Another large set of Palestinians who proudly trace their ancestry from elsewhere

This video segment from VOA News describes how many Gazans trace their roots to Kurdistan.

Of course, we knew this. There are plenty of Palestinians with the last name "el-Kurd" or "el-Kurdi," and many prominent Palestinian families proudly trace their roots to Arabia or Syria or Morocco or Turkey and everywhere else.

Here is my latest list of Palestinian surnames and where they appear to have originated:

Abbas	Iraq
Abdil-Masih  (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Abid	Sudan
Abu Aita (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Abu Ghosh	Europe/11th century
Abu Sitta	Egypt
Abu-Kishk	Egypt
Adwan	Arabia
Afghani	Afghanistan
Ajami	Iran
Al Hafi	Iraq
Alami	Morocco
Alami	Morocco
Alawi	Syria
Al-Hayik (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Arafat	Syria
Araj	Morocco
Aramsha	Egypt
Arashi	Egypt
Ashrawi	Yemen
Awwad	Egypt
Ayyubi	Kurdistan
Azd, Azad	Yemen
Badra	Egypt
Baghdadi	Iraq
Banna	Egypt
Bannoura	Egypt
Bardawil	Egypt
Barghouti	Yemen (may be Jewish)
Bushnak	Bosnia
Chehayber	Turkey
Dajani	Arabia via Spain
Darjani	Arabia
Djazair	Algeria
Doghmush	Turkey
Erekat	Jordan
Fakiki	Morocco
Faranji	France
Faruqi	Iraq
Fayumi	Egypt
Filali	Morocco
Gharub	Egypt
Ghassan	Lebanon
Haddadin	Yemen
Halabi	Syria
Hamis	Bahrain
Hammouda	Transjordan
Hannouneh (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Hashlamun	Kurdistan
Hathat	Kurdistan
Hijazi	Arabia
Hindi	India
Hourani	Syria
Husseini	Arabia
Ibrahim (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Iraki	Iraq
Issa	Arrived in 1820s to Haifa, not sure from where
Jabari	Iraq
Jazir	Algiers
Kafisha	Kurdistan
Kanaan	Syria
Khair	Egypt
Khairi	Morocco
Khalil	Arabia
Khamadan	Yemen
Khamati	Syria
Khamis	Bahrain
Khazen	Lebanon
Khoury (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Kukali	Syria
Kurdi	Kurdistan
Lubnani	Lebanon
Mahdi	Morocco
Makhamra	Jewish
Marashda	Egypt
Masa'ad	Egypt
Masarwa	Egypt
Maslouhi	Morocco
Masri	Egypt
Matar	Kuwait
Mattar	Yemen
Metzarwah	Egypt
Mughrabi, Moghrabi	Morocco
Murad	Albania/Yemen
Muwaqat	Morocco
Muzaffar	Morocco
Nablusi	Named after Nablus - but that was named in the 7th century
Nammari	Spain
Nashashibi	Kurdish/Turkoman/Syria
Nusseibeh	Arrived 7th Century
Omaya	Arabia
Othman	Turkey
Qudwa	Syria
Qurashi	Arabia
Qutob	Morocco
Ridwan	Ottoman
Rishmawi (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Sa'ad	Egypt
Salibas	Greece
Samahadna	Sudan (maybe)
Saud / Saudi	Arabia
Shaalan	Egypt
Shakirat	Egypt
Shami	Syria
Shamis	Syria
Shashani	Chechnya
Shawish	Arabia
Sidawi	Lebanon
Sous (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Sultan	Turkey
Surani	Lebanon
Taamari	Arabia
Tachriti	Iraq
Tamimi	Yemen/Egypt/Arabia
Tarabin	Mecca oe Egypt
Tarabulsi	Lebanon
Tartir	Egypt
Tawil	Egypt
Tayib	Morocco
Tijani	Morocco
Tikriti	Iraq
Touqan	Northern Arabia or Syria
Turki	Turkey
Ubayyidi	Sudan
Uthman	Turkey
Yacoub (Beit Sahour)	Turkey
Yamani	Yemen
Zabidat	Egypt
Zaghab	Morocco
Zarqawi	Jordan
Zaza	Kurdistan
Zeitawi	Morocco
Zoabi	Iraq
Zubeidi	Iraq

(h/t Tomer Ilan)

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