BDS is a Settler Colonial Ideology

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9. What's more important is Arab as a cultural distinction.

There isn't much difference between Palestinians and Jordanians or Syrians in their language, history, and culture. That's what makes nations.

And that is why it doesn't matter much that some Palestinians are descendants of Canaanite tribes. (So are the Jews). What matters is that the Jews are the CULTURAL descendants of the Israelites, who were the Canaanite tribes unified by the Hebrews into a single nation. Palestinians are the cultural descendants of Arabs from Arabia.

Another point is that the Palestinians don't need to prove that they are the genetic descendants of the Canaanites to establish that they have a right to a state in some part of the Holy Land. They have that right by virtue of being a separate people (even if they are closely related to other Arabs). The only reason that they "need" to prove that they were there before the Jews is to deny the Jews their right to a state. Unfortunately, that is what Palestinianism is about.