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Why are Sephardic Jews an ethnicity but Palestinians not an ethnicity?
That's how they're categorized on Wikipedia.
I presumed that the various Jewish ethnicities had more genetic drift than Arabs due to the diaspora, but upon further reading I'm not sure that's the case:
It's a good question. I suspect this ethnic classification is how they classify themselves.
Oh, well, if Wikipedia says so…
On what basis are you making your claim that Palestinians are a distinct ethnic group? Even pro-Palestinian organizations refer to them as Arabs. As far as I'm aware, Palestinians only began existing as a group when local Arab nationalists emerged as a regional group opposing Jews in the levant.
I think calling Palestine a nation and not an ethnicity is more accurate, but I will correct my language if you can provide me a source.
Yes, and Sephardic Jews refer to themselves as Jews. They're still a distinct ethnic group. The difference according to you is, apparently, 'Wikipedia says so.'
Looking forward to you providing me with better sources than Wikipedia then…
https://www.stats.govt.nz/tools/2018-census-ethnic-group-summaries/palestinian
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S014717670900056X
https://forward.com/tag/palestinian/
https://www.michigannewssource.com/2023/11/confused-about-the-terms-you-hear-connected-to-the-israel-hamas-war-this-will-help/
https://www.ncesc.com/from-whom-are-the-modern-palestinians-descended/
https://spa.sdsu.edu/documents/Flanigan2015_Article_CommunityServiceProvisionByPol.pdf
I'm guessing you won't consider those "better sources" than a page anyone with an agenda can edit. But I'll keep going if you want.
Summarizing:
NZ considers "Palestinian" an ethnic group in its census.
The Abu-Rayya family refers to Palestinian ethnicity in their study regarding personal identification as Israeli or Palestinian.
A link to list of every article on forward.com that contains the tag, "Palestinian," (why did you post this?)
A student article in Ann Arbor's student newspaper refers to Palestinians as, "an ethnic group."
An article full of videos disproving Palestinians are descended from Philistines, in which several of the videos seem to totally contradict your position. Did you watch them?:
A paper that refers to Palestinians as an ethnic group in a paper about service organizations for middle east minorities
While I appreciate that you bothered to present sources, these seem to just be google hits for "Palestinian ethnicity" rather than articles specifically chosen from credible sources because they support your case. Did you read them?
If you want to keep going please provide sources that are making this specific claim with evidence and not just articles that mention the words ethnic and Palestinian together in an unrelated context.
It seems to me that Palestinian is better classified as a national, not ethnic, identity. They consider themselves Arabs and were referred to collectively as such until Mandatory Palestine ended.