• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “A people” is a way of referring to a group of people, a society. You could be more specific and say “the Jewish people” but it’s the same usage.

    Someone in fact called Palestine “A land without a people for a people without a land.”

    Is it making more sense now?

    *fixed autocorrect error

    • Quokka@quokk.au
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      1 year ago

      You couldn’t say that.

      You could say “the Israeli people”. What is going on here is not the actions of Jewish people.