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For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian activist and writer whose bio on X states, quote,

Indigenous daughter of Jerusalem with receipts unlike the colonizers.

On October 27th, she posted the following on the

platform, and I quote, Hollywood's brainwashing is in full force. The new TV series on Prime called

House of David is meant to imply that the 70-year-old Jewish Zionist settler colony in Palestine

actually has ancient roots. These people are parasites, end quote.

Well, this claim that modern day Jews have no ties or claims to the land of Israel and that Zionists

are only colonizers of Palestinian land is becoming more common, even though the archaeological

and historical evidence for the existence of ancient

Israel is beyond dispute. For example, the Arch of Titus in Rome celebrates the Roman defeat of the Jews

in AD 70, events that were documented at the time by Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, as well as

others. Nearly every book of the Old Testament, of course,

tells of the 12 tribes of Israel and of their descendants in that region of the world. The New Testament

also describes Jesus of Nazareth as a Jew who lived in Galilee, Judea, and Jerusalem. There are

ancient inscriptions from Assyria, Babylon, and Egypt that attest to

the existence of ancient Israel. The earliest being the Menepta steel, which dates to 1208 BC and was

written in Egyptian hieroglyphics. It described a Pharaoh's victory over the Israelites and is now

housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

There's also, of course, the Tel Dan inscription that was from the 9th century BC, found recently in

northern Israel, and commemorates the king of the house of David. And countless other inscriptions

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