• sheogorath@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Purdy much, most Palestinians are actually the native Jewish population who converted to Christianity and then Islam. That’s why the Israeli government doesn’t want DNA testing.

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      17 hours ago

      Any ideas why they converted? I wasn’t aware of this, and I don’t see that it matters…I’m just curious.

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        12 hours ago

        Christian crusades followed by Islam doing what Islam is designed to do.

        Mass conversion of populations are not common. It’s either conquest, oppression or rebellion.

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        15 hours ago

        A lot of it was forced conversion. There’s a long history of religious and cultural oppression of various peoples in the region. You could probably find some online documentaries about it, though more than a few likely view the events through a pro-Zionist lens.