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cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/4453149

"Israel is not colonialism because the Ottoman empire kicked out the Jews"

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[-] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That reasoning is one tiny step removed from "there are no Native Americans, they moved there during the ice age" (actual line from an English teacher of mine btw) or "you can't do colonialism in Africa, all of humanity comes from there".

Let's not even begin on intra-Jewish racism against Mizrahi Jews in Israel.

[-] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

I love how anthropology is finally catching up to what indigenous Americans have been saying for generations, they have been here for centuries before the ice bridge, with evidence suggesting it’s been at least 20,000 years, likely closer to 30,000+.

[-] VictimOfAmerikkka@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Can you please share the link of this?

[-] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can look up something like “pre-Clovis Indigenous Americans” to find better articles, but this is just from DuckDuckGo on the subject.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/the-1st-americans-were-not-who-we-thought-they-were

Image from the article:

I first read about it in Graeber and Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything, but I’ve seen multiple new articles pop up since its publication.

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