Israel/Palestine Thread

Literally your own graph shows the population at 33% not 49%!!! I mean C'mon!! And approx 250k were not indigenous to that area between 1920-1940's.

So again, do you think the split it was fair?

Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine - Wikipedia

British immigration restrictions and the 1939 White Paper

In the 1920s, the British imposed restrictions on Jewish immigration to Palestine and the ability of Jews to buy land, claiming that these decisions were taken due to concerns over the economic absorptive capacity of the country. In the 1930s, British authorities set a quota for immigration certificates and authorised the Jewish Agency to hand them out at its discretion. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the British introduced the White Paper of 1939. The White Paper rejected the concept of partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states and announced that the country would be turned into an independent binational state with an Arab majority. It severely curtailed Jewish immigration, allowing for only 75,000 Jews to migrate to Palestine from 1940 to 1944, consisting of a yearly quota of 10,000 per year and a supplementary quota for 25,000 to cover refugee emergencies spread out over the same period. Afterward, further Jewish immigration would depend on the consent of the Arab majority. Sales of Arab land to Jews were to be restricted.

In reaction to British restrictions, illegal immigration to Palestine began. Initially, Jews entered Palestine by land, mainly by slipping across the northern border, where they were aided by the border settlements. In the early 1930s, when crossing the northern border became more difficult, other routes were found. Thousands of Jews came to Palestine on student or tourist visas, and never returned to their countries of origin. Jewish women often entered into fictitious marriages with residents of Palestine to be granted entry for family reunification purposes. In 1934, the first seaborne attempt to bring Jews to Palestine happened when some 350 Jews of the HeHalutz movement in Poland who were unwilling to wait for certificates sailed to Palestine on the Vallos, a chartered ship. Two more ships carrying illegal immigrants arrived in 1937, and several more arrived in 1938 and 1939. These voyages were mainly organised by the Revisionist Zionist Organisation and the Irgun. Until 1938, the Jewish Agency opposed illegal immigration, fearing that it would impact the number of immigration certificates issued.[11]

Overall, between 1929 and 1940, a period of mass Jewish immigration known as the Fifth Aliyah occurred despite British restrictions. Nearly 250,000 Jews (of whom 20,000 later left) immigrated to Palestine, many of them illegally.[12]

If their argument is just an attack on the signatories and not a rebuttal of their points, then it's a useless letter.

I could make this whole reply into an attack on you and ignore any point you're trying to make and you would quite rightly dismiss this as a strawman. So apply the same criteria to the letter.

The one point they make that has any merit is that maybe people should also be boycotting Saudi universities. Why just Israeli ones. And in that they have a point. But that doesn't mean their shouldn't be a boycott of Israeli universities. If anything it would mean there should be a boycott of Israeli universities and it should be extended to other countries.

(On a personal note, I'm not sure about a blanket ban. It would affect israelis who are not involved in or supporting the bombing. If they named specific institutions that are promoting or benefiting from ties to the military or settlements, I'd be fine with it).

For the love of god - educate yourself. Oslo Records.

..what's the point..

Israel saying Hamas HQ is beneath al-Shifa hospital, Hamas denies. If true, it really does show what Hamas are all about: death.

I guess we will soon find out.

Must be soul destroying for the Palestinians knowing that the scumbag colonists will never leave.Yearly victims to war crimes and the world does nothing.

Once again the antisemitism card is waved. I would say there is a strong anti-settler, colonist streak in Ireland. What were we accused of when we were against the Apartheid in South Africa? Being anti-Dutch, anti-Afrikaans.

"My side's proposed solutions are the only proposed solutions."

Sinn Fein? I don't think so. I'm certainly no fan of them, but some very clever people in Sein Fein who know how the political game works. Did you see these comments from Eoin O'Broin?

"Ó Broin said Sinn Féin does not have a relationship with Hamas but accepted that a spokesperson for Hamas spoke virtually at a Sinn Féin event in 2020. 

When asked if Sinn Féin would have Hamas at any future events, Ó Broin responded: “Hamas isn’t an organisation we have a relationship with and certainly after the events of October 7, no we wouldn’t.”"