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‘They want to break our will’: Gaza flotilla activist tells of rape in Israeli detention (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When did they ever have it?

[–] Dogiedog64@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

People forget this but Israel was founded with Genocide. Against Jews during the holocaust, yes, but also against Arabs in the region during the Nakba, so that the Zionists could carve out their ethnostate. This is not new behavior for them. They've literally been doing this for decades.

[–] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Most of the Zionist immigration actually occurred before the Holocaust. In fact, the Zionists were actively refusing Jewish refugees because they would have "tainted" the movement.

https://palestinenexus.com/articles/eugenicism

From the late 19th century through the 1950s, Zionist leaders adopted a selective immigration policy designed to exclude ‘undesirable’ Jews.

Menahem Sheinkin described them as “miserable paupers, depressed and patched up, with bundles like rag-merchants, the poorest of the poor, who could not possibly be a blessing to the country.”

By the early 1900s, an office was established in Jaffa to screen Jews hoping to settle in Palestine. Menachem Sheinkin and Arthur Ruppin reviewed application letters sent from prospective migrants and told 61% of them not to come, primarily because they were too impoverished.

I sympathize with those who suffered due to antisemitism over millenia and during the holocaust. But I have zero sympathy for fascist colonials who created founding myths based off the suffering of others that they actively turned away.