How did a foreign people end up obtaining more than 90% of Palestine?

 John Adams

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How did a foreign people end up obtaining more than 90% of Palestine?

During the 19th century, the Jewish population represented approximately 3% of Palestine’s population, according to demographic estimates by specialists such as Justin McCarthy and Alexander Schölch.

Most spoke Arabic and constituted the third-largest religious group in Palestine, after Muslims and Christians.

In 1917, when Britain issued the Balfour Declaration, Jews still represented approximately 8% of Palestine’s population, despite Zionist waves of migration having begun 40 years earlier.

By 1946, after decades of migration, that proportion had risen to approximately 32%.

So how did a population that constituted a demographic minority end up claiming sovereignty over the territory?

Well, this is called Zionism.

Zionism maintained that Jews, regardless of their nationality or culture, had the right to national self-determination in Palestine in order to establish a Jewish state there, overriding the rights of the Palestinian people.

But national self-determination is not based on a religious, biblical, or mythical claim to a territory.

National self-determination is the right of the inhabitants of a territory to define their own homeland.

That is why Zionism is not simply a racist ideology; first and foremost, it is an immoral ideology, since it normalizes theft and ethnic cleansing as a necessary step toward establishing that state based on biblical mythology.