Michal Cotler-Wunsh, Israel’s Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism, has challenged narratives that misrepresent Israel’s origins in a recent Instagram post.
She said, “Anyone teaching that Israel is a 76-year-old European colonialist project that was meant to repair the atrocities of the Holocaust is fueling modern-day antisemitism. Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, a prototypical indigenous people. That word has meaning, indigeneity. Israel is a people that speaks the same language, Hebrew, that practices the same rituals, that traverses the same land, that worships the same G-d, that reads the same book, the Bible. We have to reclaim that too. It is the nation-state of an indigenous people, returned after thousands of years of exile and persecution. That is how we move forward.”
