Since the beginning of the Zionist project in Palestine, large efforts have been exerted to paint all resistance to its colonial endeavors as irrational and at odds with progress and modernity.

“In a notable feat of historical revisionism, Israeli leadership uses Palestinian opposition to the Balfour declaration as one of the first examples of Palestinian rejection of coexistence and rights for all.” 

“The myth of Palestinian intransigence was weaponized and used to argue that Palestinians could not be reasoned with, and that peace would continue to be rejected no matter how generous their settler counterparts were.” 

“By repeatedly peddling the false connection between the myth of Palestinian rejectionism, the rise of ‘extremism,’ and the current assault on Gaza, blame is implicitly placed on Palestinians themselves for the genocide being waged.”

Source: The Enduring, Racist Trope of Palestinian Rejectionism