The term “indigenous” is used to describe people who inhabited a place before anyone else did. Since the earliest human migrations predate recorded history, it’s not easy to verify such designations; however, in North America, “indigenous” typically refers to the people who populated the continent before Europeans arrived.
Accordingly, the term “Europeans” has traditionally described people of European ancestry, who inhabited Europe before anyone else. This is the entire purpose of designating some people as “indigenous:” to clarify that they are the original inhabitants of a place.
What Salon is suggesting here is that Europeans cannot claim Europe as their original home. Although this notion is absurd, the implication is that Europe does not belong to Europeans; in fact, Europeans have no home at all. Or at least, they shouldn’t. They want you to be homeless.
The author of the article, Joe Baur, is a self-identified Jewish man. He writes for a publication called The Nosher, which covers “the diverse and ever-evolving story of Jewish food.”
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