The Israeli govt is settling Jewish Ukrainian refugees on land it illegally occupies and prevents 7 million Palestinian refugees from returning to.
Refugees have the right to sanctuary — AND the right to return home.
Pitting refugees against each other is not justice.
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Refugees have the right to sanctuary — AND the right to return home.
Pitting refugees against each other is not justice.
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Many JVP members or our ancestors were refugees ourselves, fleeing war, persecution, or genocide (including in Ukraine).
But we came to view Zionism — Jewish settlement in Palestine requiring forced displacement of natives — as a misguided and harmful approach to Jewish safety.
But we came to view Zionism — Jewish settlement in Palestine requiring forced displacement of natives — as a misguided and harmful approach to Jewish safety.
As with many previous waves of European Jewish refugees who escaped to Palestine since Zionism began, Jewish Ukrainians will leave downtrodden and dispossessed but arrive as settlers, with the privileges given to the dominant demographic in a settler-colonial apartheid state.
The Israeli government is offering Jewish Ukrainians not just sanctuary, but citizenship with full rights — rights to land, resources, and self-determination that Israel denies to Palestinians living on occupied land or as refugees in diaspora.
Israel is giving Jewish Ukrainians citizenship not out of kindness and generosity, but rather to cement a Jewish demographic majority in Palestine — specifically in illegal settlements in the Jordan Valley and Naqab, where Palestinians are facing active, ongoing ethnic cleansing.
And while the World Zionist Organization builds 1,000 housing units for Jewish Ukrainians on these sites of active ethnic cleansing, the Israeli government said the influx of non-Jewish Ukrainians "cannot go on" and charged a ~$3,000 fee to Israelis wanting to host them.
Ukrainians of all faiths are in real, dire need of refuge, but Israel is only eager to take in the Jewish ones to further the Zionist project — to expand "borders," to cement Jewish supremacy under apartheid, to displace Palestinians and deny their return.
We are devastated by the suffering of Ukrainian refugees — Jewish and non-Jewish — and we fight for their sanctuary.
But we see no just future if their safety means another people are also under military occupation, being ethnically cleansed and made into refugees themselves.
But we see no just future if their safety means another people are also under military occupation, being ethnically cleansed and made into refugees themselves.
We are devastated by the suffering of Palestinian refugees — from 1948 to the present — and we fight for their right to return to their homes.
We also demand the end of the ongoing Nakba that turns still more Palestinians into refugees everyday.
We also demand the end of the ongoing Nakba that turns still more Palestinians into refugees everyday.
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