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Regardless, territorial claims to an ethnically and culturally defined nationhood did not exist in this ancient period and only emerged with the modern state in sixteenth century Europe and the modern NATION state a little later in the nineteenth century.
So what? If the Palestinians are allowed to advocate for having a state of their own - and indeed every other people of the world - why not the Jews? If you want to say that things like countries shouldn't exist for anyone, that would be an interesting conversation to have. But saying that only the Jews are not permitted to advocate for an ethnically and culturally defined nationhood, while all other ethnically and culturally cohesive groups are permitted to do so, is not a legitimate position to take.
The conflation that is taking place is confusing anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism. Why are the Jews, among all the peoples of the world, not allowed to want and advocate for having a country of their own?
