The TRUTH About Who Is ACTUALLY Indigenous to Israel

Someone sat across from me and argued that Jewish people are not indigenous to the land of Israel, that they are a religious group, not a people, and that Palestinians hold the true indigenous claim to the land. I walked

through the actual legal and historical requirements for indigenous status. It did not go well for that argument.

Jewish indigeneity to the land of Israel is not a biblical claim, it's a historical, linguistic, archaeological, and legal one. The Hebrew language, Jewish customs, practices, and the religion of Judaism itself all originate in that

specific land. Jewish people meet every recognized requirement for indigenous status. The same standards applied to Palestinians tell a very different story, Arab identity, language, and culture spread through the Islamic conquest after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, not through thousands of years of continuous presence in Canaan.

We also get into the Ottoman-era land purchases, the legal framework for indigenous peoples, the Native American comparison, and why 'but they were living there' is not the same as indigenous status. This is the debate they didn't want to finish.

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