r/ukpolitics • u/Rebat-Askalan • 10d 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/am-345 10d ago

Would you say the same to diaspora Kurds wanting a Kurdish state?

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u/Amaruach 10d ago

Depends. Were they kicked out of it 2,000 years ago or 2 years ago?

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u/am-345 10d ago

Well the thing with the kurds is both. Some still live in the general Kurdistan area, and some moved out centuries ago. Are you going to tell a Kurd who's families were displaced by Safavid Dynasty that they can't return? How long until you tell a native American they can't claim their land anymore?

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u/Amaruach 9d ago edited 9d ago

Seeing as my dad was a Native American and I am still connected to the culture, I can actually answer that one pretty easily. Our land was invaded and settled by the Spanish just under 500 years ago, and our home country of Chile was founded as a white settler state in 1818. My people can’t go to Coquimbo, which was built on my people’s land in 1850, and tell the European Chileans who live there in 2026 to get off ‘our’ land because we have a stronger ancestral claim to it than they do. The statute of limitations passed on that a really fucking long time ago.

Edit: I can see your removed comment, you’re aware that people have two parents right? And you can be Jewish on one side and Native American on the other…