So the Jews the invading and colonizing people (Battle of Jericho and all that) cannot be indigenous by definition. Next.
In any case, people claiming to be indigenous must at least have lived in an area for some time. I don't think living in Europe for 2,000 years can make a people indigenous to a place on another continent.
The Palestinians who have ancestry back to the Canaanites, Philistines etc. (as well as to invading Israelites) are thus closest to being indigenous.
And, they were certainly the native inhabitants that the Covenant of the League of Nations referred to.
1. The people who became the Jewish people were one of many warring tribes in the region who largely shared the same culture. The Canaanites became the Jewish people. All the other warring tribes were absorbed into competing cultures and did not survive.
2. There is absolutely no cultural connection between the Arab Muslim "Palestinians" and the Canaanites or the Israelites. None. Zero. The culture of the present day Arab Muslims is the culture of the invading and colonizing peoples. The definition of indigenous depends on pre-invasion cultures.
3. The Jewish people have lived continuously in the territory in question going back thousands of years.
And you don't really want to argue that the displacement or expulsion of part of a group renders the entire group as being non-indigenous and without rights, do you? Because that is going to cause you some serious problems in the discussions about the "Palestinian" RoR.3. The Jewish people have lived continuously in the territory in question going back thousands of years.
Not the ones out of Europe.
IRRELEVANT the Jews who lived in Palestine for 4.500 years lived in Palestine for 4,500 years. What don't you understand about that. And when they created Israel they had the right to invite other Jews to migrate there and settle. Just as the arab muslims granted land under the same international treaty ( international law ) also had the right to invite of ban those they wanted to live in their nation. I don't see you or any other of the team Palestine members complaining about the way the arabs treated the Jews between 1917 and 1947 with forced evictions and deportations, beatings and murders.