This is cosplay history in the service of academicized anti-semitism. Selectively raising the bar for Jews to join the nations club is just the latest version of "no Jews and dogs allowed" we used to see outside restricted hotels and country clubs. It's part of the selective outrage game that singles out Jews and Israel but not other nations. Not raising that bar for other nations is the very definition of anti-semitism. Here's how this lefty academic anti-semite does it:
1. Language and linguistic unity nullifies nationhood? Really? Then these aren't nations either:
Spain (Basque, Catalan, Galego, Asturian Bable), France (Basque, Catalan, Occita, Corsica's Genovese dialect/language),
Italy (drive from Milano and Lecco where I lived to Torino, Brescia, Vicenza and change languages. When my Lecchese in-laws spoke dialetto Lecchese I could not understand it. My Italian father in law's native language was Lecchese and his Italian had a heavier accent than mine.
In WWI northern officers couldn't understand their southern troops.
Germany: Plattdeutsch, Schwabisch, Bayerish, and many more too numerous to list here.
Switzerland: Schwutze Dutsch? Forget it if you know Hochdeutsch.
Russia: 190 different peoples and languages.
And even in little Latvia, where I live now: Latgallian is its own language separate from Latvian.
My Israeli friends can read and understand the Hebrew from the time of the first temple. Israel has more linguistic continuity than ANY European people, hands down. If the Jews are not a people due to linguistic variety, than not a single nation inhabits Europe.
"land without a people": reread Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad and the 1857 report from the British consul on how desolate Ottoman Palestine was.
Food: If culinary uniformity is an essential feature of nationhood, then Spain, France, Italy, Germany, the dis-UK, the USA, Switzerland, Belgium, China, Indonesia, India aren't nations either. I lived in and travelled to every region of Italy for 16 years. But I'd have to live there for 100 years to properly explore its enormous regional variety of cuisines. This must be one reason why Cavour said, "we've made Italy, now we have to make the Italians."
Again, applying culinary uniformity only to Jews and not to others to qualify them as a nation is the very definition of anti-semitism.
"official languages": Arabic was one until Netanyahu's racist demotion of it. Russian and English still are official languages in Israel.
"artificial language": Try Bahasa Indonesia for artificiality. I learned to speak basic conversational Bahasa with a dictionary and phrasebook in 2 weeks in 1989. Under this nationhood-denial clause, Indonesia isn't one either, unless you're an anti-semite who selectively applies it only to Jews. Newly unified Italy in 1860 deployed a synthesized Tuscan dialect as "Italian" to "make the Italians" after having made an Italian state.
Jewish proselytizing: Judaism bans proselytizing. It's the easiest club to be born into and the hardest one to join. Feel like studying with a rabbi for a couple of years? If you don't, get yourself a Jewish mother. Chicken soup included.
Israel's myths: As Egyptian documents show, they're far less mythical than Russia's national origin story of the Viking warlord Voldemar's (Vladimir's) 988 AD conversion to Christianity as the founding of the Russian nation. Again, selectively demythologizing Jewish and Israeli history while ignoring documentary evidence of its veracity while not doing so with others is the essence of anti-semitism.
Where the "Palestinians" come from, from the 1937 Peel Commission report:
"Arab progress has been partly due to the import of Jewish capital into Palestine and other factors associated with the growth of the (Jewish) National Home. In particular, the Arabs have benefited from social services which could not have been provided on the existing scale without the revenue obtained from the Jews…Much of the land (being farmed by the Jews) now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamp and uncultivated when it was purchased…"
(https://thinkingoutsidetheblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/mufti-admitted-arabs-sold-land-to-jews.html)
The only British official who officially reported about illegal Arab immigration was assassinated in 1934. The case was never solved.
Zionists stole Arab land:
"Land sales by Arab effendi - absentee landlords - whose tenants were evicted so their owners could sell to Jews. They turned land sales into a racket, blackmailing small Arab farmers from selling small parcels to Jewish buyers, buying and consolidating them to sell larger properties for up to 5x the market price only Jewish buyers would pay. Read the 1937 Peel Commission's interview with pro-Nazi Arab Mufti Ali Husseini about Jewish land purchases from absentee landowners living in Beirut:
"A large part of these lands belong to absentee landlords who sold the land over the heads of their tenants, who were forcibly evicted. The majority of these landlords were absentees who sold their land over the heads of their tenants. Not Palestinians but Lebanese…" https://thinkingoutsidetheblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/mufti-admitted-arabs-sold-land-to-jews.html
Arab leaders did in fact tell Arabs to leave:
Who urged the Arabs to flee Israel in 1948? Arab leaders who expected a quick victory and extermination of Palestine's Jews. From the NY Times, April 23, 1948, for example:
"The Arabs' surprise decision to order a full evacuation despite the truce offer ensuring the residents' protection prompted a tearful plea by the town's Jewish mayor, Shabtai Levy, for the leaders to reconsider. The Haganah's chief representative in Haifa also assured the Arabs that if they stayed, "they would enjoy equality and peace, and that we, the Jews, were interested in their staying on and the maintenance of harmonious relations." The British commander in Haifa, Hugh Stockwell, emphatically insisted that the Arabs were making a mistake, and also urged them to change their decision, which reportedly came from the Arab Higher Committee in Beirut. Even as Haifa's Arabs were streaming out of the city on British boats and trucks, the Jewish establishment continued to urge an end to the exodus and to insist that those who had departed should return. "Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives," reported the British Superintendent of Police. A member of the Arab National Committee, Farid Saad, admitted that Jewish leaders "have organized a large propaganda campaign to persuade [the] Arabs to return." (https://www.camera.org/article/contradicting-its-own-archives-new-york-times-expulsion-escape-of-haifas-arabs/)
Hamas and the two state solution:
Read its covenant (the secular word "charter" misstates its true significance) from https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/hamas-covenant-israel-attack-war-genocide/675602/"
"This Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), clarifies its picture, reveals its identity, outlines its stand, explains its aims, speaks about its hopes, and calls for its support, adoption and joining its ranks. Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious … It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps."
Palestine is "consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up … This Waqf remains as long as earth and heaven remain. Any procedure in contradiction to Islamic Sharia, where Palestine is concerned, is null and void."
"“Nothing in nationalism is more significant or deeper than in the case when an enemy should tread Moslem land. Resisting and quelling the enemy becomes the individual duty of every Moslem [sic], male or female”—a point later reiterated in Articles 14 and 15.
"Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement. Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse directed against part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its religion. Its members have been fed on that. For the sake of hoisting the banner of Allah over their homeland they fight."
"“There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.” Nor are these words historical artifacts. Hamas “military” communiqués heralding the triumphs of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood end with the words “It is a jihad of victory or martyrdom.”
After Palestine, Article 32 explains,
“the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.” Standing against this overwhelming force is Hamas—“the spearhead of the circle of struggle with world Zionism and a step on the road.”
Lest anyone think a single bi-national state is a viable alternative for Jews, read this nugget of Islamist supremacism from Hamas' covenant:
"“It is the duty of the followers of other religions to stop disputing the sovereignty of Islam in this region, because the day these followers should take over there will be nothing but carnage, displacement and terror.”
Secular lefties in the West are very naive in not listening to theocratic Islamist fascists when they announce clearly who they really are.
Read what Hamas says about Palestinians as a nationality separate from Egyptians, Jordanians, Syrians. Hamas concurs with Arafat's right hand man, Zuher Mohsen, that the "Palestinians" as a nation were a tactical invention:
""Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis. Who are the Palestinians? Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians. We are Arabs." - Hamas Minister of the Interior and of National Security Fathi Hammad, Al-Hekma TV (Egypt), March 23, 2012
"encounter with Persia gave birth to monotheism"--Jewish monotheism predates this encounter by at least 600 years. Egyptian pharaonic documents talk about the "Habiru"--outsiders.
"Because of the muddy conditions of the East Delta, almost no papyri have survived – but those that did, may provide further clues in the search for the lost Israelites. The papyrus Anastasi VI from around 3200 years ago describes how the Egyptian authorities allowed a group of Semitic nomads from Edom who worshiped Yahweh to pass the border-fortress in the region of Tjeku (Wadi Tumilat) and proceed with their livestock to the lakes of Pithom.
Shortly afterwards, the Israelites enter world history with the Merenptah stele, which bears the first mention of an entity called Israel in Canaan. It is robustly dated at is 1210 BCE, i.e., as of writing, 3226 years ago. The absence of evidence of a sojourn in the wilderness proves nothing. A Semitic group in flight wouldn't have left direct evidence: They would not have built cities, built monuments or done anything but leave footprints in the desert sand.
Yet more support for the Haggadah may lie in an interesting poem copied onto a papyrus dating to the 13th century BCE (although original is believed to be much older), called the "Admonitions of Impuwer or the Lord of All").
River of blood
It portrays a devastated Egypt haunted by plagues, droughts, violent uprisings – culminating in the escape of slaves with Egypt's wealth. In short, the Impuwer papyrus seems to be telling the story of Exodus from the Egyptian point of view, from a river of blood to the devastation of the livestock to darkness.
