Jews Told ‘Go Back To Palestine!’ Suspect Goyim Don’t Want Them In Palestine, Either

“I’m beginning to think there’s something deeper going on.”

Haifa, December 1 – The ethnoreligious group harassed and berated for centuries with cries rejecting them from their host societies and urging them to return to their country of ethnogenesis did exactly that in large numbers over the last hundred-fifty years, only to face the same objection to their presence not just from locals, but from the same people who had banished them in the first place, leading the group to wonder whether in fact the objection stems from their mere presence or their very existence.

Cries of “Go back to Palestine, Jew!” and the like met Jews wherever they lived following waves of conquest and exile that displaced the indigenous people of the Kingdom of Judah and Land of Israel in ancient times. Small groups of Jews did return to their ancestral land over the many centuries since; the number rose significantly amid Czarist persecutions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Zionist movement created the underpinnings of a reconstituted Jewish sovereign entity in the land. The floodgates of immigration opened completely once the State of Israel attained independence in 1948, providing refuge for nearly a million Jews expelled from the Muslim world over the following decades. The removal of Jews from their midst, however, has not stopped the former host societies from demanding that Jews leave wherever they are, prompting doubts among Jews and others that the original admonition to return to Palestine was spoken in good faith.

“I’m beginning to get the feeling they don’t want us anywhere, not just Lithuania, for example,” admitted David ben-Yoel, whose ancestors fled Riga ahead of Nazi-inspired riots in mid-1941. “Every abuse featured some variation of ‘You don’t belong here, go back where you came from,’ so you’d think, huh, once we went back where we came from, those folks would be happy, but no. So I’m beginning to think it’s not about our being there in Poland, Hungary, or Morocco, for instance. I’m beginning to think there’s something deeper going on.”

Psychologist Rita Book suggested the continued opposition to Jews represents an outgrowth of disappointing results from the removal of the Jews from their former host societies, wither through expulsion or extermination. “Life didn’t suddenly get better once the Jews were gone,” she explained. “In many cases it got worse, and now there weren’t even Jews to kick around as scapegoats. That must have been the Jews’ fault, because whom else had they ever learned to blame? So I guess maybe this should have been expected.”

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