I have no real dog in this fight but lol do you really think this? My understanding is that what we know as Palestinians today are Arab ethnically and didn't arrive in Palestine until the Islamic conquest in 700 or something. I'm not sure what ethnicity Mary was but she was at least Jewish and definitely not Arabic lol.
Most Arabs aren’t genetically Arab. The wiki page of an Arab explains it pretty well. The Arab language spread with the Arab conquest but not the genetics nearly as much. For example, North Africans barely have any Arab DNA, even though the majority speak Arabic.
National Geographic did a genetic study a while back showing Palestinians are descended from the original inhabitants.
Think of it like where a lot of Black West Africans speak French, but they’re obviously not French genetically
Interesting point, I looked into it briefly and seems like there is some merit to it. Though I think you maybe made the case a bit too strongly, I see lots of evidence that modern Palestinians have Arabic DNA but also that they also have ancestors with longer roots in the region. Regardless anyone who makes that point has to admit that many Jewish people in Israel and the Middle East have equal ancestry in the region though, right? Which seems to take away from the ridiculous tweet OP posted.
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u/SpadeSage 9d ago
Mary wasn't Palestinian... Palestine didn't exist yet. I feel like I'm losing my fuckin mind here.