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But that's also misleading.
This is sort of disingenuous because even your own article talks about many other reasons for the migrations that you're leaving out.
Jews migrated at various times throughout their history, either through direct exile or religious persecution that resulted in migrations. Some notable events are these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_captivity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_captivity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple#Destruction
There were events such as these of compulsory migrations along with voluntary ones motivated by religious persecution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_diaspora
The genetics thing is more or less true implying there was still a continuity of people in the region, although Palestinian Jews and Palestinian Christians are still closer genetically to the Jewish diaspora than Palestinian Arabs, who seem to see themselves as culturally and ethnically distinct from Jews (and vice versa), despite all evidence to the contrary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Jews#Paternal_line
I guess the question is whether Jews and Palestinians can reconcile things based on their shared history and genetic grounds following Arabization. I'm definitely not saying Palestinians have no right to those lands either, but the current situation most definitely is in part the result of colonization of the Jews/Palestinians at various points throughout their history. So I still feel it's odd to call them colonizers depending on how far back your lens of history goes.
Does that mean people should be slaughtering each other? No, absolutely not. I'll read up on Tantura.