Reddit reply in r/AskTheologists: what are the implications of the jewish messiah — May 23, 2024 · l59m4wy | Ali Shukri Amin

There's a difference between theology and law. In Islamic law Muslims are required to reconquer lost land. Failing to do so says nothing about Islam's truthfulness, especially because Islam says that at the end of times Muslims will all but disappear.

The issue with Jews claiming the holy land is that people of ethnic European descent are colonizing a sliver of the middle East under the auspices of colonial powers. The original Jews that lived in that land almost entirely converted to Islam after the Muslim conquest or had left the land long before that time because of the Roman empire.

That land is neither exactly historical Israel nor historical Palestine. It is the product of the Balfour declaration. It is a Westphalian nationstate, something that didn't exist until long after the time of Muhammad - let alone Moses.

However, the people that have been living there (now called Palestinians) have been doing so for about 3,000 years. The Jews that are trying to move in have never lived there.

Muslims never kicked Jews out of the middle east. Jews were punished by God at the hands of the Roman empire and then the Christians. As a result, they were subjected to porgroms. It was only the Muslim empires such as the Andalusian states that gave the European Jews safe refuge and saved them from extinction.

The colonial settlers moving into the modern day Zionist entity known as Israel have no historical or ethnic connection to that land. Their ancestors were European converts to diaspora Judaism. The ethnic Jews that were in that land thousands of years ago intermarried with the Arabs and became known as Palestinians.

None of this is theology. This is basic history.