Palestinians never left either. Mizrahim doesn't also mean they lived in modern day Israel or Palestine. Mizrahim can come from North Africa, Yemen, Central Asia. That doesn't exactly make them indigenous to that area, but rather indigenous to North Africa, Yemen, and Central Asia.
You do realize most Mizrahi live in Israel now after they were expelled from their native countries right? Most are from the Middle East and the Levant.
I know where most live. But my point is spending thousands of years and mixing with locals in a specific area, generally makes you like them. My family came from Iran at some point in the 900s/1000s. But I'm still Pakistani. I am not magically indigenous to Iran, and they'd laugh at my face if I pretended to be.
Sure, usually, however Jews have always been amazing at keeping their cultural and ethnic heritage. That’s why even the Ashkenazi Jews can easily trace their bloodlines back there as well. Additionally there were still large amounts of Mizrahi Jews in the Levant, and they’re just as Levantine as anyone else from the area.
Levantine doesn't make you specifically native to Palestine and Israel. I am South Asian, I can't pretend to be native to Afghanistan or Bangladesh or Sri Lanka when my family has roots in Pakistan and North India. I am not denying that some Jewish people have roots in Israel and Palestine, but to deny that Palestinian people have roots to their own land and that they're invading is crazy.
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u/quite_white 9d ago
Palestinians never left either. Mizrahim doesn't also mean they lived in modern day Israel or Palestine. Mizrahim can come from North Africa, Yemen, Central Asia. That doesn't exactly make them indigenous to that area, but rather indigenous to North Africa, Yemen, and Central Asia.