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RYAN BELLEROSE, SPECIAL TO QMI AGENCY:
Justice for Palestinians is attempting to organize with the Council of Canadians a conference titled "Indigenous Perspectives on Water: Canada and Palestine."
The objective is to conflate Palestinian and Native rights issues. Indeed, Justice for Palestinians is seeking a speaker from Idle No More, a Native rights movement in which I have been active. I take strong issue with Palestinians' appropriation of the Native cause.
To begin, though Palestinian propagandists love to characterize Zionism (that is, Jewish nationalism) and the re-establishment of Israel in 1948 as colonial enterprises, it is the Jews who are aboriginal to the Holy Land. Alone among other nations, Jews' language, history, culture and folklore were born and forged in the Holy Land. Accordingly, to claim the Jews are colonizers in the Holy Land delegitimizes all indigenous peoples because such attempts trivialize the unbreakable, maternal ties to the land that make us, like the Jews, indigenous...Continue reading...
RYAN BELLEROSE, SPECIAL TO QMI AGENCY: Justice for Palestinians is attempting to organize with the Council of Canadians a conference titled "Indigenous Perspectives on Water: Canada and Palestine."
The objective is to conflate Palestinian and Native rights issues. Indeed, Justice for Palestinians is seeking a speaker from Idle No More, a Native rights movement in which I have been active. I take strong issue with Palestinians' appropriation of the Native cause.
To begin, though Palestinian propagandists love to characterize Zionism (that is, Jewish nationalism) and the re-establishment of Israel in 1948 as colonial enterprises, it is the Jews who are aboriginal to the Holy Land. Alone among other nations, Jews' language, history, culture and folklore were born and forged in the Holy Land. Accordingly, to claim the Jews are colonizers in the Holy Land delegitimizes all indigenous peoples because such attempts trivialize the unbreakable, maternal ties to the land that make us, like the Jews, indigenous...Continue reading...
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