“As a Palestinian who refuses to parrot our leadership’s lies, I have to say it bluntly: Telling Mizrahi Jews, Jews from Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Syria and the rest of the Arab world, that they are doing ‘ethnic cleansing’ to us is the gaslight of the century.”

These words come not from a Jew, but from Ahmed al-Khalidi, a self-described “ pragmatic Palestinian ,” in a posting on X in mid-October that got 692,500 views.

Khalidi states bluntly what so many “useful idiots” in the West ignore: All Jews did not come from Europe. In his social-media post, he reminds readers that communities in Babylon, Damascus and Sana’a existed for 2,500 years or longer.

In fact, Jews lived in the Middle East long before the Arab conquest and Islam. They spoke a Middle Eastern language and prayed to

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