Zachary Foster on Nostr: One of the most common lies spread about the 20th century Palestine is that it was ...

One of the most common lies spread about the 20th century Palestine is that it was actually the Jews who called themselves, "Palestinians" or "the Palestinians."

This is false.

Some 170 references to the term "the Palestinians" can be found in Arabic sources from 1898-1914 to refer to the Arabs of Palestine https://www.academia.edu/49925414/The_Origins_of_the_term_Palestinian_Filas%E1%B9%AD%C4%ABn%C4%AB_in_late_Ottoman_Palestine_1898_1914 and a half dozen references to "Palestinian" or "Palestinians" can be found in European languages from 1870-1897 to refer to the Arabs of Palestine https://www.academia.edu/63693212/How_the_West_Invented_the_Palestinians

So where does this Zionist lie come from?

Jews, like Christians and Muslims and other inanimate objects in Palestine (e.g. plants, journals) were modified with the adjective, "Palestinian," as in "Palestinian plants" or "Palestinian journals" or "Palestinian Jewry." This was often the case in English, although not Hebrew. In Hebrew, the Zionists rarely if ever used this used this verbiage.

In other words, Palestinian was a qualifier in the English language to refer to things in Palestine.

Then, in 1925, the British established the colonial state known as the Government of Palestine and introduced what they called “Palestinian citizenship” in 1925.

They explicitly stated “all the residents of Palestine, whether Jewish or not Jewish,” were Palestinian citizens.

Yet the term "The Palestinians" in English or even simply "Palestinians" was rarely, if ever, used in English to describe the Jews of Palestine. I challenge a Zionist apologist to find me even a single reference to "the Palestinians" in English that is obviously refering to the Zionist community of Palestine. Find me even a single reference.

The only reason Zionists love this weird distortion of history is to undermine a Palestinian identity. That's it. it's identity genocide. They want to genocide the Palestinian identity and think they are doing this by falsely claiming Jews were "the Palestinians."

a lie to genocide an identity. zionism in a nutshell.
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