[ID: 10 images that form an infographic about Palestine. Each show the same cartoon person sitting down and asking another cartoon person a question, which they answer. The dialogs go as follows:
1. A: So aren’t Israelis and Palestinians just fighting over religion?
B: They are not ‘fighting’, Israelis are the oppressors and Palestinians are the oppressed and the situation is about anything but religion.
2. A: Isn’t it just an argument over land between Muslims and Jews though?
B: No it is not. Before the creation of ‘Israel’ only 73 years ago, Palestinian Christians, Jews and Muslims all peacefully co-existed in Palestine. The Palestinian Christian community is the oldest Christian community in the world.
3. A: Oh there are Palestinian Christians?
B: Yes there are, there are also Palestinian Jews, like the Samaritans who reside in Nablus, both are oppressed by ‘Israel’. The point is, making the suffering of Palestinians seem like a religious conflict is factually incorrect.
4. A: So if they’re not fighting over religion what are they fighting over?
B: There is no ‘fighting’, there is only Israeli colonisation, ethnic cleansing, military occupation, and apartheid. When I say ‘Israel’ I am referring to a group of people, a group of settlers, who are colonising Palestine.
5. A: ‘Israel’ isn’t a country?
B: No, they are a settler colony. Settler colonialism is a form of colonialism that seeks to replace the native population of the colonised land with a new society of settlers. This is what ‘Israel’ is. Palestine is the country they are colonising.
6. A: How are they able to do that to Palestinians?
B: It’s because they have the support of other settler colonies like the United States, Australia, Canada and also support from former colonial powers like the UK, France, Belgium and others. For them to call out ‘Israel’, they would have to start to answer questions about their own existence, about reparations and justice, for the people they colonised.
7. A: So why did I think it was a conflict over religion?
B: ‘Israel’ tends to spread misinformation about its own short settler colonial existence, in order to conceal the reality on the ground. It is a lot easier to disassociate yourself from a situation that has been wrongfully minimised to a ‘religious conflict happening since the beginning of time’.
8. A: What are ‘Israel’ trying to conceal by saying its a religious conflict?!
B: Everything. The fact that they didn’t exist before 1948, and they only exist because of Zionist terrorist groups who ethnically cleansed, massacred and destroyed over 540+ Palestinian towns and villages, and…
9. A: They massacred and destroyed over 540+ Palestinian towns and villages?!
B: Yes. They’re also responsible for the displacement of over 7.2 million Palestinian refugees, and deny them their legal right of return. Saying it’s a ‘religious conflict’ denies Palestinians their right to liberation, freedom, and justice.
10. A: ‘Israel’ is responsible for over 7.2 million Palestinians being refugees?
B: Yes. ‘Israel’ tries to minimise what’s happening to a ‘religious conflict’ to draw attention away from the fact they are a settler colony still in the process of brutally colonising Palestine.
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