SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: By the definition of indigenous you opened with, the population already there when someone else arrived, the Palestinians were indigenous.

https://x.com/nxt888/status/2056295491764441564

"Jews returning to the one place on earth where their indigeneity is older than the word itself."

The word indigenous comes from the Latin indigena, meaning "born in a place."

So let’s apply the definition honestly.

The Jews who arrived in Palestine in the 1880s through 1940s were predominantly from Eastern Europe.

Poland. Russia. Romania. Ukraine.

Their ancestors had lived in those countries for centuries. Some for over a thousand years.

The connection to ancient Judea was religious and cultural.

But it was not a continuous, unbroken, physical, generational inhabitation of the specific land.

The Palestinians who were expelled in 1948 had continuous, unbroken, physical, generational inhabitation of that specific land.

By the definition of indigenous you opened with, the population already there when someone else arrived, the Palestinians were indigenous.

The Zionist settlers, whatever the depth of their historical and spiritual connection, arrived.

Your own definition produces this answer.

You argued against yourself.