinenexus.com/articles/israels-ethnic-cleansing-of-the-palestinians-1968-1993 Zionists wanted to create a Jewish State with a Jewish majority to ensure Jews made all important decisions in a land of overwhelmingly Palestinians. That's why Israel has become such a pariah state over the years, because it's insistence on Jewish rule in a country with so many Palestinians. That's why the Zionist movement has led Israel to become an apartheid state, according to every relevant human rights organization (

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in 2022), since it cannot grant the ~5-6 million occupied Palestinians Israeli citizenship & it cannot grant Palestinian citizens of Israel the same rights as Jewish Israeli citizens, both of which would jeopardize Jewish domination. Israel chose apartheid over democracy. Zionism also helps explain why Israel is now committing genocide (according to

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, PHROC & 86% of the members of the International Association of Genocide Scholars), because, what a Zionist dream it would have been had Palestine been a land without any people on it! The ideology itself incentivized genocide. You show me the incentives, I'll show you the outcome. You've got the story backwards, Judea. If you want an even deeper dive on the history of Zionism, I teach a course here on the topic: https://palestinenexus.com/courses/p/zionism-101

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