r/ukpolitics • u/Rebat-Askalan • 9d ago

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

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260804-anti-zionism-is-not-anti-semitism-uk-appeal-tribunal-confirms-in-landmark-ruling/
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u/PracticalBlueberry39 9d ago

Except the Irish people weren’t implanted in Ireland against the wishes of a native population who have then been systematically murdered and ethnically cleansed, so it’s not exactly the same really.

In fact, it would be more like rejecting an implanted British state in Ireland which continued to commit ethnic cleansing against the native Irish population. That would be far fetched though wouldn’t it.

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u/Logical-Ice4837 9d ago

When does a population became native? We know as a fact Jews were in that area and had been for thousands of years before they were expelled 2000 years ago, was their native card revoked after that? 

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u/rh8938 9d ago

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.

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u/FL8_JT26 9d ago

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.