Hunter College’s announced hiring for a Palestinian studies professor led New York governor Kathy Hochul to order the listing’s removal for “hateful rhetoric” like “settler colonialism.” By that logic, Zionist Jewish texts themselves would be banned.

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    Khirbet Khizeh is a good example of a text that would also be banned under these rules, also by an Israeli writer.

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        Historically speaking, the “cleansing” didn’t actually happen beyond a few burned cities and the Canaanites (who were just a different group of what we would consider the same people) were doing fine ~1000 years later than its claimed date. At least according to the records of Alexander’s conquests (Fun Fact, Libya/Carthage claimed territory rights in the area as a result)

        The point isn’t that the Hebrews didn’t tell themselves it was cool and just to do genocide in Israel, but that they never succeeded by force of arms. What did happen is the cult of Yahweh gained enough popularity to rewrite history. Nor is there any evidence that the Roman “expulsion” or Arab conquests really affected any large percentage of the population.

        Tl;dr

        The Bible lies a lot. The people displaced by Zionism are the descendants of those Hebrews and Canaanites who didn’t flee in the first place.

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        Both explicitly document ancient Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

        It actually documents the Yahweh cultists takeover of the hill country of southern Canaan from their original homeland in modern day Jordan. With plenty of lies thrown in. Jericho had fallen to different invaders thousands of years earlier.

        The “Palestinians” of the bible were Philistinians, who were actually ethnic Greeks and came from the same culture that was depicted in the Illiad.