{"id":14390,"date":"2026-01-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2026\/01\/20\/stop-blaming-palestinians-hamzah-saadah-dismantles-claims-used-to-justify-their-displacement\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:08:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:08:48","slug":"stop-blaming-palestinians-hamzah-saadah-dismantles-claims-used-to-justify-their-displacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daizygedeon.com\/news-blogs-and-cultures\/2026\/01\/20\/stop-blaming-palestinians-hamzah-saadah-dismantles-claims-used-to-justify-their-displacement\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStop Blaming Palestinians\u201d: Hamzah Saadah Dismantles Claims Used to Justify Their Displacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DTt-LDUkwKw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DTt-LDUkwKw\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap is-cnvs-dropcap-bordered\">Hamzah shuts it down hard.<br \/>\nEthiopian Jewish migration does not justify stealing Palestinian land.<br \/>\nIt does not excuse displacement.<br \/>\nIt does not explain away the killing of Palestinians who had nothing to do with persecution elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t fix one injustice by committing another.<br \/>\nYou don\u2019t rewrite history to erase the people already living there.<br \/>\nAnd you don\u2019t launder violence with migration stories.<\/p>\n<p>@hamzahpali <\/p>\n<p>#StopBlamingPalestinians #Palestine #EndTheOccupation #freepalestine #fyp<\/p>\n<p>English Script:<br \/>\nHamza Saadah: Where are you from Man? Where are you from? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: What is wrong with you Motherfucker?<\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Where are you from? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Israel. Speak, speak, you stupid motherfucker! <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Calm down, calm down bro, calm down. Where are you originally from? That&#8217;s kind of what I mean. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Ethiopia. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Ethiopia. What brings you to Israel Man, what brings you to Is Not Real? What happened?<\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: It is real, motherfucker. What brings you to the land of Palestine, Man? <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: What brings you the land of Palestine? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Palestine? What the fuck is that? <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Okay, bro. Listen, what brings you to where you are right now? What happened in your life for you to land there. What happened? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: My parents. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Oh, were you born there? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Yeah. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Okay. Why did your parents decide to come over to It&#8217;s Not Real. What happened? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Because in Ethiopia, you know, you have Muslim Ethiopians and Christian Ethiopians. They didn&#8217;t like us. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: There was also Jewish Ethiopians. No?<\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Yes. They didn&#8217;t like the Ethiopian Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a justification to displace Palestinians. Right?<\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Listen, listen. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Did the Palestinians do that? Are the Palestinians those that discriminated against the Jewish people in Ethiopia? No, I&#8217;m just saying, like, why are you giving the treatment towards the Palestinians? They didn&#8217;t do anything. You know what I mean? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: You stupid red glasses motherfucker. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. How old are you? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: 21. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Have you ever been in the IDF yet? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: What do you do as an IDF soldier?<\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Even if I was in Gaza, we don&#8217;t kill Palestinians. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Really? You don&#8217;t kill kids? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: We kill Hamas. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Okay, what about the 15,000 kids that lost their lives? They got killed by Israel. They were murdered? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Yes. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: Oh, okay. Why? What do you think about that? Was that okay? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: I think it is because of Hamas, it\u2019s not because of us. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: But who drops the bombs on Gaza though, right? We got to use our brain cells, the last few you may have.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Because of what Hamas did on October 7. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: So what happened before October 7th? It was just nice and rainbows?<\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: I don&#8217;t know. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: October 6th, I&#8217;ll tell you what happened the day before October 7th, a 19 year old Palestinian in the West Bank was killed by a settler. Now what? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: And a lot of Israelis was killed before too. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: What about before 1948, when there weren&#8217;t any Israelis? It was just Palestinians that were still getting killed. What happened then? What about the Zionist movement? <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Zionist is, you know\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: It&#8217;s Jewish nationalism in the land of Palestine at the expense of Palestinians. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Yes. <\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: People started coming in and started occupying the land, started stealing Palestinians&#8217; houses. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli man: Okay you\u2019re talking too much. You&#8217;re talking too much. What the fuck  wrong with you? What are you trying to do?<\/p>\n<p>Hamza Saadah: No, I&#8217;m trying to educate you, man. It seems like you don&#8217;t know what the hell is going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daizy Gedeon (@daizygedeon) Hamzah shuts it down hard. Ethiopian Jewish migration does not justify stealing Palestinian land. 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