Are Jews Indigenous to Israel? | Explained

[@patricks4971]

This video is spine-chilling! Greetings from a Brazilian Jew living in Hungary.

[@BankiTamas_Hu]

I'm a Hungarian Jew living in Hungary. Can we get in touch?

[@grandegracia]

If you have two more anglo-saxon citizenships, I saw your post on reddit a couple days ago

[@timbuktu93]

Brazilian Jew? I’m going to need a DNA test. South Americans lie about their ancestry.

[@dshevach77]

Brazilian Jew from Moroccan family of Portuguese Spanish tradition (born in Manaus) living now in Israel

[@chanaselwyn9265]

Cool background. Great presentation. We are Ashkenazi Lithuanian Russian Polish Austrian. (Possibly Portuguese) Via USA and Israel. My husband is Iraqi(Bagdadi) through Berma and Ashkenazi Austrian and Russian via England. Living in USA. Yup we move around a lot.

[@JollyGoodJewWitch]

I’m a Barbadian Jew. My family came from Portugal/Spain thanks to the inquisition as well. Thank you for this walk through your family history and the history of our people.

[@aventus3491]

you came from Portugal/Spain bec muhammad the false prophet of islam kicked you out of the arabian peninsula. in short he did genocide which no muslim would speak of.

[@Elisheva_]

Fascinating 😊

[@giannis7123]

@@JollyGoodJewWitch i also speak italian so maybe i can claim italy as my home land

[@MissAki1]

Very interesting. My great grandfather settled in Suriname from Portugal. I'm not Jewish because it's through your maternal lineage, but find it very interesting because my grandmother was though Hebrew while living in Suriname and speaking Creole.

[@user-rx2si2ve9j]

@@JollyGoodJewWitch where is it that you call home?

[@YaakovEzraAmiChi]

Literally the best episode youve made to date. Hearing you speak on how our ancestors stayed strong and rooted. We really are a beautiful people. Of many different looks. We are like a small group that resembles the world as there are Jews that look Asian, look European, look African, etc. We are like a nation of nations but one nation. Despite all the troubles of being a Jew, I still love and am proud to come from such a strong and resilient people.

[@thefatcoolguy]

Why are jewish women so hot?

[@janew6574]

The myth of an 'ancient tribe', who never ever intermarried, of a religion to which no one has ever converted, or from which anyone has ever converted is just that - a myth. That myth has been used, in the last 75 years to excuse the most heinous racism and disrespect to the natively born people of Palestine. That myth has been used by international elites as an excuse to steal land, attempt to erase culture and to seek financial profit from that colonialism. For anyone to be genuinely proud of whichever ancestry they have, those realities must be honestly faced. As I see it; true pride comes from doing what a person can, to advocate for justice, respect and humanity. Unfortunately, so much evidence shows that those qualities are seriously lacking, in Israel. In fact, the Jewish people in Israel who are taking risks, in order to advocate for Peace, are documented to be facing oppression, by suprematist zionists. I would be very careful about letting anyone lull others into a false sense of pride, that's really derived from racism and suprematism. Those failings were the main causes of the two World Wars and they deserve to be in the 'never again' sections of history books.

[@anamericanfriend2367]

God kept the Jewish people together. For us Christians, it is a reminder of God's faithfulness. I know it is a miracle that the Jewish people have been preserved to this day. Furthermore, it is a fulfilment of a prophecy in Ezekiel that Israel would be reborn in a day, which is exactly what happened in 1948. Israel was immediately attacked by its Arab neighbors and survived!!! Another miracle! Praise the God ofAbraham, Isaac and Jacob!

[@janew6574]

@@anamericanfriend2367 I recommend to study Palestinian and British colonial history. Arab countries didn't "attack" a "miraculous Israel" in 1948. Arab countries and natively born Palestinians were DEFENDING THEIR LAND FROM COLONIAL ZIONISTS. I would keep sentiments of "miracles" and "chosen people" for literature and film. In REALITY, British colonials had ASKED Arab countries about what they wanted for the lands IN WHICH THEY (ARABS) LIVED. Those countries had explicitly said that they wanted ONE, multi faith and diverse State of Palestine. They didn't want any more violent, zionist immigrants. (See the responses to the 1930's Peel Commission). When those wishes were completely ignored, by the UN and US Congress, half a world away; how could anyone be surprised when Arab countries decided to DEFEND themselves? Talking of what is now the violent, apartheid State of Israel, in such mystifying and imaginary terms will not resolve the serious problems facing the region. It won't stop Israel from spreading the Polio virus around the world, by Israel's sadistic prevention of essential sanitation requirements in Gaza. A zionist might wish to make "poetic" statements about "God's plans" for "chosen zionists", but; believe me, if those zionists cause another pandemic, by their evil acts, NO ONE will be calling zionists "miraculous"! They have already demonstrated themselves to be committing Crimes Against Humanity. Please wake up!

[@aleftav12]

Amen! From Shona (Munhumatapa Kingdom, Great Zimbabwe City&worship centre) with the Lemba as priests! Worshipped one monotheistic Elokhim - “Mwari” - HaShem! Our God is beautiful now “Jews” or the b’nei Avraham, b’nei Yisra’el are baked in all the Nations! Am Yisra’el Chai! Baruch HaShem! Now we await Mashiach coming/return to Unite us finally!🙏🔥🙌🏾

[@laurasilbermandeswiszcz8171]

I never thought I would be so moved by a KZbin video about the history of the Jewish people… With tears in my eyes and a gigantic feeling of pride and love for my identity (most of which grew so much since last Oct 7), I’d like to send you my admiration from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Huge fan of yours!!!!

[@UNPACKED]

Thank you! 🙏

[@nnekalayne9134]

Well you are deceived cause this is the story of the converted Jews not the blood related dna tested and proven Jews the limba and the Igbo tribes. Jew ppl or Israelites are what you called the negro. . Bible footnote:the negro not to be mistaken with the African or the Ethiopian. You familiar with Deuteronomy 28 read it whos story is that it’s the African slave trade should have been called the Jew slave trade. Over a million sold into slavery Africans didn’t sell Africans they sold the wondering Jews that ran to Africa to escape persecution. There are different tribes. What about revelations 2:9 . Ashkenazi Jews are ppl who chose to be Jews they are not direct descendants of the biblical blood line Jews. Know that and go do some research it’s all documented the Portugal have many records telling you who the Jews was and how many they killed or sold into slavery. Where in the Bible does it say they just escaped? It doesn’t it says they was enslave who is the only ppl on this earth that fits that tail the African Americans . The Bible says they was took by ship a yolk of iron placed around their next took to a foreign land they did not know made to be the bottom as all others on top . Read Deuteronomy 28 try to make it fit these ppl or any other . You can’t cause it’s not their story of what happened to those ppl

[@UNPACKED]

Wow that's a lot of conspiracy theories you just threw out there, but don't worry - happy to educate you on all of them Did Jews run the slave trade? kzbin.info/www/bejne/baO1on2Op7ilmqc Are all Jews converts? kzbin.info/www/bejne/maiTeGx5hNWYg7s Are Igbo Jewish? kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHnaemaDlreKeMU Are Hebrew Israelites the real Jews? kzbin.info/www/bejne/r5PafXiqac9-a7c Anything else? Happy to help!

[@RedElite69]

Embarrassing. A real Jew would not have approved of the ongoing occupation even before Oct 7. Your feeling of "pride" is a joke. I'm a real Jew, you're some kind of failure.

[@jeffe9842]

I'm an American Jew living in Colombia. My father was a Galizianer, born on the Lower East Side. We've got a good idea that his line came from Spain. My mother was a Litvak from Boston. So, I am from a mixed marriage. haha When I was in college, I was told on more than one occasion that I looked like I was from the Mediterranean region, anywhere from Italy to Greece. This stayed with me and it took me many, many years to realize that I looked Mediterranean because both sides of my family originally came from Israel.

[@boudicca9807]

I'm also from a Galizianer family on my father's side. My mother said her family were from Poland but she looked very 'Mediterranean', with olive skin. In fact she looked most like the Iraqi Jewish women in the video photo. Like you I put my mother's appearance down to Levantine genes.

[@c.f.okonta8815]

It’s because you are Sephardic that’s why

[@nycgweed]

Sephardic Jew myself and live in Colombia myself

[@boudicca9807]

@@c.f.okonta8815 No, many Ashkenazi Jews are 'Middle Eastern' in appearance probably because their ancestors came from the land we now call Israel.

[@c.f.okonta8815]

@@boudicca9807 Ashkenazi have been living in europe for over 1000 years. They are generally more European than middle eastern

[@arifmaghribi]

We Cricket lovers know about Guyana, they and other islands play as one team that is West Indies. Ivanhoe Mordecai Barrow, to give him his full name, made 105 at Old Trafford when the West Indies toured England in 1933 - not only the first and only Jewish centurion but the first cricketer to reach three figures for the West Indies overseas. So cheers.

[@zochbuppet448]

its propaganda. No one saw themselves as jewish/ or was jewish. These zionists are trying to do to do with everone around the word what they they middle eastern jews in countries around the middle east

[@GlobalCRO]

Amazing. ❤ Greetings from Croatia ! 🇭🇷❤️🇮🇱

[@The-Carpenter]

What caught my attention is that the Jews could have simply melted away in the new lands they found themselves in, but were always drawn to their traditions, their way of life and maintained their identity under extreme persecution. It is my sincere prayer as a Christian that the enemies of the Jews would just stop this continued persecution. Thank you for a wonderful video.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@the-Carpenter Israel's enemy is actually herself through Zionism via a Zionist leadership that brought the entire nation down. Let's be perfectly clear & honest, Israel's leadership today is NOT Jewish-centered at all through Theocratic laws based on the Torah but entirely Secular-centered through Democratic laws based on the UN international law.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@the-Carpenter Israel today is NOT a Jewish state (Israel does NOT adopt the Jewish law Torah as state law) but a Zionist state that practices Zionism, being a secular man-made concept which promote Jewish immigration to Palestine in an effort to form a Jewish state, a concept that was conceptualized by an Austro-Hungarian journalist named Theodor Herzl in the 19th century who was an atheist, a person who disbelieve in the existence of God.

[@emilyannamanda]

It’s very cool I’ve always thought it was cool that Catholics are on every continent, seems like maybe it’s the same with Judaism

[@mellyp3748]

I am Puerto Rican, I also have 3% Jewish in me, and I am very happy for that. I love God, and always will.

[@CarribeanCJ]

Welcome to the (Converso) Latin Sephardi club

[@violetsky5202]

I think that is very typical of Puerto Ricans because many Sephardic Jews went there following Spanish Inquisition.

[@michaelvikhman7926]

Juan Epstien from welcome back Kotter, was a portarican jew. Half his family sto.e pants, the other half hemmed them. I can't remember which episode that was from.

[@BC-ox4yo]

Have you got any measurement tools to define exactly the 3% of your Jewishness and not 5.5% or 6%

[@elleobi]

Watching this makes me emotional in ways that I don't readily understand. I'm not Jewish. I appreciate getting such an accessible primer on the history. More people need this education

[@justbloggin7407]

Lots of people feel connection to Judaism, lots of people also lost their Jewish identity over the history because of all the persecution, moving and assimilation they went through 😊

[@Coconut2050ll]

This is a fairytale nothing real

[@cleomenes01]

This video completely erases the fact that Jewish people thrived in Muslim Europe lol, it doesn’t even mention Muslim Europe at all. Total propaganda.

[@Chestermcfly420]

I’m an Italian Jew and I was always too Italian to be Jewish and too Jewish to be Italian😮

[@sainta2667]

Good one. We are not that far ;-)

[@vcarter1365]

this is the history of jews in the "Gola" - when you're inside - you're not really an insider, when you're outside - you're too outsider. I'm sure you are a fantastic Italian and a fantastic jew :)

[@Chestermcfly420]

@@vcarter1365 what are you trying to say?

[@vcarter1365]

@@Chestermcfly420 nothing. How it was when jews were persecuted throughout history, mainly in Europe

[@wasiqmohammad9879]

@@Chestermcfly420 you can’t be too Italian to be Jewish Judism is your religion Italian is your nationality somewhen down your linage your family excepted Judism but no matter what you will always be native to Italy no one can take that from you regardless of choice of religion

[@soosooaryan]

I'm not Jew but your video truly shook me. you all should be very proud of all your ancestors and be truly determined to save Israel from all threads she face from her enemies. God bless you all.

[@christophersmith1155]

IM DESI & JEWISH. I HAVE FAMILY IN GUYANA / RICHMOND HILL ON MY DADS SIDE. LIVICH FROM LITHIANIA ON MY MOMS SIDE.

[@benjaminbritsch1749]

why are you shouting and what is lithiania?

[@christophersmith1155]

its a place south of estonia and latvia.

[@benjaminbritsch1749]

@@christophersmith1155 I am pretty sure that place isnt called Lithiania

[@christophersmith1155]

maybe. dont ask the russians or poland. they still think its theirs.

[@McGoogger]

richmond hill like ontario?

[@fullthrottleinthemojave1138]

You have a connection to Tirat Tsvi! I lived there in the 80s.

[@yorammm]

facist gathering?

[@Heinbarnavi]

It is evident from observing these videos that Ashkenazi Jews from Europe receive significantly more attention and more exposure compared to Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East. It is unfortunate that the descendants of the Jews who settled in the Middle East, who are geographically closer to the Promised Land, do not receive the attention they rightfully deserve. hope next vids they post more length vids on Mizrahi Jews.

[@subcommanderxelios800]

It’s amazing how diverse the Jewish people are. Some are religious while others are not.

[@maracohen5930]

@@subcommanderxelios800 Though it is on a cline, from Strict Observances to Assimilation into whatever the Dominant Culture is. Judaism is Judaism. Beliefs are simple, implementation of those beliefs hugely involved.

[@alexanderanoshkin3571]

It's simple to explain: Ashkenazi community used to be significantly larger, as well the majority of us Jewry. As well, with terrible speed of assimilation, more represented to the outside world

[@subcommanderxelios800]

@@alexanderanoshkin3571 It’s weird that when someone mentions Jews they always think about the ashkenazi, when Mizrahi Jews exist as well.

[@DarylAriffin]

When Israel were established in Palestine, Mizrahi got expulsed from neighboring countries as a retaliation, oftentimes we heard the story of Nakba, however we seldom talk about Jews exodus that happen accidentally because of Israel foundation.

[@Leon-ej3kh]

I'm a Jew, an atheist Jew. From where a Jew comes from is irrelevant, all that one has to have to be a Jew is to be born of a Jewish mother. This whole thing about being Jewish, has come to the for recently because of the ongoing dispute regarding the lands in what used to be called Palestine, and now Israel, and the lands it occupies that Arabs live on. Historically biblical Israel is the home of the Jews, but Jews, can and do live anywhere on the planet and do, and are still Jewish. As I said I'm an atheist Jew, perhaps the man in the video would dispute this, that I'm a Jew, as he's religious, so what.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Leon-ej3kh There's NO such nonsense of an atheist Jew. A "Jew" by default is religious, who believe in the existence of God (YHWH).

[@Leon-ej3kh]

@@deuteronomy6.4bw You are wrong. I'm a Jew, as i stated according to Halach, a Jew is one who is born of a Jewish mother. What you say dismisses a large part of the world wide Jewish community. The Jews are a people, who have a religion. Many years a go the archbishop of Paris died. At his funeral along with priest, was a rabbi who said Kaddish, because the Archbishop was born Jewish, his name was Chaim.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@Leon-ej3kh Halacha is Talmudic b.s. nonsense!!! All Genealogies strictly go by Male lineage through the fathers and NOT mothers.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@Leon-ej3kh "Jews" refer to culture and NOT race.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@Leon-ej3kh The Law of Genealogy wasn't established by any man, it was established by God Himself who set the guideline through Genealogical Record that determines Genealogy will only be traced back to the fathers exclusively by Male lineage, NOT mothers by Female lineage = E.g. Gen 5, Gen 10, Gen 11:10-32. God never breaks His own Law.

[@sw6155]

I grew up hearing adults say Jews were like our (Catholics) older cousins. My grandpa served in WWII in the Brazilian navy and I remember him telling stories, one of them was the moral imperative of accommodating Jewish families that were brought in so they could thrive and grow in numbers to make up the loss during the Holocaust… I miss grandpa..

[@emilyannamanda]

I am a Roman Catholic that love Judaism

[@paholainen100]

Interesting. I'm from Australia and I'm not Jewish but this has inspired me to learn Hebrew, not out of political or religious reasons though. I am a linguist and find the Hebrew language and Jewish history fascinating.

[@Titiz263]

God bless you

[@bini_jay]

Yes good supaya kamu dapat menjadi lidah untuk memberitahu kebenaran tentang tanahair perjanjian Tuhan Yahudi Kepada bangsa Yahudi...

[@lotem9429]

יפה מאוד. כל הכבוד לך❤ אתה מוזמן לבקר בישראל ❤

[@dannyhughes4889]

I'm from Australia and non Jewish but have lived in Israel for close to 50 years. Best of luck with learning a not so easy language.

[@thehilaryglow]

As a Jewish linguist and a polyglot let me tell you, you're in for a ride! In the best way possible! Enjoy and Shalom :)

[@rachelwolff5094]

Well presented. I'm from USA, parents/grandparents, great-grandparents from Iraq, Italy, Spain, Marocco, Egypt and Israel.

[@relaxchil5796]

Deuteronomy 28:64 (NIV): "Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods-gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known." This verse is part of a larger passage in Deuteronomy 28, which outlines the blessings for obedience and the curses for disobedience. The dispersion of the Israelites among the nations is one of the curses for turning away from God.

[@Michael-wq7qx]

This biblical text refers to a very ancient period in the history of the Jewish people. That was the period of transition from paganism to monotheism among the Jews. But you apply these divine words to a much later period. And this is completely wrong. The reasons for the dispersion of Jews around the world were, firstly, the Roman conquest when the pagan Romans tried their best to eradicate Jewish monotheism, and secondly, the Arab conquer of Palestine between 634 and 640 AD. BTW, by justifying the conqueror's violence against the Jews by the will of God, you are stepping on a very slippery slope along which you will land straight into the arms of the hideous tyrant of the last century with his policies towards the Jews.

[@relaxchil5796]

@@Michael-wq7qx The dispersion of Jews and the return of the Jewish people to Israel is a process, not a one-time event. God scattered them across the world due to their disobedience, but He has promised to bring them back if they turn to Him, which they are doing now. However many still not believed their messiah has come 2000 years ago, this sets the stage for the Second Coming of Jesus.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

​@@Michael-wq7qx You keep propagating the same nonsense over and over again!!! The ANCIENT Jewish people are the "Israelites", the Legitimate descendants of Jacob/Israel by Paternal genealogy that comes complete with a TRIBAL IDENTITY, affiliated to Jacob's 12 Tribes represented by his 12 sons = All these conditions are explicitly spelled out in the Hebrew scripture (Tanakh). A Legitimate descendant of Jacob/Israel have a TRIBAL IDENTITY that affirms his legal standing of "Israelite" status, being a lawful paternal descendant of Jacob. The MODERN Jewish people are completely unrelated to Jacob by race or ethnicity.

[@Michael-wq7qx]

@relaxchil5796 How did you manage to get into God's head? I think it's not appropriate not only for a Christian but for ANY believer to justify violence, especially by reference to the will of God. But to some people, His actions are clear, like the palm of their hand. At the same time, they cleverly manipulate quotes from Biblical texts, feeling their superiority over "some Jews."

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

​@@relaxchil5796 God's promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was made with a CONDITION that the Israelites (The children of Israel) be always faithful and obedient in righteousness to Him. God's promise to bring the Israelites back is conditional, subject to them to repent from their sins and to return to Him in repentance which they never repented. Hence, the offer in bringing them back was rescinded in 70 CE through the 2nd temple destruction by a God-inspired Rome that totally obliterated Jerusalem (Israel's capital) and God's holy temple (God's holy sanctuary), which signifies God's total rejection of Israel as His holy nation and the Israelites as His holy people.

[@dafnimbus]

Thank you. I am a German Jew from Massachusetts who is 72 years old.

[@oriayacov9217]

@@Phe961 nah man you just jealous

[@Phe961]

@@oriayacov9217 jealous of what? Of who???? I am indigenous to the Levant and millions of people like you wake up every single day wishing to be me… you’re jealous and have been claiming my identity because you have none lmao

[@stab74]

@@Phe961 The Levant includes places like Syria and Jordan. HELL NO I don't wake up wishing I was one of you people! You're funny though. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Phe961]

@@stab74 keep talking like you do and no wonder you’ll forever be kicked out of wherever you step foot.

[@Phe961]

@@stab74 you wish… pathetic

[@ManashantiiTheChristian]

Thank you for this video Adonai Bless you. I really enjoyed listening to your family history. I love learning about Jewish history. God bless Jews and Holy Jerusalem. I am praying for the war to end. Manashantii The Christian

[@veronicaroach3667]

I'm 84 now, I grew up in London & my Jewish identity was not revealed to me & my siblings until around 25 years ago. Basically my parents had hidden their Jewish roots because of WW2 & trying to merge into the 'woodwork' of society. My father was pretty apologetic as he told me, and mainly we all laughed at this new information. But because of that I know very little of Jewish history or religious beliefs. I've been slowly figuring out what the facts are but the comical thing is when I think back to the people who were all around me as a child I wonder how I did not figure out the truth years ago ! Maybe because I was a kid always with a book & not paying too much attention to what was happening around me. My 3 siblings & I had no problem accepting this new reality, but as none of us are religious in any way, nobody wanted to join a Jewish congregation, but I do find myself constantly digging into ME history to enhance my knowledge of how the history developed. I sometimes smile at the knowledge that there are many, many people of Jewish heritage like me who may have absolutely no idea where they came from, so I often tell people expressing hatred towards any particular group - be careful who you decide to hate, you may in fact descend from those same people !!!

[@zochbuppet448]

Well you didnt miss anything. You ended up being wealthier than most people around you, as is the norm

[@online3010]

I have a very similar story. Being British meant following the Church of England, and eventually, most of my grandmother's family forgot these roots.

[@BC-ox4yo]

The Jews are related to religion and Judaism and not to RACE, to nationality or an ethnic belonging. I Always been Astonished and surprised when I heard people claiming they are Jews, and in the same time they are practicing not a single rite or commandment of Judaism. One Saturday (Shabbat day) I’ve Meet and discussed with a Jewish lady (so called Jewish), and during the conversation she said that she was Jewish, So I said I do respect your opinions and religion, I asked her: Do you observe Shabbat, she answered by No, I asked her : Do you eat porky, She said : Yes very often, then I asked her : Do you eat Kasher, She said No. I Asked her : Have you ever been into a Synagogue for praying, her answer was : No, then I asked her : Do you make fasting as the Jews do, She said No, My last question was : Have you ever slept with someone outside marriage, and she answered by Yes many time. So I said to that lady: Madame your are not a Jewish, you are a normal lady living a normal life as anyone else on earth and certainly not a Jewish. If you are not practicing Judaism, you are certainly not a Jewish gentle Lady. I Said to be Jewish, Christian, Muslim or Buddha or Shiva You have to practice that religion you claim belonging to and not doing the opposite.

[@elkiebeerepoot5829]

@@BC-ox4yo This is a radical vision. I've Moroccan Jewish roots, I have Sephardi roots, I have Greece Jewish roots. I'm a son and family of Holocaust survivors. Many were killed. My family helped to build Israel after 1948, and they were encircled by the Arabs during the Suez crisis. My family from fathers' side was very religious. There were a lot of Jews, in my family too, wanting to be free. Still, the Nazi's killed them in Auswitsch. Of course, we know the synagogue, and we follow a lot of rules, but not all of them. A lot of Jews don't. Some of my family members happened to be pretty famous. So, street names are called after those who gave their lives. It was a terrible time, with a lot of fear and treason. So, for me, it's difficult to agree with you.

[@emmanuelle196]

@@BC-ox4yo you are a jew by ethnicity or you can become a religious jew, in other words judaism is an ethnic religion and not all ethnic jews practice it, other non ethnic jews like christians etc, can choose to follow judaism as a religion, they convert to judaism and follow that as a religion

[@Finnleigh.Jackson4141]

I have been wondering about your family history every time I see one of your videos. Thank you, Yirmiyahu, for explaining it. :) Your fresh style and the openness with which you report is awesome.

[@martycap5700]

Ashkenazi Jew here! Thanks for this video

[@martycap5700]

I grew up thinking I was 25 percent Russian my dad told me we were “Russian Jews” when I took the dna test and found out I was actually 23 percent Jewish I was pretty amazed and have been researching every since!

[@candidbayproductions]

@@martycap5700 The funny part is if you actually dig into the DNA, many Russian Jews aren't actually that closely related to non-Jewish Russians and often show mostly Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ancestry.

[@martycap5700]

@@candidbayproductions I have learned that

[@martycap5700]

@@candidbayproductions but I thought modern Ashkenazi would not have much middle eastern dna and woukd just be considered European

[@user-jr4kc6lu9q]

@@candidbayproductions True. Among the hundreds of Ashkenazi Jewish DNA haplogroups, only one (N-BY127009) possibly has ethnic Russian origin. However, there is some significant West Slavic (Polish & Czech) DNA in all Eastern Ashkenazim. An example of a West Slavic lineage in Ashkenazim is haplogroup H11b1c. But all Ashkenazim have 5 to 10 times more Middle Eastern DNA than Slavic DNA.

[@alisameireis3628]

I am a Jew of African descent. My Paternal ORAL history places our Origins in Ethiopia. However, Paternal DNA places our Origins in The Levant (Typically known as “Israel” today) then to Eastern Africa (Malawi Bantu and Kenyan Bantu) to Western Africa/Angola/Nigeria (Igbo) to Central America (Indigenous Yucatan Peninsula) to the United States (Indigenous North American Peoples). Because all of this is from my Father (and not my Mother), I made formal Return (Teshuvah) to comply with Halacha. FYI - I don’t believe the Igbo DNA trek from Nigeria to the Yucatán Peninsula was voluntary. Also - FOR ME: It’s not about being Jew-ish….For many in Diaspora….We didn’t get to attend services in Synagogues. For us it’s about the oral history about being descendants of Ya’akov, which is proven out via our DNA, coupled with the oral traditions (keeping Shabbat, etc) handed down thru all the generations that seals it for us. Am Israel Chai!! 🥰✡️

[@amitelbaz698]

Watching this video brought me to tears. As a Jew with a family mosaic spanning Portugal/Spain, Libya, Bulgaria, Poland, Morocco, and Romania, I feel the profound weight of our complex history in every fiber of my being. It's utterly heartbreaking to witness how Jews have tenaciously clung to their identity through millennia of relentless persecution, only to face continued existential threats and challenges in our ancestral homeland. The intricate tapestry of Jewish experiences, including my own family's arduous journey, all converge in Israel - a land that pulses through our veins and echoes in the depths of our collective memory. It's beyond frustrating to see our unbreakable connection to this sacred soil questioned when it's so deeply embedded in the very fabric of our history, culture, and soul. In every generation, we bear witness to the awe-inspiring bravery of individuals who selflessly sacrifice to shield the flickering flame of Jewish life from being extinguished. It's emotionally draining and profoundly sad. We yearn for nothing more than to live in peace, to breathe freely, and to pour our hearts into building a vibrant, thriving society in our eternal homeland, Israel. The world's unrelenting hostility and fixation on our destruction is both utterly incomprehensible and soul-crushingly disheartening. This video serves as a searingly powerful reminder of our unbreakable bond with Israel and the paramount importance of safeguarding our heritage, even as many Jews today may not identify with the religious aspects of our identity. Ours is a story of unparalleled resilience, of rising from the ashes time and time again. I fervently hope that more people can open their hearts to understand and respect the singular nature of our journey - a journey that has shaped the very course of human history and continues to inspire generations to stand tall in the face of adversity. Am Yisrael Chai.

[@Michael-wq7qx]

I admire your comment.

[@AS-kp1xu]

The irony is that you are likely equally comfortable in blithely ignoring the very complex, deep tapestry that makes up the Palestinian people. You know, the SEMITIC people group that have lived in Palestine for thousands of years. I continue to be gobsmacked at fellow Jews who want to venerate their history while wholly denying Palestinian history, culture and rights to live where they have been for centuries. It’s a form of brainwashing. Mental illness, really.

[@goosemcsausagejr4471]

I'm a Mexican mestizo Jew from Los Angeles, California. Thank you for this great video

[@tonym6193]

Does your native american genes from being a mestizo entitle you to steal the land from random americans? If the answer is no, then jews are not entitled to the land of judea either

[@gameaddictgonewild777]

Yikes

[@angamaitesangahyando685]

​@@gameaddictgonewild777Said a person with an AI poem on his profile though. - Adûnâi

[@Facts-Over-Feelings]

BLACK AMERICAN HEBREWS ALSO FIT THE BIBLE.. NOW WHY ARE WE HATED SO MUCH.. WELL THE BIBLE DID SAY THE PEOPLE OF GOD WOULD BE POWERLESS AND HATED BY ALL NATIONS AND PEOPLES.. THIS EXPLAINS A LOT. AMERIKKKA IS MYSTERY BABYLON.. AS WELL AS THE WEST THAT HELD US HEBREWS SLAVES DURING CHATTEL SLAVERY. YOLKS OF IRON I THY NECKS. WELL DOCUMENTED. WE ARE DEMONIZED FOR BEING BLACK IN ALL FAITHS. YET WE COLONIZED OR WARRED WITH NO OTHER RACES.

[@nickdadon96]

The Creator's name is : " Exalted" 🌟 Isa 12:4 🌟

[@ericah6546]

My family is Sephardic but we look European because we went to England before the US. We were very fortunate. At least one of my ancestors died because he refused to convert. Pedro de Bassano was his name. Original we were Iberian Jews. In Spain and Italy my ancestors became very involved with the Kabbalah revival at the time the Zohar appeared in print. I love knowing this because I love the mystical part of Judaism especially. We may have some French Ashkenazi dna from when my family was in England and married into the same French family a few times.

[@juliemckenzie5960]

THANK YOU for making this video!!!! I’ve found most people don’t understand diaspora and aliyah. Shalom!🕊️

[@Michael-wq7qx]

Zionism and its fruit, the State of Israel, with its high standard of living and success in various fields, is the best proof that God long ago removed His curses from the Jews.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Michael-wq7qx God's chosen race are exclusively the Israelites alone and no one else, NOT the Jews or Israelis. The Israelites do not exist today who were gradually and totally wiped out of existence from 70 CE through the 2nd temple destruction orchestrated by God Himself who inspired the Roman military commander Titus Caesar to overrun and scatter the Israelites in permanence without a homeland as a divine punishment for repeatedly disobeying God's law and violating God's covenants with no end. The divine punishment by God's curse is permanent and long-lasting = Deuteronomy 28:15-68.

[@Leon-ej3kh]

How long ago? it before or after the Holocaust? As for the high standard of living, that's destroyed as soon as you enter any major European city.

[@Michael-wq7qx]

@Leon-ej3kh 1. Interpreting God's will regarding every catastrophe in the world's history is a thankless task. 2. Google "Israel average monthly wages" and you'll learn that it was 13683 shekels in July 2024($3678 according to today's exchange rate). Google " Minimal monthly salary in Israel" and you'll learn that it was 5880 shekels in Apr 2024(about $1600). Now Google "Israel," and you'll learn that Israel's GDP(nominal) per capita is $53,372(18th place).

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@Leon-ej3kh An ISRAELITE is a Legitimate descendant of Jacob through Paternal genealogy that comes with a specific TRIBAL IDENTITY, traced back and identifiable to one of Jacob's 12 sons. The Paternal genealogy and Tribal identity are recorded by GENEALOGICAL RECORDS as clearly taught in the Tanakh = Gen 49:1-28, Exo 28:21, Exo 39:14, Num 1:16, Num 24:2, Num 26:55, Num 30:1, Num 31:4, Num 33:54, Num 34, Exo 1:1-5, Lev 24:10-11, Num 25:14, Jos 13:13, Judges 20:21, 1 Sam 14:21, 2 Sam 17:25, 1 Chr 9:2, Neh 9:2, Neh 11:3, 1 Chr 9:1. >> The Jews (a culture) and Israelis (a nationality) are not the ISRAELITES (a race) OR the Reubenites, Levites or Benjamites (an ethnicity). The children of Israel are specifically the ISRAELITES that come with an ethnicity (Tribal identity). God Almighty (YHWH) established His covenants only with the ISRAELITES, not with the Jews or Israelis.

[@tamiausten873]

Wow!! This story just takes me back to stories I've read in the Bible, especially Jeremiah, Nehemiah and Ezra: the captivity and rebuilding. Also Daniel, Ezekiel and Esther paint a picture of what happened in captivity. Also in Nigeria, I've heard about aspects of Igbo culture that makes believe them when they say they are of Jewish ancestry, and they are equally hated by others, they've also suffered massive genocide and had to rebuild in the 70s.

[@UNPACKED]

We made a whole video about the Igbo: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHnaemaDlreKeMU

[@gregoryjones9546]

​@@UNPACKED Great, That Will Be Fascinating!!! I Liked This Video Too!!!

[@EverestOnyekwere]

Remaining the Jews of Nigeria AKA IGBOS to come back to Zion someday. Wonderful video ✌🏽

[@dafna247]

exciting! My father's family came to Mesopotamia in the Babylonian exile, after more than 2500 years as foreigners they fled to Israel with the establishment of the state My mother's family came to Portugal, my grandmother's family moved to Bulgaria during the Inquisition - my grandmother immigrated to Israel after the war at the age of 14 as part of the youth ALIYA. My grandfather immigrated to Israel on the children's train from Istanbul to Eretz Israel - which smuggled children to Israel when rumors of the concentration camps arrived. My grandmother and grandfather met when they founded Kibbutz Gvulot in the Negev. We all returned home and stole nothing, It's time for our Arab neighbors to understand this.

[@richardchurchward4413]

I'm curious. Are you saying that the Arabs living in Palestine for the many centuries prior to 1892 (or 1948 if you prefer) were not subject to ' transfer' and erasure? History tells a vastly different story ..but not Zionist history perhaps..

[@thefatcoolguy]

Grandmother?? Inquisition??!? bro how old are you?

[@hamzaalikhan9932]

somebody used to live in that kibbutz before you.

[@jacovawernett3077]

​@@hamzaalikhan9932Islamer J.had is anathema to God and life. God is my Father and rabbi. I am very rare. God spoke fifty sentences to me from above to my ear over nine years time span. The latest sign I asked God for was the big solar flare for May 11th Aurora Borealis. There are eleven solar years on the sun. Muhammad thought he could subjugate God and every soul on earth to his perversions and hate. Unlike Muhammad, I can describe God's voice. P.S. No one sticks a metaphorical rock in God's throat nor stopped sending people signs. If you think God would silent and absent of signs for people then stick a rock in your thoat and every muslim throat and think about. And while you have that rock in your mouth make sure you're not allowed to express any signs. Good luck. Shukrun..

[@user-ff2nk1po8g]

​@@hamzaalikhan9932 Tell me who , and when and how?

[@mikirose2598]

Go even deeper! You have not even scratched the surface yet!!!!

[@neitan6891]

My family isn’t Jewish but my last name comes from the French “Le Juif”-“the Jew.” The farthest back we can go with solid documentation the family was already Protestant and fairly prominent in their small French village. I wish I could learn more about their Jewish ancestry and how/when/why they left the Jewish community. I’m happy that I’ve returned to the Jewish people after all these generations. I hope my ancestors would be proud.

[@gitelblima]

Welcome home. 😊

[@ioulialeiderman5552]

You can make it he DNA test

[@mweinstein1542]

​@@ioulialeiderman5552 Jewishness isn't determined by DNA. It only counts on the mother's side. It can be claimed if you have proof that all of the mothers all the way back are born to a Jewish mother.

[@mweinstein1542]

If not a proper Orthodox conversion has to be done. I have friends who had that situation and did the conversion and are 💯 Jewish!

[@BC-ox4yo]

If your Family was Protestant, The name "The Jew" was probably given to your family members because they were "Des Radins" and " Des Picsou" as Jews, that's the only explanation. Some people pretend they are Jewish either to frequent wealthy circles of TV or Entertainments Milieu or to marry a rich Jewish girl like the son of former French President Sarkozy who married the daughter of an ultra-rich Darty Jewish dynasty who owns several electrical appliance stores throughout France and maybe in Europe too.

[@johnrichards6080]

I'm not Jewish, but wow, amazing story. Comments are fascinating too. Love and support to Israel.

[@SooperFlye]

_I'm not a Jew, but this is the kind of _*_factual_*_ story the Palestinians need to tell to justify their cause. But, unfortunately for the Palestinians, they cannot._

[@lelawattieramkistodas2272]

I'm Guyanese ,I never knew we had a jewish community, thanks for sharing 😊

[@zochbuppet448]

There isnt, its just propaganda. Propaganda to counteract Israeli colonialism of Palestian claims

[@carabbot1]

He is Lying

[@Gallo2023]

@@carabbot1 🤣

[@carabbot1]

He is Lying.

[@zochbuppet448]

It doesnt. They always do stuff like this.And dont go to wikipedia. They control all the Wikipedia pages

[@aaronaash]

We back to Israel from India after 2500 years

[@dshevach77]

I'm living in the land of my forfathers eretz Israel, born inthe Brazilian Amazon (Manaus) from Moroccan family(from fez, Marrakesh ,tetuan and Casablanca) that lived 7 generations in brazil, previously Portugal (Lisboa and Porto) and previously Spain (mostly Toledo and Cordoba), according to family tradition before the Jewish revolt from Jerusalem. My wife on the other hand is Ashkenazi of polish Ukrainian Origins.

[@HumanBeingsRThinkingBeings]

Mind Begs the Question: ▪︎If God exiles a people from a land ▪︎For their Transgressions,Wickedness ▪︎To reestablish State with Messiah ▪︎If reestablish State without Messiah ▪︎Righteous or Wicked?

[@avitalsheva]

This is always fascinating how some people claim they are not only for example Kohanim but even able to claim that can prove it up to Aron. Like as it would be there any documents from 2000 or 3000 years ago. And there are NOT . Dont exist. No jew and no jewish family on whole earth can show any document which prove that their family is jewish and always was jewish starting from Moses or Aron or even 1000 years from now.

[@dshevach77]

@@avitalsheva in our case we have a family tree going to 1440, all the way to Spain, going all the way to Ribbi Abraham Saba of Castilia

[@avitalsheva]

@@dshevach77 Obviously all ketubot or marriage certificate and birth certificate .. .. I dont believe at all And EVEN if .... where is this from Moses or Aron or even second temple or even Roman Empire or even from crusaders time (as in that time were influx of people from and to Israel both way) ? you just cant prove your origin at all. If your ancestor lets say converted in Chazaria and then came to Spain.. still you are not a middle eastern jew

[@dshevach77]

@@avitalsheva I don't have any Ashkenazi blood on me, with the exception of one grandmother who was Lebanese Jewish (Chalabi) my whole family is Moroccan Jewish 2 grandparents Spanish Portuguese one Berber Jewish, my brother did do DNA test, his results were basically Jewish general 70%, berber 12%, hiberian (Portugal and Spain)7% ,Phoenician/Lebanese 4%, Greek and Italian 2%. And there is no such a thing as a pure race, there are always admixtures, for example I know that one of my ancestors were from the Assayag family, there are Berber Jews, who converted to Judaism over 1000 years ago, this doesn't make them less Jewish and because they married in the broader community they are genetically indistinguishable from the broader Jewish community in Morocco.

[@Michael-wq7qx]

Some users insist that Jews are not a ethnic group but only a culture and religion. Reality disagrees with them. "The Jews... are an ETHNORELIGIOS group and NATION originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East and whose traditional religion is Judaism... Judaism is an ethnic religion, although not all ethnic Jews practice it"( 'Jews', Wiki). This article is based on 360 sources.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Michael-wq7qx "Jews" are definitely NOT a race or ethnicity, it's only a culture (Jewish) and religion (Judaism). Reality agrees with me, NOT you. Question: Are you a DIRECT Descendant of Jacob?

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Michael-wq7qx If you acknowledge that you're a DIRECT Descendant of Jacob, then please kindly reveal your TRIBAL IDENTITY?

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Michael-wq7qx So what is your TRIBAL IDENTITY = (1)Reubenite, (2)Simeonite, (3)Levite, (4)Judahite, (5)Danite, (6)Naphtalite, (7)Gadite, (8)Asherite, (9)Issacharite, (10)Zebulunite, (11)Josephite, (12)Benjamite ?

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Michael-wq7qx Do you even know which Tribe of Jacob are you affiliated with?

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Michael-wq7qx If you're completely clueless without the slightest idea of your TRIBAL IDENTITY, then how could you acknowledge to be a DIRECT Descendant of Jacob?

[@RG-qn2qm]

What is Jewish?

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@RG-qn2qm A culture.

[@RG-qn2qm]

@@deuteronomy6.4bw .....interesting.

[@RitaBernardo-hm9sv]

I am from Brazil and recently discovered that my Portuguese ancestors who came to Brazil were Jews. I really enjoyed the video, it's great to learn new things.

[@KieroSi]

It's a good time to explore, there's been a Ladino revival movement in both South America & North America the last few years, making it easier to find people locally but also to study online... this secondary (bridge) language may make it easier for you to connect to the community and explore the history. Which also may make genealogy research a little eaiser too and inevitably learning hebrew. Henry Abramson has a channel on youtube under his name and is also good for history. There are also a few brasil, chile, argetine libraries and oral histories of elders on youtube but many are quite dated, 10+ years old on here. Several universidade J departments but lecture quality, video/audio not always so good. And of course, several temples, synagogues and a plethora of music, many top sephardi performers from SA. . . also, entertainment in other areas too to explore. the mid 90s to mid 2000s was the peak period for films, several memoirs from brasilian Jews.

[@RitaBernardo-hm9sv]

@@KieroSi After watching this video I really wanted to explore more about this.

[@natse5340]

Everywhere else apart from Israel as it only existed after the 2nd world war

[@mohammedxiii]

Lmao just identify as a Jew is the original "I identify as an attack helicopter".

[@irenestark2900]

I am an American from Ukraine , DNA showed I am 99% Jewish , but everyone is telling me I look Mediterranean, is not that a proof that we belong to Israel?

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@irenestark2900 "Jews" are not indigenous to any land on earth. "Jews" merely reflects a culture, lifestyle and religion (Judaism), NOT race or ethnicity. "Jews" can be Asians, Africans, Americans, Europeans, Latinos, Middle Easterners, etc. and they come from all over the world with NO specific territorial point of origin.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@irenestark2900 There's no such nonsense as 99% Jewish or 1% Jewish or 20% Jewish. 😂

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@irenestark2900 How does the DNA test conclude your Jewishness at 99%? = Sounds silly, isn't it? 🤣

[@irenestark2900]

@@deuteronomy6.4bw read the bible

[@irenestark2900]

@@deuteronomy6.4bw what is nonsense? I am 99 Lituwian Jewish by DNA, my daughter is 49 Jewish 5 German 45 Hungarian by DNA, my son in law is 50 Italian 47 middle eastern and 3 Iranian by DNA. It’s no brainer. How come you don’t understand? You also don’t understand that Israel is full of ancient artifacts showing they’ve always been there? And the Bible, and the ancient temple. Doesn’t answer. I don’t wanna talk to you, I am done

[@Michael-wq7qx]

When approached by a student who attacked Zionism, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (the greatest fighter for the rights of African Americans) responded: "When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You're talking anti-Semitism"(source: Seymour Martin Lipset, " The socialism of fools", ENCOUNTER, December 1969, p.24). "Anti-Zionism = Anti-Semitism." This is the title of his open letter to a friend. Its authenticity is questioned. But one thing is certain: this letter summarizes Dr. King's thoughts on Anti-Zionism known from other sources.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Michael-wq7qx An excerpt taken from the Hamas Covenant of 1988, Article 7 that reads in proper context, quoted word-for-word as follows : The Islamic Resistance Movement is one of the links in the chain of the struggle against the ZIONIST invaders. It goes back to 1939, to the emergence of the martyr Izz al-Din al Kissam and his brethren the fighters, members of Moslem Brotherhood. It goes on to reach out and become one with another chain that includes the struggle of the Palestinians and Moslem Brotherhood in the 1948 war and the Jihad operations of the Moslem Brotherhood in 1968 and after. Moreover, if the links have been distant from each other and if obstacles, placed by those who are the lackeys of ZIONISM in the way of the fighters obstructed the continuation of the struggle, the Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to the realisation of Allah's promise, no matter how long that should take. The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the [ZIONIST] Jews, when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." >> In other words, the Jihad struggle is specifically targeted against the ZIONIST invaders i.e. the Pro-Zionist Jews, not the Anti-Zionist Jews or Judaism.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Michael-wq7qx In May 2017, Hamas issued a revised Document of General Principles and Policies, referred to as the revised Hamas charter which reiterated its position since the 1988 Covenant that stated its Jihad struggle is specifically targeted against the ZIONIST invaders i.e. the Pro-Zionist Jews, not the Anti-Zionist Jews or Judaism, summarized as follows : (1) Hamas' struggle is not with Jews in general because of Judaism, but specifically with the Pro-Zionist Jews. (2) Hamas accepts a Palestinian state that is based on the demarcated 1967 borders that comprise the Gaza Strip [600 square miles of land] and West Bank [2,270 square miles of land] only, on the condition that the Palestinian refugees are unconditionally and freely allowed to return to their homes in Gaza Strip and West Bank without harassment from Israeli military or settlers.

[@spaghettification8658]

1:46 It’s important to note that while Abraham is a nice story, most secular scholars assert that the Patrarichs and Exodus are both mainly mythological stories, and that the historical Israelites emerged out of the prior Canaanite population in around 1200 BCE. Worth mentioning as it only further proves our indigenousness!

[@user-jr4kc6lu9q]

Good points. But you'll never get UNPACKED to agree with secular evidence against Judaism's mythological early chapters because according to riem37, writing to Reddit, "the Founder and CEO are both Orthodox rabbis".

[@tommiller3017]

I pretty much agree. Yet, all these Jews in all these lands with different immediate recent histories maintain a connection beyond any other people. Hell, there were black Jews in Ethiopia who thought they were the only Jews in the world. There were the Bene Israel communities in India that went back so far that they didn't know about the Hanukah story.

[@BSman617]

Most Jews have fascinating family histories. That Semite's story is no exception and particularly interesting! Thank you for sharing!

[@zochbuppet448]

@BSman617 So true. My Family is from Mars, they are convos from the 1400's who went there to exploit the Martians

[@Michael-wq7qx]

Jews as an ethnicity: the genetic composition of different Jewish groups shows that most Jews worldwide bear a common genetic heritage, which originates in the Middle East. They share a common gene pool dating back four millennia as a marker of their common ancestral origin. See: Balter, Michael "Tracing the Roots of Jewishness"- SCIENCE, June 3, 2010.

[@zochbuppet448]

@Michael-wq7qx They share a common gene pool dating back to eastern Europe

[@Michael-wq7qx]

​@@zochbuppet448 Science disagrees with you. See, for example, the results of the US National Academy of Science study: Google "Jewish ethnic divisions - Genetic studies." But I understand you well enough: if science doesn't serve one's preconceptions and prejudices, then down with it. BTW, scientific data can only be refuted by...scientific data.

[@nechfrei676]

This video made me cry. I am a religious orthodox jew. Listening to jewish history makes me emotional. Knowing what my grandparents went through just so i can be here today openly and proudly practicing Judaism and teaching it to my children.😢 Each jew is a link in a chain

[@SasukeBlackHeart94]

As much as I respect jewish heritage and struggle, I can only condemn what isreal is doing today. Most of history, jews were persecuted by european settlers and forced to flee. It is sad to see that in this era and with all this knowledge zionists are doing the same to the people of Palestine under the pretext of jewish safety.

[@Michael-wq7qx]

That is not a pretext. Such statements directed at the dehumanization of Jews reveal the level of dehumanizers. Some people like Jews as victims but hate them when they dare to defend themselves.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

​@@Michael-wq7qx "Jews" refer to people of different races & ethnicities who by freewill freely embrace and abide by the commandments of God (YHWH). "Jews" isn't a race or ethnicity, it refers to a culture, lifestyle and religion (Judaism). That said, how can a culture, lifestyle and religion (Judaism) which is NOT a race, ethnicity or human in any shape or form, be dehumanized? You absolutely cannot dehumanize a religion.

[@Michael-wq7qx]

​@deuteronomy6.4bw You choose a position that is at odds with science: "Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi,Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry and several Jewish groups show genetic proximity to Arabs"("Genetic studies of Jews ",3d paragraph). Genetic findings speak for themselves.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@Michael-wq7qx In matters relating to God (YHWH), I've strictly taken a scriptural position, NOT a scientific position. The belief that God (YHWH) exist fundamentally rest on Faith alone, NOT Science.

[@Michael-wq7qx]

​@@deuteronomy6.4bwDishonest people often use the Bible for their political manipulations.

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

I converted to Judaism. Therefore I am not indigenous to Israel but am Jewish. It's not about where you are from, it's what you believe that matters. 🙂

[@oreytan8160]

If you converted you are a jew for every matter of the word , you will always have a home in Israel

[@bonk78624]

Ethnicity is not inherited by DNA, but by acceptance of the ethnic group. So if the Jews accept you as a Jew, you are Jewish, no ifs or buts.

[@QueenLadySummer329]

“Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: but he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭2‬:‭23‬-‭29‬ ‭KJV‬‬

[@paulawallace8784]

​@QueenLadySummer329 Christianity is like it's Greek Tall Tales of Heathen Man /NT, they are BLASPHEMOUS, IDOLATROUS, HERETICAL, POLYTHEISTIC, PAGAN and ANTISEMITIC, it what the demented Devotees of the carnal idol of flesh Jesus have used to justify their BURNING JEWS ALIVE over and over again, besieging Jerusalem again and again SLAUGHTERING ALL THE JEWS, EXILING them from the LAND OF THE LIVING again and again SLAUGHTERING, they are who Desecrated Gd's Mountain Moriah, the Temple Mount and turned it into a GARBAGE DUMP, they are who have INFLICTED 1700+ years of PERSECUTION, OPPRESSION and SLAUGHTER upon Gd's Firstborn Son Israel the Jews, becoming their longest enduring and most DEADLIEST of all their Oppressors, all because they refused to ABANDON THE CREATOR AND HIS HOLY ETERNAL TORAH, it alone to a T, fits the description of the morphing LAST BEAST, Enemy of Gd and His Chosen!

[@paulawallace8784]

​The Moshiach of the Bible is King David's progeny, a mortal man of flesh and blood who Isaiah tells comes at the End of the Days and will be ANIMATED BY THE FEAR OF THE LRD!

[@ShiaKorchin]

You are my brother wherever we're from!

[@mitchellgibbs1016]

History reflects that Abram/Abraham is from Chaldea (modern Kuwait). My question is what about the Canaanites and Perizzites who were already inhabitants of the land before Abram’s arrival to Hebron and Lot’s settlement of the plains of Jordan? Both Lot and Abram are from Chaldea making them Chaldeans. Neither was indigenously from the land of Canaan (son of Hamm, son of Noah). Canaan was Noah’s 1st generation grandson. The lands of Canaan stretched from South Sudan/Ethiopia through Egypt along the coast to the border of Turkey. If I recall correctly Noah’s story happens before Abram’s. Abram’s story doesn’t happen for nearly 1000 years after Noah and the Ark. So how does Abram and his descendants have birth right to Canaanite lands when they were still living on the land when he got there?

[@UNPACKED]

Good questions. Most of them are addressed here: instagram.com/reel/C2fO1A_tPmk/

[@shalevbenhamo6336]

im half african half polish, full jew. people are always surprise about the reach of our culture

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@shalevbenhamo6336 You say you're a full Jew? Then what's a "half Jew", a Jew that just obey 5 of the 10 commandments??!! 😂

[@shalevbenhamo6336]

😂 I meant both parents are Jewish. I know it's only by mom​@@deuteronomy6.4bw

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

​@@shalevbenhamo6336 Let me correct your mistake. Genealogy is strictly paternal from father to child, NOT maternal from mother to child. All Genealogies in the Tanakh are strictly Male-based.

[@ultrastandphoenix1883]

Everyone's American until u really ask them .

[@josephwinder6878]

@@ultrastandphoenix1883 well unless your Indian you ALL came from somewhere

[@GuyIncognito-mw8mr]

Actual Americans don’t put their religion first,that’s like saying aim Irish Catholic which is unacceptable and rude

[@josephwinder6878]

@@GuyIncognito-mw8mr " unacceptable" ??? By who? You?

[@rayfranklin5783]

"The fellahin [ i.e. Palestinians] are not descendants of the Arab conquerors, who captured Eretz Israel and Syria in the seventh century CE. The Arab victors did not destroy the agricultural population they found in the country. They expelled only the alien Byzantine rulers, and did not touch the local population. Nor did the Arabs go in for settlement. Even in their former habitations, the Arabians did not engage in farming... They did not seek new lands on which to settle their peasantry, which hardly existed. Their whole interest in the new countries was political, religious, and material: to ruler, to propagate Islam and to collect taxes." - David Ben Gurion, Eretz Israel in the Past and in the Present (1979)

[@SA2932-oo7xk]

The Palestinians are the actual descendants of Jews, at least according to Ben Gurion (Eretz Israel in the Past and Present, 1918) : "The fellahin are not descendants of the Arab conquerors, who captured Eretz Israel and Syria in the seventh century CE. The Arab conquerors did not destroy the agricultural population they found in the country. They expelled only the alien Byzantine rulers and did not touch the local population. Nor did the Arabs go in for settlement. The greater majority and main structures of the Muslim falahin in western Eretz Israel present to us one racial strand and a whole ethnic unit, and there is no doubt that much Jewish blood flows in their veins - the blood of those Jewish farmers, “lay persons,” who chose in the travesty of times to abandon their faith in order to remain on their land."

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@SA2932-oo7xk The Palestinians aren't the descendants of "Jews" which merely reflect a culture and religion relating to Judaism. "Jews" isn't a race or ethnicity.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@SA2932-oo7xk An "ISRAELITE" is a race and "Reubenite", "Levite", "Benjamite" for example is an ethnicity that is genealogically traced back to Jacob/Israel through Tribe affiliation.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@SA2932-oo7xk "Biblical Israel" that was established in 885 BC by King David is a "Jewish monarchy". After the 2nd temple destruction in 70 CE that saw the total decimation of the "Jewish kingdom" where God's holy temple in Jerusalem was totally wiped out and razed to the ground to non-existence which signifies God's total rejection of Israel as a "Jewish state". In other words, after the temple was completely destroyed in 70 CE, God's divine presence departed in permanence from Jerusalem, Israel = The 2nd temple destruction symbolizes the complete end of the "Jewish statehood".

[@Ponto-zv9vf]

Yes and no. Palestinians have absorbed a lot of Arabian ancestry along with Islam, and they have a lot of ancestry from further north and east like Anatolia and Iran.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@Ponto-zv9vf What's Yes, and what's No?

[@indirabergraaf5213]

Thank you. I am Guyanese i didn't know Guyana had Jews

[@robnweinstein]

All I can say is that whenever I think the history of the Jewish people couldn't possibly be more interesting (meaning than what I know already know, and have learned over the decades), it never fails to surprise me and be even MORE extraordinary than I previously came to believe. I'm not at all interested in comparing Jews to other people here, but only commenting on the intensity, complexity and depth of our history. Thank you for providing those stories from your lineage which are absolutely fascinating, on so many levels. There are just so many different stories to tell. Whatever the rest of the world has to say about us, the tiny minority that we are, our survival as a people is nothing less than miraculous.

[@politicas3361]

We are all brothers from another mother and we are all jewish. Great Video

[@user-re1ce2js3g]

👉🗣📖 Revelation 1:14-15,Daniel 10:6,Daniel 7:9,Isaiah 11:11,Zephaniah 3:10,ACTS13:1

[@PamelaMacmillan-pc4rx]

Speak for yourself, I certainly am not

[@Prasenjit8657]

Should have also mentioned Bharat (India), where Jews were never persecuted. Late Lieutenant General Jacob was an Baghdadi Jew, born in Kolkata. He was also the Governor of the state of Punjab 🙏🏽❤️🇮🇳🇮🇱

[@robnweinstein]

I'm sure this will be misinterpreted and perhaps even twisted by others, but I know a little about the history of the Jews of India, and their historic ability to coexist peacefully with their neighbors always seemed absolutely the way I would have imagined, had I ventured a guess. I have had extremely positive working relationships with many Indian-Americans, and there's a basic goodness, warmth, intelligence and gentleness that always makes me feel like we're cut from very similar cloth, so to speak...

[@TheOnlyAndreySotnikov]

"Indigenous peoples" in the contemporary school of thought means a group of people that has a special relationship with their traditional territory and experience subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model. Therefore, "indigenous peoples" in Israel nowadays are Palestinians.

[@UNPACKED]

You literally just defined Jews and their 3,000+ year relationship with Israel. Unless you think indigeneity starts only in the last 100 years and applies to everyone but Jews…

[@TheOnlyAndreySotnikov]

@@UNPACKED I am just using a definition accepted by scholars and historians. You can address your resentment to them. There are other historical examples where groups once considered indigenous to a particular region have, over time, lost that status as they became the dominant culture or power in that area. The shift in power and cultural dominance leads to changes in how "indigenous" status is perceived and recognized. The term "indigenous" tends to be reserved for groups that maintain a distinct cultural identity and a historical connection to a particular territory, often in the face of colonization or domination by another culture. When the previously indigenous group becomes dominant, they usually lose that status, as the term "indigenous" typically implies a marginalized or subjugated position within the broader sociopolitical context.

[@UNPACKED]

Not debating the definition, just pointing out that it literally defines the Jews’ relationship to Israel 🤷‍♂️

[@TheOnlyAndreySotnikov]

@@UNPACKED I'm not debating the definition either, just pointing out that based on the contemporary understanding of 'indigenous peoples,' the status has shifted. Historically, Jews may have had an indigenous connection, but in the current context, Palestinians are the ones facing subjugation and discrimination under the dominant cultural model. Therefore, they are the indigenous people in Israel today.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

​@@UNPACKED A "Jew" relationship to Israel is only by culture and religion, NOT by race or ethnicity.

[@NorceCodine]

The genius of Rome was that if you didn't rebel against Rome, then it gave you a stake in Rome, and you could go as far as your talent took you, regardless of your race and creed. The brother of the Jewish exegete Philo of Alexandria became a member of the imperial family, and the richest man of Rome, Trimalchio, was a former slave.

[@fermamotanuluilus2870]

Nice video, I am a Jew from Romania but an Orthodox Christian

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@fermamotanuluilus2870 You cannot be "Jewish" and "Christian" at the same time.

[@fermamotanuluilus2870]

@@deuteronomy6.4bw My ethnicity is Jew and my religion is Christian

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

​@@fermamotanuluilus2870 A "Jew" does NOT refer to Race (Israelite) or Tribal Ethnicity (e.g. Levite, Benjamite), it refers to Culture (Jewish), Lifestyle (leading a way of life that pleases God) and Religion (Judaism).

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

​@@fermamotanuluilus2870 A Jew's faith is "Judaism", while a Christian's faith is "Christianity". You can't be practicing both "Judaism" and "Christianity" AT THE SAME TIME.

[@robertasovaite2754]

@@deuteronomy6.4bw tall those people commenting here... "i am a jew but secular", "my ancestors came from Israel 2000 years ago", "i am a jew but Christian"... basically 0 knowledge about anything. And that's probably 95% of the worlds population. I had a great laugh here, but on the other hand this idiotism is really scarry.

[@shelleyoxenhorn833]

Great series of videos. Informative, not aggressive and not apologetic. Very well done.

[@giannis7123]

Ancestors? When you convert to a religion that doesn’t mess up with your dna. What ancestors ??? Whet are you guys on? Same way if you learn greek doesnt make you greek and ancient greeks are not your ancestors.

[@Michael-wq7qx]

You are badly mistaken. Jews are not converts, excluding Khazars, a people of Turkic origin who are not considered Jews in Israel, and Ethyopian Jews. There are 142,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel(1.4 % of Israel's population). Don't you know that Jews were a persecuted race deprived of their basic rights? If you don't Google the article "Antisemitism". Conversion to Jewry in Europe would have been an unprecedented case. Did genuine Jews have their ancestors on the Middle East? Yes, they did. "Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry"("Genetic studies of Jews", 3d paragraph). Scientific conclusions speak for themselves.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

​@@Michael-wq7qx The word "Jews" merely reflects a culture (Jewish), lifestyle (leading a way of life that pleases God) and religion (Judaism), "Jews" does NOT reflect a race that comes from paternal genealogy or ethnicity that comes from tribe affiliation. "Jews" don't have tribe affiliation to Jacob's 12 sons.

[@giannis7123]

@@Michael-wq7qx thats why israel Restricts dna tests. You call it science i call it IMAGINATION

[@giannis7123]

@@Michael-wq7qx so ivanka trump when she became jew she can go to isra and settle there .

[@Michael-wq7qx]

​​@@giannis7123 There are very few people like her. A mass conversion to Judaism hasn't been observed. But there were not a few cases of Jews converting to Christianity. Take, for example, the major Russian writer of the last century Boris Pasternak who wrote one of the most important novels of his time "Doctor Zhivago," remember?

[@pavelg4990]

I’m not a Jew but I’ve always found history of the Jewish people fascinating. As well as their cultural contributions into other cultures they have assimilated into over generations, assimilated and became the leading poetic voices and souls.

[@iamfour]

You need to start posting proof of what you say because it just seems like you're just talking and talking and talking.... Huge disservice to your followers, add some references

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@iamfour The Video from start to finish didn't prove that he got "ISRAELITE" Bloodline (Having a continuous & unbroken cycle of Paternal Lineage which is genealogically traced back to Jacob) that comes complete with Tribal identity through Tribe affiliation to one of Jacob's 12 Tribes represented by his 12 sons e.g. Reubenite, Levite, Benjamite. He failed to disclose his Tribal identity because he simply isn't an "ISRAELITE" but only Jewish in culture and religion, not in race or ethnicity. An "ISRAELITE" is a race and a "Levite or Benjamite" for example is a Tribal identity.

[@mavm7473]

Excellent documentary

[@AdaraBalabusta]

Just since 4000-ish years ago! Is that indigenous enough?

[@JohnFKennedy313]

I doubt you were in the Middle East for 4000 years, y’all were in Europe for years

[@GuyIncognito-mw8mr]

As nomads ?

[@zacharydavis4398]

Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content 🙏🏾

[@walterbenjamin1386]

Hello and thank you from a secular Jew in the north woods. Beautifully explained history from a memorable presenter.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@walterbenjamin1386 There is NO such thing as a "Secular Jew". "Secular" means to be worldly and non-religious, essentially an unbeliever of God; whereas "Jew" means a believer of God who abides by God's commandments.

[@walterbenjamin1386]

And who are you to tell me who is a Jew? All my great grandparents escaped pogroms in Russia to come to the US. One strain were of a rabbinical lineage. The others were atheists who escaped religion oppression from tradition. All Jewish, 100%.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@walterbenjamin1386 A "Jew" does NOT have any ancestral or historical homeland. The word "Jew" merely reflects a Culture (Jewish), Lifestyle (leading a way of life that pleases God) and Religion (Judaism). A "Jew" does NOT reflect a Race (Israelite) or Ethnicity by way of Tribe affiliation to one of Jacob's 12 sons e.g. Reuben, Dan, Naphtali, Joseph, Benjamin. >> A "JEW" DOES NOT HAVE TRIBAL IDENTITY THROUGH TRIBE AFFILIATION.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@walterbenjamin1386 There's no such thing as 100% or 56.8% or 23.7% Jewish.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@walterbenjamin1386 If you're an ISRAELITE who is the Legitimate descendant of Jacob by way of Paternal genealogy that comes complete with Tribal identity through Tribe affiliation being affiliated and traced back to one of Jacob's 12 sons, then please reveal your TRIBAL IDENTITY. Which Tribe of Jacob are you affiliated with?

[@144Donn]

Very impactful! All of your videos are masterful!

[@ariannawiniarski5889]

I’m white, Polish, Danish, Dutch and Jewish. I usually get clocked as Dutch or Danish but some people have a hard time believing I’m Jewish. People think some weird crap. I have been told I look “Catholic” which makes no sense. Also, I’m as pale as you can get with blue eyes and blonde hair naturally. Everyone assumes Jews have dark hair and eyes.

[@romanzusman2892]

Yet King David was a blonde 😅. People should read more(especially if they consider themselves Believers)

[@wasiqmohammad9879]

@@ariannawiniarski5889 I see Judism as a religion and not as a race if you have European features that becuase you are European and somewhere down the line you family decided to convert to Judism or they married into Judaism with out doing a dna test you can not confirm you have middle eastern roots and that’s fine

[@aignerauryyelordoabchao1366]

@@romanzusman2892King David was not Blonde where did you get that lie/fabrication from? Go read the Hebrew, he was Admoniy which is Brown(Chesnut) also called Red- like the Red Heifer which is clearly Brown!!!! Wake up and cut the lies!!!!

[@animovski]

​@@wasiqmohammad9879well said

[@forestmcneir3325]

King David was descended from Ruth, a Moabite, a foreigner. Throughout Jewish history, there hsve been infusions of outside blood into the Jewish people. Judaism is a people WITH a national religion. To say Judaism is only a religion misses the mark entirely.

[@user-wb5in9ux2f]

Conversos were Jews who converted to Christianity under pressure but continued to practice Judaism in secret. They were often forced to convert to avoid persecution but maintained Jewish traditions and practices clandestinely.

[@bravoRFId63]

I wished I was and could be 🇮🇱🫰🏻

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@bravOscar63 Just convert to Judaism and you'll become a Jew.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

Just imagine if the entire world's population of 8 billion people convert to Judaism and become Jews, and by following the Law of return to the land of Israel under Zionism, the current land space in Israel will definitely collapse. 😂

[@alphadog3384]

You are so lucky just knowing your family dna both sides from generation to generation. My grandmother would chat about Vilna as well.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@alphadog3384 No amount of scientific DNA testing can determine & ascertain a person's Paternal genealogical lineage that comes complete with Tribal identity to Jacob and Jacob's 12 sons.

[@boryag7831]

Thank you brother for your amazing story. Greetings from Belarusian Ashkenazi Jew, my skin color is also brown and my DNA test says that I have Middle Eastern roots, as well as German and Eastern European

[@rongarcia6695]

I'm Hispanic American and part Sephardic Jewish from my mom's side of the family I understand that the Jewish people left ancient Israel win the second temple was Destroyed and wint to Spain and after that My family left Spain and went to America and now I'm here thank you so much my Jewish side of the family if wasn't for them I wouldn't be here

[@E0011]

All major Jewish ethnic groups share common ancestors from the Levant (about 40-60% Levant in Ashkenazi Jews and 50-80% Levant in Mizrahi Jews) Ashkenazi Jews formed from Jewish men who were exiled by Romans about 2000 years ago and converted Roman women, while Mizrahi Jews come from the Babylonian exile about 2500 years ago after which they mixed with Mesopotamians (Iraq)/Iranians. Sephardi Jews have a common origin with Ashkenazi Jews (Jewish men + Roman women) but after the 1492 inquistion and exile from Spain those who moved to the Middle East mixed with Mizrahi Jews. There's also Italkim, Romaniotes and so on but they mostly resemble Ashkenazi/Sephardi Jews genetically Some smaller Jewish groups (Yemenite/Ethiopian/Kaifeng etc.) have a heavier influence of converts on their DNA but have kept traditions for thousands of years too So yes we're all from Israel

[@skp8748]

Lmao. Yemeni and Ethiopians are more linked to the levant that ashkenAz

[@FaiezCader]

What about the Palestinian Jews and many Palestinians Muslim and Christian s got Hebrew genes in them that's y DNA is not allowed in Occupied Palestine

[@davidschalit907]

The Ashkenazim are not only from "converted Roman women". Some were and some weren't. The slaves didn't marry converts. Some of the Jews who were already in Rome and were not slaves, some of them married converts. Sefardi Jews also took converts.ĺ

[@E0011]

@@FaiezCader DNA tests are very much allowed in Israel. Palestinians are a mix of foreign Levantines from Jordan, Syria and Lebanon (and a very small minority from converted Jews/Samartians from Israel) mixed with Arabs, Egyptians, Africans, Turks and so on.

[@E0011]

@@davidschalit907 True it's more complicated than how I described it that's just the general idea. And Sephardi Jews came from the same European Jewish population like the Ashkeanzim as far as I know so they obviously took in converts too

[@shikochin4962]

I am on one minute in the program and i cant belive you are jewish- No offence , becasue you look like someone straight from a Mayan civilization - as latin myself 😂 All good , insightful programe. I am very fascinated myself about heritage. Thanks for the topic.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@shikochin4962 Why do you NOT believe the host when he said he's definitely "Jewish"? Anyone can be "Jewish" which is super duper easy, just simply convert to Judaism and Whoosh!!! >> Another "Jew" emerges that adds to the Jewish population.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@shikochin4962 The word "Jews" merely reflects a culture (Jewish), lifestyle (leading a way of life that pleases God) and religion (Judaism), "Jews" does NOT reflect a race that comes from paternal genealogy or ethnicity that comes from tribe affiliation. "Jews" don't have tribe affiliation to Jacob's 12 sons.

[@bbpantinie]

​@@deuteronomy6.4bwlol what stupid comment lol

[@Michael-wq7qx]

It is stupid to define a person( Jew/non Jew - who is he in this case?) by the degree of his or her ritualism. And all attempts to deprive a Jew of his ethnicity - despite the inexorable truth of genetic findings - seem ridiculous if not madcap.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Michael-wq7qx No one is depriving a "Jew" of his or her race & ethnicity. A "Jew" isn't a race & ethnicity, a "Jew" is simply a person regardless of difference in race & ethnicity who by freewill, freely chooses to obey and abide in the commandments of God (YHWH) to lead a Jewish way of life pleasing to God (YHWH).

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Michael-wq7qx Practically, any one can become a "Jew", a Chinese or Indian or Mexican or Korean or Japanese or Puerto Rican or German or French, etc.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Michael-wq7qx What genetic findings? = Through your constant bull-crap DNA nonsense again??!!

[@AniBAretz]

Amazing, excellent, well done! Inspiring and illustrative! Not to mention timely!

[@blueizumi]

“If I don’t steal your home someone else will steal it”

[@UNPACKED]

You mean the Jewish people's homeland of Israel?

[@cookieMonsterSincho]

Everyone is questioning the existence of Israel created by British but when you ask muslims should Pakistan and Jordan exist created by British there answer would be totally different!

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@cookieMonsterSincho The New state of Israel that was established in 1948 through British-UN mandate isn't a Jewish state but a Secular state.

[@Michael-wq7qx]

Israel was not created by the British. Moreover, they abandoned the principles of the Balfour Declaration and in 1939 severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine and limited Arab land sales to the Jews, thus forcing them to begin fighting against British colonial rule in Palestine. Israel was created on the basis of November 1947 UN General Assembly resolution number 181 to partition Palestine between Jews and Arabs which was gladly accepted by Jews and indignantly rejected by Arabs who immediately attacked the emerging Jewish state but were defeated. Up to this day terrorist organizations don't recognize that resolution and that's the fount of the problems in the Middle East.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@Michael-wq7qx That explains the absence of a Jewish state since the 2nd temple destruction which took place in 70 CE. By a British-UN mandate implemented in 1948, the New state of Israel was established through SECULARITY.

[@gerryatrix74]

​@@Michael-wq7qxive been told that somewhere in that balfour declaration was a clause about not giving the locals the shts

[@Michael-wq7qx]

@gerryatrix74 "I've been told." Don't you know how to use the Internet?

[@denis5555]

But where are the Jews REALLY from?? They are Africans, like all human beings (Homo Sapiens came from Africa). (I'm using the same logic to give myself a place where I was not born but I know some of my ancestors came from). The point on the line (to an ancestor) further back you want to stop is arbitrary and so is the line you want to choose (among many, many other lines).

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@denis5555 Jews come from all over the world who do not have any specific point of origin, just like the Catholics, the Christians and the Muslims who equally do not have any specific point of origin. The Catholics do not own the Vatican city, the Christians do not own the US or UK, the Muslims do not own Saudi Arabia, and in the same way the Jews do not own Israel.

[@afroman6172]

How do you discuss Jewish origins without reference to DNA data? According to several studies by geneticists Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews hail from the Zagros mountains of Iran and the Caucasus mountains. They migrated to Palestine circa 4,000 years ago and intermixed with the natives of the Palestine/Canaan region.

[@00govan00]

lol very helpful

[@VersteheNZ]

Yes. Science now understands that there have been millions of years since the genus homo sapiens first evolved in tropical Africa, after the homo erectus type evolved, some moved out of Africa, and there was human occupation in the Levant by many thousands of years ago. Palestinians. If one reads the old testament, one might think Adam and Eve were the first humans, about 4 000 years BC, but science has proved that this is not correct.

[@wolfeinhorn4661]

I’m from San Diego . And Jewish . Mixed raced .

[@mujemoabraham6522]

Where are the descendants of Jacob ( Bnei Yesrael ) at present days ?

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@mujemoabraham6522 ISRAELITES, the Legal descendants of Jacob through Paternal genealogy with Tribal affiliation (God's Legitimate chosen people) don't exist anymore who were gradually wiped out of existence from 70 CE (over 1,950 years ago) during which time Israel's capital Jerusalem was invaded by the Roman empire which totally destroyed God's temple (holy of holies) that signifies an end of the Jewish state and dynasty. The Jewish people who currently reside in Israel are Israelis, not ISRAELITES.

[@wescolumbus621]

Oh what a boring Q. Speedy recovery!

[@mujemoabraham6522]

@@wescolumbus621 I challenge you and others if you can bring me a single male who is a real descendant of Jacob son of Isaac son of Abraham . Don't forget to bring me also his result of Y-DNA test .( Paternal line )

[@Memeoup]

Short answer: iraq, but anyone can be Jewish by converting in some branches of Judaism

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@Memeoup During the biblical times when the Paternal descendants of Jacob, the "Israelites" existed, they were "Jews" by CULTURE in abidance to God's commandments and LIFESTYLE in leading a way of life that pleases God. 1. "Israelite" refers to a RACE & ETHNICITY with a Paternal genealogy that is paternally traced back to Jacob exclusively through Male lineage that comes complete with a Tribal identity being traced back to one of Jacob's 12 sons that represent Israel's 12 different Tribes. 2. "Jew" refers to a CULTURE (Jewish) & LIFESTYLE (leading a way of life that pleases God). Read Esther 2:5 - In Shushan the palace, there was a "Jew" by the name of Mordecai the descendant of Jair, the descendant of Shimei, the descendant of Kish, a "Benjamite" [from the Tribe of Benjamin].

[@Memeoup]

@@deuteronomy6.4bw wow Iraqis are really cool, I really might visit Israel one Day, but the last president of Israel said that the existence of Israel might end in 60 years, you know why?

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@Memeoup I'm not sure why the last Israeli president said the existence of Israel might end, but to me, the BIBLICAL Israel had already ended in 70 CE, the time when the 2nd holy temple (holy of holies) destruction in Jerusalem took place where God (YHWH) out of extreme rage with Israel's recurring sins and unrepentance, inspired Rome to invade Jerusalem that completely wiped out His holy temple (holy of holies) which signifies the complete end of the Jewish state and dynasty. The New state of Israel that was established in 1948 is NOT a Jewish state at all but a SECULAR Zionist state formed by 2 European atheists named Theodor Herzl from Austria-Hungary and Chaim Weizmann from Germany, both of whom ironically do not believe in the existence of God (YHWH).

[@Memeoup]

@@deuteronomy6.4bw oh yeah that's why I saw LG*BT flags in Jerusalem 😯

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@Memeoup Yep, it is literally an annual event to celebrate the diverse and different genders (More than 2 genders) in people. It is a total outrage and mockery to call Jerusalem a "holy" city TODAY, which isn't "holy" at all.

[@noamnoam16]

Learning how rebelious the Jews were one cant help but know in his guts, that at least some of the Palestinians are Jews converted to Islam.

[@Michael-wq7qx]

Palestinians are Arabs living in Palestine. According to the Bible, Abraham is the common ancestor of the Jews and the Arabs. Genetic findings indicate that Jewish groups show genetic proximity to Arabs("Genetic studies of Jews ", 3d paragraph). But proximity doesn't mean identity. BTW, DNA analysis of human remains taken from Canaan ancient Jewish burials definitely indicates that modern Jews are descendants of those Canaan Jews. See: Katsnelson, Alla "Jews worldwide share genetic ties." NATURE. 3 June 2010; Fudakis, Tony "Ashkenazi Jews " in "Molecular Photofitting: Predicting Ancestry and Phenotype Using DNA." Elsevier, 2010, p.383. And don't miss the article: Lawley, Andrew "DNA from the Bible's Canaanites lives on in modern Arabs and Jews." NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, 28 September 2020. All those questions solved by science are deliberately confused by antizionists(a modern euphemism for antisemites).

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

​@@Michael-wq7qx Even if DNA analysis test can only 95-99% ascertain and conclude Abrahamic or Israelitic ancestry, you will definitely 100% still require Abraham's, Isaac's, Jacob's or his 12 sons' DNA to compare with modern people today in order to establish Genealogical connection and Tribal identity but you got absolutely NOTHING to compare to.

[@nechfrei676]

I am an ashkanazi Yekke jew. My family comes from Germany. They moved there after the destruction of the temple. My dad moved to America when he married my mom.

[@mujemoabraham6522]

Any serious person who is really wants to know his real root / origin he must do a Y-DNA test and within 4 weeks the results will come out and show you your Haplogroup . In our modern era very easy to track your ancestors just you need a courage to do the YDNA test .

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@mujemoabraham6522 Whatever the results of the DNA, they absolutely cannot determine & ascertain Genealogical lineage that comes complete with Tribe affiliation to Jacob (Original ancestor) and Jacob's 12 sons (13 Tribes).

[@aryeh.a2762]

You can do an mDNA and Chromosomal DNA. They help point to ancestry

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@aryeh.a2762 Not 100% accurate.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@aryeh.a2762 It can't tell Paternal genealogy and Tribal identity.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@@aryeh.a2762 DNA only provide approximates.

[@KillSanchezVol.1]

The history of Jews in the Iberian Peninsula (Sefarad) has been largely discussed and there has been a lot of misinformation, usually from Anglo-Saxon historians and French historians who are very good in hiding their own faults by accusing others. French, English and other European countries were much more savage and cruel to Jews than the Spaniards. Even the Portuguese were worse. It's too long to discuss here, but it may help if you ask yourself a very simple question: Why do Sephardic Jews have this undeniable nostalgia for the time they lived in Spain? Most of the Jews who left Spain kept Ladino as their language and some, although few now, continue to speak it.

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@KillSanchezVol.1 Are Sephardic Jews the DIRECT Descendants of Jacob the Patriarch?

[@deuteronomy6.4bw]

@KillSanchezVol.1 Let me re-phrase the question: Is there even a single person on earth today who is a DIRECT Descendant of Jacob?

[@KillSanchezVol.1]

@@deuteronomy6.4bw That was not my point at all. I was talking about the Jews in the Iberian Peninsula/Sefarad/Spain. Anyway, I do not know, so I can't answer.

[@user-wt6ss6bn7r]

😂omg YES. Hang in there, truth has beginning, middle and end.

[@PamelaMacmillan-pc4rx]

Just as cruel as the modern day Jews slaughtering all the Palestinians

[@JackGrau-b5h]

Why are so many people in the comments trying to deny Jewishness as an ethnicity. Do they not understand genetics at all?

[@Michael-wq7qx]

Sure, they don't.

[@Samo-tm3xr]

Its NOT an ethnicity!

[@Michael-wq7qx]

@Samo-tm3xr "Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry..."("Genetic studies of Jews", 3d paragraph). Scientific data can be refuted not by exclamation marks but only by scientific data. 😂

[@emilyannamanda]

I don’t consider it in an ethnicity, but I’m not also in any debates about it I could be convinced otherwise

[@emilyannamanda]

Why does every Jew look different than?

[@BBeeblebrox]

That was beautiful that the Jewish people kept to their roots over thousands of years of persecution and remembered their motherland. In Sanskrit there's a saying "janani janma bhoomischa swargadapi gariyasi" meaning - mother and motherland are greater than heaven. Love from India that is Bharat❤

[@michaelmichael8314]

Buddy, youre clearly not from there. You're mixed race, and MAY havs some heritage therr throufh your paternal grandfather, but at the end of the day, you are not from a region that some of your ancestors were in 2500 years ago. Your DNA test would verify this

[@Michael-wq7qx]

Yah?