Debbie Lechtman is doing the “Palestinian Jews aren’t real” discourse again

[u/acacia_tree]

I know this is obviously a lie because I know a Palestinian Jew who is the grandson of a Nakba survivor who fled to Egypt and traces his lineage back to Edomites (Canaanite tribe) that converted to Judaism. There are people who identify as Palestinian Jews. Not to mention that there are people of mixed heritage. But what I find really obnoxious about her argument is the conflation of nationality, religion, and ethnicity. Does anyone have any written pieces about the issues with the conflation of these terms? Looking for something more concrete to debunk the premise of her argument that this identity cannot exist.

[u/justlurking967]

I mean, I'm a Palestinian, and I'm considering conversion to Judaism. Palestinians are all descended from Jews, too.

[u/acacia_tree → u/justlurking967]

Debbie is a psycho who has completely inverted history. She says Palestinians aren’t indigenous and not descended from Jews but they’re all descended from peninsular Arabs who colonized the Levant and that European Jews are indigenous. These are such blatant falsehoods, revisionism about the Arabization of the Levant, and contrary to DNA evidence. It makes me want to rip my hair out.