I have such a hard time grasping how so many people who want liberation and justice for all indigenous people are against the first successful decolonial movement (Israel). The same people who argue for “land back” are the same ones who are against an indigenous population returning to their ancestral homeland and reviving their mother tongue as a spoken language. I find the double standards appalling since I’ve also noticed a lack of support for other indigenous people in the region who live under Arab occupation (Kurds, Assyrians, Copts, Druze, etc). Is it simply because these groups don’t fit the narrative of the “white oppressor” vs the “brown oppressed”?

We’ve proposed countless peace offerings with neighboring Arab countries, and we’ve done so much to try and make their situations better. Yet almost every single peace offering has been sabotaged and destroyed by their own unwillingness to acknowledge Israel. My question is why don’t these people see Israel as a decolonial movement, despite Jews being indigenous to the land? And why can’t they see that Israel has tried making countless deals with Palestinians that would give them a state?