Obama Got It Wrong because the Hebrew People Are Indigenous to Israel, Just Like Us
Barack Obama says Israel took someone else’s land, yet Native Americans know an ancestral homeland when we see one.
Barack Obama’s Belfast Remarks Ignored the Hebrew People’s Indigenous Roots in Israel
Speaking at Belfast’s O2 Arena on October 13, 2026, former President Barack Obama claimed that Israel’s founders took land from people who were then expelled, according to Liam Tunney in the Belfast Telegraph report. Obama made those remarks in conversation with journalist Susan McKay just hours after accepting an honorary doctorate from Queen’s University Belfast, as Marc Rod detailed in Jewish Insider coverage, arguing that Israel’s current government had given up moral standing while defending its citizens.
In the very same appearance, Obama acknowledged thousands of years of anti-Jewish persecution, admitted that Jewish families sought safety where they held ancient historical ties, and condemned the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023. That admission dismantles his entire premise. A nation cannot hold ancient ties to its ancestral soil and simultaneously be treated as a stranger that stole it!
Native Americans Recognize Another Indigenous Homeland Right Away
Here in Arizona, Native families know what binds an Indigenous nation to its homeland: sacred mountains, ancestral languages, living ceremonies, and the resting places of our grandparents. The Hebrew people carry those exact same markers across the land of Israel, anchored by 3,000 years of continuous history in Judea and Jerusalem, a revived Hebrew language spoken in everyday family life, and prayers directed toward Jerusalem from every corner of the earth. Forced removal never erased the birthright of American Indian tribes to our original territories, and Roman exile never severed the Jewish bond to Judea.
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________Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu answered Obama directly in an October 16 video, affirming that the Jewish people are never foreign occupiers in the land of their forefathers, as Lazar Berman reported in The Times of Israel. Native communities understand that conviction immediately because outside critics have tried to rewrite the history of our own homelands for generations.
Archaeological Record and Legal Land Purchases Prove the Jewish People Never Abandoned Judea
Recorded history outlasts political slogans every single time. As Marc Rod’s reporting points out, much of the modern Jewish return during the 1800s and early 1900s happened on acreage that Jewish families and organizations legally bought and paid for at steep prices. Attempts to erase the ancient Hebrew presence in Jerusalem fall apart against stone inscriptions, biblical history, Roman archives, and three millennia of unbroken Jewish presence in the Holy Land.
Tribal citizens across Indian Country recognize this tactic because generations of curricula sidelined our treaties and treated our ancestral accounts as folklore. Obama himself admitted in Belfast that Palestinians will never achieve a future through terrorism and must choose nonviolent paths forward. Honest peace in the Middle East begins with respecting the truth that the Jewish people belong to their ancestral homeland!
NASP Stands With the Hebrew People and Every Indigenous Homeland
Native Americans for Sovereignty and Preservation stands proudly with the Hebrew people because they are Indigenous to the land of Israel, just as our tribal nations are Indigenous to North America. That shared inheritance connects Native Americans and the Jewish people across oceans, faith traditions, and centuries of survival. Defending Israel’s right to exist rests on the same moral foundation that protects tribal sovereignty, faith, and self-government across Indian Country today.
Read the primary sources, weigh the historical record for yourself, and share this article with your community as Native Americans for Sovereignty and Preservation defends faith, family, and Indigenous homelands!
Do not forget the full record either: Barack Obama personally fast-tracked Keystone’s southern Gulf Coast leg in 2012, oversaw the largest surge in U.S. oil drilling of any president up to that time, failed to act swiftly on the Flint, Michigan water crisis, let the Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act lapse without reauthorization during his presidency, and now divides Americans rather than uniting us over the Nation of Israel.
