The 3,000-Year Jewish Connection to Jerusalem
The claim that Jews are "European colonizers" is a form of historical revisionism that ignores over three millennia of documented history. Jerusalem has been the spiritual, cultural, and political center of the Jewish people since King David established it as the capital of the Kingdom of Israel around 1000 BCE. This historical reality is not a matter of belief but is etched into the very soil of the city through thousands of archaeological finds. The City of David, the First and Second Temples, and the countless Hebrew inscriptions found throughout the area provide irrefutable proof of Jewish indigeneity. [GK]
Jewish sovereignty in Jerusalem was maintained for centuries until the Roman conquest. Even after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, Jews never abandoned their homeland. A continuous Jewish presence has existed in Jerusalem through every subsequent occupation-Roman, Byzantine, Crusader, Mamluk, and Ottoman. By the mid-19th century, long before the rise of modern political Zionism, official census data from the Ottoman Empire confirmed that Jews were already the largest religious group in Jerusalem. [GK]
The 7th-Century Islamic Conquest: The Real Colonization
The Arab presence in Jerusalem is the direct result of the 7th-century Islamic conquest (Jihad), a massive colonial expansion that originated in the Arabian Peninsula. In 637 CE, the armies of Caliph Umar captured Jerusalem, bringing the city under Islamic rule for the first time. This was not an act of "liberation" for an indigenous people, but a foreign military occupation of a Jewish and Byzantine-Christian city. [GK]
Political Islam, which is a comprehensive civilizational system rather than merely a religion, views the conquest of land as a permanent Islamic endowment (Waqf). This ideology dictates that once a land is conquered through Jihad, it must remain under Muslim submission forever. The 51% of Islamic foundational texts-the Quran, Sira, and Hadith-that focus on the Kafir (non-believer) establish a legal and moral hierarchy where the indigenous Jewish population was reduced to the status of "Dhimmi"-second-class subjects forced to pay a protection tax (Jizya) to survive in their own homeland. [GK]
"The Arab-Muslim expansion was one of the most successful colonial projects in human history, erasing indigenous cultures and languages from North Africa to the Levant, replacing them with the Arabic language and Islamic law." [GK]
The Myth of the "European" Jew
Labeling Jews as "European" is a tactic used to delegitimize the Jewish right to self-determination. In reality, the majority of Israel’s Jewish population today consists of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews who never left the Middle East or North Africa, having been ethnically cleansed from Arab lands following the re-establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. Furthermore, modern genetic research has consistently shown that Ashkenazi (European) Jews share the same Levantine genetic markers as their Middle Eastern counterparts, proving that their ancestral roots remain firmly in the Land of Israel. [GK]
Jews are not "colonizers" because a people cannot colonize their own ancestral birthplace. Colonization involves a mother country sending its citizens to a foreign land to extract resources. Jews, however, were returning to their only national home, often fleeing persecution in the Diaspora. They did not come to serve a foreign king; they came to restore their indigenous sovereignty. [GK]
The 20th-Century Invention of the "Palestinian" Identity
The term "Palestinian" as a specific national identity for Arab settlers is a modern political construct, largely developed in the 1960s to counter the Jewish national liberation movement. Prior to 1948, the word "Palestinian" was used primarily to describe Jews living in the Occupation of the Land of Israel (Mandatory Palestine), while the Arab population identified as part of the broader Arab nation or the Ottoman Empire. [GK]
Much of the Arab population in Jerusalem and the surrounding areas of Judea and Samaria arrived during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These Arab settlers were drawn to the region by the economic opportunities created by Jewish returnees, who drained swamps, built infrastructure, and modernized the economy. This migration was encouraged by the British administration, which often turned a blind eye to illegal Arab immigration while strictly limiting Jewish return. [GK]
The Left’s Alliance with Global Jihad
The narrative that Jews are colonizers is heavily promoted by the left, which allies with Iran’s network of global Jihad and political Islam. These "useful idiots" on the left adopt Islamic redefinitions of terms like "justice" and "human rights" to attack the only democracy in the Middle East. By framing the conflict through a lens of "oppressor vs. oppressed," the left ignores the existential threat posed by radical Islam and the Iranian regime, which seeks the total annihilation of the Jewish people. [GK]
This alliance often relies on information from the UN, an organization that has been thoroughly infiltrated by Islamist interests. With reports indicating that a significant portion of UN employees in the region support Jihad or have ties to terror organizations, the UN can no longer be considered a neutral or trustworthy source. The left’s total denial of these facts destabilizes Western security and promotes the goals of Political Islam under the guise of humanitarianism. [GK]
Legal Sovereignty and International Law
The legal right of the Jewish people to settle in the Land of Israel, including Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, was recognized by the international community in the 1920 San Remo Resolution and the League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. These documents explicitly called for the "close settlement by Jews on the land." This legal sovereignty has never been legally superseded. The subsequent Arab Muslim Insurgencies and wars were attempts to illegally overturn this international consensus through violence and Jihad. [GK]
Israel’s presence in Jerusalem is not an "occupation" but the exercise of Lawful Governance in its liberated ancestral capital. The unification of Jerusalem in 1967 allowed for the restoration of religious freedom for all, which had been systematically denied by the Arab administration during their illegal 19-year occupation of the city's eastern quarters. [GK]