The jackboot of Jewish imperialism?

 Mark C. Ross - American Thinker   

"A common fallacy is that Israeli Arabs are second-class citizens, sequestered by a form of apartheid.  There have been Arab members of the Knesset since the first day of Israeli independence.  Arab citizens of Israel have enjoyed complete legal equality since 1966." 

"Oy!  Those Jews...conquering the world, one Palestinian at a time.  As per the mainstream media, the dinky little sliver of dirt known as Israel is an aggressive expansionist empire.  History, however, offers a different perspective.

"In his book Migrations and Cultures (1996), Thomas Sowell has a chapter titled “The Jews of the Diaspora.”  In it, he describes how, during the 19th century, Jews who were scattered throughout Eurasia began to move back into their ancestral homeland — known then as Palestine, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire — to escape various forms of persecution.  Other historians have described Jews as the last remaining citizens of the Roman Empire — which, during its heyday, provided the conduit for the diaspora in the first place.  

"Ignorance of this series of events was most conspicuously showcased by Barack Obama’s “Cairo Speech” of 2009.  In it he parroted the standard Palestinian Liberation narrative, accusing Zionists of being foreign invaders of their ancestral homeland.  Various internet trolls contend that Ashkenazi Jews (typically eastern European) have no historical connection to Palestine whatsoever, since they were made Jewish by the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism centuries ago.  Most scholars dismiss this theory as both bogus and thinly veiled antisemitism." . . .