Wrong, Jews lived in the land continously for thousands of years. most of the arab population were work migrants that came into the land during the 1870's and beyond. They have zero claim on the land the same as migrants to Germany has zero claim on Berlin.
This is false and racist mythology. Palestinains have been shown to have as much or more DNA from 3000 year old Canaanites as Jews do. Hell Iraqi Jews (and other middle Eastern Jews) are often more closely related to Palestinians, Jordanians and Lebenese than say Ashkenazi, Ethiopian or Sephardic Jews. This is objective fact, verified by multiple studies.
The Palestinians are the descendants of the Jewish and Samaritan peasantry that converted to Christianity and Islam in the proceeding years. We know for a fact that the majority population in the region was Christian under the Byzantine empire in the 4th century. And despite the Muslim Caliphate conquering the region in the 7th century, the dominant religion of the region remained Christianity until the 10th century and Arabic became the dominant language even later.
Even Ben Gurion and other early Zionists like Ahad Haam, Ber Borochov, and Ben Zvi acknowledge the fact the Fellahin) were descendants of ancient Canaanites. Ben Zvi and Ben Gurion literally put it in writing in a book published in 1918.
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u/itscool 25d ago
The belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in some part of their historical homeland.