The real problem, I suppose, is that blood and soil nationalism — of the sort being practiced right now in Israel, of the sort that Israel was founded on, the same as so many other ethnonationalist experiments ending in tragedy and disaster — will always find a buyer
Sadly true.
DNA is like the one kind of connection many of us DO have, Pam! Don't fight blood and soil nationalism with blood and soil nationalism!
Better yet just don't say "DNA" in contexts like this, for heaven's sake; you're evoking the reddest of red flags all over the place. However clever it sounds, just don't go down that road.
Yeah I mean for sure, the problem is saying that blood is how we decide who gets what, on either side of the conflict, it's just that DNA claims is precisely what people like Smotrich (and me) have because it doesn't have a less than 2000 year shelf life
Right yeah. It sounds KINDA like they’re suggesting you don’t have “one drop” of Levantine blood, or whatever. Which uh please do not