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[-] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago

Indigenous does not just mean “there for a long time”. White people have been in North America for centuries now but nobody is gonna say they’re indigenous.

And yes, Muslims and Jews both trace their ancestry to the biblical Abraham. The split was when Abraham banished Hagar and Ishmael and they went to the desert in Arabia.

Also Semitic just means a language group.

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

If people who are genetically predisposed to living in the area aren't indigenous then the European Jews in Israel with some of the highest rates of skin cancer aren't either.

No one is indigenous to anywhere by your logic since we evolved from a species before us.

Either that or one place in Africa where the first homo sapiens came from are the only indigenous people in the world.

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