Remind me, who persuaded first the British, then the Germans to disallow Jewish refuge to Palestine, starting in 1939? Another door of possible escape slammed shut. How many lives this cost we can't say for certain, but it did cost lives.

You go on to write about Palestinians "welcoming Jewish refugees into their homes." It's possible individual Palestinians did just that, but overall Arab reaction to Jewish immigration into Palestine became increasingly violent, until Britain decided they were just kidding about the Balfour Declaration & would restrict Jewish immigration just when it was most vital. Shortly thereafter the Mufti persuaded Hitler to disallow any further Jewish escape to Palestine.

Germany & Great Britain, at war, but unified in preventing Jews from entering Palestine. Who accomplished this remarkable entente?

Need it be said?

You demand an end to "colonialist narrative" while merely substituting your own. You know nothing about Thorpe's grandparents. Many Zionists, particularly Hashomer Hatzair, the labor Zionists, sought a binational, Arab/Jewish state. For all we know, Thorpe's grandparents sought that road, until Arab violence largely discredited it.

The awfulness of today's Israeli government doesn't require such a self-serving misreading of history go unchallenged.