Palestinians are still paying the price for Western racism

Ussama Makdisi:
Just heard from a very close friend that her direct relatives were killed in Gaza by Israel. Another family. Another heartbreak. Makes me despair at this monstrous state of affairs.

All this can be traced back to the 19th century when European Zionists insisted on creating an exclusionary ethnoreligious nationalist state in a multireligious land in defiance of its native population. Palestinians are still paying the price for Western racism.
@UssamaMakdisi Jan 9, 2024

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I. F. Stone 1945:
“No one likes to be ruled by an alien people, and though I, a Jew, found the friendliest sort of welcome visiting the Arabs, I found no Palestinian Arab in favor of a Jewish state. Relations on the day-to-day level between the two peoples are friendly and quite unlike what one expects. There is no sense of race tension as one feels it in our [American] South or in encounters with anti-Semites in the Western world. The Arab does not hate the Jew, but he fears being dominated by him, and this fear must be allayed… The Jewish State slogan has made political cooperation between Jew and Arab impossible…”
— I. F. Stone, journalist and author, Zionist who believed in one-state, 1945
Jehanzeb Ali @Jehanzebz

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Jews had – generally – a better life during the islamic caliphate throughout history.