Slightly off topic, but shows what level zionists will stoop to, particularly in their co-opting and robbery of the culture of those whom they disposessed.
particularly interesting are these paragraphs from an article on the falafel issue:
>As surprising as it may sound, given the bloodiness and acrimony of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Zionism has always been perfumed by
a whiff of romance with Arab culture. The Eastern European Jews who flocked
to Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries rejected their
Continental pasts in favor of a return to their ancient roots. "The Jewish
settlers were looking for new ways to connect with their biblical pasts,"
Raviv said, "and Arabs were the perfect role models."
>Some Jewish settlers in Palestine referred to themselves as "Hebrew
Bedouins" and donned kaffiyehs (Arab headdresses). "Politically, the
Zionists ignored the Arabs, but culturally, they romanticized and tried
to imitate them," said Yael Zerubavel, a scholar of Israeli culture at
Rutgers. This imitation didn’t seem like theft, Zerubavel said, "but
localization, a process of putting roots in soil."
from: http://www.virtualjerusalem.com/food/chefscorner/?disp_feature=uZAO3w.var
another interesting piece:
>Ironically, the cultural substitutions that influential Zionist outfits such as Hashomer, Hagana, and Palmah adopted were often modeled after Palestinian culture (This was the main path for the incorporation of a variety of Arabic phrases into daily Hebrew parlance (for example, ya'ani, dugri, habibi, shwayeh , dahilak, ahalan wasahalan, ahla, and ma'alesh, to name but a few). It also had an impact on the adoption in the 1940s and 1950s of Palestinian attire such as the Kufiya and of foodstuffs such as humus , tahina, falafel, and pita bread as markers of new Israeliness.)
from: http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/v26/v26n4.rabinowitz.html
does anyone know of any other examples in history where the colonizing european population attempted to co-opt the culture of the indigenous population like this?
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