• MultigrainCerealista [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    They, ideological Zionists, are the ones who insist the genetic contribution from 2000 years ago gives them a right to own Palestine. Not me. I’m denying that argument. I’m saying the fact that a part of their genetic ancestry is from Palestine isn’t sufficient to make a claim to rightful ownership of Palestine on the basis of being “indigenous”.

    If we are discussing their “indigenous” character, then being genetically related to the earlier inhabitants is relevant though.

    I am disputing their indigenous character.

    They are not indigenous to Palestine.

    The Ashkenazi are a mostly European culture and ethnicity and that’s true on genetic, cultural, linguistic grounds.

    The idea that they are indigenous to palestine is a cultural tradition. A matter of ideology.

    • Evergreen [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      An indigenous people wouldn't commit apartheid against the indigenous, nor uproot native trees and replace them with European ones. I'm not an expert on the ancestry of occupiers but they certainly don't behave like indigenous people...