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The issue with Israel is much more serious than that. For more than a century, the Zionist movement has colonized Palestine, and since 1948, Israel has engaged in the systematic physical destruction of Palestine, ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities and the erasure of Palestinian folkways. This has included the systematic renaming of places <https://books.google.com/books?id=zv6SAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=joseph+massad+renaming+palestine+hebrew&source=bl&ots=F3zjrw6CAl&sig=E7UVyhmL1I19wbocgy-4x4C2TtE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mOTUVKDZMqjesASig4C4Bg&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=joseph%20massad%20renaming%20palestine%20hebrew&f=false> with Hebrew and pseudo-biblical names, again, as part of a process of erasure and replacement. At the same time, Israel recodes indigenous peoples’ cultures as its own and Palestinians correctly see this as an attempt to complete the erasure: the Palestinians were never there, but the ancient traditions of the land were there and were always Jewish or Israeli. Therefore, resisting Israeli cultural appropriation and ensuring that things are correctly named is part of the process of resisting the ongoing Zionist ethnic cleansing of Palestine. http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/why-sahlab-and-hummus-still-arent-israeli?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=8bfc55349d-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-8bfc55349d-290662377 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
