Netanyahu uses religion and race science to deny Palestinians right to homeland
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday tweeted that the Palestinians’ connection to the Land of Israel is nothing compared to the 4,000 year connection that the Jewish people have with the land, citing an article stating that Biblical Philistines had come from Europe, according to DNA uncovered in the coastal city of Asqalan.
The Palestinians’ connection to the Land of Israel is nothing compared to the 4,000 year connection that the Jewish people have with the land.
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) July 7, 2019
Netanyahu then referenced Amos 9:7 and Jeremiah 47:4, which say the Philistines came from Caphtor – modern-day Crete, the Greek island in southern Europe.
One Twitter user questioned the validity of Netanyahu’s “scientific” argument, comparing it to phrenology, the pseudoscience which involves measuring bumps on the skull to predict mental traits and has since been entirely discredited by scientific research.
Another drew a historical parallel with apartheid South Africa, when white settlers would use similar arguments to justify the apartheid policies of forced population transfer and segregation. Others looked to Nazi Germany as a historical parallel, where eugenics and race science were used to justify the genocide of the Jewish people.
Yet another Twitter user suggested the absurdity of Netanyahu’s argument by comparing it with the “connection” that Mongolians have to Hungarian territory because they lived there in the 1200s.
The word “Palestinian” is thought to have derived from “Philistine,” although modern-day Palestinians say they did not originate from that people group.
The Zionist movement has always tried to recognize Judaism as an ethnicity not a religion in order to claim ownership of Palestine, ignoring the fact that Israelis are mostly migrated Europeans, who have no connection with Palestine or the Middle East.
