A history of conquest and cultural imperialism is ignored.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem sits atop the site of the Second Temple, the central place for Jewish worship before its destruction during the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.
One wonders if any of the people braying about the alleged “settler colonialism” of Israel ever wonder how Al-Aqsa got there.
Did the Jews voluntarily erect a version of it in an eighth-century homage to multiculturalism? If not, how did the Muslims who built it come to be in Jerusalem in the first place?
