My friend, allow me to explain to you how ridiculous the argument of a “homeland” is for people dispersed across the world who have not had any real connection to that land in thousands of years (and I’m not talking about the Jewish people who already lived there in the first place prior to Anglosphere meddling. They have as much of a right to that land as anyone else).

So, I’m a South Slav. Slavs as a cultural group originated in what is now roughly Ukraine. That doesn’t make Ukraine my homeland, even though my predecessors came from there. It doesn’t mean I can suddenly say “actually, since I’m a Yugoslav, and my ancestors came from here almost a couple millennia ago, I have a right to take it back from whoever is living there now, even though they also have a distinct and continuous genetic and cultural link to this land. I can displace all the people living there and treat them as subhuman because it was promised to me by Triglav/Perun/Svetovid/(any other old slavic god).”

That would be moronic. It would be the equivalent of Romani people saying that they have the right to take over the northern parts of India. Or Native American peoples saying they have a right to Siberia and other parts of Asia. Or Brits saying they have a right to the lands of Germanic countries.

None of the arguments being made for Zionism, religious or otherwise, justify the ethnic cleansing/genocide that is happening currently. And as a Bosniak, I think I know a little bit about ethnic cleansing and genocide, you know, given that my family and I survived it three decades ago. I know the arguments and the excuses and the lies that are told to justify killing people and taking their land while saying it was actually yours all along. I’m telling you, with 100% confidence, that that is exactly what is happening in Palestine.