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Owen Jones argues ancient history cannot decide modern borders

A Piers Morgan Uncensored excerpt brings Jones's argument about Palestinian displacement a much larger audience than his usual Short.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 156,872 views a day, 6.1 times a normal first day on this channel (25,904).

'It was promised 2,000 YEARS AGO!'

Emily starts with religion. Before Christianity and Islam, she argues, the land was Jewish. Owen Jones responds by shifting the question from ancient history to the people living in Palestine when the Zionist movement began.

That exchange, posted on Jones's channel as "'It was promised 2,000 YEARS AGO!'", has drawn more than 130,000 views in sixteen hours, already more than five times his Shorts' usual full-day audience. It is an excerpt from Piers Morgan Uncensored, rather than a separately filmed commentary.

Jones's central argument is about whether historical attachment can justify changing borders today. "We can't start redrawing the borders of the world based on what happened 2,000 years ago," he says.

He describes Palestine's population at the beginning of the Zionist movement as overwhelmingly Arab Christian and Muslim, and argues that religious conversion complicates attempts to draw a straight line between ancient inhabitants and present-day communities. Emily counters by pointing to occupations and expulsions.

Jones then makes a distinction between responsibility for European persecution of Jewish people and its consequences for Palestinians. He argues that Palestinians should not bear the cost of crimes committed in Europe, before invoking British cabinet member Edwin Montagu's opposition to the Balfour Declaration. The excerpt ends with Jones discussing Palestinian displacement in 1948 as Emily interrupts.

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The facts

Channel: Owen Jones
Subscribers: 887,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 669,321
Channel views, pace per day: 33,704 (on a normal day: 141,534)
Video published: October 14, 2026
Video views so far: 131,281 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 156,872

The numbers

The debate excerpt has already passed Jones's usual full-day Shorts audience several times over. Its comment count has also exceeded the usual first-day level.

the video's first day

usual first day here

25,904

this video

156,872

subscribers

887,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

177,922,201

views per day

33,704