The Middle East is the only part in the world in which countries, human rights groups and mainstream media support colonisers and ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people. The Jews are the indigenous people in what is now Israel, and had thriving communities throughout the Arab world. The Arabs, who migrated to the area, have regularly persecuted the Jews, and since the 1920s have been ethnic cleansing the area from them. Through violence, including murder, they pushed the Jews out of Jewish cities such as Hebron. When Israel became a state, the Arabs immediately attacked, pushing them out of the rest of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, and communities were expelled from other Arab lands, creating some 850,000 Jewish refugees. The majority of today’s Israeli Jews are the descendants of these refugees, yet the world considers them colonisers. The Arab refugees from the 1948 war were created by the Arab League, not by the Jews, yet the Jews are blamed. The Arabs’ failure to drive the Jews into the sea in 1948 is today called the Naqba. The world is sympathetic to calling the failure to murder people a tragedy. Time and again the Arabs have rejected a second Arab state in the area (the first created out of the Palestinian mandate was Jordan). In 1969 Yasser Arafat renamed the Arabs “Palestinians” and instantly the world accepted this, and the Arab colonisers are now regarded as the indigenous people of the area. The Arabs constantly fire rockets at Israeli civilians, including schools and kindergartens, and burn Israeli crops, doing so using children and women as human shields, yet the world regards the Jews as the aggressors. There is one word that explains this: antisemitism. [Photo: Expelled Yemenite Jews in the desert, 1948]