by Oui
Mon Jan 13th, 2025 at 07:55:06 PM EST
State of Israel 1948 - Map
UN Partition Plan - Resolution 181 (1947)
The Zionist Dream A Fallacy: Genomes Don't Lie
One of the key arguments favoring of the Zionist claim to Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people is indigeneity: It alleges Jews have a right to return to it, and possess it.
Zionists similarly argue that because the Jewish liturgy includes passages attesting to the longing of Jews to return to Zion; and because God in the Bible promised the land to Abraham and his descendants in perpetuity-all these buttress the Jewish claim.
Indigeneity and the genome
The population groups are ranked from closest to the Canaanite genome to farthest. The term "Canaanite" describes the most ancient known peoples in the Levant. Their existence in the Bronze and Iron Ages corresponds to the period 3500-1800 BCE. Those in groups in green are almost indistinguishable from them. As the colors change from yellow to orange to red, the groups are farther away from the Canaanites.
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The Bible provides an interesting sidenote to these issues. Abraham, founder of Israelite religion, was purportedly born in ancient Mesopotamia (Ur of the Chaldeans). He migrated to what is now Hebron in the Palestinian West Bank. In a sense, these genome charts confirm, in some mythic sense, the genetic ancestry (and continuity) of Abraham and his descendants.
But even here, we must proceed with caution. Biblical scholars have long since debunked the notion that Abraham (or most of the Biblical ancestors) were actual historical figures. They all proceed from the same realm of myth common to all civilizations and religions.
The Bible is not history. It is myth. Not to disparage myth. It is what we tell ourselves about our identity. But myth is allegory. One cannot make determinations in the real world based on myth. Myth is not evidence. It is not proof of anything.
Thus, Zionism is not historical. Its claims are based on ideology. Not historical fact.
The Fallacy of Analogy and the Risk of Moral Imperialism: Israeli Literature and the Palestinian Other | Humanities - Spring 2019 |
Dead Sea Scrolls
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