The most "civilized of world Jewry" chopped thousands of acres planted with Palestinians' olive groves! Click the image to enlargeThe claim that Jews are indigenous to Palestine is undermined by the high prevalence of olive pollen allergies within Jewish populations, a factor that may explain the historical scarcity of olive cultivation by Jewish colonial settlers. Furthermore, this physiological disconnect --compounded by high rates of skin cancer among Jewish groups in the region-- stands in stark contrast to the indigenous connection Palestinians maintain with their native environment. Historical accounts, such as those by Meron Benvenisti in Sacred Landscape (p. 165), document the systematic destruction of Palestinian olive groves following the 1948 Nakba, suggesting an ideological hostility toward these sacred trees that persists to this date.
Given these observations, one must ask:
- Why are Palestinians inherently adapted to Palestine’s native flora and environment while Jewish populations appear biologically mismatched? It is reasonable to conclude that Ashkenazi populations possess a biological affinity for Eastern Europe, especially in the case of Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland.
- In contrast, Mizrahi populations share similar ancestral ties to their respective regions in the Middle East and North Africa. This leads to the fundamental question: Is the Palestinians' sense of belonging to the land a direct result of their unbroken indigenous connection to the land, whereas the Jewish claim (concerning their exile) remains a narrative unsupported by historical or genetic evidence?
- Must we rely on complex DNA science to recognize that 2,000 years of alleged exile does not grant an indigenous status that the land itself seems to reject?



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