Palestinian ambassador to Syria Samir Al-Rifai claims that the genocide in Gaza is a brutal replay of history, rooted in the same Torah-justified settler ideology that built the United States on the mass killing and erasure of Native Americans.

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The first item in the 2024 platform of America’s majority party is the ‘Democratic National Convention Land Acknowledgement.’

By Robert Spencer, Frontpage Magazine

If you still think it’s hyperbole and hysteria to say that the left hates America, check out the 2024 Democratic Party Platform.

“Our nation,” the platform states, “is at an inflection point. What kind of America will we be? A land of more freedom, or less freedom? More rights or fewer?”

That’s actually not a bad place to start a statement of basic principles, for this election is indeed shaping up to be a choice between more freedom or less, albeit not in the way that the Democratic party would have you believe.

This “inflection point” statement, however, is not the first item in the Democratic Party Platform.

The first thing you see when you start reading the Democratic Party Platform, the very first thing that the Democrats want you to know, is that America is on stolen land. The message is clear: Go home, white colonizer!

The first item in the 2024 platform of America’s majority party is the “Democratic National Convention Land Acknowledgement.”

Land acknowledgements, which are basically statements of colonialist guilt and assertions that some particular parcel of land actually belongs to someone other than those who occupy it and own the deed, became trendy a few years ago, as our Age of Absurdity reached new heights of ridiculousness.

They’re common, as you’d expect, on the websites of colleges and universities. The platform’s land acknowledgment is a trifle more gingerly stated than such things usually are, but its upshot is nonetheless unmistakable.

“The Democratic National Committee,” the land acknowledgment begins, “wishes to acknowledge that we gather together to state our values on lands that have been stewarded through many centuries by the ancestors and descendants of Tribal Nations who have been here since time immemorial.”

This is carefully worded. Instead of saying outright that the land belongs to the Tribal Nations, or was taken from them, as most land acknowledgments do, the platform says that the Democratic National Convention is taking place on lands that “have been stewarded” by the Tribal Nations.

The platform is quite specific about whose land the Chicago area really is, or at least who “stewarded” that land:

“While we meet in Chicago, we also recognize and honor the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, also known as the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. We acknowledge the many other tribes who consider this area their traditional homeland, including the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten.”

The Democrats remain tactfully silent about how the Ojibwe drove the Ho-Chunk out of what is now known as Wisconsin, and about other warfare between the various sainted Tribal Nations on their list.

The platform has plenty of room, however, for lavish praise of these groups:

“We honor the communities native to this continent, and recognize that our country was built on Indigenous homelands. We pay our respects to the millions of Indigenous people throughout history who have protected our lands, waters, and animals.”

Conspicuously absent is any similar praise for the Founding Fathers or any of the heroic figures of American history.

From the Democrats’ platform, the uninformed reader would get the impression that the colonialist oppressors arrived in North America, stole the land from the Native Americans, and somehow established a Constitution that now Donald Trump wants to destroy, but which they are working very hard to save.

The platform is as pernicious as it is ahistorical. It perpetuates the leftist mythology that the Native American tribes were living in peaceful, harmonious bliss until the evil colonialists arrived, bringing with them European diseases as well as the chains of slavery and the shackles of injustice.

In the left’s ersatz humanist religion, colonialism and whiteness are the original sins, and only Marxism can expiate them.

The fact that one would be hard-pressed to find any place on earth that didn’t belong to someone else at one time doesn’t stop them from filling young people with nonsense about how America is somehow a uniquely illegitimate occupying power.

The ultimate lesson the Democrats convey with all this, however, is not that one should vote for them. It’s that one should pick up stakes and move somewhere else, anywhere else, where the weight of colonialist guilt is not felt so heavily.

If America is wrong and rotten from the time of its very founding, why are the Democrats working to save it? They should just move to some non-stolen land if they can find any and live there with clear consciences.

Rational thinking, of course, is not what this is about. What it is about is justifying ongoing guilt feelings that will grease the skids for more payouts to supposedly oppressed groups.

What the Democratic Party Platform is doing, in the final analysis, is justifying reparations, forced redistribution, and socialism. The sainted native tribes are just props for a deeply sinister effort.

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The Indigenous Coalition For Israel just opened an office housed in a Jerusalem museum.

By Avi Kumar, The Algemeiner

During pro-Palestinian marches in the Western world, we have seen several minority groups, including “indigenous” people, who identify with the Palestinians and their claim to be the displaced natives in Israel.

But other indigenous people view things differently.

The Indigenous Coalition For Israel (ICFI) is one organization that aims to change the narrative, consisting of individuals from the Americas, Australia, Asia, and Africa. The ICFI has just launched an office that will be housed within the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem.

Native Americans

Ryan Bellerose, a native Canadian of the Metis mixed-race community, told me that “the false narrative concerning the Israel-Palestinian conflict has easily taken hold amongst many indigenous peoples.”

He feels that many have misunderstood what the term “indigeneity” means. He spoke about how the Jewish people’s ethnogenesis took place in the Levant, just like the Native Americans’ took root in the Americas. He noted that even if Jews lived in the Diaspora at times, their cultural identity “evolved” in the Middle East.

Some on the Palestinian side claim that they have Canaanite roots. Bellerose argued that the Palestinians are “not doing much” to actively preserve or upkeep this Canaanite culture despite the claim.

Bellerose feels that indigenous Americans are still feeling the “residual effects” of a genocide, and can therefore learn a lot from the Israeli example, where Jewish society was “rebuilt” after the Holocaust.

He also cited Israel’s Hebrew revival as a good example of decolonization, and hopes that other groups that have lost their native languages, such as his ancestral Cree, will be able to revive theirs as well.

New Zealand Māoris

Dr. Sheree Trotter is a New Zealand Māori. She said that while some Māori Iwi (clans), including the biggest one, Ngapuhi, issued statements supporting Israel, there is no uniform view across the group.

She noted that there are still many Māori who are pro-Palestinian, among the indigenous minority who are 16.5% of New Zealand.

Trotter said that many Māori became Christianized in recent times, and therefore connect with the story of Israelites. She blamed international forces, such as the Soviet propaganda of the 1960s, for causing many Māori to shift towards identifying with the Palestinian narrative.

Africa

Olga Washington is a member of the Tswana ethnic group in South Africa, a country that has taken an outsized pro-Palestinian stance in recent years. However, she insists that “the majority of South Africans don’t have such beliefs, even if the ‘loudest voices’ are anti-Israel.”

Washington noted how Israel supported the apartheid regime in South Africa (1948-94), but that continuing to blame Israel for abetting this exhibits “a double standard” since “many other countries” also supported apartheid South Africa, including the US, UK, and Japan.

She insisted that allegations of Israeli apartheid are “not true” — having witnessed apartheid firsthand in South Africa, where the term originated.

She said that during the Cold War era, the Soviets, Cuba, and other forces allied with the now-ruling African National Congress (ANC) party were anti-Zionist, and this legacy has remained. The ANC has been in power since 1994.

She noted how South Africa chose not to support their Miss Universe candidate when the competition was held in Israel in 2021.

“But we still do have diplomatic relations with Israel,” she noted.

“Jews are indigenous to the land and the Palestinian claim is a very self-harming approach as it rejects Jewish indigeneity,” she said. And indigenous people around the world who know the true history of Israel likely agree with her.

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