Editing Israelites (section)

===Modern-day groups seen as descendants, or claiming connections===
Jews and Samaritans share a connection with the biblical [[Land of Israel]].<ref>R. Yisrael Meir haKohen ([[Chofetz Chayim]]), ''The Concise Book of Mitzvoth'', p. xxxv. This version of the list was prepared in 1968.</ref><ref>The [[Nachmanides|Ramban]]'s addition to the [[Rambam]]'s Sefer HaMitzvot.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024 |title=About Israelite Samaritans |url=https://www.israelite-samaritans.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412092211/https://www.israelite-samaritans.com/ |archive-date=April 12, 2024 |website=Israelite Samaritan Information Institute}}</ref> Some argue that some [[Palestinians]] descend from Israelites who were not exiled by the Romans.<ref name=":72">[[Moshe Gil|Gil, Moshe]]. [1983] 1997. ''A History of Palestine, 634–1099''. Cambridge University Press. pp. 222–3: "[[David Ben-Gurion]] and [[Yitzhak Ben-Zvi]] claimed that the population at the time of the Arab conquest was mainly Christian, of Jewish origins, which underwent conversion to avoid a tax burden, basing their argument on 'the fact that at the time of the Arab conquest, the population of Palestine was mainly Christian and that during the Crusaders' conquest some four hundred years later, it was mainly Muslim. As neither the Byzantines nor the Muslims carried out any large-scale population resettlement projects, the Christians were the offspring of the Jewish and Samaritan farmers who converted to Christianity in the Byzantine period; while the Muslim fellaheen in Palestine in modern times are descendants of those Christians who were the descendants of Jews, and had turned to Islam before the Crusaders' conquest."</ref><ref name="Hider">[https://www.thetimes.com/comment/register/article/a-tragic-misunderstanding-pbw3x8cp0r6 A tragic misunderstanding]&nbsp;– Times online, 13 January 2009.</ref>

Other groups claim continuity with the Israelites, including [[Theories of Pashtun origin#Israelite theory|Pashtuns]],<ref name= Houtsma>{{Cite book |last=Houtsma |first=Martijn Theodoor |title=E.J. Brill's first encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913–1936 |publisher=BRILL |year=1987 |volume=2 |page=150 |isbn=90-04-08265-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GEl6N2tQeawC&pg=PA150 |access-date=24 September 2010}}</ref><ref name= JVLAfgh>{{cite encyclopedia |title=The Virtual Jewish History Tour, Afghanistan |encyclopedia=[[Jewish Virtual Library]] |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Afghanistan.html |access-date=10 January 2007 |last=Oreck |first=Alden}}</ref> [[British Israelists]],<ref name= Brackney>{{cite book |last1=Brackney |first1=William H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YhUvxfkWW2oC&pg=PA61 |title=Historical Dictionary of Radical Christianity |date=3 May 2012 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7365-0 |pages=61–62 |language=en |access-date=9 April 2017}}</ref> [[Black Hebrew Israelites]],<ref name= Lee2019>{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Morgan |date=24 January 2019 |title=The Hebrew Israelites in That March for Life Viral Video, Explained |url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/january-web-only/hebrew-israelites-urban-apologetics-covington-march-life.html |access-date=22 May 2020 |publisher=[[Christianity Today]] |language=en}}</ref> [[Igbo Jews|Igbos]],<ref>{{Cite news  |last=Subramanian |first=Samanth |title=The lost Jews of Nigeria |newspaper=The Guardian |date=26 April 2022 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/lost-jews-of-nigeria-igbo-judaism-israel}}</ref> [[Mormons]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Davies |first=W.D. |title=Israel, the Mormons and the Land |url=https://rsc.byu.edu/reflections-mormonism/israel-mormons-land |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412091018/https://rsc.byu.edu/reflections-mormonism/israel-mormons-land |archive-date=April 12, 2024 |website=Religious Studies Center}}</ref> and [[evangelical Christians]] that subscribe to [[covenant theology]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wellum |first=Stephen |date=2023 |title=Dispensational and Covenant Theology |url=https://christoverall.com/article/concise/dispensational-and-covenant-theology/#:~:text=Covenant%20theology%20argues%20that%20there,signify%20the%20same%20spiritual%20reality%2C |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412091335/https://christoverall.com/article/concise/dispensational-and-covenant-theology/ |archive-date=April 12, 2024 |website=Christ Over All}}</ref>