#anyway tb to this idf family friend of mine

[alfedena]

what do you think is the best way to deal with jews claiming that they originated in israel?

i think using a model of indigeneity that uses connection to community, kinship ties, etc. is important instead of modes of connection that are attached to dna and ancestry-tracing with systems akin to blood quantum and the nuremberg racial laws. although because this a view of ethnicity and indigeneity that is rooted in decolonial theory and practice, i dont think most zionists would be very open to listening to this

obviously if you go back 2000 years, jewish people can trace their lineage back to the levant. however, the vast majority of jewish people do not at this moment in time have any cultural connection to the land of palestine aside from this imagined national culture that has been created in the past hundred years.

and kinship ties go beyond our mere notions of familial or interpersonal relationships, we have to think about our interaction with land. what does that look like for israeli settlers? at this point we see the burning of palestinian crops, mass land purchase and privatization throughout the centuries on behalf of israelis (and ottomans) - replacing indigenous communal land practices, restriction of movement for palestinian communities, as seen in the displacement of palestinians who have lived in their cities and towns for generations as well as restriction of movement for the nomadic minorities like the bedouin, etc. imo things like these absolutely mirror other settler-colonial states like the US and canada

#anyway tb to this idf family friend of mine #who was saying how the plc banned dna testing bc all the palestinian results came back as jewish dna #its like okay does that not literally contradict your whole thing #about you believing palestinians came from jordan or lebanon or whatever #such bullshit