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Mosby

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7. Genetics have little to nothing to do with indigenity

Reply to John ONeill (Reply #6)

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 03:38 PM

16 hrs ago

Not going down this rabbit hole.

The Palestinians are not Canaanites, ita Ahistorical bullshit.

Eta
https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/11/UNDRIP_E_web.pdf

No where in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is the word gene or genetics used. Not once.

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