our entire family home has now been destroyed by israel. built by my grandparents after being forcibly expelled from their homes in jaffa in 1948, they worked for decades to save up enough to purchase a small plot of land where my family could live. 5+ decades of memories, gone.
my cousin sent me photos of our apartment in gaza and was actually worried that my mom would be upset as the destruction 😭 as if we gave a singular fuck about any of that... we're just so, so relieved no one was inside when it happened!
the only relief is that my family was not there when they bombed our neighborhood over and over. but now we are seeing a repeat of 1948, where colonizers will attempt yet again to steal our land and pretend it's been theirs all along.
@samah_fadil
I don’t think anyone is confused. Black Jews are immigrants from Ethiopia (Egypt to a small extent).
You aren’t indigenous to the levant. Thats not even up for debate. History isn’t magic.
@samah_fadil
They are. That’s not in question. You’ll have to be delusional to claim that lands that bear Jewish names are somehow indigenous to Arabs - Bethany, Nazareth, Bethlehem, Hebron…
just because your ancestors migrated to Europe due to wars does not erase your links to that land.