Indigenous identity isn’t just about where someone’s grandparents were born. It’s about where a people were formed, where their language, culture and traditions grew in deep connection to the land. The Jewish people aren’t indigenous to the Middle East simply because we’ve lived there for a long time. We are indigenous because that land shaped our very identity. Our language, our spirituality and our traditions were all born from the land of Israel. That’s what indigenity means. It’s not a casual claim of ancestry but a formative relationship between a people and a place.
The land of the Palestinians? Since when have the Palestinian Moslem Arabs ruled over a state? If anything, the Jews are the original Palestinians, remember no Moslem Arabs from Arabia in 2nd century Roman named “Palestine”. No Islam, Mohammeds, Abdools, Ali’s either.