The Biden administration is considering bringing certain Palestinians fleeing war-torn Gaza to the U.S. as refugees, according to internal federal government documents obtained by CBS News.
Soon after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas and the start of Israel's offensive in Gaza, leading Republicans, including presidential candidates, said the U.S. should not welcome Palestinian refugees, claiming that they are antisemitic and potential national security risks.
They really just eat up any racist stereotypes they're given
So many have crossed that water. If you are American, there is someone in your linage that uprooted themselves and took that chance. And they're still standing in line.
Sometimes it isn't about votes. Sometimes it's doing what is right.
Doing what's right is using the US' leverage to stop the killing, not accepting 'some refugees'. In fact, Netanyahu would love nothing more than to have everyone from the Gaza strip move elsewhere.
All they have to do is leave the area their ancestors have lived in for thousands of years so random Europeans who converted to Judaism a couple years ago can seize it.
so random Europeans who converted to Judaism a couple years ago can seize it.
Fucking what
EDIT: Love that I'm getting downvoted for being appalled by the "They aren't REAL Jews" rhetoric here. Stay classy. Maybe if you embrace enough antisemitism, you'll stop the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
There's this notion that modern Israelis are essentially just Europeans who invaded after WWII, which is simply not true.
While the Zionist movement largely did originate in Europe in the late 1800s, the majority of Israeli citizens today are not of European ancestry / Ashkenazi. The majority are what's called Mizrahi, coming from Middle Eastern Jewish communities that were forcibly expelled from Arab countries during the 50s and 60s. For instance, Ben Gvir, the current Minister of Defense (and to be clear, a complete little shit), is from an Iraqi family. In 1948, there were roughly 150,000 Jews in Iraq, making up nearly 40% of the population of Baghdad. Today, there are estimated to be less than five. Likewise, in Yemen, there were roughly 50,000 Jews, maintaining a presence that goes back well over 2500 years. Today, there may be one single Jew left in the country. The same situation happened all throughout the Arab world. The departing Jews generally had to flee their homes without any significant belongings, since their property was often confiscated. In Syria, for instance, a 1964 decree prevented Jews from traveling more than 3 miles from their homes, banned them from owning land, banned them from working in the government or in banks, banned them from leaving anything as inheritance - which would instead be seized by the state.
This person thinks that because the Jews who emigrated to Israel after the Holocaust were from Europe, their grandchildren who were born in Israel are somehow not deserving of living where they were born and should "go back where they came from". It's the same old dog whistle
You understand that there are literal former American citizens living in the occupied territories, right? Like, when you hear about settlers in kibbutzs a lot of them are former Americans and Europeans.
Israel is a European colonial project, there were already people living in the area before Israel was created in 1940s.
Wow. So let me guess, you think every Israeli should vacate the middle east right? Even people who were born there, creating the same issue all over again.
And let me guess, you don't want the Arab or Muslim Israelis to leave right? Just "certain" ones
What kind of hypocritical bullshit is this? How about stop helping Isreal so they don't become refugees in the first place. Pick a fucking lane. You either don't care about Palestinians or you do. You don't get to play both sides.
They could, and I know this sounds crazy, stop funding a genocide and human right violations. But it's america, and we all know their history... Except a lot of americans it seems.
This is not righting a wrong if he's still giving Israel money. This is like paying for a bandaid because the guy you keep giving a bunch of knives to is stabbing people. It's a small damage control move when he himself is funding the damage in the first place.