Israel Prepares For The BIG War

Following Which Its End Will Come
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By Biblicism Institute

“Their feet run to evil, and they hasten to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, devastation and destruction are in their paths.” Isaiah 59:7

If the past is any indication, Israel’s bloodlust will never be satiated. And with Washington allowing it to run roughshod, only the rest of the world can bring this rogue apartheid state to heel.

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Israel is destroying innocent lives

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement will pick up speed, and numerous lawsuits will be filed against Israel at the Hague and other venues for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity. Israel will be under so much pressure that it will feel cornered.

Israel’s “normalization” deals with fellow despots of the region in 2020 are nothing more than window-dressing, or better yet applying lipstick to the Israeli warmongering pig. Besides, the constituents of these non-democratically elected Arab rulers, who negotiated with the apartheid state, do not agree with said normalization, especially as there is no justice for the Palestinians.

In fact, Israel’s persistent oppression and subjugation of the Palestinians continue to fuel worldwide opposition. To counteract, Apartheid Israel is silencing all its critics throughout the world by wagging internet companies and bribing governments everywhere to impose draconian censorship.

“Israel is silencing speech rather than engaging in argument because it has become extremely hard for that state and its backers to win the political argument in public… It is clear to anyone who looks directly that the occupation has actually deepened and worsened during the period of the so-called peace process,” writes Bashir Abu-Manneh in Jacobin Magazine.

Asa Winstaley explains further:

“Israel is now in the first stages of extending its media censorship regime around the world.

“It is helped in this by the Silicon Valley internet monopolies. Capitalism is the established system, and as such, capitalist entities uphold the established system. And in the US, the established government is a pro-Israel one.

“So the Silicon Valley internet monopolies have in recent times been enforcing Israel’s military dictates. They are working to achieve this largely behind the scenes, and things are increasingly getting worse, with Palestinian news sources, and other pro-Palestinian sites increasingly being censored according to Israeli dictates.”

This predicament to constantly hide the truth from the world and the fact that BDS is winning will be the catalysts for one of two outcomes. 1) They could engender the push needed to force Israeli leaders to craft a genuine peace deal with the Palestinians, or 2) hubris will once again get the better of these Fake Hebrews and they will allow Israel’s economy to collapse, along with its Apartheid walls, a la South Africa.

However, there’s a third possibility.

It’s the one Israeli leaders have always used since the founding of their country. War. It is the only method they know well. They’ve been using it deftly to distract their people and the Jewish Diaspora from the reality that is Israel: a monstrous Apartheid criminal state, worse than Apartheid South Africa.

THE BIG WAR

If Israel goes down the war path again, this time it would be a multi-front war. A war they’ve been preparing for years. Israel would target Hezbollah in South Lebanon, all Resistance Groups in Palestine (West Bank & Gaza), Assad’s army in Syria, and possibly Iran’s nuclear program.

To help Israel on the Syrian front, especially since Russia is now involved, the US could use its naval fleet in the Mediterranean, its troops who are now occupying Northeastern Syria (while stealing the oil), and possibly NATO forces on the Turkish/Syrian border. And the pretexts they would give the world would be that their aim is to destroy ISIS and remove the “animal” Assad, as the sexual deviant Trump once called him.

Thus, Israeli troops would concentrate on a) storming the West Bank and bombing Gaza mercilessly and indiscriminately, like they always do, b) invading South Lebanon to try to dismantle Hezbollah, and c) attacking Syria, the logistics hub for the region’s axis of resistance headed by Iran. However, since Russia is a Syrian and Iranian ally, it could also get in the fight, albeit covertly if needed.

The ongoing conflict in Syria (orchestrated by the US for Israel’s benefit) and the incessant bombing of Gaza are attempts at destroying two fronts, so Apartheid Israel could hopefully avoid the multi-front war and concentrate on just one front, Lebanon, in order to better smash Hezbollah’s military which, according to Israeli politician Benny Gantz, is now stronger than most countries.

Unfortunately for Israel, Hamas and Syrian forces have not only become better fighters because of these conflicts, they are still standing and are now more popular with their people. And when Hezbollah is added to the equation, they form a trio of worthy adversaries that cannot be easily defeated. In addition, the Iraqi Resistance and the Houthis in Yemen have already promised to join the fight for the liberation of Jerusalem and the whole of Palestine when the war goes regional.

If such a war materializes, and especially if Iran were to get directly involved, a Jewish-only (i.e., only racist Jews allowed as full-fledged citizens with rights) state of Israel would not survive.

Millions of Israeli Jews would be fleeing their war-torn country, while millions of Palestinians, living in refugee camps in neighboring Arab countries, would be returning home.

Apartheid Wall

A glimpse of things to come?

That very scenario could be the reason why they’ve been readying us for a post-Israel Middle East. If so, Zionism would meet its demise, and Palestine would become a full-fledged binational state with pre-1948 borders.

But where would all these Israeli Jews, who don’t have their dual citizenship passports at the ready, be fleeing to?

There are two schools of thought: 1) Argentina’s Patagonia, and 2) Ukraine, the original birthplace of the Ashkenazi Jews.

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Patagonia, Argentina

There’s a current Jewish Israeli exodus to Argentina, and it has prompted popular resistance.

According to The Guardian,Israeli tourists have been the victims of a violent attack in the southern Patagonia region of Argentina, which has led to the targeted hostel being closed down by its owners. The attackers screamed ‘You shit Jews, you are trying to take over Patagonia.’”

Argentina’s Army Chief of Staff, General Roberto Bendini, warned of the danger in Patagonia posed by the unholy interest shown by the Israelis in the region. The local newspaper La Nacion wrote that “there is no doubt that there are Israelis all over the Patagonia. They have only taken off their Israeli Army uniforms.”

Adrian Salbuchi, Argentinian analyst and TV commentator, explains the obsession of Zionist Jews with Argentina thus:

“Since the founding of International Zionism by the Russian Jew León Pinsker (whose main writing was ‘Self-Emancipation’) and Viennese lawyer Theodor Herzl, these founding fathers of Zionism thought in terms of creating TWO Jewish States: one in Palestine (finally imposed by force in 1948 by Zionist terrorist groups, notably Irgun Zvai Leumi, Stern Gang and Hagganah, with the support and abetment of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union), and the other in Argentina.

“Pinsker called the former the ‘ideal State’ (i.e., in Palestine which they claimed as a Jewish homeland), and the latter as the ‘practical state’ (i.e., in Argentina). Herzl wrote a chapter that carries the eloquent title of “Palestine or Argentina?” in which he says, ‘Which shall we choose, Palestine or Argentina?…  The Argentine Republic would have the greatest Interest to cede to us a part of its territory.'”

So, is an Israel 2.0 feasible in Patagonia? Doubtful. Unless compromised Argentinian politicians, like the newly elected President Javier Milei, an Israel lover, sell out their country the way American politicians have.

Ukraine

The possibility of turning Ukraine into a New Israel is not too farfetched because the Zionists have been steadily controlling Ukraine since 2014. Ukraine as Israel 2.0 might even be the Zionists’ preferred option at this point, since it’s the original birthplace of the Ashkenazim (aka Ashkenazi Jews). Something that insidious must have been the reason why Putin hurriedly annexed Crimea.

However, because Putin has ordered his army to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine (i.e., Ukraine is to revert back into Russia’s orbit and away from Jewish control), this possibility has become more difficult if not impossible.

“I would now like to say something very important for those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside.” said Putin in February 2022. “No matter who tries to stand in our way or all the more so create threats for our country and our people, they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history. No matter how the events unfold, we are ready. All the necessary decisions in this regard have been taken. I hope that my words will be heard.”

With those statements, Putin has closed the door on any shenanigan the Zionists may have been thinking about. Maybe if they play nice, Russia could allow some Jewish refugees in after the Downfall of Apartheid Israel, most specifically the Russians who went there to escape the harsh life of the Soviet days.

CONCLUSION

Apartheid Israel will collapse with either a whimper or a bang, because its hateful spirit will cause it to continue in its path toward self-destruction, which will materialize sooner or later. And trying to rebuild such a hateful country somewhere else in this more enlightened era will be impossible.

All that’s really left is for Apartheid Israel to go the way of Sparta and disappear from the pages of history. Meanwhile, all the Israelis with dual citizenships and foreign passports will have to go back to the countries from whence they came and leave behind Palestinian lands and properties they have stolen over the past decades.

“For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” Matthew 26:52

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The New Apartheid Is Uglier Than The First

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By Biblicism Institute

“I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.” – Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town.

Israel is an apartheid country that is revved up by the anti-Christ spirit of “Hate Thy Neighbor.”

“Israel is not a democracy but an ‘apartheid regime’ that enforces Jewish supremacy over all the land it controls,” writes The Guardian.

It has repudiated the Prince of Peace’s message of neighborly love and peace, and has embraced the genocidal spirit of conquest, terror, and subjugation, which has injected into the Middle East a cesspool of conflict and hate that has begun to metastasize worldwide.

Palestinian David facing the Israeli Goliath

However, if one truly believes the Jewish-dominated media, their fake news, and their constant barrage of “Holocaust” movies, one genuinely thinks that there’s only one group of people that everyone on earth hates: Jews. That’s how effective the brainwashing has been.

But when one wakes up from the media’s induced stupor, one realizes that Jews are themselves the victimizers who camouflage themselves as victims.

APARTHEID JEWISH STYLE

“Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.” – Alice Walker, American novelist, poet, and activist.

Israeli monster and Palestinian fortitude

The new Apartheid (i.e., Segregation, Separation) by Jewish zealots in Israel is not only uglier than the first, it’s also disgustingly more barbaric.

It is taking place because Israeli Jewish leaders refuse co-existence with the Palestinians. The whole conflict is about their thirst for land. They want the whole enchilada. The whole of Palestine.

They want it without Arabs, when Palestine was 95% Arabs before non-Hebraic European Jews flooded in, stole it, kept the Arabs segregated, and renamed it Israel in 1948. Ironically, the whole country today, including the occupied territories, is 60% Christian and Muslim Arabs and 40% Jews of different origins.

Still, the Jewish goal is to turn the whole of Palestine into Greater Israel, a pipe dream that will never become reality. It’s an obsession the Ashkenazi leaders of Israel have successfully inculcated in their coreligionists. (To comprehend the Ashkenazim’s obsession with land, you must understand their origin and history by clicking here.)

That obsession has turned the majority of Israelis toward a malignant racism, which has morphed into an Apartheid system worse than the one that took shape in Apartheid South Africa.

Here’s how Miko Peled, son of an Israeli General, described the situation: “Those who cling to fear, mistrust or greed are under the false assumption that Palestinians and Israelis have a choice other than to live as equals. But it’s inevitable – the wall must come down, and the two people must be allowed to live as equal citizens in their shared homeland. Refusing this means condemning future generations of Israelis and Palestinians to ongoing mayhem and violence.”

Life in Israel and the occupied territories is extremely dire for Christian and Muslim Arabs. The Israelis are openly talking about their genocide. They mistreat them, kill them, and bomb them at will in the hope the Palestinians will leave the land in disgust. If you’re having difficulty grasping such hatred maybe this quote can help:

That's Apartheid“Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves.”Menahem Begin, 6th Prime Minister of Israel’s speech to the Knesset (24 June 1982) [quoted in “Begin and the Beasts” Amnon Kapeliouk, in The New Statesman (25 June 1982)]

FIVE REASONS WHY ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE

According to Counterfire:

  1. Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank live under military occupation. There is no freedom of movement for them, and they live under military law. The limited powers of the Palestine Authority, which is an ‘interim government’ are wholly constrained by Israel. Any Israeli soldier can stop and search even the highest-ranking officials. Human rights abuses, including the arrest and killing of unarmed civilians, including children are daily occurrences. Israelis in the West Bank (settlers living on stolen land), on the other hand, have full Israeli citizenship rights.
  2. Palestinians in Gaza are under siege. The strip is overcrowded and surrounded by Israel and hostile Egypt. The area of the Mediterranean in which Gazans can fish unmolested by the Israeli navy is tiny. Gaza is an open-air prison.
  3. Palestinians in East Jerusalem (captured by Israel in 1967) are stateless and at constant risk of losing their residency in the city.  35% of land in East Jerusalem has been confiscated for settler use, and Israel is open in its desire to remove as many Palestinians as possible. Forced displacement, house demolitions and settler violence are daily occurrences.
  4. Palestinian citizens of Israel face massive economic discrimination and restrictions on where they can live. Although they can vote, the Israeli state, with the recent Nation State law, has codified apartheid: “the right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.”
  5. Nearly 6 million Palestinians are registered as refugees by the UN. They live in dire conditions in camps across the Middle East. A million more are unregistered. They are all seeking the Right of Return to the lands stolen from them by Israel in 1948 or 1967. Every Jew in the world has the right to ‘return’, to go and live in Israel.

AMERICA SUPPORTS APARTHEID

“The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.” –  Oliver Tambo, President of the African National Congress from 1967 to 1991.

Unfortunately, America, the supposed bastion of freedom and liberty, has become the de facto patron of that genocidal Apartheid state to the tunes of billions of dollars a year. Money that is plundered out of America’s coffers in order for Israel to wage war and oppress another people, while millions of Americans go hungry, jobless, and homeless.

“Evil men do not understand justice…” Proverbs 28:5

Even non-profit American Jewish and “Christian” organizations help in the fund raising efforts for Zionist “settlers”. In so doing, they’re actually helping these land thieves steal another people’s land, while empowering them to kill the original inhabitants in the process.

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Strange! Where's the pro-life crowd?

These Apartheid enablers also lobby the US government to provide the criminal state of Israel with diplomatic cover in the international community, even when Israel is indiscriminately bombing innocent men, women, and children. And when America flinches in its support, no matter how insignificant the wavering, they scream and yell and… scream and yell. So America relents, becomes an accomplice to mass murder, and sends them even more money.

As Pat Buchanan once quipped, “Congress is Israeli-occupied territory.” A nice euphemism for saying that Israel has taken over the American government, or that America has become a subservient country, an occupied nation, an Empire on a leash.

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The Israeli Apartheid Wall disguised as a security wall

One would think that because of the many similarities Jews have with Muslims, such as circumcision and the like, that these Zionist Jews would concede to living in harmony. But they don’t want to.

“Israel takes more land [so] that the Palestinian state will be impossible . . . the Israel policy is to take more and more land day after day and that at the end of the day we’ll say that is impossible, we already have the land and we cannot create the state,” admitted Israeli Minister thief Tzipi Livni.

The reason for such barefaced thievery is because it’s not about faith. It’s not about God and the Bible or God and His promises and commandments. It’s about land. Pure and simple. Otherwise they would put this into practice: “If a stranger lives as a foreigner with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who lives as a foreigner with you shall be to you as the native-born among you, and you shall love him as yourself… I am Yahweh your God.” Leviticus 19:33-34

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One of hundreds of checkpoints for Palestinians, but Israelis are free to roam

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Palestine Before The Zionists Stole It

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By Biblicism Institute

Palestinian Passport“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Modern Jews – the Ashkenazim, SephardimSamaritans, Europeans, Africans, etc. – are not of the seed of Jacob/Israel, thus not of the Semitic lineage of the 12 Hebrew tribes with whom God had the Old Covenant. They are just converts to Judaism/Pharisaism, and therefore neither the Chosen People nor the descendants of Abraham – especially since all Hebrews are irrevocably dead.

“To your (Abraham’s) descendants I give this land….” Genesis 15:18

In other words, Zionist Jews, who claim that Palestine belongs to them, are simply barefaced impostors and liars pretending to be Hebrews in order to steal the land. They can’t possibly contend that Palestine, which they have stolen under biblical pretense, is their Abrahamic inheritance.

“The LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight… And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight.” 2 Kings 17:18,20

Consequently, Palestine does not belong to converted Jews. Not one inch of it.

STEALING PALESTINE AND BREAKING GOD’S COMMANDS

Palestine was not a land without a people for a people without a land, and it was not a state of sand, malaria, and flies as Zionist Jews would have us believe. It was a fully functioning country with a sizable Arab population.

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Jerusalem, Palestine 1900s

Jerusalem, Palestine 1900s

But all of that changed when non-Semitic, non-Hebraic, Zionist Ashkenazi Jews – who lost their homeland Khazaria and were in search of a new land – flooded into Palestine before, during, and after World War 2.

Once on the ground, they created many terrorist groups such as the Irgun, the Stern gang, and Haganah. They terrorized the Palestinian population, killed thousands upon thousands, and forced hundreds of thousands out of their homes and into neighboring Arab countries.

“We will expel the Arabs and take their place. In each attack a decisive blow should be struck resulting in the destruction of homes and the expulsion of the population,” explained fake-Hebrew Ashkenazi David Ben-Gurion, a Prime Minister Thief of Israel (1949-54, 1955-63), in a letter to his son (1937).

Evicted Palestinian Refugees 1948

As a result, the Ashkenazim stole Palestine in 1948 and renamed it Israel in order to reinvent themselves as Hebrews and hoodwink gullible Christians in the West. See How the Ashkenazi Jews Conquered the West.

That dispossession is known as the Nakba.

“The Nakba, or ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic, need not refer only to the more than 700,000 Palestinians who were expelled or fled in terror during Israel’s founding. It can also evoke the many expulsions that have occurred since: the about 300,000 Palestinians whom Israel displaced when it conquered the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967; the roughly 250,000 Palestinians who could not return to the West Bank and Gaza after Israel revoked their residency rights between 1967 and 1994; the hundreds of Palestinians whose homes Israel demolished in 2020 alone,” wrote Peter Beinart in the New York Times.

During said ethnic cleansing by the Jews, countless Palestinians were massacred, with a great many dispossessed of their land. The majority of those who still inhabit the country are segregated, while millions more are currently refugees in neighboring Arab countries, waiting to go back to their stolen homes.

By setting in motion such a course of action, the Zionist Jews, pretending to be the Hebrews of the Old Covenant, hypocritically broke half of said Covenant’s commandments.

“You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.” Exodus 20: 7

“You shall not murder.” Exodus 20:13

“You shall not steal.” Exodus 20:15

Fake-Hebrew militias kicking Palestinians out of their homes in the city of Ramle in 1948

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.” Exodus 20:16

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house, you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is your neighbor’s.” Exodus 20:17

Zionist Jews are not settlers. They’re thieves, liars, impostors, and murderers. Palestine was stolen, pure and simple.

Since then there has not been peace in the Middle East, and there never will be as long as Israel continues to exist in its current configuration and gets away with manipulating the US Government.

And ironically, Judea and Samaria of the Bible (i.e., the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel) are today mostly inside the West Bank of Palestine (rightly called Judea and Samaria even by thieving Zionists – West Bank map on your right) and not inside Modern Israel.

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Palestine Map

HOW STEALING PALESTINE AFFECTS THE WORLD

“We Jews, we, the destroyers, will remain the destroyers forever.” – Maurice Samuel

Palestinians evicted out of their homes 1948

In stealing Palestine, the Zionists didn’t just hurt the Palestinian people, they scarred the world as well, are scarring it now, and will probably continue to do so until the world puts an end to it.

World War 1: Britain was losing the war against Germany. The Zionists stepped in and manipulated President Wilson to get the US into the war to help them. In return, the Jews asked the British Empire to deed them Palestine to create Israel. Their wish was granted in the form of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which cost the world 18 million dead.

During that same period, the Jewish Bolsheviks, who took over the Russian government in the 1910s, killed 66 million Christians, including 200,000 members of the Christian clergy, and destroyed 40,000 churches.

Palestinian Scouts, Jaffa, Palestine 1924

World War 2: The Zionists fomented that war (just like they’re doing today with Iran and other countries in the Middle East), so that European Jews could feel threatened. The deception worked as European Jews fled in droves to Palestine and took over the homes of Palestinians, who were evicted at gunpoint and then either massacred or driven out of their land into neighboring Arab countries. With enough Jews on the ground, Israel was created in 1948 at a cost of 80 million dead.

World War On Terror: Jewish neocons, in cahoots with their bought-and-paid-for politicians in the US government, perpetrated their act of terrorism on 9/11. Then they conveniently blamed it on Muslims so as to obtain a green light to destroy the Middle East using the armies of the US and NATO and the terrorist groups they finance, with the ultimate view to creating Greater Israel. So far, the death toll is 27 million, including Christians.

World War 3: With Russia protecting Syria and Iran from Israel’s Machiavellian design, will the Zionists succeed in bringing the world once again to the brink of disaster to create Greater Israel? If they do, will it instead bring about their downfall?

Apartheid Israel is indeed a scourge. A cancer that needs to be dealt with.

“You will destroy them that speak lies: Jehovah abhors blood-thirsty and deceitful men.”  Psalm 5:6

CONCLUSION

If one truly believes the Jewish-dominated media, their fake news, and their constant barrage of “Holocaust” movies, one genuinely thinks that there’s only one group of people that everyone on earth hates: Jews. That’s how effective the brainwashing has been.

However, when one wakes up from the media’s induced stupor, one realizes that Zionist Jews are themselves the victimizers of not only the Arab Palestinians but of the world as well. As befitting the deceivers that they are, they camouflage themselves as victims.

Unfortunately for them, the world’s consciousness is being stirred, and everyone will soon realize who they really are: impostors, liars, shameless thieves, and blood-thirsty barbarians.

Nevertheless, the greatest SHAME is the fact that many “Christians” (including the leaders of the “Christian” media who sold out Jesus and His Love-Thy-Neighbor command to Israel for 30 pieces of Jewish silver) and the great western powers justify Israel at every turn.

“He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the Lord.” Proverbs 17: 15

Appeal: Every conscientious individual should implement a personal boycott of Israel and everything made there.


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Israel’s Obsession With Hummus Is About More Than Stealing Palestine’s Food

By Ben White, The National

When Israel expelled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their villages and homes in 1948, many left with little more than the clothes on their back. Food was left on the stove. Crops were left unharvested. But the land emptied of its inhabitants was soon occupied by new residents.

From 1948 to 1953, almost all new Jewish settlements were established on refugees’ property. The myth of making the desert bloom is belied by the facts: in mid-1949, two-thirds of all land sowed with grain in Israel was Palestinian land. In 1951, “abandoned” land accounted for nearly 95 per cent of all Israel’s olive groves and almost 10,000 acres of vineyards.

During these early years, many Palestinian refugees attempted to return to their lands. By 1956, as many as 5,000 so-called “infiltrators” had been killed by Israeli armed forces, the vast majority of them looking to return home, recover possessions, or search for loved ones. Palestinian women and children who crossed the frontier to gather crops were murdered.

The Nakba in 1948 was the settler colonial conquest of land and the displacement of its owners, a dual act of erasure and appropriation. Citing “reasons of state”, Israel’s first premier David Ben-Gurion appointed a Negev Names Committee to remove Arabic names from the map. By 1951, the Jewish National Fund’s “Naming Committee” had “assigned 200 new names”.

But it did not stop with dynamite and new maps. The Zionist colonisation of Palestine has also included culture, notably cuisine. This is the context for the so-called “hummus wars”: it is not about petty claims and counterclaims, rather, the story is one of colonial, cultural appropriation and resistance to those attempts.

In the decades since the establishment of the State of Israel on the ruins and ethnically cleansed lands of Palestine, various elements of the indigenous cuisine have been targeted for appropriation: falafel, knafeh, sahlab and, of course, hummus.

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Arabic Hummus

Though these dishes are common to a number of communities across the Mediterranean and Middle East, Israel claims them as its own: falafel is the “national snack”, while hummus, according to Israeli food writer Janna Gur, is “a religion”.

In a 2002 article on recipes, the Israeli embassy in Washington acknowledged that “Israel lacks a long-standing culinary heritage”, adding that “only a few years ago, Israelis even doubted the existence of their own authentic cuisine”.

Such an admission is hard to find these days, as appropriation has become propaganda.

Now we have “International Hummus Day”, launched by an Israeli, Ben Lang, who is explicit about the propaganda value of his project: “The idea was to connect people around hummus and get more people talking about it and hopefully get people to see the good things that are happening in Israel.”

“I just wanted to make sure that people saw that the initiative started in Israel.”

As everything from food to the keffiyeh is used to “rebrand” the state that colonised Palestine in the first place, Palestinians and their supporters have fought back.

When an Israeli choreographer included the dabke traditional dance in his company’s repertoire in 2013, a New York-based dabke troupe responded with a thoughtful critique that noted how, by “appropriating dabke, and labelling it Israeli”, the “power imbalance” is only furthered.

They added: “This makes us feel taken advantage of. Exploited. Commodified.”

In December 2014, after a campaign by Palestinian students and their allies, the student assembly at Wesleyan University in Connecticut agreed to remove Sabra hummus from campus dining facilities. The product symbolises Israeli appropriation and ongoing brutality; its parent company, the Strauss Group, donates to the Israeli military.

Accusations of cultural appropriation can produce some misleading responses. It’s not about who is “allowed” to eat what, or even about an objection to the natural cross-pollination that occurs in culture through language, cuisine and more.

That is not the point. It is about the claim of ownership in a context of historic and ongoing violent erasure and displacement.

It is about efforts to create an artificial history that justifies the establishment and continued existence of a settler colonial state.

Even a mainstream Israeli food writer like Gil Hovav has pointed to this reality. “Food is about memory and identity,” he told the Israeli media last year. “Claiming ownership over a food is a way to assert a nation’s narrative. Israeli Jews have made hummus their own.”

Cuisine is where efforts to both deny the existence of Palestine and appropriate its land and heritage meet. It is both an act of theft itself, and a way of justifying that theft.

Ben White is a journalist and the author of Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide

On Twitter: @benabya


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Are Jews The Israelites Of The Bible?

The Awkward Moment When Jews Realize They’re The Goyim
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[This is the in-depth version. For the shorter version, click here.]

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Abraham sends Hagar & Ishmael away

The number one biblical verse used by Zionist Jews and Zionist Christians alike to justify dispossessing the Palestinians of their land is this one:

“On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, ‘To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates….'” Genesis 15:18

By descendants God definitely meant the same biological bloodline, the same DNA, actual grandchildren of Abram/Abraham. Not spiritual progeny. As even a cursory study would show, those today who are known as Jews are not remotely bloodline descendants of Abraham. Continue reading