If you are Indigenous, you are a Zionist
If you support indigenous people's rights, you should also be a Zionist. Because Zionism is the national liberation movement of an indigenous people who never truly left their land, and who finally came home. If you are Indigenous, you are a Zionist. You just may not have known it yet.
Resonances between Jews and Indigenous Peoples
Dr Sheree Trotter spoke at the Beit Tikvah Synagogue in Toronto about the Resonances between Jews and Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous Zionism at Concordia University
Some time ago, scholars gathered in Montreal, Canada, to discuss “Jewish conceptions of indigeneity in Zionist thought”—that is, Zionist indigeneity and its Jewish roots (rather than the fabricated indigeneity of supposed “non-Jewish Israelis” or various “Canaanites”). They discussed the genuine indigeneity of a continuous and ancient Jewish people that was uprooted, exiled, and returned twice; a people that, until its return, maintained for centuries an indigenous attachment to the Land of Israel—like other indigenous peoples who survived and aspire to return.
Māori Delegation to Israel: Hearts & Minds Changed
In November 2025, Yifat Goddard, an Israeli citizen of New Zealand led a delegation of Māori leaders on a trip to Israel. The invitation to come and see the reality led to an eye-opening trip that impacted hearts and minds.
The Quiet Social Engineering of Morocco’s Indigenous Identity
To understand Morocco's transformation, one must first grasp the imperial origins of the Arab nationalism that shaped its post-independence trajectory. Far from being an authentic anti-colonial movement, Arab nationalism was deliberately cultivated by British intelligence during World War I as a tool to fragment the Ottoman Empire whilst maintaining Western influence over the Middle East.
Indigeneity Between Genealogy and Power
In the settler-colonial contexts of the modern West—like the Americas or Australia—these two meanings overlap. The colonized were also the ancestral peoples. As a result, “indigeneity” comes to imply both firstness and oppression—producing a powerful rhetoric of double moral legitimacy: the right of original belonging fused with the moral capital of the victim. But this fusion breaks down in other regions—especially the Middle East.