For centuries before modern activists weaponized the term “colonizer,” Arab-Muslim empires carried out one of the largest and fastest imperial expansions in history—conquering territory from Spain to Persia, and imposing new rulers.
For centuries before modern activists weaponized the term “colonizer,” Arab-Muslim empires carried out one of the largest and fastest imperial expansions in history—conquering territory from Spain to Persia, imposing new rulers, and reshaping ancient cultures into the Arab-Islamic world.
Civilizations that had existed for thousands of years—Coptic, Assyrian, Berber, Persian, Judean—were taxed, pressured to convert, or absorbed under Arab rule, while Jews remained one of the only indigenous peoples to preserve their identity, language, and homeland throughout every empire that occupied it.
This video breaks down the part of Middle Eastern history that gets erased when critics claim Jews are the “colonizers,” and shows why that accusation only works if you ignore 1,400 years of Arab imperialism and thousands of years of Jewish continuity.