Part 1 of definition of an “indigenous people”…. history details matter! What is the definition of an “indigenous people”? To answer this properly, we must first briefly summarize pre-Industrial history of Empires. (I promise to keep it directly brief!) From ancient BCE to the 6th century CE, Arabs were the Read more…
Is there anywhere in world history where Jews are a colonizing people whose actions are justified by a universal religion? No, there is *not* in non-fictional history (and, it can be easily argued, not even in our mythic history)! So, why are we Jews arguing, educating, and justifying our Jewish Read more…
Some comments (and my responses to) historically ignorant or racist colonizers of Palestine trying to justify their indigeneity in the land. “Tsefan Josef, Big news for you: a) Many palestinians are descendants of Egyptians, as well as Canaanites. b) That land was part of … the New Kingdom of Egypt Read more…
First, a clarity on definitions: There is religious Zionism, which all Jews from Mizrahi to Sephardi to Ashkenazi and etc. support and has always sought for the reestablishment of the nation-State of Israel on our ancestral Judean lands. There is also political Zionism born out of 19th century European Jewish Read more…
“Despite the [Israeli] state rabbinate’s ideologically hybrid human makeup [a secular democratic civil government with a singular rabbinical national religious establishment for all Israeli citizens], from a conceptual perspective it has long functioned as a central symbol of the modern Jewish political renaissance. The very idea of a sovereign [secular] Read more…