For nearly 2,000 years they were hunted, expelled, and burned alive. An ancient and vile bigotry.
Rome destroyed their Temple in 70 CE. The Spanish Inquisition began in 1478. In the 1500s, Jews were still being burned alive in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Germany.
While Europe lit the pyres, Jews were being smuggled out of the Inquisition & brought home to Tiberias, on the Sea of Galilee, in the Land of Israel.
This is the history today’s anti-Zionist campaign works to erase. Campuses teach that Zionism was invented in 1897 to “steal Arab land.” That lie recasts an indigenous people returning to their ancestral home as recent invaders & tries to cut off the one escape route that ever actually saved them.
Zionism did not begin in 1897. It is the unbroken refusal of a people who kept coming home after every expulsion, every massacre, and every pyre.
This thread is thorough, sourced, and devastating. Read every post. Then share it.
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This is an IMMENSELY IMPORTANT thread for you all to read. This is REAL history, the history that too many try to hide away and nefariously revise.
We’ve all heard the propaganda from the haters that bunch of Jewish Zionists in Eastern Europe simply woke up one day in 1897, formed a movement, then spent the next fifty years manipulating the entire world into “stealing” Arab land.
That’s the version the haters sell. But it’s just NOT TRUE.
The real history is much older, far stranger, and a lot less convenient for that narrative.