I’ve seen & heard this a few times, that Zionists will justify their claim of ownership to Palestinian lands by pointing at the Bible for evidence that they were the original inhabitants of that land. They don’t consider it the West Bank, they call it Judea and Samaria (as seen on The Setters documentary). I haven’t read the bible and tbh don’t know that history very well of which people lived where but I’m sure the history is not as simple as this. Anyone have any good reads or insights into this history?

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    23 days ago

    Is it really that complex?

    1. Religion doesn’t give you free license to violently conquer a country in any case.
    2. Indigeneity doesn’t come from being able to trace an ancestry to a place, nor from having “one’s people” as its first inhabitants. This is a conception of indigeneity rooted in property rights that we need to move past. Indigeneity is rather, in effect, defined relationally to settlerdom.
    3. Even so, what the Hell would make Zionist Ashkenazim, rather than Palestinians, the heirs of an extinct culture? It can’t be either lineage or culture, because by any metric Palestinians are closer to, and modern Jews futher from, Ancient Judea than the Zionist narrative would like.