ARUTZ SHEVA
‘Pro-Israel’ J Street says Jews not indigenous to Israel
by Ari Soffer
October 25, 2015

It would seem to be a fairly basic principle for a pro-Israel organization to accept: that the Jewish people is an indigenous nation to the Land of Israel. Not so for J Street and several other self-defined “liberal Zionist” organizations. At the World Zionist Congress last week, a proposal entitled “Recognition of the Jewish People as Indigenous to the Land of Israel” was proposed by LAVI, a relatively small but active group of newcomers to the World Zionist Organization’s legislative body…The authors of the bill emphasized that expressing the principle of Jewish indigenous status in such clear terms was necessary to “answer… the core anti-Israel accusation that Jews are foreign colonialists in the country and instead affirms that the Jewish people have indigenous rights to live in their ancestral home.” READ MORE