⬆️ @galad @notwithstanding @martin
>> It gets worse when colony is inflected to #colonizer or #colonization.
… as in #IsraeliColonizers or #IsraeliColonization
Because now instead of putting pejorative connotations on land, one would be putting those connotations on people or nations in the sense of #BritishColonizers and #FrenchColonization.
In that latter sense, "Israeli Colonizers" and "Israeli Colonization" is simply nonsense. Where is the "home country" for this group, if not #Judea?
Ignorant people bandy about #IsraeliColonizers in the sense of EXPANSIONISM, or one COUNTRY exerting political CONTROL of another COUNTRY.
Displaced #Jews driven out from #EasternEurope and #Russia did not have a COUNTRY. They were not expansionist. They were not "stealing land," and they were not sending it to a "home country" ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111681937988389462
Actual meaning of #colony in #Israeli context is sense 2(a) below.
Just drowning yourself in propaganda without grounding yourself in facts just makes you look SILLY
The carelessness with which you mention #Israelicolonizers is astonishing, right up there with #IsraeliAparthied ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111704401264438499
I don't know of you are drowning in propaganda because you have fallen for it, or because you are spreading it for others hostile to US and Israel. If former, I have some help for you
Ramesh #NotGoingBack