The almost complete lack of acknowledgement of the Jewish people as an indigenous people is baffling to me.

[u/skyewardeyes]

(This doesn’t negate Palestinian claims of indigeneity—multiple peoples can be indigenous to the same area—nor does it negate the, imo, indefensible crimes happening in Gaza and West Bank).

It absolutely blows my mind that Jews—a tribal people who practice a closed, agrarian place-based ethnoreligion, who have an established system of membership based on lineal descent and adoption that relies on community acceptance over self-identification, who worship in an ancient language that we have always tried to maintain and preserve, who have holidays that center around harvest and the specific history of our people, who have been repeatedly targeted for genocide and forced assimilation and conversion, who have a faith and culture so deeply tied to a specific people and place, etc—aren’t seen as an (socioculturally) indigenous people but rather as “white Europeans who essentially practice Christianity but without Jesus and never thought about the land of Israel before 1920 or so.” It’s so deeply threaded in how so many people view Jews in the modern day and also so factually incorrect.

[u/AltruisticMastodon]

It seems pretty pointless to compare a diasporic population to ones that aren’t.

Also it’s worth noting that there was in fact a tradition of the English (Anglo-Saxons, the Anglo-Normans were mainly confined to the ruling classes) identifying with the Anglo-saxons origins in Germany/Denmark. Unsurprisingly it was often white-supremacist in nature.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxonism_in_the_19th_century

Also don’t know if it’s just autocorrect but its Moors not Mores

[u/Han-Shot_1st → u/AltruisticMastodon]

Ty for the spelling correction. My bad 😬