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There is no genocide occurring in Gaza. Calling Israel's effort to defend itself against a terrorist organization that indisputably has genocidal intent toward Israel and Jews worldwide a genocide is a baldfaced, antisemitic lie. Shame on Oakland Public Education for publishing this.

5:25 "This two population co-existed peacefully" Ok, so lets start counting: 1834 - Looting of Safed, 1851 - Assassination of Shlomo Zalman Zoref 1873 - Attack against jews in Mishkenot Sha'ananim , Jerusalem 1886 - Attack on Petah Tikva. 1908 - Jews attacked during Purim celebration in Jaffa. 1919-1920 - Nebi Musa riots 1929 - Hebron massacre and there's more, especially if you look in other countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Check out the contempt-loaded words you, a commie Jew-hater, uses for Israeli Independence Day celebration: “obscene” “rowdier than 4/7”. Have you been there for it? Is this opinion relevant to your analysis? Are you a self-hating Jew, or a boiler plate anti semite?

You entirely misunderstood the Meir quote. It has absolutely nothing to do with capitalism, funnily enough the 'zionist state' was founded on socialists policies and labour zionism. What she actually conveys is the idea that pre 60s the palestinian national consciousness has not awoken. The underlying identity of what would become palestinians were 'arabs' you can take endless historical examples although mainly you can point to the aspiration for a united arab land under pan-arabism rather than a nation state. Tell me why Egypt and Syria were considered the "united arab republic" until 1961, why was that area considered "southern syria" all throughout the ottoman period and up until the 1920s.

So much lies and propaganda of Islamic extremism…..the land of Israel belongs to the Israeli people, the Arabs who live there came from different places in the middle east. Lots of them came in the British mandate to get jobs.

shame on oakland!....no wonder this city is going down the tubes

There are so many inaccuracies. I'm only ten minutes in. I'll mention some now. You claim the persecution of Jews, Armenians, and Romani as being related to their positions as "predisposed twords mercantile activity". It's true that what some have termed "middle-man minorities" received violent attacks, but this makes little to no sense when talking about the broad Jewish community, Romani, and Armenians. The Armenians were massacred because they were seen as a 5th column, basically the ottomans blamed them for their failures because they assumed the Armenians were sympathetic to other Christians in Europe. The Romani were targeted because they were poor, brown, had a history under brutal slavery, and as such were seen as sub-human. You claim that Jews willingly emigrating away from Jerusalem/Israel was the main cause of exile. However, YOUR OWN SOURCES place the origin of Jewish dispersal at the Babylonian expulsions. This is also an incredibly weird logic. You say that, because the majority of Jews existed outside of Jerusalem, therefore Jews do not have a good claim on that land at the time. This makes no sense, the land was still controlled and populated mainly by Jews. Jews didn't voluntarily give up control of Jerusalem. Jews have continually returned to Jerusalem whenever possible. They were expelled or killed time and time again, the difference is this time they actually managed to stay. Additionally, the initial bulk of zionists, the Ashkenazim, were all forcibly expelled. Ashkenazim refers to people of Ashkelon which was the Provence that the Roman soldiers took their Jewish slaves to. The majority of Ashkenazim originate from a small group of about 500 people. You also keep referring to Zionism as a capitalist ideology. However the predominant Zionist ideology was Labor Zionism which was explicitly anti-capitalist. That's why Israel was socialist for the first couple decades of it's existence. Socialists see jews and evil capitalists, and capitalists see jews as evil socialists. Your viewpoint is clear. I also find it funny that you say you only mention antisemitism because "the opposition" makes such a big stink about it. Jew hate was fundamental to the Arab and European worlds, and a major motivator behind your obsession with a tiny group of people.

@apzzpa - If there were any people calling themselves Canaanites in the past thousand years then yes. - Not clear on what you're point is about nations etc. - Does not matter because they started the war and they lost. - you trying to excuse and justify the actions to match your narrative. When an Israeli leader calls for peace you say he didn't mean that and it was fake. however when a leader calls for war, you say Ha! it proves they want to kill everyone. Just look at the facts. When Arab's were offered the Partition plan they said no! that is a fact. That was a chance for peace that they refused and paid for. Israel offered peace deals - FACT. Palestinians refused all peace deals - FACT. Palestinians never offered any peace deal - FACT. Deal with it, accept it and move forward. - There is no Palestinian artifacts! if any there are Ottoman or Arab artifacts. - There was no Americans before European settlers. The settlers became Americans, and YES they had leader called the founding fathers that established states based on western civilization values. - Arabs do live peacefully in Israel. Harassments, if any, are based on the events occurring. There are Arabs living all over Israel with full freedom of movement and respect just like any other Israeli citizens. in fact if you check Israeli universities, hospitals and especially pharmacies they full of Aram Muslim students and Dr.'s. - Gaza was under Hamas until today, before that it belonged to and governed by the Palestinian authority, before that it belonged to and governed by Israel and before that it belonged to ang governed by Egypt. and before that it belonged to and governed by Great Britain, and before that it belonged to and governed by the Ottoman empire. These are facts you need to deal with. - Israel and Egypt have a working peace deal - Fact. Don't try to twist it to fit your narrative. - The demonstration was not as peaceful as you think, there were shots fired towards the Israeli soldiers and there were violent protestors who threw rocks and burned tires. This is one of the incidents that you need to ask yourself why did they do that for? what were they trying to achieve? did they really expect to walk all they to the fence and cross it?? or was there a hidden agenda by Hamas?? - Jordan is more than half Palestinian. if anything Palestinians should create a state in Jordan. - Jews were massacred as part of the 48 war and were forced to flee their homes. Search the "Farhud" massacre of Iraq. - Fact is Hamas was in control of Gaza since 2006 and the decision they made brought us to where we are today. Think about it, Hamas had a meeting deciding on the Oct. 7th operation. Someone suggested it, someone brought up the possible Israeli response and the Palestinian civilian cost and they decide it is acceptable and moved forward. Even the current amount of civilian casualties seems to be acceptable by Hamas for them to still keep the hostages and not surrender. - czcams.com/video/Fhl9JFiw6sU/video.html&ab_channel=IndiaToday - It is not my responsibility to separate Palestinians from Hamas. It is Palestinians that see Hamas as their "freedom fighter" and still support them. Palestinians have a leadership problem. They believe the leaders that offer them everything. They offer the return to 1948 lands, the death of all Jews the march to Jerusalem. Palestinian buy it and even when it brings them death they still choose the same leaders. Until they have a leader that is willing to accept peace (even at the cost of his life - see Saadat, Rabin) they will continue to suffer and die.

You learned all you know from Qatar funded information, the wallet and homeland of hostages.

Decolonization is Jews back to Judea and Arabs back to Arabia. Easy.

Interesting... You forgot to mention the 400 years of ethnic cleansing of Jews from their homeland by the Muslim rule, the ottoman and the Egyptian. ethnic cleansing that resulted in judenrein Jewish cities like Hebron, Beit-Lechem, Beit-El (Rammallah) Shchem and Hebron. You also forgot to mention the so called Palestinians part at WW2, when they fought along the Nazi under the leadership of the SS general Amin El-Husseini, later elected president of the invented nationality. There is no Palestinian people, there are Arabs who are used as tool by radical Islam against the only Jewish state. As the PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen stated in 1977- "The Palestinian people does not exist … there is no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese . [...] Just for political reasons we carefully underwrite our Palestinian identity. Because it is of national interest for the Arabs to advocate the existence of Palestinians to balance Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons[...] Once we have acquired all our rights in all of Palestine, we must not delay for a moment the reunification of Jordan and Palestine" . Embarrassing.

Whatever you want to say about Palestine, you should know one thing that Palestine is a free and failed state.

Is just presumptions about the jewish immigrants being "racist" and the usual cheap anti-capitalist anti-west nostalgia. It is intellectally very poor

Al Husseini father of war against Jews and a state of Israel in the middle east. Source :" Nazis, islamic antisemitism and the middle east " Matthias Kuntzel. Quotes from Al Husseini message in public radio at the time? " Arabs from Syria, Irak and Palestine, what are you waiting for? Jews are expecting to rape your wives, kill your childrens and destroy you. From islam , you have to defend yourself and that by killing all Jews" That was in the 1940 s.

Israel bought the land, then the arab nations around it attacked them and lost several times. They rightfully took some land as compensation every time. Thats the facts. As simple as that!

This bunch of claims completely denies the history of antisemitism to the point that it legitimizes it. As long as propalestinian arguments resort to that, they will rightfully be criticized as antisemitic

" The philistine people arrived in the 12th century around the same time as the Israelites" ... is that a claim that they have been there as long as the jewish people?

lol these comments are ridiculous... the same family that funded the creation of Israel bought out main stream media and Hollywood so we have all been brainwashed by Israeli propaganda over here

Well done! Thank you

This is why people are clueless about what's going on. Because of these complete revisionist marxist fake history lol. THIS is not "Zionism" Zionism only means Hevrew self deermination in their INDIGENOUS homeland. And yes they are indigenous to Judea. This entire "lesson" is a joke and leaves out 85% of the history. Like the beginning of the violence started by husseini. like the fact that husseini allied with the germans in ww2 and tried bringing the camps to pstine. Like the fact the 1st time in history a nation of Pstine was EVER claimed in the WB/AZA was 1968. LOL what a joke.

You’re so intelligent and respectful! And your research is impeccable! It’s no wonder the pro-palestine movement is taken seriously. Its scholars like you.

what ajoke of a movie not one word of haj al amin under the ottomans it was called grater syria ..he dont talk one word about haj amin el hussyni the musfty of jerusalem who fought agsint the brithis in ww1 and was the one who didnt agree to any deal offerd true the mandate he made the hberon massacre and he is the main reason why hte arabs of palastine dont have land till today go learn histroy

Is this really the curriculum in Oakland? You literally lost me in the first 25 seconds.

Read Miko Peled. Israel. His grandfather signed the Israeli declaration of independence. His father was a general in the 1948 and 1967 war. He grew up in the Jewish youth movement. He wrote a book called the general son. He is now anti-Zionist. Google Hajo Meyer, an Auschwitz survivor who compares the Zionists to Nazis. Listen to Norman Finkelstein. Both his parents are holocaust survivors. Watch two documentaries called the occupation of the American mind. And Israelism. Not all Jews, including many holocaust survivors, did not support the creation of the state of Israel.

If this is the education from Oakland we can all pack up and go home..They might as well be teaching straight from Jihad literature...

what a restarted take.

Thanks for stating the truth. Seeing zionists shitting their pants in the comments is fun !

There has not yet been a single Frenchman indicted before a French court of justice for the murder of an Algerian in Indochina in Madagascar or in the other colonies. The native has always known that he need expect nothing from the other side. The settler's work is to make even dreams of liberty impossible for the native the native's work is to imagine all possible methods for destroying the settler. Frantz Fanon The Israelis are disingenuous killers.

Showing the history is essential to exposing the true victim in this generational conflict, which of course is the Palestinians. "We must expel the Arabs and take their places" - Ben Gurion, First Prime Minister of Israel, born in Poland.

Lets go Israel

I thought 1945 was when Nazis went Kaput. What kind of shit is this, Nazis in Oakland?

These Oakland Public Education are full on Nazis. Is it real or is it some propaganda trick?

wow unbelievable levels of BS. - Why would Arabs call the area Palestine where they don't have the letter P in their language? - If all Arabs where the "Natives" to the land then why are most Palestinian last names are Hourani (from Houran in southern Syria), Tzurani (from Tyre in southern Lebanon), Zrakawi (from Mazraka in Jordan), Masri (the Egyptian), Hijazi (from the Hijaz province of the Arabian peninsula), Mughrabi (from the Maghreb). - Jews volunteered to leave Israel and live as a persecuted people in other countries. - Jews have the phrase "Next year in Jerusalem" in Talmudic literature hundreds of years ago - Anywhere you dig in Israel you find relic in the same language that is spoken today - Hebrew. - Jews have cultural, archeological, biblical and historic connection to the land. They are not colonizers. - Jewish land purchase and development is what attracted migration of more Arab people from the neighboring countries to come and work in Israel. Too much crap to even dispute in one sitting. Bottom line - There was no nation/state called Palestine before 1948. Like it or not, good or bad, that is the fact. If there was then anytime from 48-67 they could have established their own state in Gaza and west bank. After the Jews established the state of Israel, the local Arabs were manipulated by the surrounding Arab states and used as a tool to take down the new state of Israel through wars. They lost and they gave up on the Palestinian Arabs leaving them to die and be "oppressed". If you lose a war there are consequences and you cannot cry about wars you start. again, like it or not, good or bad, this is where we are. Israel is not going to disappear, Palestinians are not getting the land "from the river to the sea". They were offered peace deals that they refused. until there is a cultural shift for them to move from a death culture where they rather see their children die as shaheeds for the land to wanting to raise their children in a peaceful thriving country - there will continue to die.

Wow so much lies and idiocy

This piece is so full of Palestinian narratives, and engages in a one-sided view of history (poor academic scholarship, clearly a propaganda piece). Ottoman and British census shows the area to be underpopulated (400,000 at beginning of 20th Century) before widescale Arab AND Jewish migration during the British mandate (according to this guy Arab migration was legitimate, Jewish was not). The majority of Jews in Israel trace their lineage to Jewish communities that had long existed in the area, or the the 1 million Jews that were persecuted/forcibly expelled from surrounding Arab nations. In 1977, PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen said "The Palestinian people does not exist ... there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese. We are all part of one people, the Arab nation [...] Just for political reasons we carefully underwrite our Palestinian identity. Because it is of national interest for the Arabs to advocate the existence of Palestinians to balance Zionism. The existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons". They came up with the "Palestinian" identity in order to justify why Arabs receiving some 99.3% (Peel Commission) or 98.1% (UN Partition) of the lands of the British and French mandates was not enough, and that Jews shouldn't get anything despite being in the majority in the lands designated in both plans. This has always been about Arab/Islamo-fascism and a refusal to share any lands previously conquered by violent Islamic imperialism.

Very interesting.

Do we have a bibliography for further reading, fact checking, and comment refutations?

I hope Oakland public education teachers students to distinguish between facts, narratives, judgments and bullshit, so they will notice when educators like this one try to brainwash them.

what a bullshit 😂

You are talking such rubbish.

I have always gone to a union shop, though not perfect. I felt safe and knew what my rights were., and gladly went on strike when necessary (30 minutes but the customers were all standing up and cheering for us.). My husband worked for Remington Arms years ago. His boss was a Consolidated Coal man and, though I never met him, my husband said he was a liittle scary. All those pompous Conoco people got a surprise, expecting they could afford mansions along the Brandywine when Dupont bought Conoco. They lost their homes in the end.

B A S E D

It is incredibly sad to me to see how the effective red scare propaganda has been over the years, and the once honourable working class people of the US have been brain washed into boot lickers, when their ancestors went were being assaulted and murdered. Pay no heed to mostly irrelevant discussions that dominate; what matters is the class struggle. Unite, organize, we ain't got no chance otherwise.

Can you please share link to the video please?

Jesus Christ it’s hard to imagine a time when present day RUBY RED Appalachia used to bleed blue.

My Uncle's father fought for Union rights! God love Granny. I'm a man from Bell County Kentucky, right outside of Harlan County. She was right in the 30s the U.S. Army attacked the folks from Kentucky in airplane and Gatlin Guns. That's history, look it up.

This brought tears to my eyes, such a jewel of a woman she was.

The divide and conquer policies of the ruling capitalist class are left in form and right in essence. Wow what a brilliant insight! It also has the side benefit of confusing people's ability to think cleary about complex civil social order problems or reach agreement on what the real world solutions to these problems would be. This is one reason why I have always thought that the multi cultural identity politics was a pseudo left and not an authentic left that challenges the intrinsic oppression, injustice and inequality built into capitalism as an organized system and all consuming all enveloping totalizing cultural construction.

I'm searching up stuff about my school since I graduated and I find this school. Since mine has two campuses I didn't know any of this was happening. But don't hate on my school, We don't have a choice. we don't have nearly as many resources. My school is not as funded as this one and we have a small space. This video seemed very offensive, it was almost aggressive.

My husband worked 40 yrs underground, retired UMWA miner. And now has black lung. He is a PROUD UNION MAN