Shusha
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Except actually you can. You can claim citizenship in Poland and Scotland (UK) based on ancestry. But this isn't relevant to the conversation. You are conflating individual rights with collective rights. We are not discussing the rights of individuals, but the rights of collectives, specifically of peoples who have developed a national identity attached to a specific homeland.My ancestors were from various places in Europe long ago too. Some of them were Polish and left because of Nazis. Some were Scottish and left because of British imperialism. It doesn't mean I can simply go there and set up shop and call myself citizen because my ancestors had roots there.
The Jewish right to self-determination and sovereignty is identical to anyone else's claim and right to self-determination and sovereignty. The Jewish people are THE indigenous peoples of that land. Or ONE of the indigenous peoples, if you'd rather. The Jewish people have been living continuously in that land for thousands of years. (And even if you want to ridiculously argue that the Jewish people were entirely ethnically cleansed from the land, that does not extinguish their rights to it.)You dont rightfully get to get to have whole states created for you because you had ancestors who lived there many hundreds or thousands of years ago.
If the claim to a State is not self-determination of a peoples with a national identity, what do you think it is? Your definition needs to apply to ALL peoples equally.