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[–] JasSmith@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The 1914 deportations were of Russian Jewish people.

This sounds like you're defending ethnic deportation. It doesn't matter which passport the Jews held. They were expelled.

Only 1/3 of the population that was deported in 1917 were Jewish.

I am clearly and specifically talking about the Jews, not the Muslims or Christians.

Under British rule all the people deported in 1917 were allowed to return.

But they were not given their land and houses back. They were displaced, just like some Palestinians in 1948.

I'm struggling to believe you could argue the ways the Jews were treated is better. If anything, it was much worse. The Palestinians have never been wholesale deported, only displaced within the same nation.

[–] PotatoKat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

This sounds like you're defending ethnic deportation. It doesn't matter which passport the Jews held. They were expelled.

I'm only pointing out that the deportation had nothing to do with their Jewish heritage.

I am clearly and specifically talking about the Jews, not the Muslims or Christians.

And I'm clearly and specifically pointing out that it had nothing to do with them being Jewish so it is very different from what was done to the Palestinians which was targeted at them.

But they were not given their land and houses back. They were displaced

Just like the Palestinians were displaced in the late 1800s by the Ottoman empire selling the land they lived on to Jewish people.

The Palestinians have never been wholesale deported, only displaced within the same nation.

Half the Palestinians living there were forced to flee their homes in 1948. I'm clearly not arguing with someone who lives in reality as evidenced by this line

just like some Palestinians in 1948.

If by some you mean 700k compared to the 10k total displaced in 1917 (of which only 1/3 were Jewish) the sure I guess more than 70 times can be considered some, but at that point words mean nothing and there is no point in continuing this discussion.