By Jamal Kanj | February 2025
Israel is perhaps the only “nation” in the post-colonial era where a foreign-born minority claimed sovereignty over a territory.
Nations typically develop organically over generations through shared symbols, culture, language, values, and traditions. However, the “State of Israel” followed an inverse path—seizing land first, then appropriating local culture and fabricating a deep cultural mythology. Political Zionism, as I’ll explain later, not only took the land but also co-opted its symbols, customs, and even daily life, presenting them as its own.
For more than a century, Zionist ideologues have constructed a mythological narrative to justify the colonization of Palestine and the displacement of its indigenous people. At the core of this narrative lies a fusion of biblical literalism, selective archaeology, and racial mythology—an attempt to project a divine and historical entitlement over a land inhabited continuously by others.
The mythmaking was a deliberate ideological enterprise. It drew from European romantic nationalism, colonial theology, and racial pseudoscience, seeking to forge an ancient claim for a modern political project. Zionism, therefore, was never simply a movement of refuge but one of redefinition—an effort to transform age old mystical memory into territorial sovereignty at the expense of another group of people.
Political Zionism constructed a false historical narrative through myths and propaganda, effacing the native Palestinian identity and distorting geopolitical realities. This deception would not have succeeded without the support of Messianic Christians and Western complicity, where governments and media advocated Zionist myths to justify Palestinian dispossession.
Western media, under the guise of objectivity, has been instrumental in promoting Zionist disinformation—marginalizing Palestinian voices and reinforcing a one-sided narrative. This manufactured consent, arguably more insidious than state-controlled propaganda, has shaped Western public opinion. By distorting events and omitting critical context, Western media has become a willing tool for the marketing of the Zionist BIG LIE, erasing Palestinian history and undermining their legitimate rights and struggles.
This document does not only posit new perspectives, but it challenges ingrained falsehoods. Confronting long-held myths may be unsettling, even shocking, it is, however, a necessary step toward a deeper and more transformative understanding. This essay unpacks several of those core fables underpinning Zionist ideology: the supposed ethnic continuity of the “Jewish people” from biblical tribes to modern Europeans; the claim of divine or historical entitlement to the land of Palestine; and the misuse of scriptures and archaeology to validate conquest. In doing so, it restores a historical viewpoint obscured by ideology and exposes Zionism not as a fulfillment of Jewish history, but as its political distortion.
Starting from the basics: define where the term “Hebrew” was derived from and what it means. The term “Hebrew” originates from Ivri, meaning “one who crosses over,” referring to early tribes migrating across the Euphrates into Canaan. In Arabic, e’bri (Hebrew) derives from the verb a’bara, meaning to cross a waterway, a concept mirrored in Akkadian and Aramaic languages as well.
Anthropological and DNA evidence show that the ancient e’braneieen (Ivrim) were among many groups that settled in or occupied parts of Palestine, contributing to the genetic and cultural mosaic of present-day Palestinians, descendants of the Philistines, Canaanites, Jebusites, Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, Arabs and others.
While some Ivrim (also called Aravim or Mizrachi Jews) maintained their beliefs, many, like others in the region, transitioned to Christianity and later Islam. Nevertheless, regardless of differing views on the fate of the ancient Hebrews, it is undeniable that the word “Hebrew” refers to an original geographical location of foreign tribes, and that ancient Hebrews came from Ur in Mesopotamia (today’s Iraq) to an already inhabited land.
Ignoring historical and genetic evidence, European Zionists, the descendants of Eurasian Khazar converts manipulated non-historical records, such as the Old and New Testament, as well as the Quran, to reconstruct history and propagate disinformation in order to establish a link with the ancient (migrant) Hebrews.
In the late 8th century, King Bulan of Khazaria led a mass conversion to Judaism, establishing the first Jewish-ruled state in Eastern Europe. This powerful kingdom became the largest and longest-lasting unified Jewish sovereign in history, ruling over the Caucasus, southern Russia, Crimea, and parts of present-day Ukraine.
By the 11th century, Khazaria began its decline after a joint Russian-Byzantine invasion in 1016, marking the beginning of a westward migration of its Jewish population. The empire lingered until the Mongol invasion of 1224 triggered a mass exodus, the only documented Jewish diaspora across Europe.
In The Invention of the Jewish People (2008), Israeli historian Shlomo Sand examined the widely held belief in a forced Jewish exile from historical Palestine. His research revealed no historical evidence for this narrative. Instead, he concluded that the ancestry of Central and Eastern European Jews traces back to the 8th-century Khazar conversion rather than a Middle Eastern origin.
Israeli geneticist Eran Elhaik of Johns Hopkins University corroborated these findings with a 2012 DNA study published by Oxford University Press. His research indicated that European Jews trace their genetic lineage to ancient Khazaria rather than the Middle East. “The majority of (European) Jews do not have a Middle Eastern genetic component,” Elhaik told Haaretz in 2012.
If asked who founded Jerusalem (Al-Quds), most people would likely say King David, as it is speciously known in Western culture as the “City of David.” This example demonstrates how unchallenged legends derived from non-historical sources such as religious texts shape sophistical and misleading historical narratives. Israeli leaders claim Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital for 3,000 years, such assertions go unchallenged in the West either due to institutionalized self-censorship, religious bias, or fear of being labeled “anti-Semitic.” This climate of organized intimidation is a key factor for the lack of critical thinking regarding Zionist claims in Western discourse. Few are aware that Jerusalem existed and served as the capital of the original Palestinians for over 6,000 years, long before the occupation by migrant Jewish tribes from Mesopotamia. The Phoenician Canaanites, ancestors of today’s Palestinians, were the first to establish a settlement on a hill in the 4th millennium BCE. The Jebusites, a Canaanite tribe, referred to the small town as “Urushalim,” combining uru (“founded by”) and Shalim, the Phoenician Canaanite god of dusk.
The original city name, “Urushalim,” was later altered to Yerushaláyim to contrive a Hebrew nexus. Ironically, while the Quran mentions Jerusalem, there is no reference to Jerusalem in the five books of the Torah, which were completed centuries after David’s conquest of the Canaanite city. The small over the hill town that was dedicated to Shalim, not Abraham’s Elohim.
Why wasn’t Jerusalem mentioned in the Torah? One amusing explanation is that because it had not yet been revealed as a holy city. The five books of the Torah were written roughly between 750 BCE and 450 CE. King David occupied the “god of dusk” city in 1000 BCE or 1500 years before the last book of the Torah, Genesis. Jerusalem was not holy when David occupied it, nor when the supposed first Jewish temple was built. Still wasn’t holy when the last book of the Torah was completed in 450 CE—15 centuries after it was occupied by David.
It is ironic how Zionists engage in the “Zion-washing” of non-historical religious texts, such as the New Testament and the Quran, to foster ignorance and legitimize the ethnic cleansing of historical Palestine.
Zionists exploit people’s ignorance of the Quran and the New Testament—scriptures which Hebrews dismiss as fake—yet they would accept them as historical sources if the information suits their confirmation bias and serves their agenda of historical revisionism.
The term “Israel” appears in the Quran in a context similar to its use in the Book of Joshua (verses 24:3-15), where it refers to the descendants of Jacob, and where “Israel” is used interchangeably with the name Jacob. Similarly, the Quran mentions Bani-Israel (the descendants of Jacob) as a clan of Jacob, not as a nation. The Quran uses an equivalent term when referring to Bani-Adam, the descendants of Adam. Thus, the hyphenated term “Bani-Israel,” or its corresponding phrase “Bani-Yacoub,” conveys a clan-based connotation and does not denote a geopolitical entity, much like the reference to “Bani-Adam” does not imply an “Adam” country.
The Quran refrains from explicitly naming nations, whether Arab or otherwise, because the concept of the modern nation-state, as we understand it today, did not exist 1,500 years ago. Similarly, the Quran does not mention countries such as Syria, Iran, or Iraq. This is because religious texts, including the Quran, are not intended to be historical textbooks. For this reason, none of these texts would be found in the history section of the library or bookstore.
Yet, among the three monolithic religious scriptures, the only one explicitly designates Palestine as a distinct geographical entity—rather than in a tribal context—is the Old Testament. In the book of Exodus 13:17, it states: “When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter.” The term “Philistine” is the phonetic equivalent in Arabic of the English term “Palestine.”
The level of Zionist arrogance is so brazen that they decontextualize verses from the Quran to propagate disinformation, while conveniently overlooking the broader religious context that directly contradicts the very notion they seek to promote. For Palestine, as a region, is one of the few places cited in the Quran and in the Prophet’s (PBUH) Hadith (sayings). In one verse, the Quran refers to Jerusalem as “Masjid al-Aqsa, the surroundings of which We gave blessings.” This verse clearly underscores the sanctity of Jerusalem and its surrounding areas for Muslims. Interpretations vary, with some translating it as referring specifically to contemporary Palestine, while others suggest a broader scope that includes Palestine and its neighboring countries.
Furthermore, an additional reference can be found in the Prophet’s Hadith Saying: “There will always remain a group of people from my Ummah (Nation) who will be triumphant on truth. Those who oppose or abandon them will not be able to harm them…” When the Prophet was asked, “Where are these people?” he replied: “In Bayt al-Maqdis and the precincts of Bayt al-Maqdis,” Jerusalem and its surrounding area.
One could argue that the prophecy outlined above is being partially realized today, as Palestinians remain steadfast despite being abandoned by their coreligionists, exemplified by Arab dictators normalizing relations with the Zionist occupier.
Zionists falsely assert that the Roman Empire renamed the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean ‘Palestine’ around 135 CE during the suppression of the migrant Jewish revolt. They claim that the Romans sought to punish the Jews by de-emphasizing the Jewish connection to the land.
This is another example of how Zionists create an alternative reality by exploiting people’s lack of knowledge to perpetuate ignorance. Not many may have heard of the Greek historian Herodotus, known as the “Father of History,” the oldest recorded geographer who lived between 484–424 BCE, where he wrote: “From there they marched against Egypt: and when they were in the part of Syria called Palestine, Psammetichus king of Egypt met them and persuaded them with gifts and prayers to come no further.”
Historically, Syria was the land encompassing today’s Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, and part of Iraq. Palestine was always known as the southern part of Syria.
In addition to the Father of History, there were also references to Palestine from the time of the Egyptian Pharaohs Ramses II and III and ancient Assyrians going back to the 12th century BCE.
In fact, none other than Aristotle, who lived 384–322 BCE, described Palestine in his writings as the place where there is a “salted lake” (Dead Sea).
The above references were centuries before the Roman Empire occupied Palestine, and the name was not conjured by the Roman occupiers.
Lacking unique national culture, Zionism claims that today Israeli currency comes from an original “biblical Hebrew shekel.” Israel’s assertion of tracing the shekel back to an ancient Hebrew currency is as valid as the dollar being an original Ecuadorian currency. The ancient Hebrews who emigrated from Mesopotamia adopted the existing and prevailing international currency of that era, known as TQL, much like Ecuador uses the US dollar today.
In Hebrew, the term “shekel” means a unit of weight. The word is a Hebraized version of the Aramaic TQL or its Arabic equivalent, ThuQL (ثقل), or weight, approximately 10 grams. TQL first appeared during the Akkadian Empire in ancient Mesopotamia around 2500 BCE. Much like the modern dollar, it evolved into a widely accepted currency across Palestine, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Bronze Age Europe. The earliest documented use of TQL by the Maccabees Hebrew tribe was circa 66–70 CE, centuries after it was adopted in historical Palestine.
Another symbol that lacks inherent religious significance in history is the so-called “Western Wall.” The wall is not an internal structure and cannot be part of a building. Rather, it is an exterior embankment supporting higher mount, (Haram al-Sharif/Noble Sanctuary) and an extension of the defensive exterior wall surrounding the Old City, which predates the Jewish presence in the city.
The approximately 2.5-mile-long and 40-feet-high fortification wall was reconstructed between 1537 and 1541 under Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I.
Hebrews who assimilated within the Palestinian culture but maintained their religious beliefs lived in Palestine, including Jerusalem, alongside their Muslim and Christian compatriots for centuries. Throughout history, before the advent of the Western Christian Messianic movement and the birth of political Zionism, there are no historical records indicating that the western fortification wall was used as a prayer site. The west side of the wall only became a religious attraction in the seventeenth century, driven by Christian religious devotees, who like today’s messianic Churches, 300 years later, wanted to hasten the return of the messiah.
In an attempt to validate their delusional fantasies, successive Israeli governments, and for over sixty years, have conducted extensive excavations beneath the Noble Sanctuary. However, they have yet to produce any archeological evidence pointing to a religious Jewish site.
Imagine if someone assumes credit for making a desert bloom in Sweden. It would be absurd, wouldn’t it? So why is it not equally preposterous when Zionists, or their pawns in the West, make the same claim about a country located in the heart of what is known as the Fertile Crescent? A region with an annual rainfall comparable to that of Sweden? In fact, the average rainfall in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) and the Al-Jalil (Galilee) regions, north of historical Palestine, exceeds that in Stockholm!
By the way, these meteorological conditions were not new phenomena, but were implicitly mentioned in the Old Testament, Exodus 3:17, when describing the land of the Canaanites (the original Palestinians) as “a land flowing with milk and honey. ” It would be highly unlikely that the political Zionist movement didn’t know that the land of “milk and honey” wasn’t a desert. Yet, the dissemination of Zionist myths remains unchallenged by Western intellectuals, allowing it to permeate history books with fairytales, thus fostering schooled ignorance.
Western intellectuals disregarded Palestinian and Jewish scholars who debunked the fallacy of the Zionist narratives. For instance, Ahad Ha’Am, the prominent East European Jewish thinker and father of Cultural Zionism, visited Palestine in 1891, long before Theodor Herzl founded political Zionism or ever set foot in the Holy Land.
Ha’Am was among the early Jews who questioned political Zionist tales. Upon his arrival, he wrote back to his followers in Europe on his observations: “We abroad are used to believe the Eretz Yisrael (Palestine) is now almost totally desolate, a desert that is not sowed … But in truth that is not the case. Throughout the country it is difficult to find fields that are not sowed.”
The Zionist movement that willed to contradict the Old Testament regarding the land of “milk and honey” perpetuated yet another unchallenged ludicrous myth, calling Palestine “a land without people.”
The slogan was repeated by Israeli leader Golda Meir when she told the Sunday Times in 1969, “There was no such thing as Palestinians.” Current Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a Ukrainian (Khazar) Jewish supremacist, echoed, almost verbatim, Meir’s statement during his visit to Paris in March 2022.
To refute this malarkey, and since Zionists have already distorted their own biblical narratives, I will refrain from quoting the Old Testament regarding the people in the Land of Canaan. Neither will I point to the nine crusade campaigns that were seemingly defeated by “non-existing” inhabitants; nor will I cite British colonists’ census in Palestine. Further, I shall not argue the obvious: I write, I therefore exist. I will, however, rely on two major Zionist sources, predating the establishment of “Israel.”
In his diary from 1895, Herzl, founder of political Zionism, wrote, “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border . . . the process of expropriation and the removal . . . must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.”
Likewise, in the mid-1940s, Joseph Weitz, the director of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), explained, “It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples.”
Ironically, Zionists had planned to clear ghosts, people that do not exist.
More than three quarters of a century following the Nakba, I stand as the son of two “invisible” Palestinian parents who were “spirited” from their homes to make “room” for European Khazar converts.
“The penniless” refugees may no longer live in Palestine, but to the chagrin of Zionism, the land of “milk and honey” continues to live in them.
This is a myth that contradicts another myth. Zionism wants you to believe that Palestine is a land without a people, and that being a Palestinian is an invention.
If Palestinians did not exist, who then sold the land? Was this an imaginary relationship with a ghost real estate agent sent by a real estate god? Or did someone impersonate Palestinians and deceived the European Zionists?
On a serious note, in late 1947, when the UN divided Palestine between the Natives and the World Zionist Organization, WZO was allocated almost 55% of historical Palestine, and the native Palestinians received 45% of the land.
In 1947, and according to undisputed historical records from the Ottoman land registry and later British Mandate land ownership, Palestinian “ghosts” owned more than 93% of the land while Zionists owned less than 7%.
Surface culture consists of tangible, observable elements that define a cultural group or region—music, food, dress, and traditions. For instance, Scotland is recognized for kilts, Salsa music represents Latin America, and Japan is known for sushi.
Authentic culture evolves over generations. However, “Israel’s” top-down approach to culture lacks genuine identifying characteristics. Throughout its history, “Israel” has either fabricated, annexed, or reconstructed both surface and deep cultural elements. Unlike conventional development of cultures, Israeli surface culture came prepackaged—American fast-food style—by appropriating those very elements from the age-old traditional Palestinian culture.
A prominent aspect of any society’s surface culture is its local cuisine. In 1948, after ethnically cleansing the non-Jewish Palestinians, Zionists brazenly claimed Palestinian culinary staples like hummus, falafel, baba ghanouj, tabouli salad, couscous (maftool), freekeh, kubbeh, mujadara, pita bread, and many more. All it took was to identify a Palestinian dish and then add the word “Israeli” before the name.
Listing or discussing the complete plagiarized Palestinian cuisine is too long to be explored in great detail, especially as Western familiarity with Palestinian culinary culture remains limited. Thus, I’ll only discuss “Israel’s” most obnoxious surface culture heist in history by focusing on one internationally renowned dish: hummus.
Let’s begin by exploring the word “hummus” to understand its origin and meaning in its original language. In Arabic, “hummus” (حمص) literally translates to chickpeas or garbanzo beans. It does not mean mash, dip, or paste. The word “hummus” is used as an abbreviation of the full Arabic term for the famous dish, which is “hummus bitahini.”
This means mashed chickpeas, tahini sauce, and garnishments. Tahini, ground sesame butter, is an essential ingredient in the making of hummus and baba ghanouj dips.
Hummus is more alien to a supposed Israeli cuisine than burrito and pizza are to the American kitchen. At least burrito and pizza share the same root in Latin letters. The Arabic word “hummus” does not exist in Hebrew. In fact, Hebrew speakers would be challenged to msster the pronunciation of the word “hummus.” You can’t find or hear the guttural “h” (ح) in the Hebrew syllabary, and in general, when Hebrew speakers attempt to enunciate “hummus,” or any Arabic word with a hard “h” (ح), they mispronounce it as “kh” (خ). In this case, it becomes “khummus” (خمص), not “hummus.”
The full correct name of the dish becomes even more challenging when adding its second part, tahini. The “h” in tahini is also a hard “h” (ح), where an Israeli would distort the Palestinian dish “hummus bitahini” (حمص بالطحينة) to “khummus bitakhini”—an insult to the language, culinary etiquette, and to Arab chefs in the Levant kitchen.
It can be argued that much of what political Zionism professes about “Jewish” history and culture in Palestine is a “fairytale.”
The phrase “fairytale” belongs to the founder of political Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who used it to urge his fellow Zionists in 1897 to pursue their “dreams” in Palestine, stating, “If you really want it, then it is no fairytale.”
Undeniably, Judaism has strong spiritual ties to the Holy Land, but that does not exculpate Herzl’s malicious “fairytale” dreams. Similarly, recognizing the Christian divine connection to the land of birth and crucifixion of Christ does not excuse the crusade invasions. Likewise, the Islamic attachment to the land where the Prophet ascended to the heavens does not make Palestine exclusively Muslim.
Throughout history, the land of Palestine experienced untold numbers of invaders, religious conversions, the rise and fall of emperors and empires. To name but a few, not in any order: Akkadians, Egyptians, Hebrews, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Byzantines, Mongol, Muslims, European Crusades, Ottomans, British, etc. Withal, the native Palestinians have endured as steadfast witnesses to battles, carnages, victories, defeats, and retreats. Within the context of national history, transient conquerors morphed like a seasonal yellow leaf, while the original people of Palestine remained the only historical constant, deeply rooted next to their olive trees.
Through it all, the indigenous Palestinians may have taken a new religion or converted to another, adopted new customs, or learned a new language. Some of the invaders might have assumed local traditions or assimilated into their new home, eventually creating a unique collective national identity while staying true to their proven Philistine, Canaanite, and Jebusite genetic ancestors.
In 1948, a political movement predominantly comprised of descendants from East European Khazar Jewish converts claimed lineage to the ancient Hebrew Kingdom—which was one of more than a dozen historical invaders of Palestine. Let’s assume for a minute that the European Zionists genuinely believed they were the descendants of the ancient Hebrews. If so, why would they refer to their plan as a colonial project?
Founded by Bavarian philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch in 1891 first to help Jews from Russia and Romania to settle in Argentina. After Baron de Hirsch died in 1896, the JCA began to assist the Jewish-only colonies in Palestine.
Established in 1924. It played a major role in building “Jewish-only” colonies in Palestine until it was disbanded in 1957.
The Jewish Colonial Trust incorporated in London on March 20, 1899.
How can you colonize your own home?
In conclusion, historians hold differing opinions regarding the duration of the ancient Hebrew reign in the land of Canaan. However, there is some consensus that the united Hebrew Kingdom lasted approximately 80 years before splitting into two entities, which is much less than many empires that lasted much longer in Palestine.
Nonetheless, there is no disagreement that the original Hebrews were not indigenous to the land. In the book of Genesis 17:8, God addressed Abraham regarding the land of Canaan: “where you now live as a foreigner…” Presumably, and according to the book of Genesis, God promised the “foreigner” the possession of the land of Canaan.
While I prefer to steer away from discussing abstract or entertaining metaphysical powers, there is a convincing hypothesis told by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious authorities alike, that God’s promise was fulfilled in the united Hebrew Kingdom, and ended with disobedience to God when it split into two hostile “God’s chosen” people, and that promise was concluded by the birth of Christ.
Until the late 19th century, when political Zionism emerged in response to Western Jewish hate, spiritual Zionists held to their belief that the “Jewish Kingdom” would be re-established only by the Messiah. Christians and Muslims share with Judaism varying nuanced versions regarding the signs of the apocalypse.
Setting aside the theological aspects, there is no genetic relation between the original Hebrews who immigrated to Palestine from Mesopotamia, and the children of the East European Khazar converts. To allege lineage to a land on the basis of religion is similar to an Indonesian Muslim claiming a right to Saudi Arabia because it’s the birthplace of their religion.
Nationality is determined not by a spiritual affinity to a place, but by people who possess a distinct cultural identity and have a continuous historical presence in a defined region.
Lastly, even if today’s Jewish European converts were indeed the descendants of the ancient Hebrews from 3000 years ago, under accepted international law, they would have no admissible claim to an earlier unlawful occupation. Inasmuch as Arabs today have no right to inherit the past occupation of Spain, which lasted for 700 years, or more than three times the overall Hebrew reign in Palestine.
In addition to the supernatural connection, political Zionism presents a seemingly benign assertion by arguing that there is only “one” Jewish state in the world, implying that it is comparable to other countries. This would be like defending apartheid in South Africa because it was the only white nation in black Africa, or advocating for only “one” Aryan state in Europe.
Even in countries with an absolute religious majority, affinity to a faith does not transcend the national identity of citizens, where nationhood is not a spiritual trait, but shared cultural values within demarcated national boundaries.
Zionist exploitation of people’s ignorance of religious texts would be incomplete without suppressing history. Hence, Zionist efforts to perpetuate an uninformed Western public by capitalizing on the Holocaust to milk the misplaced European guilt. This is further exemplified by their abuse of the label “anti-Semite” to intimidate institutions into self-censorship, and stifle open discourse or criticism directed at what is considered one of the most racist governments in Israeli history.
Speaking of antisemites: Theodor Herzl’s vision, the father of political Zionism, outlined in his diary more than 100 years ago: “The antisemites WILL BECOME our most loyal friends, the antisemites nations will become our allies.”
While accusing human rights groups, the International Criminal Court, and U.N. of being antisemitic, Netanyahu is the guardian of Herzl’s prophecy, aligning with the bona fide antisemites as his most loyal friends, from Trump and American Evangelical Christians, to Nigel Farage in England, Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Giorgia Meloni in Italy, and Marine Le Pen in France, among others.
If anything, the 8th-century East European converts might have a stronger legal case, based on their proven genetics, to reclaim the Khazar Jewish empire that lasted for 500 years, significantly longer than the “fairytale” connection to the non-indigenous Hebrew Kingdom in the land of Canaan.
The absence of an authentic Israeli national memory made it crucial for political Zionism to construct a convoluted web of deception by appropriating national symbols and imbuing alternative facts that have become ingrained in Western national discourse. By inculcating false narratives, legends, and fables into the mainstream, a new reality has been shaped, or as Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels famously said, “A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.”
The injustice in Palestine is not about race or religion; it transcends these boundaries and stands as a moral litmus test for every human being. It challenges us to confront our collective conscience and humanity. Just as our human ancestors had no moral justification to remain silent—or worse, complicit—in the horrors of slavery, the genocide against Indigenous peoples, systemic racism, and the Holocaust, among others, we, too, bear the weight of responsibility for the injustices of our time.