FUTURE OF JEWISH
Jews were the original Palestinians
Melissa Brodsky
July 24, 2026

In 1938, someone living in Tel Aviv (the first modern, all-Jewish city) reading the morning news was likely looking at The Palestine Post. A classical music fan attending a concert would probably watch the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. A builder needing a loan for a Jewish settlement went to the Anglo-Palestine Bank. They were Jewish, and they were Palestinian. Today, that sounds very much like a contradiction. People have been brainwashed to view the word “Palestinian” as an exclusive ethnic and national identity belonging solely to the Arab residents of the region. But history leaves a very long paper trail, and those documents show a different reality. The current use of the word is a recent invention. It’s not born from ancient roots, but from a calculated political strategy in the 1960s. To understand how a word that once described Jews became the battle cry against them, it helps to look at the timeline. READ MORE