Debate Over the Palestinian Flag, Islam and Identity

My ancestors, they're gone.

Khalas, they're gone.

Whether they were Christian, Jewish,

whatever. I'm Muslim.

Yeah, but you were forced to be Muslim.

You're Palestinian?

Yes.

Do you know what the flag behind you,

know what the colors represent on

that flag?

Tell me.

It's the four colors on every Arab flag.

Yes, I know that one.

Yous have the same flag as

Sudan, same flag as Jordan.

Jordan, yeah.

The red counts for the Hashemite family.

Mm-hmm.

The green is the Fatimid, the

white is the Abbasid,

and the black is Umayyad.

That's like the different caliphates.

Correct. Where are they all from?

Saudi Arabia.

And tell me real

quick, what does four colonial

caliphates that came from Saudi

Arabia, what does that have to do with Palestine?

What connection does that have to Sudan?

Why the hell do you guys walk around representing numbers

of your colonizers who

colonized your from Saudi Arabia?

In what universe is that correct?

I mean, if you think about

it, every place on Earth is colonized somehow,

right?

Like, you don't see people in America-

You can stop there, though.

The thing is, like, that just is what it is.

You support colonization.

Yeah. See, you're better at spinning it on me.

I'm not spinning it on

you. You're like all

the other Muslims in the

fact that you

don't know what the colors represent.

What do you mean by what the colors represent?

You know, like colonizing our land.

So your flag represents

people who came from a

different land from, like,

2,000 kilometers away, colonized your

, and you wear the flag like a little gay

boy. You're like, "Yeah, sure.

Okay, colonize me, Daddy.

I'll wear your flag." Have a ounce of

pride.

I always am shocked by you guys. Now you know.

You know what that flag represents

now. You can't hide it.

It's a beautiful flag.

It's a beautiful flag if you support what

was done to your people.

If you support-

Like, I-

... being raped-

Yeah

... killed, murdered.

Let's talk taklis, habibi.

You're not a real Muslim.

You were, before, 800 years

ago, your ancestors were Christian,

and before that,

they were probably Jewish.

My ancestors, they're gone.

Khalas, they're gone.

Whether they were Christian, Jewish,

whatever. I'm Muslim.

Yeah, but you were forced to be Muslim.

I wasn't forced to be Muslim.

Absolutely. Go look at your family history.

Yeah, but that's a long time ago.

It doesn't matter.

That's before, that's before me.

Brother, that is not an excuse.

Like, okay, before Judaism, what

were you? Before Judaism?

I don't know.

Before Judaism? Exactly. You don't know.

Well, then why don't you research yourself?

But your history is not that old.

Islam didn't come to this region till 800

years

ago. Go ask a Palestinian

Christian how they

feel about Islam.

Now you have the knowledge, I expect you to have a backbone

and be like, "You

know what? Fair is fair.

That flag doesn't represent me."

Fair is fair. Am Ezrakhai.

God bless you.

And listen, uh, bro, I know

it's a tough conversation to have

for a Palestinian

'cause it your brain a little bit,

but I also want you to be authentic to

yourself.

Mm.

That flag that you have behind

you has zero connection to this land.

You're literally

simping for people who colonized you