--- title: "Fact check: 奥巴马在贝尔法斯特颇具争议地声称犹太人夺取了土地，但他并未表示以色列的建立完全源于欧洲难民，也未否认犹太人的历史渊源；以色列的根基建立在数千年的本土渊源与合法的土地购置之上。" description: "奥巴马在贝尔法斯特颇具争议地声称犹太人夺取了土地，但他并未表示以色列的建立完全源于欧洲难民，也未否认犹太人的历史渊源；以色列的根基建立在数千年的本土渊源与合法的土地购置之上。" url: "https://zh.hasbara.co.il/facts-myths/myth-obama-belfast-remarks-on-israel" type: "fact-check" locale: "zh" published: "2026-10-16T09:11:00.000Z" updated: "2026-11-04T10:34:14.627Z" categories: ["Political"] --- # Fact check: 奥巴马在贝尔法斯特颇具争议地声称犹太人夺取了土地，但他并未表示以色列的建立完全源于欧洲难民，也未否认犹太人的历史渊源；以色列的根基建立在数千年的本土渊源与合法的土地购置之上。 *奥巴马在贝尔法斯特颇具争议地声称犹太人夺取了土地，但他并未表示以色列的建立完全源于欧洲难民，也未否认犹太人的历史渊源；以色列的根基建立在数千年的本土渊源与合法的土地购置之上。* ## 迷思 美国前总统巴拉克·奥巴马在贝尔法斯特声称，以色列完全是由欧洲难民强占阿拉伯土地建立起来的，同时否认犹太原住民的历史渊源。 ## 事实 奥巴马在贝尔法斯特颇具争议地声称犹太人夺取了土地，但他并未表示以色列的建立完全源于欧洲难民，也未否认犹太人的历史渊源；以色列的根基建立在数千年的本土渊源与合法的土地购置之上。 ## The Belfast Remarks and Context During an appearance at Queen’s University Belfast in October 2026, former U.S. President Barack Obama participated in a moderated discussion with journalist Susan McKay. When asked about the conflict in the Middle East, Obama acknowledged that *"the Jewish people, for millennia, were oppressed, discriminated against, killed"* and noted that *"Europe was responsible for much of it,"* leading Jews to seek refuge. However, he drew immediate condemnation when he added: *"What is also undeniable is that they took land off people and they were excessive. And those people understandably said, 'This is injustice and I want my land back.'"* While critics forcefully condemned Obama’s rhetoric as reported by [The Daily Wire](https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-erases-over-3000-years-of-jewish-history) and [The Jerusalem Post](https://www.jpost.com/international/article-911851), the claim that he explicitly declared Israel’s creation to be "solely" the result of European refugees, or that he formally denied any Jewish antiquity, distorts his actual phrasing. Obama referenced millennia of Jewish suffering, but his reductive description improperly reduced Zionism to a European displacement project. ## Historical Continuity and Lawful Land Acquisition The substantive implication that modern Israel exists merely because foreign Europeans seized Arab territory contradicts historical, legal, and demographic records documented by the [Jewish Virtual Library](https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myths-facts-2023-israel-s-roots-chapter-1): - **Millennia of Indigenous Presence:** Jewish ties to the Land of Israel span over 3,000 years, beginning in antiquity and persisting through centuries of Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader, and Ottoman occupations. Unbroken Jewish communities remained in cities such as Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias, and Safed long before modern political Zionism emerged. - **Documented Land Purchases:** Pre-state Jewish pioneers did not seize land; they lawfully purchased parcels through the Jewish National Fund and private organizations. Ottoman and British Mandate land registers show that the vast majority of Jewish land acquisitions were bought at inflated prices from absentee Arab landlords and local sellers. - **Demographic Reality:** Modern Israel was not settled exclusively by European Jews. Following the 1948 War of Independence, more than 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled state-sponsored violence across the Arab world and North Africa. Today, over half of Israeli Jews descend from these Middle Eastern and North African (Mizrahi and Sephardic) refugees who returned to their ancestral homeland. ## Official Pushback Against Historical Distortion Obama’s Belfast remarks prompted swift rebukes from Israeli officials and historical watchdogs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded publicly, stating that *"our land is not stolen land"* and reaffirming that the Jewish people have possessed an organic, indigenous title to the region for thousands of years, as reported by the [Jewish News Syndicate](https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/our-land-isnt-stolen-netanyahu-says-after-obama-accuses-israel-of-stealing-land-losing-moral-ground). Zionism represented the national liberation and self-determination movement of an indigenous people returning to their historic cradle, not a foreign colonial enterprise. While Obama’s Belfast statements drew justified outrage for framing Jewish statehood in terms of land taking, the claim that he explicitly denied all antiquity or described Israel as purely a European construct misquotes his specific statements while ignoring the robust legal and ancestral foundations of the Jewish state. ## 来源 - [dailywire.com](https://www.dailywire.com/news/obama-erases-over-3000-years-of-jewish-history) - [jpost.com](https://www.jpost.com/international/article-911851) - [jns.org](https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/our-land-isnt-stolen-netanyahu-says-after-obama-accuses-israel-of-stealing-land-losing-moral-ground) - [jewishvirtuallibrary.org](https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myths-facts-2023-israel-s-roots-chapter-1)