[Ge] was completing a residency at the Public Health Agency of Canada. His research has focused on Indigenous health, anti-racism and decolonization.

I feel his research would make him extra qualified to call references to modern apartheid and settler colonialism.

Not to mention pretty much every Palestinian in Gaza is ethnically Semitic...

Meanwhile Israel doesn't even report the ethnicity of Israelis. They just label them "Jew" or "Arab" (the use Arab for any religion other than Judaism) and pretend someone that converted yesterday is now Semitic today and entitled to live in Israel. Literally, if you convert you can get Israeli citizenship and you'll have your ethnicity listed as "Jew" on Israeli documents.

Unless you were born in Gaza or West Bank. In that case even if you convert and marry a Jewish Israeli citizen, you still don't become an Israeli citizen.

Because their government doesn't want to acknowledge that religion isnt the same as ethnicity. If they did, they'd lose the entire excuse about it being their land ancestrally.

Theyre not starting from a logical position, so nothing else about it is ever gonna make sense.

Like most far right authoritarian governments, they say whatever helps in the moment and don't care if there's any logical consistency.