{"id":3046,"date":"2026-06-26T16:09:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2026-06-26T16:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T14:09:05","slug":"amikor-a-tortenelemfelfogas-fegyverre-valik-reakcio-a-cionizmus-narrativajara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipropaganda.hu\/en\/amikor-a-tortenelemfelfogas-fegyverre-valik-reakcio-a-cionizmus-narrativajara\/","title":{"rendered":"When the perception of history becomes a weapon: A reaction to the narrative of Zionism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article by Tam\u00e1s Vajda (Neokohn: When memory becomes a battlefield: what is \u201ePalestinianism\u201d really about?<\/a>) presents the Palestinian-Israeli conflict not as a political and legal dispute, but as a consciously constructed set of lies called \u201ePalestinianism.\u201d However, the author\u2019s argument not only ignores the real, 21st-century causes of the conflict, but also seeks to deprive a people of their own history of suffering and rights under the pretext of historical rights.<\/p>\n

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1. The myth of the \u201estate that never existed\u201d as an alibi<\/h3>\n

The author uses the most common Zionist topos: \u201eA Palestinian state has never existed.\u201d This claim is a legal sophism that neglects the fact that the community of the Palestinian people is not based on a state-law framework, but on its millennia-old attachment to the land. From the beginning, the Zionist project did not arrive on an \u201eempty\u201d land, but on a populated area where the population had concrete rights, land ownership, and community structures. To claim that someone has no right to their homeland just because they did not conform to a Western-style state form before 1948 is nothing more than the survival of a colonial mentality.<\/p>\n

2. Historical connection as \u201emoral superiority\u201d<\/h3>\n

The article refers to the Islamic conquests of the 7th century to question the local attachment of the Palestinians. This kind of argument treads dangerous waters: if we look for historical rights in the 1500-year past, then the entire map of the Middle East can be redrawn. The historical attachment of the Jewish people to the territory does not invalidate the contemporary, documented presence of the Palestinians. The author tries to cover up this \u201einconvenient truth\u201d by presenting the Palestinians as \u201eforeigners\u201d, while the state of Israel is \u2013 paradoxically \u2013 the very state of European Jewry that emerged as a result of modern, nationalist movements.<\/p>\n

3. Reversing the victim narrative<\/h3>\n

Tam\u00e1s Vajda's article accuses the Palestinians of copying a \u201ehistory of Jewish suffering.\u201d This accusation is cynical: the Palestinians are not \u201ecopying\u201d the trauma of the Holocaust, but they experience their own trauma<\/b>. The mass expulsion (Nakba), the blockade of Gaza, and the ongoing military occupation are not \u201efalsification of history,\u201d but physical, documentable facts. By labeling criticism of the existence of the Israeli state as \u201eanti-Semitism\u201d or \u201econscious manipulation,\u201d the author effectively silences voices that want to speak out about human rights.<\/p>\n

4. Golda Meir and the perpetual victim pose<\/h3>\n

The Golda Meir quote at the end of the article, that our neighbors \u201eonly want to destroy us,\u201d has become more of a \u201ecard\u201d of Israeli politics, which has been used to block peace for decades. This quote was written at a time when Israel had been occupying Palestinian territories for years. The narrative that Israel is constantly \u201efighting for its existence\u201d hides the reality that Israel is a regional military power, fighting not for its existence but for its territorial dominance.<\/p>\n

Summary<\/h3>\n

Tam\u00e1s Vajda's article is not about historical truth, but about on the avoidance of political responsibility<\/b>. The attempt to label Palestinians as \u201edeliberate liars\u201d serves only to avoid facing the moral cost of occupation. The struggle of the Palestinian people is not a battle of narratives, but a people\u2019s struggle for recognition, the right to a home, and equal human dignity. Memory is indeed a battlefield, but the battle is not decided by \u201etruth\u201d but by who is willing to recognize the right of another people to life.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/p>\n

The following sources help to delve deeper into the Palestinian narrative and support the historical and legal arguments made in the critique of Tam\u00e1s Vajda's article. These sources examine the conflict from a critical, often post-colonial or human rights perspective.<\/p>\n

1. Historical perspective and the Nakba<\/h3>\n