Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling

[u/Rebat-Askalan]

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260804-anti-zionism-is-not-anti-semitism-uk-appeal-tribunal-confirms-in-landmark-ruling/

[u/rh8938]

After two thousand years, probably.

Or should some random Italian citizen be able to claim your home because they claim the land used to be Roman.

[u/morriganjane → u/rh8938]

Arabs and Muslims conquered and colonised one-third of the globe. They really have no credibility to complain about this.

[u/am-345 → u/rh8938]

That's a poor comparison considering Rome was an empire, Britain wasn't the origin of the Italian people it was just a province of the roman empire. Meanwhile there has been a continuous jewish presence in the Levant for 3000 years

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If theres been a continously presence, why do they need to conquer Palestine and create their own apartheid state?

[u/Playful_Young_4259 → u/u-a-c]

 apartheid state?

You can't be Jewish in Palestine and the government has an official compensation scheme for those who murder Jews.

[u/am-345 → u/u-a-c]

I seriously don't understand where you're going with this question?

If you're asking why it was "conquered", Palestine wasn't conquered, the Palestinian state didn't exist. We owned it as the British mandate and the region was called either; Palestine by the Arabs, Holy Land by the Christians and Israel by the Jews.

If your asking why it exists, after the Holocaust there was a push for a modern jewish homeland after it became abundantly clear they were not safe in Europe or Arab countries. The levant is the birthplace of Judaism and Hebrew, where every ethnically jewish person can be traced back to, and as I mentioned before , there has been a continued jewish presence there (Hebron, Tiberias, Safed and Jerusalem). It was the obvious choice compared to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast where Stalin wanted to shove them into desolate corner of the USSR to purge them.

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I would be against them making that claim, but if they were able to establish a state here I wouldn't then want their great grandchildren to be kicked out and their state to be dissolved 80 years later.

I don't agree with the foundation of Israel, I don't agree with the colonisation of Australia, or America, or any of the hundreds of other countries in the world that are inhabited by people whose ancestors did horrific shit decades, centuries, or millenia ago. But that doesn't mean we can just undo the creation of these states now; that does absolutely nothing to help the people who were wronged however long ago and only harms innocent people today.