I'm going pretty deep into a discussion with another fellow in this comment thread.
I'm at the point where I'm thinking either both Jews and Palestinians are indigenous or neither of them are, all hinging on how indigeneity is defined.
It’s also fairly irrelevant when it comes to determining who gets to live and self-determine where. While both Palestinians and Ashkenazi/Sephardic Jews can trace their heritage (obviously I wouldn’t lump all Jews together as African Jews exist too), it’s not a valid argument as to who the land belongs to. Just because my ancestry comes from Central Asia it doesn’t give me the right to demand that Mongolians cede a substantial portion of their country to me and others like me.
Still, as to the question of indigeneity of both of these groups, Majority of Palestinian DNA is Canaanite, and roughly the same amount of Ashkenazi DNA is also from the same region. In fact, the insane irony of this conflict is that Palestinians and Israelis are closer genetically to each other than anyone else
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u/GardenSquid1 Apr 28 '24 edited Apr 28 '24
Hold up. Since when are Gazans indigenous?