An artful side skirting of the main issue I raised, namely that to be indigenous to a land, one has to have lived there for at least a few hundred years, ergo Jews are not indigenous to Israel. I'd expect nothing less from you than to avoid that concept all together.
For your information, until 1948, over 75% of Israelis were of European origin. Starting in the '50s, many Arab-Jews migrated to Israel, many from Yemen and Morocco. So by 1967, the "Oriental" Jews outnumbered the Europeans, but only because of a new class of Jews, the so-called sabras. In 1975 the Israeli born Jews, aka sabras, outnumbered all immigrants, though the country distinctly retained (and still does retain) a European background. But the again the '80s saw a flood of eastern European Jews migrating to Israel. If Israelis were mostly Oriental Jews, then how do you explain the strong European cultural influence there? Your claim that "most Israelis have ancestors who were never in Europe at any point in history" is therefore patently false. I will correct myself if you show a real study that backs up your claim.
Regardless, no matter how you slice it, Israelis are almost all immigrants from various countries or offspring of those immigrants and have not been there long enough to be considered indigenous to the land.
Now for the record, where do you think the Jews are indigenous to and on what grounds do you base that claim? |
