cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39480764
David Hearst
25 Nov 2025 19:56 GMTVery much in the mode of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Phillips declared that there was no such thing as Palestine or Palestinians. In fact, the only indigenous people around were the Jews, who were the only people with any historic, legal or moral entitlement to this land.
To say this while activists in Britain are being arrested for shouting “from the river to the sea” as an allegedly pro-Hamas chant, hands their defence lawyers a get-out-of-jail card.
Because what Phillips is claiming is that all the land from the river to the sea is Jewish. And as she knows, but the Crown Prosecution Service appears not to, “from the river to the sea” has been Likud policy since 1977.
My comment was very sensationalist because of my bias, that said I agree with your point about feuds being common everywhere. I also have a kind of tunnel-vision bias as I only looked at that region’s history.
As for the Old Testament, no my sources for the conflicts that range from now to 4,000BC were various sources of Wikipedia, likely American articles, and cross-referenced with what I could find in Al Jazeera and Israeli articles. But you’re still accurate - when white folk colonise and murder natives as massively as the empires did, you don’t have many people writing history other than nationalist zealots…