Israel is not a ‘settler-colonial state’

Israelophobia is rooted in the suggestion that Jews have no place in the Middle East and are alien to the region.

The Jewish State was born through anti-imperial struggle.

People often forget that Judaism is two millennia older than Islam and 1,500 years older than Christianity .

Israel was the cradle of Jewish civilisation.

Jews have always intertwined their identity with the land of Israel .

By 1896 , more than three-fifths of the 45,300 residents of Jerusalem were Jewish .

In 1897 , Herzl wrote in his diary: 'At Basel , I founded the Jewish state. If I said this out loud today , I would be greeted by universal laughter. Perhaps in five years and certainly in 50 , everyone will know it'.

Israel was founded as a post-colonial state, not a colonial one, established legitimately under international law after the withdrawal of imperial Britain , for the remainder of the 20th century .

The demonisation of Israel presents it as a unique historical evil, but the manner of its creation was typical of the period.