Andrew Katz
2 min readApr 21, 2024

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I understand one may argue whether or not the UN was in its rights in forming 181, but it's still incorrect to "blame" the British for handing over Palestine when in fact their policy was the opposite: the creation of an Arab-majority Palestine.

As I'm sure you're aware, Palestinian Arabs boycotted the USCOP delegates during their nine month investigation prior to partition. Okay. You can't really blame them, for to do otherwise would be to tacitly acknowledge their authority to partition the country, which the Arabs believed they didn't have. But realistically partition of some kind was going to happen, & the Arabs had to face the consequences of first the boycott, & then going to war afterward.

The very last thing Germany & Britain (or any of the European/Allied powers) wanted to do was give land to fleeing Jewish refugees. Anywhere. They were happy to see them sit stateless in DP camps well after the war was over. Labour FM Anthony Bevins, in fact, proposed they "go home", that is back to Poland or other parts of Central & Eastern Europe dominated by the USSR where camp survivors were driven away by their erstwhile neighbors, if they were lucky; or murdered, if they were not.

Finally, characterizing Israel as a white supremacist institution begs the question of whether or not Palestinian people are really people of color vis a vis Israeli Jews. Given the proportion of Israeli Jews who are Arab or African in origin as well, I think white supremacist in this context is more of leftist dog whistle than meaningful analysis.

That being said, the expanding role Jewish supremacy in Israel & the burgeoning power of religious fundamentalist parties deeply concerns me.

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Andrew Katz
Andrew Katz

Written by Andrew Katz

LA born & raised, now I live upstate. I hate snow. I write on healthcare, politics & history. Hobbies are woodworking & singing Xmas carols with nonsense lyrics

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