But the story of the Palestinian struggle has always been an international one, even when the existence of Palestinians as a people was denied, or verbally replaced with the euphemistic label ‘non-Jews’, which first officially appeared in the 1917 Balfour Declaration declaring British support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Israeli state as a Jewish democracy to which Palestinian Arabs have always posed a demographic threat was a state born from European empire, cast in the mould of other European settler colonial projects, and it was both fuelled and justified by
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