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Ashkenazi Jews Are Indigenous To Israel, Not Europe

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Ashkenazi Jews Are Indigenous To Israel, Not Europe For Jews, awareness of our indigeneity to Israel is of paramount importance. It is a vital reminder of who we are, where we come from, and what our ancestors died to defend. It is the antidote to centuries of exile and colonization, and the legal basis our national rights are contingent upon. For these reasons, it has become a cornerstone of Jewish resistance, and rightly so. But our self-identity as an indigenous Middle Eastern people hasn’t always been welcomed. To the contrary, it has been and continues to be ferociously resisted. Despite centuries of being told to ‘go back to Palestine’, today we are told, with alarming frequency, that we are “only a religion” and that we are “foreigners” and “colonizers” in our own indigenous homeland. Too many people fail to recognize this for the insidious psychological assault on our being that it is. Especially important to maintaining our indigenous identity is showing the anti...
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UN Guidelines: Jews are indigenous to Israel

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UN Guidelines: Jews are indigenous to Israel Share 109 Under UN guidelines Jews are indigenous to Israel, Palestinians are not, hence those who argue “for Palestinian ‘indigenous rights’ are usually those who have little grasp of the history, and no understanding of the truth behind indigenous rights.” Israel Palestine: Who’s Indigenous? By Ryan Bellerose I am a  Métis  from Paddle Prairie Metis settlement. My father, Mervin Bellerose, co-authored the Métis Settlements Act of 1989, which was passed by the Alberta legislature in 1990 and cemented our land rights. I founded Canadians For Accountability, a native rights advocacy group, and I am an organizer and participant in the Idle No More movement in Calgary. And I am a Zionist. Magdala stone with Menorah that was found in the Archaeological site inside the Migdal Synagogue area – Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Hanay Indigenous status To begin, let us acknowledge that there is no rul...
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Whose Palestine? Apart from who the critics of journalist Joan Peters's book From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over… JUL, 1986 BY RAEL ISAAC

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Whose Palestine? Apart from who the critics of journalist Joan Peters's book From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over… JUL, 1986   BY   RAEL ISAAC In the spring of 1984, Harper & Row published, to almost universal critical acclaim, a 600-page book by the journalist Joan Peters called  From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine . The book received almost two hundred reviews around the country, with many if not most reviewers echoing the sentiments of Martin Peretz, the editor of the  New Republic , who wrote that this was a book that could “change the mind of our generation” regarding the Arab-Israel conflict. 1  Miss Peters received a National Jewish Book Award for 1984 and the book went through eight hardcover printings before going into paperback. It was also published in England, receiving wide attention although more mixed reviews. A substantial part of Miss Peters's book is devot...
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