Let's Talk About Colonialism

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1. This is not a matter of colonialism.

After their failed revolution against the Roman Empire, Emperor Hadrian retaliated by conducting ethnic cleansings in the kingdom Israel, driving the Jews out of their own country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_wars

With the Jews out, other ethnicities moved in and made that very same strip of land THEIR home. That is not colonialism.

And the Jews returning to Palestine to make a new country Israel is also not colonialism.



Exactly the same has happened in Europe, especially eastern Europe, where ethnicities moved around willy-nilly. Barely any ethnicity in eastern Europe is nowadays where they were 1000, let alone 2000, years ago.

For example: The Tatars came to Crimea in the 1250s when Genghis Khan's army invaded Ukraine. Should Ukraine/Russia kick them out of Crimea even though they have lived there since 1250?

What about England? Should the Irish kick the English out of Britain because the Angles and the Saxons replaced the Celts?