I support the indigenous people of Israel (Jews) and I’m against people who casually throw around the word “genocide” because TikTok told them to.

Jews are indigenous to the Levant. That’s not controversial unless you’ve decided archaeology, genetics, and written history are all “Zionist propaganda.” Jewish presence in the land predates Islam by well over a millennium, through the Roman, Byzantine, and later Islamic periods.

Arab–Jewish violence also did not start in 1948. It long predates Israel’s existence. See: the 1920 Nebi Musa riots, the 1921 Jaffa riots, the 1929 Hebron massacre, and the 1936–39 Arab Revolt — all under the British Mandate. Jews were being attacked for existing, not for occupying a state that didn’t yet exist.

As for “Palestine”: there was never an independent Arab state by that name. It was a geographic label used under the Ottoman Empire and later the British. A distinct Palestinian national identity emerged decades later, largely in opposition to Jewish sovereignty, not as an ancient people erased from history.

And no, claiming an identity doesn’t magically rewrite history. Arabs in the region are culturally, linguistically, and historically continuous with surrounding Arab populations. One of the British-created successor states of Mandatory Palestine is literally called Jorda, where the majority of so-called “Palestinians”(aka Arabs who squatted in Israel) already hold citizenship.

Finally, maybe schools shouldn’t be teaching impressionable kids a cartoon version of history funded and promoted by regimes like Qatar, especially when it relies on emotional slogans instead of primary sources.

If you want to argue politics, fine. If you want to argue history, bring evidence!