This comes off as victim blaming disguised as nuance. So we’re entirely clear, the creation of Israel does not justify what has been the expulsion, deprivation, and murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews throughout the Arab world who were both uninvolved.

You cannot simply describe Jews as colonialist settlers unless you opt to ignore fairly significant pieces of history. The Jewish community is a diasporic people who originated in Israel and have been expelled from it forcibly on multiple occasions. Due to that expulsion, the community is now highly dispersed and,…