Comment by hmcq6
4 days ago
> I’m sure the people of Israel would have loved to maintain ties with their homeland
Oh yeah, there's definitely no ties between the two. EU states definitely didn't send 1.76 billion euros ($1.9bn) (in arms) to Israel in exchange for the "security" Israel offers. /s
But also
> Israel is a society of immigrants and their offspring: 23 percent of the Jewish majority as of 2018 was foreign born, 32 percent was comprised of the second generation (Israeli born to immigrant parents), and 47 percent was third generation (Israeli born to Israeli-born parents).
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/israel-law-of-return...
So like... not only does Israel have ties with it's "mother country" but even the Israelis themselves do have ties to their own personal homelands.
In Sweden, 21% of the population is foreign born. 35% is second generation. The department for statistics did not publish numbers for third generation. The wast majority of immigration are done for economical causes.
Those numbers are to my knowledge fairly similar in many other European countries.
> 23 percent of the Jewish majority as of 2018 was foreign born
You know what population is usually foreign born? Refugees!
> even the Israelis themselves do have ties to their own personal homelands.
What ties do Yemenite Jews who fled to Israel have to a Yemen that is ruled by the Houthis, an almost comically Nazi-like group whose flag literally has "a curse on the Jews" written on it in big letters?
These people are refugees, not "colonists"
Do you have any evidence that a large percentage of that population is refugees?
What was Yaakov Fauci fleeing from?
> These people are refugees, not "colonists"
Many settlers in America were fleeing religious prosecution in Britain, that doesn't make them not colonizers.
> Do you have any evidence that a large percentage of that population is refugees?
Have you not heard of the Holocaust? The majority of Israelis descend either from refugees from Europe (Ashkenazim), or refugees from Arab/Muslim countries (Mizrahim) whose homes were stolen by Europeans or Arabs, respectively.
> What was Yaakov Fauci fleeing from?
American born Israelis are a small minority.
> Many settlers in America were fleeing religious prosecution in Britain, that doesn't make them not colonizers.
So if a Palestinian from Gaza gets asylum in the US, does that make that Palestinian a colonizer of Native American land?
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