For over two thousand years, European colonial scholarship has told the story of Palestine through a lens of invasion, extermination, and replacement. This narrative served empire. It justified colonization. It committed genocide against the indigenous peoples and attempted to erase them from their own history. But the evidence tells a radically different story, one grounded in archaeology, linguistics, genetics, and the living memory of an indigenous population that never left. The people who became "Israelites" and "Judahites" were not outsiders who invaded and destroyed. They were the original inhabitants of this land, Indigenous Canaanites whose culture evolved across millennia without interruption. Their descendants are the Palestinian people.
Bajis Hasanat Abu Mu'ailiq
Published on 04 Jan 2026
