-and it is to them that “God” promised the land- not to the present-day Israelis
STATEMENT FROM PETE GREGSON, CHAIR OF ONE DEMOCRATIC PALESTINE (who holds a BSc in Biochemistry, specialising in genetics)
In Israel and with its Zionist “Jewish” supporters, we are facing a Judeo-supremacist cult that sees any who are not Zionist as “untermensch*” and suitable only for slave duties. Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are the tip of the iceberg. The world can only move forward by dismantling Israel.
[*”a person considered racially or socially inferior”… and if you are unfamiliar with the history of Israel and the origins of Zionism, etc, please use the index at www.onepalestine.land/israel-palestine-explained ]
SUMMARY
Unlike the Palestinians, “Jews” living in Israel today are not directly descended from the Ancient Hebrews of the Bible. Whilst the Mizrahi & Sephardic “Jews” have some genetic links to Palestine, as they are descendants from the proselytizing Jews of over 2,000 years ago, the Ashkenazi “Jews” are actually from Khazaria (largely present-day Ukraine), which is over 2,200 miles distant from Palestine. In this article, I will make the case that the Palestinians, being the direct descendants of the Ancient Hebrews, are the true Jews of today, and have sole and perpetual rights to the land. The Ashkenazi have none and are simply (unwelcome) guests.
SOME HISTORY
In fact, the historical record is absolutely clear: the majority of “Jews” living in Israel today are not descended from the Ancient Hebrews of the Bible, but instead from the Khazars- a Turkic people from the Caucasus who converted to Judaism in the early medieval period.
The DNA research work at https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/5/1/61/728117 was published by the Oxford University Press in 2012 on behalf of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution. It found evidence for the Khazarian Hypothesis, which suggests that most Jews are Khazars, and concluded that probably no more than 2 per cent of Jews in Israel are descended from Israelites. The Palestinians, on the other hand, show an 80% match to the Ancient Hebrews.
The Jews of Ashkenazi never emigrated from ancient Israel. In his book, The Invention of the Jewish People, the Israeli historian Schlomo Sands observes that these Hebrews were not driven out by the Romans after the destruction of the second temple in 70AD. In fact, some of these Hebrews/early Palestinians converted to Christianity in the 4th Century, followed by the majority who embraced Islam during the 7thCentury Arab conquest.
Read more on this by vising this Sub-stack piece by Tomas Gilgames: Jews living in Israel today are not descended from the ancient Hebrews of the Bible
I also have carried out much research- read it on our Israel & Palestine Explained page at https://www.onepalestine.land/israel-palestine-explained/#not-descendants-of-the-israelites
Also see this definitive Jordan Nutall article: https://jordannuttall.substack.com/p/are-ashkenazi-jews-khazars
Let us look at the map of Europe and the Middle East in the early 10th Century:
In the 10th Century AD, the greatest number of Jews in the world could be found in Khazaria, some 2,300 miles distant from Palestine. How could that be?
It was because the Khazars had converted en masse to Judaism some 200 years before. But why did the Khazars convert en masse when few, if any, had been to Palestine? Because in the 8th Century they were trapped between two mighty armies- the Christian Byzantine Empire on the one side, the Islamic Caliphates on the other.
If the Khazars had pledged for either the Christians or the Muslims, they would have been slaughtered wholesale by whichever side was winning. The Khazar ruler, King Bulan, therefore decreed that his country would take a neutral course and adopt Judaism, since neither the Christians nor the Muslims of the time had any interest in attacking Judaism, rather respecting Jews as being “people of the book” – and the oldest people too, to be protected rather than attacked. First the King and the elite layer of the kingdom converted to Judaism, and the rest of the populace gradually followed in the years thereafter.
Over the following thousand years these people moved west, fleeing the approaching Mongolian hordes, to create the Ashkenazis, who thrived in Eastern Europe. Being denied traditional occupations such as farming and husbandry and being excluded from the masonic trade societies, they turned to usury, banking, and property management, which meant they were ultimately rich enough to fund the Zionist Federation and support the Jewish National Fund, both key players in the foundation of Israel.
(see Khazars Convert to Judaism | Religion and Philosophy | Research Starters | EBSCOhost)
PRESENT DAY REALITY
The fact that Israel’s genealogy laws, introduced in the year 2000, place major restrictions on getting your DNA tested in Israel, attests to the great fear that the Israeli Government hold on this matter; they do not want Israelis to learn that this is not their land- and that they are not the descendants of the Ancient Hebrews. (see https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-no-dna-tests-230000258.html ) Furthermore, one often finds that Google provides misleading information, because it “scrapes” information from around the web, and there are plenty of Zionists making claims that have no archaeological basis:
For instance, if you ask Google about what took place on the 7th October 2023, one only gets the Israeli version, never the Hamas one.
To sum up, if we want to believe in a God of 2,000 years ago promising Israel/Palestine to the Jews, that God would have been promising the land to the occupants of the land at the time: the Ancient Hebrews. Who are, of, course, genuine Semites. Unlike the Kazars (ie the Ashkenazi) who are not.
SOME GENEALOGY
And the descendants of the Ancient Hebrews are still there to this day, for they are the Palestinians. I believe the history of the region goes like this: after Jesus Christ died, around about the 4th Century AD, the religion of Christianity took hold in Palestine.
Many of the Ancient Hebrews decided to convert from Judaism to Christianity. The myth of the 12 tribes of Israel and the expulsion of Jews from Judea and Samaria began when this happened. Archaeological studies do not show evidence of the great “diaspora” forced upon the Jews by the Romans (it is well-known that the Romans preferred to crucify their rebels, not expel them). When the Romans occupied Jerusalem in 70 CE they only banished Jews from the Jerusalem area. There was no mass expulsion from Palestine. Many Jews expelled from Jerusalem moved to the Galilee. The Romans did not bother to empty the small villages in the remote countryside. The farming communities were left alone, basically until 1948!
Some did leave, for back then Judaism was a proselytizing religion and these missionaries found most success as they traveled towards Morocco and planted the seeds of Judaism, right along the North African coast; in Iberia (Spain and Portugal) these were to become the Sephardic Jews.
During the Inquisition in Iberia in the 1490s the Jews fled west towards the Americas, and south to North Africa where they joined up with their Arab Jewish brethren. They left Spain with the Muslims, knowing that whilst the Christians would kill them, they were safe with Islam, which has always protected the Jews, as they are all “people of the book”. More proselytizing Jews headed south and east to establish what were to become the Mizrahi Jewish communities of Yemen, Iraq and Iran.
Back to Palestine and the years of Christ. The descendants of the Ancient Hebrews, who chose to follow Jesus, are the Palestinian Christians that you find in and around Palestine/Israel today. But the great majority of Palestinians of those times then converted again when Islam was promoted, following its establishment by Muhammad in Mecca (now Saudi Arabia) and even in Palestine itself, in Jerusalem, or Al Quds. There you will find the Mosque of Al Aqsa, from where it is said that Muhammed ascended to Heaven, in the year 632 AD. So, for religious/ political expediency the Palestinians converted to Islam when the Arabs arrived from Arabia. (This was not a difficult switch, given the status of Jesus in the Koran [see here]). This conversion to Islam has been the biggest issue in Palestinian history.
So the present Palestinians, who are mostly Sunni Muslim, chose to follow Islam in the years following 632 AD, which is why now most Palestinians are Muslim. The genetic tests tell the true story, that Palestinians never left the land; they are the direct descendants of the Ancient Hebrews. And so the Palestinians are the only people who can say that God gave them the land (but they won’t, because according to the Koran, the land was not promised by God to anyone, because God is fair and earth is for all).
If the Ashkenazis took their right of return honestly, they should be making Aliyah to southern Russia, for this is where they came from:
Indeed, Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, knew this. Right after the Balfour Declaration, he had a vision that Israel could be a bi-national state for the Palestinians and the “Jews”, these being the Ashkenazi, like himself. His vision of peaceful co-existence (see below) meant he was open to exploring the history of the Palestinians and he came to the exact same conclusion as I did- that the Palestinians are the direct descendants of the Ancient Hebrews.
Ben-Gurion and fellow Zionist Yitzhak Ben Zvi wrote a book “Eretz Yisrael Past and Present”, first published in 1918 in Yiddish, in which they acknowledged that Palestinians, particularly the peasants in the rural areas, were descendants of the ancient Hebrews. They had in mind a role for them as “hewers of wood and drawers of water”. When the Palestinians weren’t interested, Ben-Gurion quickly changed his tune on the bi-national state idea and decided the way forward was to “clear the Arabs out”.
Establishing the rights of the Palestinian population in Palestine in international law is not about presenting their genetic profile, but about showing that they had been indigenous for many generations before Zionist colonialism came from Europe to Palestine.
What is a Jew?
(from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Jew )
I differ with many on the definition of “Jewry”. My interpretation springs from the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition, so I consider that a Jew can only be a Jew if they are one of these things:
- That they are a descendant of the Ancient Hebrews. DNA testing has shown that the true descendants of the ancient Hebrews are the modern-day Palestinians. First, many of them converted to Christianity in the 4th Century, they then (mostly) converted to Islam in the 7th Century. Even Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister said this. So we must see the Palestinians as the TRUE JEWS. Those of Sephardic or Mizrahi stock will carry a tiny part of the DNA of the Ancient Hebrews, because the proselytising Jews of 2,000 years ago interbred with the local Semitic peoples in whichever country they settled (eg Arabia) , so Ancient Hebrew genealogy is highly diluted in their descendants, who constitute the Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews of today.
- That people can be Jews if they follow the Judaic religious duties as prescribed in the Torah to the letter. The only people who do this are the orthodox Jews and in particular, the Neturei Karta. They recognise that there is no Messiah and therefore God forbids that they return en masse to Palestine
- This final category I largely discount, for it claims that a Jew is someone who identifies as “Jewish” and who observes the religious Jewish festivals, wears a Kippah sometimes, enjoys a Friday night (Sabbath) dinner, etc. But they might only go the synagogue a couple of times out of curiosity and they would describe themselves as Secular Jews (ie they don’t believe in God or the Torah). I think they are about as Jewish as I am Christian, for I (being reared a Catholic) do follow the tenets of the Christian church, by celebrating Christmas, after all, but I do not think that makes me a Christian, for I do not believe in God. In the same way, the secular “Jews” are not really Jews, (especially the Ashkenazi), as their only connection to the ancient land of the Hebrews is in their mind; their biology tells another story. And because they do not believe in God, they have zero connection to Palestine.
They are, what Rabbi Weiss of the Neturei Karta and I agree upon, ex-Jews, or lapsed-Jews. this means that their parents may have been religious and gone to the synagogue, etc and can claim some deep connection to their God and their faith, but they, being secular “Jews” are more properly described as simply being just Europeans, with some fake implanted memories that they are of the Ancient Hebrews, when a DNA test will show them to be of Kazhar stock and so not connected to any Semitic race at all.
True Semites are considered to be the “sons of Shem” and so of Middle Eastern stock.
The addition of modern “Jewry” into the semitic races was by a German Zionist in the Gottingen School of History in the 19th Century when he coined the modern perception of antisemitism and implied it could refer only to “Jews”. The use of the word semitic peoples was deliberately changed by Wilhelm Marr who founded the ‘League of Anti-Semites’ in Hamburg in 1879. Marr falsely believed that Ashkenazi “Jews” were a ‘semitic race’ Before that semitic people were the Arabs of the Near East including East Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghan. Semitic tribes spoke three languages: Arabic, (old) Hebrew and Aramaic. Very similar languages, all could understand and converse with each other. Even Jesus spoke Aramaic.
We see this gross perversion of the term “antisemitism” taken further in the Israeli-sourced politicised and fraudulent IHRA Definition of Antisemitism (devised from 2000 to 2010 by Dinah Porat from Tel Aviv university, who was working with the US State Dept) and now widely adopted by public bodies in the UK, which pretty much inverts anti-racist campaigners such as I into Nazis, because in that definition, identification of Israel as racist (eg to say “Israel is a racist endeavour”) is deemed antisemitic and puts you in the same boat as Adolf Hitler.
And so pro-Palestine supporters find themselves being expelled, sacked or disciplined for criticising Israel, most notably in the British Labour Party, as that is where Israel targets its energies (see more here). Israel supporters argue that only a Nazi would condemn modern-day Israel, because they would then be hating all Jews, obviously…
So- what is a “Semite”? If we go back to Merriam-Webster:
So, clearly, the Palestinians are Semites. But how about Zionists living in Israel? The term “a Semitic language” is problematic here. For inhabitants of Israel speak Modern Hebrew which was basically invented by Zionists in the 19th Century, with many words still bearing great similarity to Arabic. Biblical Hebrew is far more complex, which is why the Zionists rejected it when they sought to create the new “Jew”, who was a racially superior being of their own invention.
So I would argue that Israelis don’t cut the mustard as Semites. Their Modern Hebrew is another of their inventions, hastily constructed by leading Zionists when they realised they would be shipping in emigres from all four corners of the Earth and so needed to bring them together under one tongue. And so they created a kind of “Esperanto” Hebrew, one that is somewhat different from the Biblical (or Classical) Hebrew of the Ancient Israelites.
Finally, are Jews ethnically different from we Europeans? I believe that the Ashkenazis are not, but the Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews are, their genes being interwoven with those who are Arabs or Berbers, as they spring from North Africa and countries south and east of Palestine. But let’s be clear:
The Ashkenazis, European emigres each and every one, who devised and continue to run Israel, are of European, not Semitic, stock– Netanyahu’s family is originally from Lithuania; Golda Meir from Ukraine, Ben-Gurion was Polish, Herzl was Hungarian, Weizman was from Belarus, Ariel Sharon’s family was from the Republic of Georgia; Jabotinsky from Ukraine.
The above locations are all to be found across what was and what lies due west of ancient Khazaria; note that all Israeli leaders have been of Khazar stock. (Interestingly, what has distinguished the Khazars from time immemorial was their brutality, their wickedness and their cunning, characteristics that leaders such as Netanyahu display in spades).
The above Zionist leaders would admit themselves to be Ashkenazi; whilst none were genetically connected to the Holy Land, although in their minds they were. All declared that God had given them the land of Palestine, but all were avowed atheists. All considered themselves to be racially superior, for they had been reared to believe that they were God’s chosen people.
Indeed, the only people who thought Jews were a separate race were the Zionists and the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler.
But the Ashkenazis most definitely are not a separate race; the above Israeli leaders were atheists and they were of Khazar stock. The secular Ashkenazi “Jews” who created and run Israel are not actually Jews at all- in their minds they are, but in their bodies they are as European as I am, and about as much of a Jew as I am a Christian – ie not Jewish at all.
In fact, the Israeli Zionists are adhering to a Christian reading of Judaism, as is laid out in the Christian bible, which declares that if the “Jews” returned en masse to Israel that this would bring about the coming of the new Messiah.
But what about secular Jews, I hear you ask? In my book, these people are not Jews- they are just Europeans, like you or I (especially if they are Ashkenazi). I reiterate they have about as much connection to the Holy Land as you or I (ie zero).
DNA studies bear this out. We do all the Judaic faith a disservice by allowing these “Jews” to call themselves Jews.
They may observe Hanukkah and wear a kippah, but I can observe Christmas and visit a Catholic church- that does not make me a Christian. By allowing the secular Jews to call themselves Jews, we are, in my view, muddying the water. Because these “Jews”, whether they be Zionist or anti-Zionist, all consider Israel/Palestine to be in some way, important and “special” to them. By allowing them to do this, we encourage them to dominate the narrative.
…and they bring with them a narrative of supremacy (see this Instagram post about “anti-goyism”).
It’s plain common sense, really; Judaism is a religion; it’s not a nationality. Imagine all Muslims claiming a Saudi Arabia passport…
CONCLUSION
Both Zionist and Anti-Zionist “Jews” sit at the root of the problem.
Considering our British Zionist “Jews”: Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian, Lord Alan Sugar, Hadley Freeman, Stephen Fry, David Baddiel; and our British Anti-Zionist “Jews”: Tony Greenstein, Graham Bash- and the Americans Norman Finkelstein and Miko Peled etc… the whole “Jewish” gang are not actually Jewish at all- as Ashkenazis they think they are, but they are atheists, do not follow the Torah, have zero genetic linkage to the Holy Land, yet wave their credentials as if they really were Jews, but, sadly, they are just Europeans with inbred delusions about where they originated.
Truly they would all have been gassed in Hitler’s Germany, and so they carry their hurt victimhood about them like a trophy. (For they prey on our Holocaust guilt; Britain did nothing to stop the genocide of the Jews in WW2, though Churchill and Eden and Parliament knew full well of what the Nazis were doing.)
But ask any one of our “Jews” to take a DNA test and you would find that they have zero linkage to the Holy Land. They are probably not even aware that making their “Aliyah” would more truthfully take them on a plane back to Southern Russia.
Both Rabbi Weiss of the Neturei Karta and I agreed that these secular “Jews” were really “lapsed Jews” in the same way that I am a lapsed Catholic.
So, by allowing the secular Ashkenazi “Jews” to call themselves “Jews” we are pouring petrol on the fire of Palestine. We must move to seeing all secular Ashkenazi “Jews” as simply Europeans, the same as goyim such as you or I, and not in any way “chosen” and not in any way “related to Palestine” . It is this failure on our part to declare or understand this which allows the apartheid psychology inherent in this supremacist cult to thrive.
The Palestinians are clearly the descendants of the prophets of the Book- Moses (of the Torah and the Old Testament) and Jesus (Christ, another Islamic prophet) and of course Muhammad, the final prophet of God .
So- I repeat, the only true Jews, are basically, the Palestinians. And it was to these people that “God gave the land”- not the Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian or Georgian emigres, whose biology and racial origins were from a place 2,300 miles distant, a place where few (if any) had ever seen or visited the Holy Land.
For Israel is a European colony, a racist construct, designed to exclude the indigenous peoples and mask the wholesale theft of a country from the true sons and daughters of Shem- the Palestinians.
And what about Ben-Gurion? Although he believed in his heart that the Palestinians had existed in the land for thousands of years, he worked on expelling and massacring them. For once in office, he no longer connected the Palestinians to the Ancient Hebrews. A collective amnesia descended on the matter, as the Zionists began arguing that the Ancient Hebrews had all been driven out by the Romans (they were not) and that the Palestinians were just Arabs who had wandered into Palestine from Saudi Arabia- and by, rights should go back to Saudi Arabia.
Ben-Gurion was reported as saying that Jewish militias should have gone right on and ethnically-cleansed all of Palestine in 1948. He also said “The Arabs will have to go but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war”.
And so the Zionists coined the phrase of “a land without a people for a people without a land”, ignoring the thriving country and friendly locals that had welcomed them into what was pre-Mandate Palestine, showing the traditional hospitality for which Islam and the Palestinians are famed. The welcome soon became bitter of course, as the Zionists set about excluding Palestinians from trade and industry with the Histradut trade union, establishing Kibbutzes and building the organs of state (enthusiastically enabled by the British), thereby creating their own little version of a new world, populated with the very best European genetic stock they could find. Under this twisted logic the native population were to be seen as migrants and the invading colonists were to be seen as the old natives making a comeback. This, of course, is the ideology of Zionism.
POSTSCRIPT
A friend asked me why does all the above matter now, in the present day? Well, my answer is this: the Zionists claim God gave them the land. In the UK, even now, out of the 300,000 “Jews” in the UK, about 70% of them are Zionists, claiming that a “God” (that many won’t believe in) gave them the land. But this claim is bogus.
For ever since the Zionist movement was founded by Herzl in 1897, we have been entertaining the Zionists’ claims that they had some right to be there- because, they argued, God gave it to them, over 2,000 years ago. But my article makes clear that was impossible, because 2,000 years ago these Ashkenazi were running about as Goths and Huns in what is now present-day Ukraine; God was busy giving the land to the actual Ancient Hebrews at the time. We need to challenge Zionism at its roots; the Western world is bored and become thick-skinned by our humanitarian arguments against Israel’s existence. We need to attack the fundamental claims of Zionists by presenting them with their own DNA.
One can see that so many other settler nations of the West (the US, Australia, etc- places where the indigenous tribes have been decimated) continue to trade with Israel, alongside the European countries that were doing the settling. Because white settler tribalism goes right around the world and white people naturally support other white people who have stolen land. Thus the white citizens of the world (ie from what was Khazaria, all the way over to England) were enthusiastic colonisers, with the Ashkenazi a little late to the party.
In most colonised countries, so much damage has been done to the native peoples whose lands the colonisers stole that it is, sadly, too late to give the land back to the Aborigines, the native American Indians, etc- but it is NOT too late to give Palestine back to the Palestinians. To do this, we urgently need to stop entertaining the idea that the Zionists have ANY claim to the Holy Land- by dismissing them with tests upon their very own DNA.
If we did this, we could prove in a jiffy that the Palestinians, with an 80% match going back over thousands of years, have and always will be, the true inheritors of the Holy Land.
But more ethnic cleansing of “Jews” out of Palestine when the Zionist entity comes to an end is not a foregone conclusion. Rather like Mandela’s approach to South Africa’s whites, it is in the magnanimous nature of the Palestinians, even Hamas, for example, to consider letting these “Jews” stay when Israel falls; the Hamas policies indicates that if those calling themselves Jews in Palestine were to give up Zionism, and give back the homes (or compensate) those with a right to return, then they might remain and make their future lives in Palestine. If we look at Hamas’ “A Document of General Principles and Policies” of May 2017 (see it at www.tinyurl.com/hamaspolicies ) – we can refer to:
“16. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.
17. Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, antisemitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage. The Zionist movement, which was able with the help of Western powers to occupy Palestine, is the most dangerous form of settlement occupation which has already disappeared from much of the world and must disappear from Palestine.”
The UK “Jews” support the existence of Israel, ergo they are racists, as David Miller notes:
Young US “Jews” are experiencing cracks in their lifelong confidence in Israel, with many shocked at what they see of genocide in Gaza ( see https://www.aljazeera.com/video/featured-documentaries/2024/10/24/israelism-the-awakening-of-young-american-jews )
But what about Christian support for Israel? Balfour was a Christian Zionist. Half of the US Republican Party are Christian Zionist, maybe more. And as long as they think God gave the land to the Zionists, the longer they will support Israel. Last week Trump cleared a weapons package from the US to Israel of $2.8 Billion
That $2.8 Billion came because of Christian Zionist support for Israel within the Republican Party. If the Christian Zionists in the US realise that God promised the land to the Palestinians (because they are the descendants of the Ancient Hebrews) rather than a bunch of Eastern Europeans with no links to the Holy Land, then they will begin to realise they are backing the wrong team. That’s why history and the very definition of what makes a Jew is key to winning this struggle.
Israel will crumble when the USA pulls the plug on it…
The battle for Palestine will be fought this autumn in the petrol stations of the USA. Every American must make a choice: do I pay double for petrol for my car… or do I support Israel and its crazy wars? I think Americans love their cars more than they love Israel. Wait and see what happens in November in the USA; Trump’s Republican Party is going to lose big-time because they made war on Iran (on Israel’s behalf). I think change is coming… for the better- because Trump and Netanyahu are over-confident idiots that have created a petrol shortage in the West…
This article is also available on my Sub-stack- go to https://petegregson.substack.com/p/the-palestinians-are-the-true-jews and on Medium at https://medium.com/@postmaster_54604/the-palestinians-are-the-true-jews-701841ad9f9c
Hear me speak about this article on the Richie Allen Show Sept 30th 2026 [Go one hour, 10 minutes and 40 seconds in (I’m then on for 45 minutes)] at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/richieallen/episodes/2026-09-30T11_16_11-07_00
If, like me, you think Hamas ought to be de-proscribed, please sign my petition to the UK Government at www.tiny.cc/hamas (I should like readers to note that Hamas has never executed a person for being gay; the Gazan people are naturally conservative, as Islamic tradition demands; public shows of affection between adults of a romantic nature is not considered appropriate. Women are free to choose whether they wear the Hijab and Hamas are entirely relaxed about those of other faiths or none; there is a Christian community and Jews from the Neturei Karta have been welcomed by them; girls have football teams; women work in the same way that men do- there is no gender bar- to read more about how local democracy works in Gaza, go to https://www.twingaza.com/gaza-council-explains-how-mayor-was-appointed-no-hamas-involvement/ ) For the full, true account of the Hamas attack of 7th Oct 2023, go to https://www.onepalestine.land/hamas/
BTW, if you have 30 minutes free a week and want to help a Gazan, might you consider signing up for my other project: https://www.twingaza.com/english-and-arabic-with-a-gazan/ ?
I also ask for money- help me buy bagpipes for Palestine. They play them there as much the Scots do here. It would be a great gesture of solidarity. More at https://chuffed.org/project/bagpipes-for-palestine
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Which Political Party should you support? Well, the Workers Party of Britain is uniquely anti-colonial, which is why I have joined it: see page 29 of the Workers Party manifesto: WHY PALESTINE IS IMPORTANT “The Workers Party believes that the future is now One State: Israel – Palestine or Palestine-Israel or the Holy Land, the details cannot be worked out by us, but the picture is becoming clearer by the day. We also, in this context, support the right of return for all those Palestinians ethnically cleansed over many years and an immediate end to Israeli settlement on the West Bank! … we also abhor the weaponisation of antisemitism for dubious political purposes in British politics and consider that the neglect of Islamophobia in society and its weaponisation by the populist Right receives inadequate attention.”
Watch James Baldwin on Zionism, the Ashkenazis and the Sephardic Jews in Israel, still true 52 years on. Watch from 32 mins 40 secs in:
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