Harvard Study Finds Statute of Limitations on Land-Back Rights To Be One Day Less Than It Took The Jews
A recent Harvard study has answered an age-old question surrounding land-back rights – resulting in the landmark finding that land-back rights are only good for one day less than it took the Jews.
The call to return lands to their indigenous inhabitants has been a loud and constant refrain in recent memory – particularly from Ivy league protestors. But how does this pair with the notion – also touted by Ivy League protestors – that Israel is a colonialist state? The answer to this seemingly simple question led researchers down a long and winding road, but did not leave them without an answer.
We asked lead researcher Steven Smith (named SS on the study itself) about his team’s process:
“To start we acknowledged land-back rights as a crucial and indispensable part of any indigenous culture, as well as the fact that Israel is an illegitimate settler state.” This left researchers confused, as they knew Jews were from Judea, but needed to find the reason their return is colonialism rather than a land-back campaign.
“We were really stumped there for a minute” said Smith, whose blonde, white grandparents immigrated from Argentina in the 1960’s. “One day it just hit me – what if the reason Jews are from Judea, and are now colonizing that same region is because they just missed their window?”. This intriguing thought was just the breakthrough needed.
“Suddenly it all clicked” recounted Smith, as he adjusted his shirt collar revealing a big blackout tattoo on his chest. “When the Jews lived in Europe they were consistently told to ‘Go back to where they came from’ but once they went there, we all agreed that was the wrong thing to do – that they were from Europe now. This must mean that indigenous land back rights only apply until everyone except you agrees they don’t anymore. This happened some time between the end of the holocaust and the formation of the settler state of Israel”.
“It’s a real shame they didn’t get there sooner.”
“I just hope this study empowers the people of Palestine” Saids Smith while making a gesture apparently meaning ‘My heart goes out to you’. “They only have about 1900 years before we will all have to turn on them.”
When asked if there was a final thought he wanted to leave readers with Smith said simply “I just want to thank my partners at the Qatar Institute of Middle-Eastern Studies for their continued support.”
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