Any leader be it of a party, movement or subculture that refuses to support the liberation of the Palestinian people is no leader worth following. Be like Greta 🇸🇪🇵🇸
@JackWPolitics@YorkieYO So it's ok if they're anti-British or anti-white but if they're anti-LGBT they have to go? Liberalism is such a disjointed and bizarre belief system.
I welcome the dethroning of America as world hegemon and the coming Chinese century. It won't be great for us but it's a hell of a lot better than the Jewish-WhiteRightoid-Liberal empire which is killing everybody it comes into contact with.
More and more convinced that a faction of the regime wants Restore more than Reform. The Spectator article and Lowe-Kemi chocolate swirl relationship is sus.
At an “anti-racist training day”, an officer explains that the “Police Race Action Plan” is a national programme backed by all 43 Chief Constables in England and Wales, with the stated aim of “improving service delivery to the black community”.
Jesus Christ okay let’s deal with this:
“The word “Palestine” is literally an English translation of a Roman translation (Palestina) of a Hebrew translation (Philistine) of a Greek word (Peleset) that described Greek people (hailing from Crete) in the region that are now extinct.”
- Yes, the Philistines arrived on the coast near Gaza in 12th century BC and eventually integrated with local Canaanite people, it’s why many Palestinians have Philistine DNA. I’d say living in the same area for 3200 years in some form or another makes one indigenous.
“All but the English translation came before Islam was invented and before the Arab expansion while Arabs were still in Arabia.
In fact, there’s not even a character or combination that makes the “p” sound in Arabic. Which is exactly why in the 60’s arabs invented the word “Falastine” because it’s the closest translation their language even allows.”
- The use of the term ‘Filastin’ goes back to the Ummayad Caliphite, where they designated a good portion of the region as a military district under the title ‘Jund Filastin’
And yes, ‘Filastin’ is the Arab form of ‘Palestine’, in the same way ‘John’ is the English form for ‘Johanan’ (Hebrew/Aramaic), or Persia is the Latin exonym for Iran (derived from the Greek Parsa). Also, Arabic at some point did indeed have a ‘P’ sound, they simply dropped it, languages will add or drop consonant as time passes.
“There was never a Palestinian nation on the land, but there was a Jewish one. You as a (Catholic are you?) should know this best.
You should also know about the Philistines, their comparatively light skin and Greek vocabulary.
It’s a stolen identity from people who didn’t even reside on the entire land. The Philistines occupied a small subsection of land on the coast between modern Gaza and Tel Aviv. They were widely considered invaders and didn’t even exist by the time the Roman’s renamed the land.”
- Yes indeed, the Romans renamed the region Palestine as part of the joint province of Syria-Palestina after they crushed the Bar-Kochba revolt. However, the majority of the Judeans that were driven out of Jerusalem settled in the Galilee: they Hellenized, became Christians, and then after the Muslim conquest of the land they slowly Arabized and became Muslims, and those people now identify as Palestinians. Comprehensive genetic studies and testing prove this.
Another thing, the whole region, from Gaza to Acre, was populated by a diverse group of people, there was never a time in history in which it was only ever Judeans or Israelites: Philistines, Edomites, Moabites, Phoenicians, Aramaeans, Galileans, etc. if you read your Bible, you’d know this.
As the centuries and millennia passed, these people eventually collectively identified as Arabs, and as Palestinians.
But ultimately it’s irrelevant: it doesn’t matter what they call themselves now, called themselves in the past, or will call themselves in the future. All historical records and genetic evidence decisively proves that the people who now identify as Palestinians are the native and indigenous people of the they call Palestine, and they are currently being ethnically cleansed from their homeland by Jews. This is a crime, and they have every right to resist and fight those people who are brutalizing them.
The reason neolibs, neocons, and social identity right-wingers constantly seethe online while pretending they aren't the ones seething is because they miss Iraq War culture where they could successfully press people into their fake ideology and they don't like they're discredited
Trots use "workers of the world unite" in the same way that liberal atheists trying to get one up on Christians use "love thy neighbour". With the most dishonest interpretation imaginable where they extrapolate its meaning into some sort of hateful, cosmopolitan free for all.
Two-state solution is the apartheid solution. We already are living the two-state solution since 1947, look at where its got us.
West Bank and especially Gaza are defacto a two-state solution.
The only solution is the one-state solution, Palestine only.
With due respect and sympathy for Henry Nowak’s family, the public have no moral obligation to contain their anger, even rage at what happened to that young man. Keir Starmer has no right to lecture us on how to behave or think. The circumstances surrounding the death of this young man speak directly of the way in which our culture and institutions have been taken over by identity politics. But it is an identity politics which elevates certain people over other people effectively becoming injustice within itself.
@CleaningTheMess@Luke_Jahn_ Also socialism is not a failed experiment. China is socialist. Compare their experience to ours. They are on the rise while we are getting poorer and it isn't wholly the result of mass immigration which is causing our impoverishment but capitalism itself.
@CleaningTheMess@Luke_Jahn_ Prior to Thatcher the UK while not socialist has nothing in common with what the right-wing nationalist reactionary crowd push. They mix neoliberalism with racialism which has no historical precedent in Britain and wouldn't be taking the country back.
@CleaningTheMess@Luke_Jahn_ So you want the working class of Britain to be exploited, not in a racial manner but in an economic manner? Socialism is the only viable path, whether international or national, if you truly want people to have a better life and to stop parasitism of others' labour.