Did you know that, like First Nations of the “American” continent, Jews are grouped into language tribes? Twelve plus one languages, to be specific, with their own unique minhagim (customs), cuisine, folklores, music, and halachot (community laws).
Yet, unlike First Nations, all Jews share between us a specific Levant language, Ivrit (Hebrew), from which all our Jewish languages have evolved. And, all Jews share a common ethno-religious commitment to the land of historic Israel and Zion (Jerusalem), our ANE literatures, fulfillment of yearly seasonal festivals that are based on argicultural harvests, the monthly new moon festival, and the weekly day of rest.
The thirteen Jewish languages are the following (starting with the four most spoken Jewish languages, and ending with the two not spoken or now extinct languages):
• Ivrit, spoken by Israeli-Palestinian Jews and Diaspora Jews worldwide (indigenous Israeli Hebrew)
• Yiddish, spoken by European Jews (Judeo-German)
• Ladino, spoken by Iberian Peninsula Jews (Judaeo-Spanish)
• Yahudic, spoken by Baghdad and Mosul Jews (Judeo-Iraqi-Arabic)
• Barzani, spoken by Iraqi Jews neighboring Kurds (Judaeo-Aramaic)
• Fārsi, spoken by Iranian, Afghani, and Central Asian Jews (Judeo-Persian, Judeo-Shirazi, Judeo-Hamadani, and Judeo-Kashani)
• Juhuri, spoken by Mountain Jews (Judeo-Tat)
• Bukhari, spoken by Bukharian Jews (Judeo-Tajik)
• Karaim, spoken by Karaite Jews
• Yevanic, spoken by Romaniote Jews of the Levant and Greece (Judeo-Greek)
• Italkian, spoken by Italian Jews (Judeo-Italian)
• Aravít Y’hudít, formerly spoken by the Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa (Classical Judeo-Arabic, not spoken)
• Tzarfatit, formerly spoken by French Jews (Judeo-French, extinct)
Many of these Jewish languages – except for Ivrit (Hebrew), Yiddish, Ladino, and Yahudic – are on the verge of going extinct in the next generation or two. Modernity has a way of making extinct the languages of surviving indigenous peoples. I will especially miss Barzani, Juhuri, Fārsi, and Yevanic as spoken Jewish languages.
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Part 2 of language tribes …
Do you know that all 13 Jewish languages were formed on the same continent – within the Levant, Middle East, North Africa, West and Central Asia, and Europe? Just like all First Nation languages were formed on one continent – within Alaska, North “America,” and South “America.”
Further, do you know that First Nations on this continent, called “America” by colonizers, are the result of at least three ice age migrations to this continent? One was by landwalking, from Siberia to Alaska. One was from the Pacific Ocean by boat. And one was from the Atlantic, again by boat.
So, my question (?) is this:
If all Jewish language tribes were created by choice and by place upon a single continent *and* all First Nation language tribes were created by choice and by place upon a single continent, please tell me, “What is the difference?”?!
I hear a lot of bullshit from Colonizers and their Colonized every day about “Jews.” But, what I notice every day is this obvious fact: Whether it’s political or religious colonization, colonization produces the same results!
For example, when Europeans colonized and Christianized the continent that they call “America,” all who assimilated became part of the Colonizers. This includes the most known indigenous Colonized, Mexicans. Once indigeneity is lost, and you worship the Colonizer’s religion, speak the Colonizer’s language, and support the Colonizer’s way of life (at the expense of the remaining indigenous!), then you are a Colonizer, full stop!
Tell me, Indigenous Peoples, am I wrong?!
For example, when Arabs followed the example of Christianity and, with their newly created religion, Islam, went about and Colonized North Africa, the Middle East, and the Levant (places where Jews were *already* living in language tribe communities), all who assimilated became part of the Colonizers. This includes the most vocal indigenous Palestinians that call themselves Arabs and Muslims and call Jews outsiders (and “Nazis,” “Colonizers,” etc.), full stop.
Once indigeneity is lost, and you worship the Colonizer’s religion, speak the Colonizer’s language, and support the Colonizer’s way of life (at the expense of the remaining indigenous!), then you are a *Colonizer*, full stop!
Tell me, Indigenous Peoples, am I wrong?!
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“Land relationships and stewardship is a critical foundation for any tribe’s indigeneity.” – Mahrinah, Tewa Pueblo tribe member
For every 2 Jews in this world, there is 1+ First Peoples in the USA, Canada, and Alaska. There are more First Nation indigenous in North “America” and Alaska, than there are Jews in Israel! Another fact, there are more First Nation peoples than there are Jews in the USA, Canada, and Alaska – 8+ million First Nations, 7.93 million Jews.
“Judaism is a land-based agricultural religion. We have had a spiritual and stewardship relationship with the land of Israel since the beginning of our collective memory.” (1)
Palestine is the fertile ground she is today *literally* because of Jews. Jews, the indigenous of the land, have unrelentingly made her so! And this is an undisputable historical fact.
(1) – Mahrinah von Schlegel, an indigenous advocate belonging to the Tewa people of the Northern Rio Grande Pueblos and a Sephardic Jew (one of my!)
#palestinelivesmatter and #PalestineWillBeFree as soon as the #Indigenous are allowed to live in peace on just a portion of our ancestral land. The West Bank and Gaza will be free, as soon as the two Colonial powers – Islam and Christianity – #BDS the corrupt and dictatorial PA and the Egyptian-born Hamas terrorist dictators!
Seriously, *ALL* Palestinian lives matter, Jew and Arab! A Confederation of two peoples on one land may be the only path to peace.
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Attention Western progressives and minorities: Anti-Muslim rhetoric, attitudes, and behaviors are *NOT* “a global phenomena.” It is a European/USA Christian phenomenon only! There are 1.9 billion Muslim converts in this world. And only in the 2.4 billion Christian converts nations in the West are some Muslims experiencing *what it’s like not being the Colonizer majority*. Get it right! … Do not include them in with IP and minorities of color!
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Oh, boy! A war over water is a war for life!
Ethiopia sets on actually building their desired dam of the Nile. Ethiopia will benefit substantially, if they do. But, this will be at the price of Egypt’s long-standing historic reliance on “every drop” of Nile water.
Two desert folk, one water source – yikes!
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Were it not for the creations of Christianity and Islam, the Jewish ethno-religion would never have made the status of a “world religion.” Only 15 million of us, and billions of them plural. Why?
Jews have been colonized for so long, that we have forgotten how to think like an indigenous. Too busy trying to be unnoticed and avoiding confrontation! In a world obssessed with us and our land, no less.
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Flint wasn’t bad enough! Three years and no warning of dangerous lead levels in Michigan City waters. … Let me guess, “why?” Perhaps because 85 percent of the population is black and poverty runs disproportionately rampant for the formerly enslaved (by white supremacy design), so no need to care! Until, the EPA was protested recently by residents!
Welcome to the United States of AmeriKKKa! Nothing new here,….
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FOLKS! Monoclonal Antibodies are manufactured proteins *by “Big Pharma”*! Big pharma is making a financial killing off of Republicans – $2,100 per dose administered. The vaccine, which is more effective, only costs $20 per shot. Idiocracy has taken over.
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Q: “What I would like to know, if Adam and Eve were the first human beings and seed human kind. How did we come to have twelve different tribes? Where did the people come from in the day Noah?”
The A: “Adam and Eve” are folklore characters of Jewish indigenous myth, along with Abraham and Moses. Your question is based in a false premise. Even if you took Torah to be an accurate retelling of human history, then you’d know that the Creator god created all kinds of humans, both male and female together, before taking a day of rest. And, then, created the people of the Levant (Adam v’Chava, Chava means “lifegiver”) on the Creator god’s land-owning portion of the continent.
How all humans on this continent became of one ancestry in Torah is through the great Flood in the Middle East that ended the curse of famine brought upon the land by the Creator god for Adam’s eating from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and bad. It is through Noah that the curse of famine was pardoned for all future generations upon the land. And, it is through Noah that we get the land map of Middle East, Asia, and North Africa nations in the form of the “sons of Noah.”
Modern religions do not teach these myths correctly, because it would invalidate “faith” theology to do so. If there is no “original sin” there is no need for personal salvation.
https://social.entrepreneur.com/s/man-oldest-dna-native-to-america
A Montana Man Has The Oldest DNA Native To America – And It Alters What We Know About Our Ancestors
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Is there anywhere in world history where Jews are a colonizing people whose actions are justified by a universal religion? No, there is *not* in non-fictional history (and, it can be easily argued, not even in our mythic history)! So, why are we Jews arguing, educating, and justifying our Jewish history as if this were true? Like it happens to actually historically be true with European Christian and Arab Muslim colonizations of the planet.
Arguing and/or educating history from the false perspective that Jews are somehow a minority that is in equal historical status to Christian and Muslim empires in this world is *why* we are ever struggling with the colonizers’ propaganda and revisionist history games! Apples (colonizers) and oranges (indigenous) are *NOT* the same in the real world history of social privilege and supremacy!
Like Kurds, like Sioux or Cherokee, like Hawaiians, Jews are a minority in human numbers and are the indigenous. We are an ethno-religious people born as an ethno-nationality in the Levant. We have always been present as a people in the Levant, and we have always sought to maintain our majority status in Jerusalem (Zion!). This is factually and demonstrably true in historical records, whether Judea is presently occupied by actual colonizers (thus, our nationhood suppressed) or whether Judea is enjoying a brief moment of self-sovereignty once again upon our ancestral land.
*Stop letting the historic colonizers dictate the parameters in which we minorities in this world are allowed to speak! Educate within a proper and painfully accurate world history perspective.*
There are approximately 15.2 million Jews in this entire world of 7.9 billion humans. That is less than half of 1 percent of the human population (0.0018), but you would not think this – given all the daily disparaging news and social media coverage about Jews and Israel! And, about 7 million Jews, out of our 15 million total numbers, live in Israel. Now, let’s compare:
There are approximately 1.9 billion Arab Muslims in this world today, most being so by Arab colonization. In just “number of bodies” size alone, Jews make up less than 1 percent of the number of Muslims that are presently occupying this planet (0.007)! About 1.8 billion of these Muslims live *outside* of Arabia (only approximately 30 million live inside Arabia). To further make this obvious point, 1.9 million of these Diaspora Muslims are presently Israeli citizens living in Israel – are even working in government, hospitals, and educational centers (that’s 24 percent of the Israeli population)!
But Arab Muslims have the *hubris*, the *privileged* *supremacist* audacity, to say that they are Palestine’s indigenous folk! Do I need to share the figures on Christian colonized numbers as well?! Folks, *peace* can only be achieved when we start being historically honest in our discussions. Until then, *all* the indigenous peoples of the planet are threatened in their survival.
Hence, why Israel must have a strong defensive military presence inside and outside her national boundaries. Because, antisemiticism – cloaked in supremacy lies and revisionist history – is *very* real. We are less than half of 1 percent of the world’s population, and we are being called “Nazis” and “colonizers” and the secret money-man “rulers” of the world by the majority! This is *why* we fear daily another Shoah (holocaust, genocide) upon our people.
The truth about the Jewish conspiracy to take over the world is that we don’t have the numbers to do so, even if we actually wanted to do so. But, the Muslim and Christian colonizers do have the numbers and have, in historical fact, done so – taken over the world, while repeatedly blaming Jews as the reason for their social problems. …
Now, as to Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special, The Closer, Jews feeling all kinds of sorts about his “Space Jews” jokes, consider five things:
1 – He’s a black man every moment of his days in the United States, and he can never get away with “white passing,” full stop.
2 – He made not one hateful joke about minorities throughout his performance, rather he consistently targeted and disparged whiteness and white privilege!
3 – Most people in the USA have no idea that Jews are not “just a religion,” but a people, *and* most people in the USA have no idea that most Jews are Middle Easterners representing *all* Middle East skin colors (from light skinned to dark brown in skin color).
4 – Most Jews in the United States look like white people to black people. Hello?! So, latitude must be rightfully given to black people of the USA, because most Jews in the USA have indeed achieved a “white card” status in society, since the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s.
5 – Blacks, Latinos, and First Nations are *still* trying to achieve the “white card” status of equality in the USA to this very day! To this very day, the slave-oriented white Christian colonizer is legislatively *still* trying to prevent this.
Enjoy his honest and empathic, though divisive, jokes and have a good laugh at the stereotypes, please! Know the real enemy of indigeneity, and let’s address this.
#IndigenousDay #indigenous #DaveChapelle #FreethoughtDay #palestinelivesmatter #PalestineWillBeFree
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“Colonial relations do not stem from individual good will or actions; they exist before his arrival or his birth, and whether he accepts or rejects them matters little.” – Albert Memmi
Those engaged in apologetics for Arab colonization of the Levant (which started with the Rashidun Caliphate) would have you believe that, under Islamic rule, Jews were always treated as a special and well-treated class of less-than citizens. They would have you believe that Jews all across the (Arab colonized) Middle East and North Africa, not just in historic Palestine (Judea, Samaria, Galilee, and Transjordan areas), voluntarily of their own free will left their two-to-three thousand year old communities (leaving everything behind) just to “colonize” the Jewish ancestral lands, and take this land from Arabs.
This isn’t making sense, is it? Especially, knowing that Islam itself recognizes that Palestine belongs to the Jews, and Al-Aqsa is in fact built on a portion of the Temple Mount. But, this is the nature of the apolegetics that must be engaged in by those who possess supremacy and power over a minority people. Even today, Jews in the Levant are still not free from intimidation and persecution and the ahistorical stereotyping by *both* the Christian and Muslim colonizers of this world! Israel is the only refugee nation of its kind, and is the only nation-size open air prison of its kind.
When will the religious colonizers of this world allow Israel to open her borders to a world of peace and acceptance of Jewish right of self-sovereignty?! It is time for Islam to decolonize the Levant and Africa. (Muslims, go home!) And it is time for Christianity to decolonize everywhere that is not Rome. (Christians, go home!) The remaining indigenous around the world would like their lands and sovereignties back.
Tunisian-Jewish writer Albert Memmi (ألبير ممّي), ז”ל taught the following:
“A colonial is a European living in a colony but having no privileges, whose living conditions are not higher than those of a colonized person of equivalent economic and social status.”
“The colonial does not exist, because it is not up to the European[/Arab] in the colonies to remain a colonial, even if he had so intended. Whether he expressly wishes it or not, he is received as a privileged person by the institutions, customs and people.”
And Waziyatawin, Ph.D, teaches:
“While the chasm between powerful and wealthy colonizers (such as corporate heads and politicians) and the poor, working-classes, for example, is certainly great, this still does not alter the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized. … All colonizers, by continuing their occupation of another People’s homeland, remain colonizers, no matter their intent.”
“In the United States [and the Levant and Africa], nearly everyone has agreed to be a colonizer. From birth, they begin teaching their children myths regarding the righteousness of the existing social order. [“We are Arabs and Muslims, and this is our land! The indigenous is the outsider.” “We are Americans and Christians, and this is our land! The indigenous is the outsider.”] That message is reinforced throughout their lives. It is hard work maintaining such lies, so whenever the colonized [Kurds, ethnic Iranians, Jews, Dakota, Cheyenne, Cherokee, Hawaiians, etc.] threaten to disrupt their myth-making, they are quickly silenced, suppressed, and further subjugated.”
Kept in their corner of the world, their voices are drowned out by the social megaphones of propaganda and lies.
Hello Arab Islam (Caliphates)? Hello European Christianity (Crusaders)?
“Points to Remember for Indigenous Solidarity Activists:
1 – The movement for Indigenous liberation is a radical political struggle
2 – Being an ally does not mean signing up for Indigenous spirituality [which is why we Jews, First Nations, Polynesians do not proselytize – do not appropriate our ethno-religious rituals!]
3 – We need strong, solid individuals who are not floundering with their own spiritual struggles
4 – This is not a struggle for those people who believe it’s trendy to support Indigenous causes—we are in it for the long haul
5 – You can find Indigenous individuals who will support any position you want them to support—that is a direct result of the colonial experience
6 – Those indigenous individuals who encourage non-Indigenous participation in ceremonies are often (not always) those who are attempting to curry favor with white[/Arab] people for their own purposes
7 – Because this is a political struggle, it is essential to work in solidarity with critically minded and politically engaged Indigenous individuals
8 – Remember that decolonization is a process for both the colonizer and the colonized.”
Understanding Colonizer Status
Understanding Colonizer Status
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Did Noah and family save the Levantine peoples from a famine or from a flood? Noah’s name directly says that he is, by his birth and life, the end to a famine upon the land, for which “God” promises will never occur again (he grants pardon to Adam descendants).
Let’s review: “God” creates humans to *work* the soil of his Levant land and live comfortably within it (the comfort of Eden). Because, humans became like gods, knowing “good” and “evil,” “God” curses the land with an unending famine that makes cultivating difficult. “Noah,” then, breaks the curse of the famine, and “God” promises to never parch the land again with thirst (back to humans working the land in the comfort of Eden again).
But, there is more to this! For the scribes felt the need to include the Sumerian flood myth within the original Judean mythic narrative. They gave this Sumerian story of trouble between gods and humans, which was still circulating amongst the nations, a uniquely Jewish spin to the story – and redacted it into the Judean famine story, while preserving the original (as usual!).
Thus, Noah now saves the Middle East from both a long time famine upon the land *and* a flood so great in size upon the land that it literally ended the halted seasons that humans had been suffering under for many generations. Thanks to a flood, the Torah says, YHWH god will never curse the land with a famine again יומם ולילה, meaning “perpetually.” Humans will be able to cultivate and live upon the Levant, and the nations of Moab, Edom, Israel, and Judea will thrive upon the land.
” “by day and by night,” i.e. perpetually. Implied in YHWH’s promise is that, until that moment, summers had been cold, winters dry, seedtime and harvest perverted. This describes well a drought and famine, not a flood. ”
https://www.thetorah.com/article/noah-hero-of-the-great-primeval-famine
- Noah, Hero of the Great Primeval Famine
Noah’s name expresses his father’s hope that Noah will bring comfort from the pain of the curse of the land, and before he plants his vineyard, he is called “a man of the land” (איש האדמה). These and other verses point to an older core narrative which spoke not of a flood but of a primeval famine that Noah brings to an end.
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