It’s commonly known among Jews that we have had a presence in varying sizes going back thousands of years. Extensive archeological work has also been done all over modern Israel which has discovered proof of the Jewish people having some kind of residence in Israel.
While in the underground tunnels of the Kotel we learned that Jerusalem is a “layered” city meaning that it has been rebuilt multiple times. When archeologists dig through Jerusalem’s soil, they find that each of these layers tells a different story of a constantly evolving city. In every one of these layers, there has been evidence found of Jews living in Jerusalem throughout its history. This had been confirmed through things like pots and coins that contain ancient hebrew writing. While in the tunnels, we were told of how the Jews of ancient Israel constructed both of the Temples and how the existence of the Kotel today is the biggest reminder to the world of why the Jewish people have the right to live in the land of Israel.
The Kotel and the ancient stones of the second temple that are buried under it are undeniable pieces of evidence that prove the existence of the Jewish people in Jerusalem. Movements and political events like B.D.S and the P.L.O make attempts at claiming that Jewish people have never lived in Israel until the first Aliyah in the late 1800’s. But as the Kotel and all of the Israeli archaeological evidence show, the Jews have been living in Israel for thousands of years, much longer than any anti-zionist or anti-semetic organization says. These artifacts prove that Jews have an eternal homeland in the state of Israel and we should never be told otherwise by any other group.