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  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    16·
    11 days ago

    Israeli Rabbi Dov Lior has issued a religious ruling permitting Israeli settlers to take olives from Palestinian-owned land across the occupied West Bank, claiming that harvesting the crop demonstrates Jewish ownership of the land, according to Israeli Channel 13.

    Lior argued that Palestinians had never legally purchased the land from Jews and therefore had no legitimate ownership rights over either the land or its produce.

    He also claimed that Palestinians had already been compensated for planting olive trees through years of consuming their fruit, extending his ruling to groves located far from Israeli settlements.

    From the way it reads, not only is it an incredibly shitty argument to validate doing it, it doesn’t even try to invoke religious teaching to do it yet claims religiosity anyway. The argumentation of it just reads like colonizer+capitalist: something something private property something something brutal entitlement.

      • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
        9·
        10 days ago

        Yes and no. It’s definitely not the first time I’ve seen colonizer rhetoric. But the low effort nature of it in this case stands out to me. Like what is there to even unpack/debunk here. All they really said is “we own this because we say so and waves hands this is religious decree somehow.”