I had tweeted,
Proof #619 that calling Israel "apartheid" is antisemitic:Lebanon treats Palestinians worse than Israel by every conceivable yardstick. Discrimination is enshrined in law. Yet no one accuses Lebanon of "apartheid."
The responses from modern antisemites were all along the lines of:
"Whataboutism!" (meaning, don't talk about Palestinian suffering unless it can be blamed on Israel)
"You are a liar!" (without any links or proof)
"Of course it's apartheid - everyone says so!" (appeal to authority fallacy)
But a couple of people responded with something like, "Lebanon isn't occupying Palestinian territory!"
Are they sure?
Here's a map of Palestine from 1870:
It includes large amounts of todays Lebanon as well as much of today's Jordan.
How come no Palestinian is upset at the occupation of Lebanon and Jordan of Palestine?
But, you might respond, this is a Western map. Maybe Arabs felt that Palestine before 1923 included the exact borders of the British Mandate and no more.
Well, here is a 1918 map of Palestine, labeled as such, in Arabic:
Based on this map, it sure looks like at least Jordan is occupying ancient sacred Palestinian lands!
Why aren't we seeing Palestinians demanding "Free Palestine from Jordan and (maybe) Lebanon!"
Maybe for the same reason that the PLO in 1964 didn't claim the West Bank or Gaza as being part of "Palestine."
