In fact, the current state of Israel is not actually the first state of Israel –– there have been at least two previous kingdoms of Israel and an unbroken Jewish presence until the present day, facts decolonization rhetoric conveniently ignores or distorts. Critics that dismiss Israel as an “illegitimate freak state” blatantly ignore the fact this land has always been the cradle of Jewish civilization. Significantly, a considerable portion of Israel’s Jewish population descends not from so-called European colonizers but from Jewish refugees expelled from Arab and Muslim countries and Holocaust survivors. Far from the prevalent misconception of a dominantly “white” or Ashkenazi Jewish state, nearly half the Jewish population of Israel is in fact Middle Eastern. But that is yet another inconvenient truth for those who hated Israel even before Hamas went on its spree of murder, rape and kidnapping.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 08, 2024 07:29 UTC