Summary
The UN Declaration itself, although it mentions the word "indigenous* 100 times, does not define the term, being satisfied to proclaim all of the rights to which indigenous people are entitled. But other UN documents do define the term, and it would appear from them that the Jewish presence in the Land of Israel represents an example of an indigenous people.
In tact, notes a December 20 report of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) in Washington, DC, "the Jewish people constitute the ultimate success of an indigenous people reclaiming sovereignty and rights in their historic space."See the full content of this document
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Indigenous Peoples
TO THE DEGREE POSSIBLE, DEMOCRATIC governments have attempted from the last half of the 20th Century to admit past ...
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