This is literally the narrative being employed now - that Palestinians do not come from Palestine. How do we even begin to find common ground with an extremist movement that denies our very existence?
https://twitter.com/SamuelLasker/status/1316771570128433159
Note the essentialization (i.e. the racism) of it; the idea that all Arabic speaking people are interchangeable and if you're Arabic speaking you might as well be uprooted from Iraq and cast into the Algerian desert and you don't get to complain coz it's all Arabs anyway
This is like saying that someone from New Zealand can be uprooted and then sent to a refugee camp in Guyana and it's all fine and dandy because they're both English speaking countries where some of the population are of European descent so they're just the same people
For the record: Palestinians are the assimilated descendants of everyone who lived in the Holy Land since eternity. In every drop of my blood is a cosmos of peoples spanning all of human history. The language we speak and the way we worship doesn't change that.
In fact, genetic evidence shows that Palestinians and Jews share genetic roots. That today we speak Arabic and practice Islam doesn't mean we come from Mecca or something. haaretz.com/science-and-he…
In fact, early Zionist leaders have in the past openly exploited the fact that Palestinians are descended (in part) from Jews to further Zionist narratives. We're native when it suits their agenda and foreigners when it doesn't. haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
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