Jews are from Judah (Judea). Arabs are from Arabia. It’s not that complicated. In the 7th century, Islam emerged in Arabia, and the early Muslim armies began one of the most rapid military expansions in history. They conquered vast territories across the ancient Middle East, including lands inhabited by peoples with ancient identities and civilizations, such as Jews in the Land of Israel, Copts in Egypt, Assyrians and other Christian communities in the Levant and Mesopotamia, and Persians in Iran. Over the centuries that followed, Arabic and Islam became dominant across much of the region. Within a century of the rise of Islam, the Muslim conquests had expanded far beyond Arabia, across the Middle East, North Africa and Persia, and into southern Europe and parts of Central and South Asia. So to say that Jews are colonizers in Judea, while Arabs are an “oppressed indigenous community” in Judea, is simply not an accurate description of the region’s history. Image: Illustration showing the rough boundaries of the ancient territories. The Nation of Israel Lives