@Locked Librarian :labrys-45-sickle: :cacomf: I get why you'd say that but jews are an ancient diaspora people oppressed and historically ghettoized and subject to disabilities for being such, for belonging to different and foreign ethnic (and often cultural) mores, especially racial antisemitism and the drefyfus affair motivated immigration to israel. these were not merely people of a different ideological strain or economic opportunists. and even loyal assimilated jews were treated like the "palestinians among us" (as kant said) hence dreyfus. you honestly really can diminish the experiences of stateless peoples (which include the Palestinians more or less, and obviously Kurds and Tibetans and such) by saying the british, dutch, french, people who moved to america were of that likeness. the british, dutch, french, people who immigrated all spoke the same tongue and worshipped the same or a very similar God as the nations they came from. I'm curious though, what's your take on the american revolutionaries? I always found it queer how we celebrate people who literally tarred and feathered (a fucked up torture method).