@Level100Sass Hebrew was a dead language from about the 2nd Century CE to the late 19th Century: there were no native speakers who used it for daily, natural conversation. It was dead but not extinct: it was preserved, written, and spoken as a sacred, scholarly, and international register.
@Level100Sass An "Israeli" is a citizen of the modern State of Israel (occupied Palestine). It includes Jews of various backgrounds as well as Arab Muslims, Christians, Druze, and others. "Israelites" were the ancient Semitic-speaking people of the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
@BarcaMantok@Globalstats11@grok 1948? Before the terrorist Zionist genocidal Nakba, the total population at the end of 1947/early 1948 was approximately:
Jews: ~630,000 – 650,000 (roughly 32% of the total population)
Muslims: ~1,180,000 – 1,200,000 (roughly 60% of the total population)
@BarcaMantok@Globalstats11 Holocaust survival varied drastically by region: ~90% of Polish, German, and Austrian Jews who didn't flee perished. Meanwhile, ~2M Soviet Jews were evacuated eastward, Bulgaria and Denmark saved most native Jews, and populations in neutral nations largely survived.
@lordnystrom1@Globalstats11 The Bible never mentions modern-day Israel, nor is the modern secular state a continuation of the biblical covenant. As Joshua affirms, every land promise made to the ancient Israelites was already fulfilled—not one promised inch went unreceived. (241 characters)
@Level100Sass@AJT2010@Globalstats11 Your response to @AJT2010 has some validity but is not responive to my comment. Saying "the truth is more nuanced" is correct but refusing to explain while declaring "Don't argue with doctors and geneticists" is an empty appeal to authority.
@CostelloDiamond The image is AI generated but then manipulated.
-headband of the figure labeled "Radical Islam" is AI-generated gibberish rather than legible Arabic.
-nameplates ("Queers for Palestine" and "Random Asian on TikTok") appear to have been added.
You can't even fake rhetoric!
This cartoon relies on false equivalence, equating political critics and entire nationalities with Nazis. It falsely conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism, uses broad ethnic stereotyping, and resorts to ad hominem labels to dismiss scholarly and Jewish dissent without engagement.
@ianban87@Globalstats11 Ottoman Empire was much larger than Palestine. When the Zionists began creating their European colonial settler state in Palestine, the Jewish population was less than 5%.
@CivilAdvantage1 Your socialist demons in the US Democrats are social democrats. They want to reform capitalism by expanding the welfare state through single-payer healthcare (Medicare for All), tuition-free public college, higher taxes on wealth/corporations, and strong labor rights.
You have no clue about Marxist socialism which is a political and economic theory asserting that history is driven by class struggle. It advocates for the working class (proletariat) to overthrow capitalism, abolish private ownership of the means of production, and establish a society based on the principal of "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".
@LouiseSmillie5@Giovanni_S14@HAIM__GOZALI You can't argue with my premises or logic, so you resort to ad hominem attacks and false accusations.
Zionism is racism. Anti-Semitism is racism. I oppose both. Personal attacks don't change that.