It’s not fine either case. Here’s why:
No independent sovereign state called Palestine has ever existed.
The term as a National identity is a modern day construction.
Progressives who claim to support “palestine”are ignorant of the facts, and are perpetuating as a social construct for “protesting something”for the purposes Muslims use as a manipulative tool to claim land in their “takeover conquest” Islamic mentality.
The name has a long history as a geographic and later administrative label, but people now called Palestinians developed a distinct national identity only in the 20th century.
The name “Palestine”
The term traces to the Philistines (Peleset), an Aegean people who settled the southern coast around the 12th century BCE. Greek historian Herodotus used “Palaistine” in the 5th century BCE for a coastal district of Syria. After crushing the Bar Kokhba revolt in 135 CE, Roman Emperor Hadrian renamed the province of Judea “Syria Palaestina” to sever Jewish ties to the land.
Byzantines later divided it into Palaestina Prima, Secunda, and Tertia.
After the 7th-century Muslim conquest it became the district of Jund Filastin.
Under the Ottomans (1517–1917) the area was never a single province named Palestine. It was split among the independent Sanjak of Jerusalem and parts of the Vilayets of Beirut and Damascus, inside Greater Syria (Bilad al-Sham). The name Filastin appeared in geographic and scholarly writing but had no political standing.
Britain revived “Palestine” as the official name of the League of Nations Mandate (1920/1922–1948). That Mandate was the first time in centuries the territory formed a distinct administrative unit.
No coins, constitutions, treaties, or sovereign governments issued in the name of an independent Palestinian state exist before the mid-20th century.
Arab leaders themselves often rejected the idea. Princeton historian Philip Hitti told a 1946 inquiry, “There is no such thing as Palestine in history, absolutely not.” Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi told the 1937 Peel Commission the same: Palestine was “a term the Zionists invented” and the country had been part of Syria for centuries.
When “Palestinian” became an identity
people have lived in the region for millennia—Canaanites, Israelites, Philistines, and, after the 7th-century conquest, an Arabized population of Muslims, Christians, and a small Jewish community. They identified by religion, clan, town, or as Arabs/Ottomans/Syrians,
not as a separate Palestinian nation.
The Arabic word Filastini first appears in 1898. Usage grew after the 1908 Ottoman press liberalization. Most historians, including Rashid Khalidi, date a distinct Palestinian national identity to the early 20th century, the British Mandate, and later wars.
During the Mandate, “Palestinian” was a civic label applied to both Jews and Arabs; Jewish institutions frequently used it (Palestine Post, Palestine Symphony Orchestra).
After 1948 the term became almost exclusively associated with the Arab population. The PLO, founded in 1964, and the 1967 war further crystallized the identity.
National identities are often modern constructions. Italian, German, and many Arab identities also coalesced in the 19th–20th centuries. That does not mean the people themselves were invented; it means the specific political category “Palestinian people” with a claim to a separate state is recent.
The two statements therefore mix a geographic fact with a political one. A region called Palestine (under varying names and rulers) existed for over two millennia. An independent country called Palestine and a people who defined themselves first and foremost as Palestinians did not.
Social construct. “Supporting palestine” is a manipulative tool Muslims use to support their conquests. It’s all social bullshit, liberals protest just to protest.
Your Islamophobia claim is also bullshit.
If it were of God, you would be fine living alone in peace with God.
Instead you do evil.
If you’re a progressive who supports Palestine it’s fine.
If you’re a Muslim who supports Palestine you’re automatically Hamas. The Islamophobic tropes are clear. Mamdani has never supported Hamas or said anything antisemitic.
Netanyahu on the other hand is an anti Arab bigot.