Palestinians Insist ‘Gulf Of America’ Originally Called ‘Julf Al-Mariq’

“The indigenous Palestinian population of Julf Al-Mariq will resist this imperialism just as we resist Zionist settler colonialism.”

Ramallah, February 18 – Opponents of Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland who regularly assert without evidence that the Hebrew names for numerous locales are “colonialist” replacements for “authentic” Arabic names continued the trend this week in response to the Trump administration’s imposition of a new name for the Gulf of Mexico, with the contention that in fact the body of water bore an Arabic name from time immemorial.

Palestinian activist Mariam Barghouti made the claim Tuesday morning in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation.

“It was Julf Al-Mariq for hundreds of generations of indigenous Palestinians,” Barghouti argued, with no pushback from the BBC interviewer. “What Trump is trying to do is exactly what the Zionists have been trying to do for a hundred years – erase the true Arab Palestinian origins and identity of every geographic feature.”

“They erase Tel Al-Rabiye and called it ‘Tel Aviv,'” she elaborated, referring to a city founded by Jews on theretofore empty dunes in 1909. “They rechristen Al Quds as ‘Jerusalem’ and pretend it was always called that. The Zionists have nothing but lies. Trump will not get away with it just as the Zionists do not get away with it. The indigenous Palestinian population of Julf Al-Mariq will resist this imperialism just as we resist Zionist settler colonialism, by all means necessary.”

Barghouti dismissed the interviewer’s one feeble attempt at pushback, as the host cited ancient Biblical names in line with the Hebrew. “You have to understand the deceptions that the Jew- I mean the Zionists weave,” she explained. “Who printed those Bibles? Who owned the media that distributed all those ‘ancient’ sources? You will not find even in those highly suspect ‘ancient’ sources a single mention of any ‘Gulf of America,’ or even of the previous colonialist name, ‘Gul of Mexico.’ We all know why.”

She further accused Trump, who has refused to follow the comfortable paradigms of his predecessors that made Palestinians darlings of the international community, of “working to despoil indigenous peoples of their natural resources.” Barghouti cited recent rhetoric of Trump administration officials about the vast potential for extracting mineral wealth from the Gulf of America, as well as an already-vast drilling infrastructure for crude oil in the Gulf.

Indigenous rights activists appear split on Barghouti’s contention, with some expressing offense that the Palestinian national movement had appropriated yet another piece of others’ land, culture, and history, while others welcomed the statement, with the hope that adjacency to the Palestinian cause might bring with it the same global tolerance for infantile violence that Palestine has long enjoyed.

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