Are Palestinians descendents of ancient hebrews?

Difficult to answer. The earliest population census that could be found, from back in the late 19th century, show that about 40–30% of the people that would become the forefathers of the Palestinians in the 20th century, were Christians. read more

Although there are stories of Jewish villages having been converted to Islam centuries ago, modern Palestinians are not so much descendants of ancient Hebrews/Israelites as that both ancient Israelites and the Palestinians’ ancestors were Canaanites, who spoke Canaanite language (a Semitic language spoken by Phoenicians, Israelites, Ammonites, Edomites, Moabites, etc.). read more

Most Zionist thinkers were aware of this: Yitzhak Ben Zvi, later president of Israel, and David Ben Gurion, its first prime minister, accepted it as late as 1929, the year of the great Palestinian revolt. Both stated on several occasions that the peasants of Palestine were the descendants of the inhabitants of ancient Judea. read more