 A Palestinian family portrait from 1900 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| See Demographics | |
| Languages | |
| Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam (97%), Christianity (3%), others (<1%) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Arabs, Jews, Bedouins, and other Semitic peoples |
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- Palestinians are "an ethnic group" that have been recognized as "a people".
- Palestinians in Israel are an indigenous ethnic minority that form part of the Palestinian people.
- Palestinians share a common language and vision and allegiance first and foremost to the plight of their people as a whole
- Palestinians in Israel suffer discrimination on the basis of their ethnicity as Palestinians
- Palestinian ethnic identity is based primarily on two elements: the village of origin and family networks.
- Arab is not an ethnic identity, but a cultural or linguistic one. "The early ancestors of some of today's Palestinians are no doubt the Canaanites, Philistines, Phoenicians, Egyptians, Idumaeans, Nabateans and Samaritans. In later periods, their intermarriage with conquering peoples, such as Greeks, Romans, Arabians and Turks, merely added to the genetic mix in Palestine."