Daniel Greenfield
Front Page, May 14, 2025
“It’s hard to imagine a name more closely associated with foreign invaders than ‘Palestinians’.”
Even though the Jewish history in the land of Israel is one of the most popular stories of mankind and was incorporated into the religious beliefs of over half the human race, it’s become fashionable to deny the connection of the Jews to the land of Israel. And yet similarly dismissing the descendants of Muslim conquerors who now style themselves ‘Palestinians’, some of whom had arrived in Israel as recently as a century ago, as colonists and settlers is angrily denounced.
‘Palestinian’ identity is politically sacrosanct even though it has no historic or linguistic basis in any past deeper than the Islamic wars and invasions that long postdated the Jewish presence in Israel. It’s not only invented in history, but was so recently invented that many people living today remember when it was made up, and also manages ties itself in endless contradictions.
There’s no actual ‘Palestinian’ history. Just the ideological project of ‘Palestinianism’ and its revisionist history which reversed history, transforming the Arab Muslim conquerors who invaded and persecuted the Jews into the indigenous inhabitants who were driven out by the Jews. ‘Palestinianism’ is General Custer putting on an Indian costume and claiming that his ancestors were in America for thousands of years before the Sioux drove them out.
Palestinianism’s historical revisionism insists that the Jews who were in Israel for 3,400 years are European settlers while the Arab Muslims who decided to call themselves ‘Palestinians’ sixty years ago were the original indigenous inhabitants of the land. Their only basis for this otherwise completely ahistorical argument is picking a name with a ‘biblical’ sound to it. ….SOURCE