Why do people think ancestors of European Jews aren't really from Israel?

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Why do people think European Jews aren't really from Israel?

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They and most of their ancestors haven't lived there in a couple of thousand years?

What does "from" somewhere mean to you?

Cause if u were born before 1948, you can’t be FROM Israel?

ETA: And I don't buy the Khazar bullshite. It's been discredited by genetic testing.

But the criticism of the Jewish diaspora being "from Israel" isn't without basis, though for religious regions I concede that Israel is the historical homeland of the world's Jewish population.

Palestinians have a better claim to Israel than most post WWII ashkanazi Jewish people presently living there.

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What basis?

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The basis that no one else has a claim to a piece of land because their ancestors were kicked out by the fricking Assyrians, Romans, and Babylonians over several centuries 2000 years ago?

What's your claim or my claim to land wherever our ancestors came from even a few hundred years ago? And again, I support Israel's claim from a religious stand and because Israel has been re-established as the Jewish homeland for the better part of most people's lives--almost 70 years. I'm not an anti-Zionist. But if my religious beliefs weren't as they are and I wasn't relatively practically-minded, my opinion would be quite different. So I understand that people who don't share my beliefs have quite a different opinion.

Because it fits the neo Nazi agenda

Yes, I'm aware of that. I'm asking why people think they aren't the direct descendants of Jews who were from Israel.

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I'm asking why people think they aren't the direct descendants of Jews who were from Israel.

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People have lots of theories about lots of different things.

Why are you so concerned about Israel and Jews and what other people think of them?

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The basis that no one else has a claim to a piece of land because their ancestors were kicked out by the fricking Assyrians, Romans, and Babylonians over several centuries 2000 years ago? 

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the Jews maintained a constant presence in Israel the entire time, it's well documented in records from numerous cultures, histories. But I guess your point is that since you think the "Palestinians" have a better claim than the Jews there now, by your logic all the Jews have to do is hold on to the land long enough and then the Palestinians have no argument. Which is fine, since they really do have no argument. All Arabs living in the territory that was declared Israel in 1948 had all the same rights as citizens that the Jews living there did. They gave that up when they failed to help their fellow countrymen fight off the invading neighboring Arab Nations, instead choosing to side with them and step aside so they could go exterminate those filthy Jews. But oops that didn't happen, so there they sit. You would think the Jordanians would just give them citizenship because they are literally identical genetically, ethnically, and culturally to the Jordanians (who by the way are primarily composed of Syrian immigrants to the area drawn by the increased silence and economic activity in the region created by the influx of Jews). Oh wait I know why they haven't. Because the Palestinians as a distinct people group are a psychotic death cult founded by a literal Hitler fanboy, who tried to take over Jordan by terroristic means in 1970, black September. Other highlights of the wonderful Palestinian people include sending in their own children as suicide bombers to blow up pizza parlors and checkpoints, shelling residential neighborhoods randomly with mortars and rockets, and at one point electing a literal terrorist organization Hamas as their government