Eating Stolen Palestinian Food in New York

[@anarcho-yorpism]

slowly realizing the reason I thought I hated falafel is because nobody in my "Israeli" family knows how to cook it

[@biopharmmarkets2115]

Most based reply, respect 🫡

[@waleedkhawaja8276]

Hahahaha oh god, I’m a Palestinian and don’t get me wrong I hate you but you can come to Amman and I’ll feed you proper Flafil, Everybody deserves to eat proper flafil

[@Gibmeprimogemss]

Urgh, as a Palestinian it infuriates me to see that they steal food and don’t even know how to cook it. You should try going to an authentic and popular arab restaurant. You’ll love it inshallah!

[@galileebashaw7610]

Free Palestine

[@__Man__]

​@@Gibmeprimogemss I tried Palestinian and Levantine foods inclusively, all are good and suit our Kashmiri palate. Greeting from Kashmir.

[@nobody.6451]

So by this logic, a Brit can move to India - cook Indian food - but call it British … this defies logic

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

Jamie Oliver would love that!

[@Zt1d45]

the uk's national dish is literally chicken tikka masala!

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

@@Zt1d45 yes, but that actually _is_ a British recipe, it was obviously inspired by Indian cuisine but it was first created by chefs in Britain, and it’s geared towards British tastes.

[@Zt1d45]

@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated Except the man who created it was from Pakistan... talk about colonisation! But you have a point there as it was created in Britain.

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

@@Zt1d45 originally from Pakistan, sure, but he moved to the UK as a small child, so he was culturally British. And like I said, it was specifically geared towards British tastes.

[@rochellesantos4618]

So glad you showed the real stuff. Not only do Israelis do a bad version of Palestinian food, but some people also don't want to try Palestinian food because they had the Israeli version. It's a double whammy.

[@nwbw217]

It is not Palestinian food and there is not even such a thing as Palestinian they are just regular arabs who lived in the Ottoman Empire the entire region not even 100 years ago was Turk for 1000+ years this is basic history how can people not know this

[@__Man__]

​@@nwbw217 it shows that Israelis can't cook food well. Most of their palates are more suitable to the Northern European palate than the Middle Eastern palate. It's the reality. Even if you go to the moon, Mars, other galaxies and come back again to the earth, still it wouldn't change the reality.

[@lotfidzn]

who even told you palestinians are 100% arab dna, except the arabs living in the arabic penincela , other arab countries are not arab by dna but a mixture between arab and the natives as the when the arab expanded they didnt chase out the native population but lived amongst them. and it is palestinian whether you beleive they were there or not. israel didnt exist untill 75 years ago and most of those jew in 1948 were europitan immigrants and i dont reccal them making these dishes in europe. while the history of this dishes goes centuries for the palestinians.@@nwbw217

[@lonniegabbie]

@@nwbw217 my grandpa is older than israel stfu 😂

[@kingmixedbreed]

looooool stay mad bro. Palestine is here to stay, we've been here for centuries and will always be god willing@@nwbw217

[@Morgan_of_the_Maxilla]

I'm Puerto Rican, we have a large Palestinian diaspora here concentrated in a few places. There's an arab restaurant that I've been going to since I was little. The head chef since forever has been a Palestinian man. So everything is basically authentic. Let me tell you, the moment I saw that falafel I felt like throwing up. I'm not even Arab or a huge expert but even I could tell from eating falafel since I was 13 that this was an abomination 😂

[@AmeerEghbarieh]

Thanks! Love your work. Keep it going

[@khalidacosta7133]

Damn, stole their land, stole their homes, stole their trees... and now their food!

[@beyzayildiz5296]

And song also.. did you heard about the famous Palestinian song "ana damı falestini " well they managed to copy it by replacing falestini by yahudi or israheli 🤬🤬

[@LECJuwels]

they had nothing thats why and they polish guys not real jews

[@0n1c420]

now they’re also colonizing clothing.

[@johnny44_-nd7nq]

I wonder who tought them how to do it

[@TheIndianCapitalist]

L- Lies

[@Username74-b8h]

In that Israeli logic, if a Jewish person lived in Turkey and then moved to Israel, they can cook Turkish food and call it Israeli 😢😅

[@ultimatedark5969]

No , jewish food is israeli because it is cooked only by jews , falafel is jewish and arab food both , falafel was eaten by syrian, egyptian , lebanease and iraqi and local jews , it became a tradition in israel , the fact it is of arab orgin doesn't make it stolen food, it is egyptian by the way not palestinian lol and there is almost no difference

[@Username74-b8h]

@ultimatedark5969 As an Egyptian, I'm telling you there's a huge difference! We don't even call it falafel in Egypt, and we don't use chickpeas to make it 😉

[@ultimatedark5969]

@Manar12343 doesn't matter, chickpeas are used for falafel in syria lebanone jordan palestine and iraq , I wonder who stole from who, and I wonder if you want to call jews who remained in the middle east food stealers cause they aint claiming it to be their own dish but just to be a dish of their cuisine , and European jews are the same jews , jews from israel know what knafeh is its palestinian dish , jews from israel make israeli salad and they know it's originally arab but they make it differently using different herbs and adding nuts white greek or israeli safed cheese and adding garlic or just adding different vegetables, it is not jewish invention but it is what it is , israel isn't claiming to be " middle eastern arab like state " but a country for jews who came back home and brought their own foods like hamin and tbit and tzimes kugel and jahnoon and locals can also enjoy it , by the way did you know that palestinians are selling European jewish pastry called " rugalach " which Is common in israel ? Did you know that it's a tradition to make " abbas kun aruz " or rice with tomato and beans and meat but it's a jewish local recipe ?

[@nwbw217]

No… its called a different recipe prepared and cooked differently. People who are not ignorant and clueless understand this as do food manufacturers

[@everythingsfine1395]

@@ultimatedark5969 I would like to try jewish original food . All of these food in the video are (arabs /arab jews / ottoman )food . Arabs food still my favorites and Italian too .

[@EcchiRevenge]

The food may not be israeli, but the price is very israeli.

[@shananjum9651]

The fact they outlawed the foragaing of zatar is crazy, becasue it is a common pattern in many settler colonies. Americans for isnstance outlawed foragaing of herbs, berries, plants, mushrooms etc for black and indigenous people.

[@testicool013]

No they didn’t

[@eveali3177]

I heard they did because it helps with fertility and they wanted to make their whole existence hard

[@rai2423]

@@eveali3177 Of course. It’s only illegal for Palestinians to forage zaatar so it tells you the reason behind why it’s even illegal in the first place. Besides they want them to buy it from the store so the occupied puts money into occupiers economy.

[@NovikNikolovic]

They went THAT far?? Damn, it's like it's not 2024 but 1824

[@Aurock]

Yeah, “American” colonizers slaughtered THOUSANDS of bison/buffalo to try to starve indigenous peoples. And enslaved people were constantly “underfed” and “under-clothed” (cuz they raised the food and repaired if not made the clothes) as a means of control. Just like Israel’s blocking food and supplies to Gazans, whose labor they have also previously largely exploited.

[@ThisisSahar]

I always correct them: “you mean Palestinian?” Brings me much joy every single time I say this as I walk out of the restaurant.

[@alhabtoormotors4221]

You just gave them your money...

[@chetmanley1885]

What you should do is say nothing, but walk out without paying.

[@ThisisSahar]

@@alhabtoormotors4221 you say this with so much confidence like you know what people are doing! I walk out without ordering, no one’s giving them money!

[@WaiiMiii]

Lol exactly @@alhabtoormotors4221

[@nwbw217]

This is pure fiction not based in any reality

[@Masviida]

I had Israeli food in Palma de Mallorca, it was falafel wrap, the worst in my entier life. Israelis are not a nation but a collection of people from all countries.

[@farasyahandmade7597]

Exactly. Their culture is the culture of whatever country they came from.

[@RosinDaddy5280]

Yea a occupation

[@sobienz]

74% of israelis are born and from israel, racist pretty much huh?

[@2higgi]

​@@farasyahandmade7597 This statement is truly, undiscriminately ignorant of Jewish culture and history regardless different groups' affiliation to Zionism

[@destroyer99612]

Come here to Jordan, the falafel wraps are beyond amazing here(a big part of the population is us Palestinians)

[@naveerarizwan5329]

As a Pakistani this is makes me think about how Chicken Tikka Masala is a the national dish of Britain, when we all know that they would simply faint from the smell of spice.

[@AyazHamid]

At least they were made by desi immigrants. Imagine white dudes just 'claiming' they came up with biryani lmao

[@othmaneelmansouri6314]

The whities can't handle the spices brother.

[@muhammadedwards8425]

​@@AyazHamidMy grandma made it every Eid. It would be on sight for any of those white guys

[@chetmanley1885]

As a Pakistani you should know this specific dish was not from Pakistan right? The constituent parts yes, but not together, that's from Scotland; a diner complained the chicken was dry so the chef made a sauce for it. For this to be equivalent of Israel's culinary theft, we'd have to be claiming ALL Indian food was invented in Britain by British people. And as for it being the 'national dish' it's not like an official thing, it's just very popular. Don't take this as me defending colonialism, the Indian food you get here is a pretty bastardised version (although more authentic restaurants exist), but you're getting your facts mixed up and assuming stuff. You can get curry literally anywhere in the country and we spend like £4bn a year on it, I don't think we're worried about the spices.x

[@AyazHamid]

@@somebody700 I know hence the use of the word 'imagine'. I just wanted to highlight how hilarious and petty it is to steal someone's entire culture like the Zionists are doing.

[@Space_Ghost91]

Wow the real Palestinian food at the end of the video looked in a league of its own compared to the first restaurant.

[@Loots1]

They didnt 'steal' it, they are just 'occupying' it

[@noragabb609]

😂

[@JellyShaputra]

😂😂

[@JellyShaputra]

😂😂😂

[@parsifal40]

The thing is: Something like shawarma is originally Turkish but Arabs have embraced it and make it the best (and Turks seem to be focused on Doner) so it is more about embracing it rather than being the originator and Israelis can't even do that, they can only make cheap copies.

[@mrkslva4231]

They’re just blending in.. and btw they have an absolute right to claim anything and everything there as their ancestors lived way before anyone living there.

[@mrok3405]

Here in Turkey we know a thing about cuisine. We know because the Ottoman cuisines incorporated the foods of the region and their spices. This included Sham or what is today Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon. Also the Maghrib or North Africa. These foods were immersed into Turkish foods and you can today see these foods in the Caucuses and Balkans in Europe. It is certainly not Israeli because Israel is as old as 1948 and was never a part of our history. The Muslim world is 1500 years old. It can never be erased by Israeli nationalists who want to distort reality and history. Peace to Palestine. Turkey stands with you!

[@princessglitterbutt5984]

oof too bad judaism and israel is over 4,000 years old 🤣🤣🤣

[@mrok3405]

@princessglitterbutt5984 Good point. It's gone from 2000, to 3000 to 4000, but why stop there? Every human race goes back in time. Conundrum is blatantly obvious

[@princessglitterbutt5984]

lol shows how much you know. 2,000 years ago was when Jews were forced out of the land after living there for thousands of years

[@d0Q0b]

Ottoman stands no moral ground in appropriation, therefore turkey either.

[@mugiwaraluffy4888]

where is there a map of ottoman that say the name palastine?? it was not a thing until the late 60s

[@stephenfisher3721]

There is a weird trend in the United States where chefs are calling their restaurants Israeli but are creating some new fusion cuisine.

[@rai2423]

Many of the people who eat it now would’ve never ate it a few years ago at an authentic Middle Eastern restaurant. The Israeli label makes it appropriate for them to go there.

[@princessglitterbutt5984]

wow its almost like isralei food is actually a fusion cuisine inspired by many different cultures and people calling it "appropreated" are idiots. Who knew?

[@sweetpotato5535]

​@@princessglitterbutt5984 what are you yapping? 💀

[@hamo6053]

I once tried Sabra hummus, I wanted to vomit after it andvtold my friend how can you eat this shit. The hummus I eat in Jordan is top notch, my favorite hummus is beiruti hummus.

[@kamifaye]

I don’t know how Israelis managed to destroy hummus, but I tried that “Sabra” garbage once and it tasted fizzy, or like it had baking powder in it !! So weird … Hummus should be creamy

[@samnabawy2731]

@@kamifaye /its more insulting when you learn about the Sabra massacre

[@Gibmeprimogemss]

@@samnabawy2731 Its even more disgusting that’s it’s literally an !sraeli company

[@cehaem2]

@@samnabawy2731 It's actually called Tsabar צבר, Sabra is the English version as the Hebrew word is difficult to pronounce. The British came up with that as they simply took and adapted the Arabic version. Chill your beans, Saladin....

[@cehaem2]

You do realise that Tsabar/Sabra is industrially made? It's basically like saying Cadbury Cake is worst than cake you get at your local bakery. Of course it is. I get my hummus from the fresh counter at the kibbutz supermarket in Yagur. And of course it's much better.

[@akacheddarmountain]

I would have liked to see you interview the Israeli chefs. I am curious how American chefs justify the apartheid.

[@anarcho-yorpism]

denial mostly

[@akacheddarmountain]

@@anarcho-yorpism oh I don't doubt they would but it's important to extend that offer so as to help the viewer formulate their own opinion.

[@nwbw217]

What Apartheid? If you mean the Arab countries who literally ban Jews and Christians from living in their countries or having zero rights for the half dozen that do I would agree with you.

[@isaacperess8852]

I have family who are Jews from Beirut. I’m willing to admit Palestinian food is better than Israeli but you guys are just straight up haters.

[@akacheddarmountain]

@@isaacperess8852 haters....no just not fans of occupiers.

[@astridicarus]

My boyfriend was so excited to show me Israeli cuisine when i moved to new york... I am from canada... I took one look at the menu and thought hmm.. this is Palestinian food. It feels so much more comfortable to know.. I was right

[@ZRHTrainspotter]

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 ❤

[@Nik-MKD]

you can even tell the quality of the Palestinian food is much better than the Israeli knock-off the Israeli one did not look appetising at all - you are brave for trying that

[@July4-u5z]

Replica😂

[@waterloggedsquidd2354]

Go to an actual Israeli restaurant then in Israel? You’ll find Ashkenazi, Sephardic, mizrahi, and other kinds of Jewish/ non Jewish restaurants there

[@făr.ø.măr]

You mean PALESTINE. LOL, learn how to spell. ​@waterloggedsquidd2354

[@exosproudmamabear558]

​@waterloggedsquidd2354 Probably also stole food from other cultures to call them theirs. It wouldnt surprise.

[@imf3z]

Respectfully one was a delivery one was in house eating tho

[@simzimm]

A great combination of historical insight and humor. Love it!

[@roskar]

As a North African who grew up eating chakchouka, I was shocked to hear that Israelis claimed this typical North African dish as theirs! Same with berkoukes, renamed Israeli couscous 😡 Stealing land and cultures!

[@stephenfisher3721]

No, it is more complicated than you think. Modern Israel is a new country developing its cuisine. Many Jews from North Africa came to Israel. Other Israelis saw what these North African Jews were eating and learned from them. Even today, Tunisian Jews in Israel continue to eat couscous as part of their traditional Shabbat meal Friday evenings.

[@stephenfisher3721]

Israelis, especially of North African descent, may eat couscous as you know it. Another product often labeled Israeli couscous outside of Israel is sold which is not couscous at all. "Israeli couscous (ptitim in Hebrew)is toasted pasta in tiny balls, developed in Israel in the 1950s when rice was scarce due to austerity in Israel. Despite its name in English, it is not a type of couscous." (Wikipedia)

[@stephenfisher3721]

Ptitim are also similar to the Berber berkoukes (aka abazine) and the Sardinian fregula, but these, too, unlike ptitim, are rolled and coated products. Source: Wikipedia

[@stephenfisher3721]

Bino Gebso (born in 1952 ) is an Israeli restaurateur known to the public as "Doctor Shakshuka" and the owner of the chain of restaurants by that name. Gebso was born in Jaffa to parents from Tripoli in Libya who immigrated to Israel in the early 1950s , as the third child among six brothers and sisters. When he was a child, his father opened a restaurant in Jaffa called "Tripoli", and in 1963 at the age of 11 he stopped attending school and started working.....he managed his father's restaurant himself, who traveled the world on business trips. ...he established his first restaurant on Beit Eshel Street in Jaffa , specializing in Tripolitan food, and called it "Doctor Shakshuka", after the main dish he specialized in. Within a few years, the place became a favorite of celebrities, and journalists and restaurant critics such as Shaul Ebron and Israel Aharoni told of long lines of diners waiting for a shakshuka dish. The publicity of Gebso and his restaurant gained momentum after he appeared on Dan Shilon 's dinner show on television... Source: Hebrew Wikipedia

[@rohankishibe8259]

​@@stephenfisher3721 no such country as Israhell, it is a colony, colonial project by foreigners from Europe.

[@IrshadAli-qi1lq]

Eye opener, I did not know so many dishes they have stolen to their name.

[@Anon_E_Muss]

Pretty much everything. They steal everything

[@JellyShaputra]

😂

[@JellyShaputra]

😂😂

[@JellyShaputra]

😂😂😂

[@mrkslva4231]

They’re just blending in.. and btw they have an absolute right to claim anything and everything there as their ancestors lived way before anyone living there.

[@montu94]

Falafel is Egyptian, it comes from ancient Egypt. The word falafel is Coptic for "many beans".

[@rai2423]

And it spread through out due to the Ottoman Empire. Falafel is now many peoples food. Israel is not apart of that history .

[@montu94]

@@rai2423 Real falafel is made from Fava beans like in Egypt. The rest of the middle east uses chickpeas. While both are Egyptian in origin, the Fava bean falafel can only be found in Egypt and taste superior.

[@rai2423]

@@montu94 I know.

[@ahintofhish07]

@@montu94cap

[@theobroma7755]

@@rai2423 The British mandate for Palestine is also not a part of Ottoman history. But the Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews are.

[@arababe24]

And this colonizer restaurant has a sister restaurant a few doors down called Miriam Street Food- just as disgusting. Excellent video.

[@nwbw217]

Israel has existed uninterrupted for 5000 years until muslims invaded Israel and dozens of other countries only 1000 years ago. So who is the colonizer? Arabs are from the arabian peninsula how did they get in Africa or Israel. It seems you have no clue about history and have inverted reality because Arabs are the colonizers of North Africa and most of the middle east were they did not exist before.

[@timmusician5060]

I don’t respect any culture. It’s all appropriated. Where did the Palestinians get their food from? Egypt & Jordan? Ridiculous!

[@env0x]

@@timmusician5060 did they use egypt and jordan's food to erase their cultures too?

[@FactStorm]

But some foods are cultural heritages and have proven track records of beings from certain places - hence cuisine.@@timmusician5060

[@brokenSnake]

@@timmusician5060name one polish guy in Poland who ate hummus in 1930

[@aymenerabah2147]

✨✨✨Settler-Colonial Mukbang✨✨✨✨

[@stvltiloqvent]

💀💀💀

[@officialanimeedits]

Beware of Israeli bots in comments ❤

[@crescentb3am]

They can eat some Vitamin D with skin and all

[@JacobCloete]

Great work brother! I love this episode!! These are the stories that matters!!

[@Californiabehr]

I am here for it, free Palestine from Mexico

[@davidmcguire8041]

I used to work at an “Israeli” restaurant that was serving dishes from all over the Middle East, including Labneh and “Israeli” salad. The head chef was Jewish, maybe third generation, and would explain that some dishes were from other parts of the Middle East, but still felt comfortable calling the restaurant Israeli instead of Middle Eastern. They would call it marketing, but I think it’s hard to argue that it’s not a form of erasure. Also I had to sue my boss for wrongful termination after he found out I was union organizing, and the restaurant failed, so… justice? Not really, but he had to pay me mid 5 figures and for me that’s a win.

[@ryanhalawani2637]

Dreaming about Knafeh. Haven't had it in ages since I left Jordan. Nothing compares to it.

[@ryanhalawani2637]

@wwegames77 I think I might have eaten there! My favourite place was Al-Najmah in my neighbourhood in Bayader. Always loved the knafeh from there.

[@stephenfisher3721]

Is knafeh made in Jordan really Palestinian? Is it theft for Jordanians to call it Jordanian? After all, the video states that knafeh comes from Nablus which is Palestinian?

[@ryanhalawani2637]

@@stephenfisher3721 Jordan is full of Palestinians whose families came over as refugees. Literally half the country are Palestinian originally. Almost every knafeh restaurant is owned by Palestinians. Also, Jordanians recognize it as Palestinian in origin unlike Israelis who attempt to claim it as their own.

[@shaina8947]

@@stephenfisher3721 the commenter said he ate it in jordan, therefore the one he ate wasn't palestinian lol . the dish itself still originates in nablus, palestine. this video is pointing out the fact that these are palestinian dishes being relabeled as "israeli", which further erases them as the same thing is happening to the ppl & their land. in the video, the host said the menu labelled knafeh as "syrian"; it's a blatant attempt to credit another arab country rather than the known originator solely to ignore palestine & it's creations.

[@T3rr4T3rr0r]

There are alot of Palestinian diaspora in Jordan so it couldn’ve been made by a Palestinian

[@PageUp202]

one day 🇵🇸 will be free

[@redraider-cd4ne]

When they finally accept Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.

[@mazsof]

That thing masquerading as Kunafah is an abomination to the dish and an insult to food altogether !!! I mean how is that passing as anything edible !!!

[@JohanBoo88]

Had he not said the name I would’ve thought it was burnt mashed potato over beef 😬 the falafel was soooo dark too 😩 poor 🍅🍅 had zero color too like how does that restaurant keep afloat?!

[@falafelarereallygood]

Mayo knafeh

[@derekhands9903]

They have no shame.

[@mrkslva4231]

They’re just blending in.. and btw they have an absolute right to claim anything and everything there as their ancestors lived way before anyone living there.

[@jordanfriedman2739]

I grew up Jewish in the Chicago suburbs, eating Palestinian foods made by Palestinians, and very occasionally, similar foods made in "Israeli" restaurants. This past June, I temporarily moved to West Jerusalem for a master's degree. I have to say, most of these dishes do taste better to me when made by Palestinians, but not always. It really isn't literally because of the ethnicity of the chef. It's skills that can be learned. I think the real issue is the issue of respect--naming the origin of the foods properly.

[@muhammadedwards8425]

I think in this case it is more of Israeli nationalists trying to erase Palestinian identity and right to their country

[@its_firas.]

are u planning to settle in isreal or are u leaving after u get ur master's degree?

[@jordanfriedman2739]

@@its_firas. I refuse to take citizenship until there's a joint right of return. So I'm going back to Chicago at the end of May.

[@its_firas.]

@jordanfriedman2739 thanks i appreciate someone who still has a Conscience in todays politics

[@qaiser648]

@@jordanfriedman2739respect 🇵🇸 ❤️ 🕎

[@evermoredragon892]

Really enjoyed this episode hope you continue with this. I have never gone to an Israeli restaurant and after seeing this I don't want to, but there are a couple of Palestinian Cafes in Sydney I will have to try. Thanks for the upload.

[@Goldenretriever-k8m]

I went to one recently, and it was disgusting. It was very bland food. And very very overpriced.

[@mtstash]

Do your research before to make sure your money is not going to a zionist

[@SamSam-yb3ls]

Isreali food is Perogis, saurkrout and borscht. They 'Israeled' Palestinian, Levant, and North African cuisine. The 'falafel' and 'hummous' (although they can't pronounce it properly - usually khomos) is the most egregious to me.

[@IslenoGutierrez]

Pierogies, sauerkraut and borscht is Eastern European food, not Israeli food.

[@Israkiwi99]

The majority of the Israeli population originated from North Africa and brought their culture with them. Very few even know what saukrat and borscht is.

[@israelrealhistory]

@@Israkiwi99 lie most of them are european and rest are black and moroocan

[@SamSam-yb3ls]

Exactly! @@IslenoGutierrez

[@SamSam-yb3ls]

Approx 45% of Israelies are ashkenazi - they certaily do know what German, Polish and Russian cuisine is as they brought it with them. The Mizrahi's learnt from their Arab Muslim and Christian neighbours, as they didn't live in ghettos in MENA (as the Europeans Jews were regulated to) but as an intrinsic part of the community.@@Israkiwi99

[@sox-b9999]

"Easy to imitate, hard to duplicate" perfectly said

[@josesoto2342]

Great video, glad i saw the youtube short which bought me here. Not surprised at how the food is marketed, but you definitely made me want to stop in New York for some authentic Palestinian food 😊

[@lovinglife419]

The problem with all of this is that 75 years isn’t a long time. There’s no way they lost all their European cuisine and culture. We aren’t talking thousands of years. This kind of appropriation is inexcusable.

[@princessglitterbutt5984]

lmao do you actually have a disability or are you just rlly supseptable to propaganda. 1. 50% of jews come from the middle east. 2. Israel is located in the middle east and therefore eats the same kinds of foods found in egypt, north affrica, iraq, iran, syria, lebanon, etc. If you honestly believe only one country in the entire middle east doesnt eat middle eastern foods how did you graduate school? 3. The same way jews from europe ate food inspired by europeans and brought it to israel, jews from countries like morrocco and tunisia and yemen brought food from their countries. 4. the sharing of food is not called appropriation its called just called food

[@theobroma7755]

The majority of the Israelis are Middle Easterners without any connection to Europe. 🤦🏽‍♂

[@thijmstickman8349]

Not all Israelis came from Europe though, a lot of them came from all over the middle east and north Africa, and there has always been some jewish population in Palestine

[@moe003]

No such thing as Israeli cuisine....

[@raedvalenzuela5085]

Well now there’s a restaurant called “AYAT” that completely is taking steam in NYC as “Palestinian restaurant “

[@sophiak1]

as a greek i'm always amazed of the similarities with our cuisine, we call "meze" the small plates of food we share! keep safe, free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@stephenfisher3721]

It should not be amazing. The Turks controlled both Greece and parts of the Middle East including Palestine.

[@maghrebi_wa_bidalael]

I have been to 2 Israeli restaurants in the US both served Moroccan food as their own too..

[@NormanFigmatter]

Are you aware that there was once a large Jewish community in Morocco, also Egypt, also Syria, also Yemin, also Iraq, also Turkey? There was also an old Jewish community in Jerusalem. What do you imagine that they ate?

[@mtstash]

Did you know they were Israeli restaurants when you went to them? Don't support an apartheid state. BDS when you can. That Israeli chef or owner may have been committing crimes against humanity or even genocide. Why be their patron and support or give any credence of legitimacy?

[@appaatemomo-freePalestine]

@@NormanFigmatter Indian immigrants to the UK brought Indian food with them. Is that British food now?

[@theobroma7755]

@@appaatemomo-freePalestine Chicken Tikka Masala is a British national dish. 🤷🏽‍♂

[@appaatemomo-freePalestine]

@ Chicken Tikka Masala was likely invented in the UK and is not considered authentic Indian food. Are Dal Tadka and Pani Puri British foods? Are there British restaurants that exclusively serve Indian food that they label as British? Does Britain have its own distinct cuisine that is separate from Indian cuisine?

[@luvzfrance24]

I live in the Bay Area and you can find whatever cuisine around the world you want. After watching this I looked up where I can find authentic knafeh near me and made sure it looked exactly like the kind from the second restaurant you went to. 😂

[@moldypizza]

Which restaurant?

[@northwest1760]

Not to negate you for no real reason, it’s just a personal gripe with the Bay, but the South American and Caribbean representation is dismal. The few restaurants that are there, by and large, are terrible representations of the real thing. Everything else is solid, though.

[@luvzfrance24]

@@northwest1760 Caribbean food yes I agree with you on that one. South American food is rare to find although there is a great Peruvian restaurant in Lafayette.

[@exosproudmamabear558]

We have künefe in Turkey too goddamn thats even worse than store bought freezed künefe. Thats some talent there.

[@lamaamr7525]

I very much enjoyed the episode Salem! Keep up the amazing work. And I loved the rating symbols 😂

[@hikki654]

From r/Lebanon long-time lurker there, and here are an comment from actual Israeli (another lurker of this sub) that live in Israel: "This is some American-Jewish bullshit. Everyone in Israel knows zaatar and labneh are staples of Arab cuisine. No one around here calls these foods f*cking Israeli food. It's either called Arab food or Galilee food around here. Same with the whole chocolate Hummus thing by the way. We would never commit such a culinary atrocity. It's some American bullshit." Even Israelis don't called it Israeli food either lol, seem like the whole food fiasco came from random Jews in Brooklyn that I bet this Jews never set their foot in Israel, let alone Palestine and the whole Levant.

[@claaarticus]

Felafel has a right to defend itself

[@nuhas8960]

not the settler-colonial mukbang lmaoooo

[@aafiaturkey6748]

Isreailed the stolen land and now they isrealed the Palestinians foods!

[@mrkslva4231]

They’re just blending in.. and btw they have an absolute right to claim anything and everything there as their ancestors lived way before anyone living there.

[@Goldenretriever-k8m]

@@mrkslva4231 this just has never been how reality works. Even Ashkenazi DNA when tested is shown to be about 50-80% European DNA, meaning not Middle Eastern. And when they do DNA on Palestinian people, the DNA matches ancient people who lived in that region. However, that region has always been the place where people walk and travel people who eventually immigrated to China and Europe and turkey, etc. many of them passed through there originally

[@theobroma7755]

And who Israeled ancient Erez Israel? 🤔

[@chetmanley1885]

Added Tanoreen to my list of spots to visit next time I'm in NYC, and I can look out for places to avoid.

[@kpacubo.]

SETTLER COLONIAL MUKBANG lmaoooo you guys

[@crabeatcrab6011]

Do not give your money to these establishments

[@stephenfisher3721]

I am 600 miles from Chicago, the closest location for a Palestinian restaurant. There might be a Palestinian restaurant 100 miles away but these restaurants call themselves Arabic, Middle Eastern, Lebanese, or even Mediterranean. If Palestinians are opening restaurants, they seldom call them Palestinian.

[@Archer-hg9rw]

As a Lebanese most of this food is Levantine, referring to modern Syria, jordan, Lebanon and Palestine/Israel but most of Israeli jews are not Levantine they’re from Europe, Africa and other places so it’s not their cuisine, but it is what they eat in Israel.

[@valf156115]

I would agree with you here. There’s a general appropriation of levantine food, even in popular american-israeli cookbooks like “jerusalem” they address that but they refer to it as “mizrahi” and claim its just generally more popular than ashkenazi

[@Rotem742]

You forget that most of these foods are middle eastern and don't belong just to the palastinians, so the palastinians can't claim them as their own.

[@TheAlbinoskunk]

Perhaps this is why people from neighbouring Arab countries love the Palestinian resistance but aren't too keen on Palestinian people themselves

[@alphazar]

Middle East is a term invented by Westerners. Palestinians absolutely can claim these foods as their own, as do Lebanese, Syrians, Saudis etc. There are different variations of similar foods. The ridiculous thing is Israelis marketed these foods in Western countries as their own, and a bad copy at that. Israel can’t do this shit in Arab countries because they will be called out. But in the West? Nobody knows and the West loves Israel anyways.

[@Rotem742]

@@TheAlbinoskunk because they hate Israel more than they love the palastinians

[@rai2423]

@@TheAlbinoskunkI grew up with many middle easterners including Palestinians and no one has ever disliked a Palestinian for being Palestinian. In fact half of Jordan is filled with children of Palestinian refugees. No Egyptian would dislike someone simply for being Palestinian either.

[@stephenfisher3721]

If there are so many Palestinians living outside the homeland, why are they not opening Palestinian restaurants in the United States that serve the general public?

[@rai2423]

They do. But New York is filled with white people, especially Jews, who would never step food in a restaurant if they knew it was Palestinian.

[@krisjaynav]

Low key this is the best eduatainment food journalism I’ve seen in a very long while

[@theselector4733]

Aren't Nachos American? Oh the irony 😅

[@Pituqat]

I only had Knafeh once. A pretty popular spot in the Muslim Quarter of Al-Quds. Delicious. I still think of it years later. Regret not being able to travel to Nablus to try the very best. Hope to visit again one day, but not until 🍉is free.

[@theobroma7755]

That's Jerusalem and not Al-Quds.

[@_Mr.9-5]

Thanks for your hard work brother. You do something i cant keep going and never give up ALLAHU AKBAR FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@osmsiddiqi_photo]

People should honestly just go on Google Maps en masse, find Israeli restaurants that are serving stolen food from Palestine or other regions, leave a 1 star review with their views on cultural appropriation. ESPECIALLY if the restaurant purports anything 'green', 'sustainable', 'ethos' centricity.

[@rustyshaklford9557]

They stole bagels and potato pancakes from the Polish; I'm sure there are plenty of other examples.

[@valf156115]

Idk i wouldnt say that. Jews lived in poland in very large numbers for many hundreds of years, maybe even 1000. They had their own specialities, it’s normal. Some of their specialities also existed similarly among non jews living in the land at that time. I wouldn’t compare that to what’s happening here with the appropriation of palestinian food because it’s the power dynamic (oppressor versus the oppressed) that makes this notable

[@rustyshaklford9557]

>oppressed lol, no

[@Hadef_11]

Appreciate the content you’re putting out!keep going

[@comradekayvon]

we iranis call that salad سالاد شیرازی (sālāde shirāzi), it's quintessentially west asian

[@mixalakis472]

Bruh not every midle eastern food is palestinian.Things like falafel and humus are universal in the midle east.Also not all the levant region is palestine.

[@lamanakhleh4842]

You can find falafel everywhere in the middle east but we know where it came from originally. Kabseh is from Saudi Arabia you can find it all over the middle east as well but we know it came from Saudi and the gulf region in general!

[@AnAyecorn]

11 minutes and 47 seconds without refering to the fact that 50% of israeli jews are mizrahi

[@AetheriteDark]

That doesn’t matter lol, they are still from everywhere but Palestine. They are Arab Jews not “mizrahi”

[@AnAyecorn]

​@@AetheriteDark this would be a really good point, unfortunately it is simply dead wrong. Basically all Jews (even like 80% of ashkenazi jews included) originate from an area of the world called historic "Judea." This includes all of what is now israel/palestine, aswell as jordan, a little bit of syria, and a little bit of egypt. There is archeological evidence to back this up, specifically ruins of ancient synagogues, ancient jewish symbols found etc.

[@AnAyecorn]

virually all of these mizrahi jews were kicked out and went to surrounding arab countries. While ashkenazi jews were kicked out and went to europe. The reason saying zionism is colonialism is stupid is because mizrahi, sephardic, and ashkenazi jews all kept their traditional culture and didnt/werent allowed to integrate into the culture of the countries they went to.

[@thecosmos729]

FR and most of "Palestinian" food is just a form of Middle Eastern/Ottoman food in general.

[@AnAyecorn]

@@thecosmos729 yea and so is israeli food tho

[@tay_la14]

OMG this is my new favorite KZbin Channel

[@quickdropz]

Israeli Salad - Adopted by Jewish immigrants under the Ottoman Empire, it used locally grown cucumbers and they were actually Jewish farmers primarily. It is originally an Arab salad, but 50% of Jews in Israel are Arab... Still is a national dish of Israel, and in Israel it has always used Jewish grown cucumbers. In 1940 a Jewish Kibbutz created (pioneered) a new variety of cucumber which is still the cucumber used today in Israel for it. But yes originally this pretty basic salad comes from the Arab population living in Turkey. Different Jewish populations around the world have been eating it different ways. North African Jews added lemon peels & cayenne, Bukharan Jews add vinegar and chop smaller, Indian/Hindi Jews add ginger, Ashkenazi Jews ocasionally added lime and bell pepper, some Persian Jews added sumac or mint or even onions (Shirazi). Knafeh - No one knows when/where it exactly originated. But it's well traced to under the Egyptian empires. It's been eaten all across the Middle East, Levant, and Balkans for nearly 1000 years. There are many different versions of it. There is Nablus style knafeh which is Palestinian, there is also Gaza Knafeh (using bulgar & cinnamon), and so on. In general though it is just as Greek or Egyptian or Turkish or Jewish or Indian or Labanese or etc as it is Palestinian, unless your specifically talking about the Nablus/Gaza styles of preparing it. Traditionally speaking including pistachios would actually make it more of the Greek, Turkish, or Syrian version of it.

[@SmthAbout.Money.SmellsLikeLove]

I am Turkish and let me tell you there is no such thing as “Isreali” food they didn’t live there (if we believe there words) for at least 2000 years most known food of the the Middle East are from the Ottoman era. When Palestinians ruled their OWN land there where Jews but it was PALESTINE!

[@viys3261]

Yes, many Israelis originally were Arab, but they would never call themselves that and have had that part of their identity erased. They are “mizrahi” now and are some of the most hard right Zionists in Israel.

[@Efem1286]

Definitely not Indian.. and I’m Indian.

[@princessglitterbutt5984]

@@viys3261 jews were never arab they were jews living in countries that arabs colonized they have always been called mizrahi wich is hebrew for eastern

[@viys3261]

@@princessglitterbutt5984 No they weren’t called mizrahi lmao. Mizarhim is a word invented by Israel to strip Arab Jews from their history. It’s a recent phenomenon. And Arab just refers to language and culture, they spoke Arabic and were assimilated so they very much were Arab.

[@chrisz7494]

That knafeh looked diseased. How do you mess it up that badly?

[@AwokenEntertainment]

Can't we just all get along? neighboring countries all over the world have been sharing dishes back and forth since the beginning of time.. it's one of the ways cultures can connect and agree on something.. videos like this create an even bigger distance between these cultures as opposed to uniting them

[@env0x]

this video isn't an attack at jewish culture, it's an attack at zionist nationalist settler colonialism. jewish culture has plenty of its own rich culture and history that has nothing to do with the fake historical revisionist propaganda narrative that zionists try to peddle. and also conflating the monotheistic religion of judaism with the nationalist idolism that is zionism is not only logically incoherent but it is also antisemitic and disrespectful to the true followers of the jewish faith.

[@mhersi2dude]

Blame the certain people then, why you getting mad at the one calling out the food appropriation?

[@yayayayahaikyuu4261]

Oh sure the certain “isreali culture” that’s just stolen Palestinian culture?? And then how they are committing genocide and trying to wipe out the Palestinians from their own home land???

[@butternutyeeetsbanana.-.5389]

Theres was already a distance when they started raping and killing and detaining Palestinians, you comment is very ignorant.

[@shaina8947]

this isn't the same as "neighboring countries sharing dishes back and forth"... israel is on stolen palestinian land & as such it is a settler colonial nation. same reason why "american" foods like tacos & burgers are actually mexican & german respectively. both america & israel don't entirely have 1 national identity as they're mainly comprised of settlers from around the world. this video showed that none of these are truly "israeli" foods with explanations behind it.

[@reemsaif3105]

It's a circle. What started in new york ends there. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 ✨️

[@adamhg7040]

Your work is so so good man, well done

[@Ñ8jf428h6n]

From the river to the sea. Free Palestine.

[@ahmadjamal1152]

Not only they did steal their land!! They want to steal their culture too !! WOW

[@mohamede.1842]

Although I do not see a difference between Palestine and Syria but my Syrian friends would disagree regarding kunafa Nabulsia... whereas the cheese was behind the name.... so it is somewhere between Syrian and Palestinian... but it surely isn't isntrealy

[@garliclasagna]

love these! keep up the great work

[@TheSaltyLibrarian]

Speaking as a Syrian Jew, I can confirm: Knafeh is NOT a desert from our culture. It’s from Nablus (or at least Jerusalem as far as we know). Also Tanoreen is so amazing and I went there with my family for my birthday for three years straight until the pandemic broke the tradition and scattered us. Highly recommended!

[@DovidM-s4c]

Jews who come from Arab countries ate these same dishes, though

[@sueszamin]

We aren't talking about Jews but Israel.

[@DovidM-s4c]

@sueszamin over half of Israeli jews come from Arab countries. Yemen, Algeria, Libya, Iran, etc. won't take them back so what do you propose be done with them?

[@sueszamin]

@@DovidM-s4c I am not the one who kicked them out. What do you mean take them back? Tell that to the people who kicked them out. And of course, I want them to live in my country again, I'm from Yemen myself. Again we aren't against Judaism. We are all Ahl-Al Kitab. We should be friends and live together peacefully like in Palestine before Israel, but I am against Zionism. Unless you think Judaism and Zionism are the same.

[@Zahra-lc3mj]

Jews who came from Arab countries did not create Israel. They were Arabs till Israel formed. I guess you would be surprised to know they spoke Arabic too and some wore hijabs or dressed as Arabs. Their identity as “Jewish Arabs” erased to become Israeli. Arab unlike Israeli was never a religion. It had Arab Christians and Arab Jews not even a century ago. For Israel to be created, the rest of the Middle East had to become unsafe for Arab Jews so they could see white Ashkenazis as their homeland. Moving to Jerusalem/Israel because you’re Jewish is like moving to Mecca/Saudi Arabia because you’re Muslim. Nobody really wants to move and they felt their Jewish identity was fine where they were nationally. The Holocaust did not happen in the Middle East. All of the violence happens after 1948, often aided and abetted secretly by Israel looking to get more refugees and drive out/outpopulate Palestinians. Majority of Israel is “Arab jew” today but despite democracy, they’ve never had a Mizrahi prime minister

[@theobroma7755]

@sueszamin The Sarkha states something very different. 🤷🏽‍♂

[@SayedI313]

I'm sure soon they will claim Chinese food. Say goodbye to Szechuan beef or Hunan chicken.

[@Chamberofmirrors]

South African here, I absolutely love your content.

[@mitchyoung93]

Just remember...McDonald's is the most popular restaurant in the world.

[@torchybeacon245]

And israel is a technological superpower that invented things like a usb, google was made by a jew, israel even helped in the development of the iphone, its simply impossible boycotting israel with everything they made

[@adecforpcelectrical4076]

USB was nade by indian who sold it to intel lol​@@torchybeacon245

[@0n1c420]

@@torchybeacon245 what kind of shit are you making up?

[@torchybeacon245]

@@0n1c420 look it up dingus

[@RosinDaddy5280]

As a syrian this makes me sick

[@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr]

Syrians and Palestinians are the exact same thing. The bloodline is the same. Arabs of the Rashidun Caliphate.

[@RosinDaddy5280]

@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr except in syria we are being slaughtered by bashar al ASSface for saying the word HURREYA Freedom & ASSad kills his own people but does not dare fire a single bullet at the Israeli occupation

[@mohammadalnajdawi4044]

@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr Europeans and Israelis are the exact same thing. The bloodline comes from the caucuses.

[@mrkslva4231]

They’re just blending in.. and btw they have an absolute right to claim anything and everything there as their ancestors lived way before anyone living there.

[@theobroma7755]

@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr Btw, there is a distinct ancient Syrian culture with a unique Syriac script. The Caliphates were more like colonial entities. Just like the Caliphates in Spain. 🤷🏽‍♂

[@osheenkelana]

Thank you for sharing this video on Palestinian food in New York. Even Malaysians recognise dishes that they share with Indonesia (such as asam pedas and rendang) is not exclusive to one country (namely Malaysia). Unfortunately, some Indonesian netizens are known for trolling. These Indonesians love to provoke and accuse Malaysians of claiming and stealing their heritage, and they want to claim exclusivity over their Indonesian heritage.

[@BeforetheStorm.]

Your videos are very high quality. Thank you for soreading our culture 🇵🇸.

[@komninosm]

Ate some kunefe in Constantinople and it was wonderfully salty. They make it too sweet here in Thessaloniki. 😅

[@MegaPositivethoughts]

Jazakum Allah Khairun! Bilafia! 🎉

[@gmarounf7472]

They just steal everything off these poor people...

[@quartasuperpoderosa]

Next time, could you please invite your ally to taste it with you ? ❤ Unless you did and he was busy, but it's so kind of him ... Thanks for sharing your memories, your knowledge and your commitment

[@Path-To-Tranquility]

Thank you for making this video

[@7afsa659]

I love the way Shatha's eyes light up at the Pali restaurant, she's beautiful!

[@Zohairshanteer]

A fellow Nabulsi? Subscribed instantly 🙋🏻‍♂️ جبل النار

[@Fre1palestine]

From the river to the sea Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

[@moragslothe6449]

Better food at your local nafnaf than any of these Israeli places lol

[@Almondo84]

None of these foods are Palestinian. They originated in other parts of the Middle East including Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.

[@farmanstudio5454]

Exactly we have them in Azerbaijan, Turkey and Balkans and these people act like Palestenians are the first and the best in everything what a nation 🤦‍♂

[@fatimasaksouk]

In lebanon we call it "kunafeh nabulsiyeh"

[@0n1c420]

yeah and palestine neighbors them so they also have it as a part of their cuisine.

[@captaind4982]

@@farmanstudio5454 These are Arabic food, and Azerbaijan, Turkey and Balkans were influenced by Arab culture and cuisine, and just because you have them doesn't mean it's not Palestinian or Arab.

[@sangidrahman7745]

Yeah sure but none of it is *just* Israeli

[@user-nv1bt2cu8x]

No one is safe they stole pizza, empanadas, couscous and the list is getting long 😂😂😂

[@veiangoran706]

More than nine words for the algorithm so more people can see this

[@humane_]

Lol loved that you didn't pay for the food or even enter the "restaurant". I'm Asian living in Asia, recently went into a restaurant and was APPALLED and DISGUSTED when I saw HUMMUS, FRKING HUMMUS as "israeli breakfast". Will never step a foot there again. Regret not confronting them about it cuz I feel like it has been done on purpose.