Do you realize that Jewish people are literally indigenous to this land? With thousands of years of archaeological, cultural and genetic evidence proving this? There are several well-documented forced expulsions of Jews from this land (predominantly by first Roman and then later Arab empires) that resulted in the Jewish diaspora; even throughout the diaspora Jews were never accepted where they went, were purged from, tortured in and massacred in dozens of countries they were refugees in, and almost always existed in insular communities that were never fully assimilated -- that is, until contemporary history post-Holocaust.
Jewish indigeneity to the region is not mutually exclusive to Palestinian indigeneity to the same land, nor is it justification for abusing, displacing and/or oppressing people. But it does not fit neatly into this "settler colonial" narrative you have as if A) Jews had as much connection to that land as Christopher Columbus setting foot in America, or B) that the thousands of Jews who managed to live there continuously for thousands of years, even through the violent expulsions didn't exist. In case you didn't know, there were literally thousands of Jewish families living there continuously for the entire thousands year-old history of Jews in Israel.
I stand in solidarity against AAPI hate, with Palestinian liberation AND with Zionism, which literally means self-determination for Jewish people on their ancestral lands (again, no asterisk for oppressing or displacing people). If you claim to stand for indigenous peoples' sovereignty, why are Jews exempt?
Israel's borders were created by the British through the Balfour Declaration, which also created all the other borders of modern ME and North Africa. Was it colonial as hell? Hell yea, but so is the inception of virtually every border that exists in the world. The only reason that it had been previously held by the Ottoman *Empire* is because that empire had vanquished the Byzantine Empire before it. The legacy of colonialism and imperialism does not originate in a unique conspiracy between Israel and the United States; indeed, much of humankind has engaged in this behavior (many far worse than others, such as the British and USA). Yes, that is condemnable and we can and must do better, but to deny the only Jewish state in the world its existence --when its indigenous peoples who pre-date Palestinian life there by literally thousands of years-- because they "left" (they were forced out against their will) and to willfully not extend the same compassion and understanding for Jewish peoples that you would for any other indigenous peoples in their homelands does sound a little antisemitic. I'm not saying *YOU ARE* an antisemite, I'm just asking you to interrogate some of this logic.
You can stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people without undermining the complexity of a situation where two groups of people do have valid land claims; complexity doesn't have to be an inherently bad thing and it doesn't have to diminish your compassion or activism for this group of people.
