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This is more than just a "Biblical narrative"...it's Israel's core Zionist narrative. Their entire claim to the Holy Land, is that they are the direct descendants of the Jews who were exiled thousands of years ago.
In the vast majority of cases though, this claim isn't true. The majority of Israeli Jews are of European descent. Their ancestors never came from that region.
It's about an even split between mozrahi/sephardi and ashkenazi actually. Aside from this nonsense being another example of mizrahi, sephardi, and other Jewish heritage erasure, it also is as revisionist of ashkenazi history as actual Israeli propaganda. Moreover, it belies a complete misunderstanding of how population genetics work and significant markers that very much distinguish European Jews from their non-Jewish counterparts.
Worst of all, it doesn't fucking matter. The crime against Palestine isn't that the wrong ethnicity gets to be supremacist--its that it is ethnosupremacist in the first place.
It's a moot point regardless - I could not give any fucks about whether their ancestors lived there a thousand years ago, or whether their genetics imply heritage.
Genocide is inherently incidental (and occasionally explicit) to fulfilling this moronic prophecy. Zionism is a fucking cancer and it needs to stop.
You are correct I should correct my comment thank you