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July 8, 2022 12:15pm

One of the central tenets of the #Zionist and #Israeli #colonization is the denial of an authentic, independent #Palestinian #identity.

During the #British control of #Palestine, the population was officially divided between Jews and “non-Jews.”

“There were no such thing as #Palestinians … they did not exist,” onetime Israeli Prime Minister #GoldaMeir quipped.

This erasure, which requires an egregious act of #historical amnesia, is what the Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling called the “politicide” of the Palestinian people.

Khalidi writes, “The surest way to eradicate a people’s right to their land is to deny their historical connection to it.”

#history #freedom #HumanRights

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The Zionist Colonization of Palestine

For more than a century Zionists and, later, Israelis have pursued a project to seize and ethnically cleanse Palestinian land.

One of the central tenets of the #Zionist and #Israeli #colonization is the denial of an authentic, independent #Palestinian #identity.

During the #British control of #Palestine, the population was officially divided between Jews and “non-Jews.”

“There were no such thing as #Palestinians … they did not exist,” onetime Israeli Prime Minister #GoldaMeir quipped.

This erasure, which requires an egregious act of #historical amnesia, is what the Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling called the “politicide” of the Palestinian people.

Khalidi writes, “The surest way to eradicate a people’s right to their land is to deny their historical connection to it.”

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