SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: The injustice done to Jewish people in Europe does not cancel the injustice done to Palestinian people in Palestine.

https://x.com/nxt888/status/2055705576479580581

The structure of your argument requires something that you haven't stated explicitly but that your entire position depends on:

That the Jewish experience of persecution in Europe, culminating in the Holocaust, created a moral debt that was appropriately discharged by the displacement of Palestinian Arabs who had no role in creating it.

This is the foundation.

Everything else, the partition rejection, the Arab wars, the security fears, the Hamas ideology, is superstructure built on this foundation.

And the foundation doesn't hold.

The Palestinian people of 1948 did not run the concentration camps.

They did not write the Nuremberg laws.

They did not conduct the pogroms of Eastern Europe.

They were a population living in a territory that the international community, in the aftermath of European crimes, decided to partition in favor of a settler movement.

The moral debt of the Holocaust was real.

It was paid by the wrong people.

The Palestinians paid for European antisemitism with their homeland.

This injustice does not disappear because the people who were settled on their land also had a history of genuine persecution.

Two genuine injustices can exist simultaneously.

The injustice done to Jewish people in Europe does not cancel the injustice done to Palestinian people in Palestine.

But the entire logic of the Israeli state's foundational narrative requires you not to see it that way.

It requires you to believe that the Holocaust created a permission structure that extends to 1948 and to 1967 and to the blockade and to the settlements and to everything that has followed.

That permission structure is what the original argument was dismantling.

Not the reality of Jewish suffering.

The use of Jewish suffering as a permanent ceiling on Palestinian humanity.

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@EarthOddysey

Replying to @nxt888

1948 was not a random act of dispossession in a vacuum, it followed the rejection of partition and a regional war launched by Arab states and militias against the newly declared Jewish state. Hundreds of thousands of Jews were also expelled or fled from Arab countries in the