Is Instagram deleting my pro-Palestine/historical comments?

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Please delete if this is not appropriate or constitutes as 'personal dumping ground/irrelevant'.

I encountered this post today:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy6KMKstSJf/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Except for being wildly incorrect (even pro-Israel comments state that there), it assumes a weird thing.

It seems like to the poster it's natural you can claim a land your ancestors lived on at any given point in time.

I tried to ask this: My grandma was displaced from Vilinus when she was a child along with almost 200 000 other Polish people. I know the exact address of her childhood home, my brother even visited it once. So I personally know the ancestor who was native to that house, there's only one generation between us, I know she existed, I know I'm her granddaughter, and I know the place she's from exists and also exactly where it is, obviously. And I do not feel entitled to this house, I don't think it would be right for me to demand a family living there to move and give it to me. I can't even fathom how could I think that way.

Can a Zionist name their ancestor who left Israel, but was native to the land? Do they know exactly where they lived or at least which city/area? How many generations between them and now? How many years? Can they prove genealogical connection? It all seems very muddy to me. And with all that, why do they feel entitled to someone else's land? They don't have a real connection with it, just a story about it, but not a personal one.

Are those inappropriate questions to ask? Why does it keeps getting flagged as spam 10s after posting? What words did I use that triggered the algorithm? Why when it comes to Israel we can't speak openly about history or analogies, even from the history of my own family? How can Palestinians even share their stories if the algorithm works this way? I tried to post this comment about 4 times, using different length/wording, and it was deleted by algorithm every time.

Posted Nov 1, 2023, 3:57 PM UTC

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