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In the early 20th century, under British military occupation of Palestine, colonial administrators began broadly classifying Palestinians as "Arabs," while deliberately contrasting them with "Jews." This imposed identity linked Palestine to Arab identity and cast incoming European settlers as Jews, collapsing the tribal and Indigenous lineages into a single colonial construct. The contrast was later reinforced by British protectorate states in the Persian Gulf, and today it persists through Gulf Cooperation Council regimes, Western diplomatic language, and the State of Israel's Zionist narrative. Persian Gulf states recycle the Ishmaelite "Arab" narrative and present Palestinians as junior members of a single Arab nation, Western governments echo the same framing, and the State of Israel uses it to label Indigenous Bedouins in the Naqab, Jordan Valley, and "West Bank" as "nomadic Arabs," suggesting their "true" homeland is in the Arabian Peninsula. From its colonial origins to its modern recycling, this misclassification continues to erase indigenous identity and deny Palestinians recognition as an Indigenous people of the very land they've inhibited for over 5,000 years.

Bajis Hasanat Abu Mu'ailiq

Published on 25 Nov 2025

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This report advances one clear legal thesis. Since October 2023, senior officials of the State of Israel publicly invoked the biblical term Amalek while directing military operations against Palestinians. Those utterances are direct and public incitement under Article III(c) of the Genocide Convention and probative of genocidal intent and persecution under the Rome Statute when considered with the ensuing conduct. The same term, Amalek (the Giants), is also part of our own indigenous memory in the southern corridor as ancestral Canaanite tribal confederation of which Palestinians, including the Tribe of Abimelech, are the living continuation. To label Palestinians Amalek is therefore to mark an indigenous people for elimination by name. The law does not recognize scripture as a defense. It examines what was said, by whom, to whom, and with what foreseeable effect, and it imposes duties to prevent, punish, and repair.

Bajis Hasanat Abu Mu'ailiq

Published on 17 Nov 2025

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The resilient people of Palestine continue to endure relentless genocide and ethnocide, with a tragic toll of 70,000 lives lost in just two years and 170,000 left with lasting injuries and disabilities. Our families are being killed at a scale never witnessed by humanity, and the loss of our loved ones is tearing our families apart for generations. We were already forced to be scattered and divided once before, and another massive crime like this is unfolding.

Bajis Hasanat Abu Mu'ailiq

Published on 29 Oct 2025

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This article is part of a larger research project titled "History of Palestine and the Region" by Abdul-Hafiz Youssef Nofal, a researcher and engineer from the Hebron Hills, Tell al Safi, and a descendant of the Palestinian Tribe of Brahmiyya . The full study covers Palestine's history, which has often been unclear over the past 150 years, starting from its Canaanite origins through various periods, including the Jewish (Israelite), Islamic (Ayyubid, Mamluk, and Ottoman), and Christian (Franks/al-Ifranj) invasions and conquests, as well as the Sea Peoples, Greeks, Romans, Persians, and up to the modern British-Israeli era.

Bajis Hasanat Abu Mu'ailiq

Published on 25 Oct 2025

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