“It is ultimately up to Diaspora Jews to make a decision. You are either native to Eretz Yisrael or…”

It is ultimately up to Diaspora Jews to make a decision. You are either native to Eretz Yisrael, the ancestral homeland of the people you are part of, to which your people’s language, customs, and traditions are indigenous and to which your people aspired and sacrificed to return for thousands of years; or you are indigenous to the place in which you were born in only because Assyrian, Babylonian, and Roman imperialists invaded your people’s homeland some centuries back. You are either part of a Semitic people, a proud and ancient Middle Eastern nation with a rich treasured past and a collective meaningful future, or you choose to willingly give in to subtle Western social constructs pressuring you to discard your people’s authentic self-definition and identify as white people, part of the Euro-Western nations, history and ethos with the only thing distinguishing you being some kind of different “religion.”

Hila Hershkoviz, “Jews are Indigenous: Why Israel Advocacy Fails”, The Times of Israel (8 February 2015) [http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jews-are-indigenous-why-j-street-and-standwithus-fail]