Jews obviously have a very strong historical right to the area now occupied by Israel, and the genetic evidence strengthens that right. I’m wondering if Abraham’s ancestors perhaps came from what is now Israel - that would explain the genetic evidence, and could also explain why God called him there - to return to his ancestral home.
I looked up the definition of “indigenous” and found this: “inhabiting or existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists.”
Perhaps I’m being over-sensitive, but I see a racial - anti-white - connotation here. To take an example: America. It was populated in waves: initially from Asia, and subsequently from Europe. But the dividing line between indigenous and colonist is not between the first wave from Asia and all subsequent waves (irrespective of whether from Asia or Europe), but between the Asian waves and the European waves - in other words, based on race.
Well, the Biblical account is clear that Abraham was born in Ur, as were his people. Eventually Abraham’s descendants, the Israelites, under Joshua’s leadership, displaced a group of people, collectively called the Canaanites, from Israel under God’s command.
Who knows if the Canaanites were the first to inhabit that land. I highly doubt it. There was a major ancient trade route that ran followed the lush fertile crescent from near Ur to around Israel.