A very lovely synagogue! Descendants of Yemeni and Ethiopian Jews who fled persecution into East Africa. Meet Rav Yehuda Kahalani and his Tanzanian Jewish community.
All Jewish communities around this world, whether as a result of expulsion from Judea-Samaria by Empire occupation or by migration from Judea-Samaria, are *all* indigenous Judeans by Jewish halacha. The Jewish people are the *only* surviving descendants of the Canāanite people left in this world, preserving the language, history, laws, rituals, ethno-religion, and attachment to our ancestral land.
According to halacha (Jewish indigenous law), there is no halachic mandate that an Indigenous Jew must be of a certain skin color (most are Levant/Persian white, but many are Yemeni/Egyptian and Ethiopian brown, still other Jews are Asian of all varieties), nor of a certain modern DNA profile (a misused modern science, used to delegitimize Indigenous Peoples), nor presently living in Judea-Samaria (rather than a Jewish Diaspora community – MENA, Africa, Europe, “America,” a Pacific/Atlantic island), nor that an Indigenous Jew must be a “believer” in a religion (whether an Indigenous ethno-religion, Judaism, or a Colonizer’s religion). These things do *not* make you a legitimate halachic member of the Jewish people.
So, what does make you a legitimate halachic member of the Jewish people, the Indigenous People of Judea-Samaria? Halacha! If you are born into an Indigenous Jewish family, then you are Jewish for life. If you have been ruled as a “Jew” in an Indigenous Jewish community’s beit din (indigenous court of law), then you are Jewish from this point out for life! The expectation for such Jewishness is to continue l’dor v’dor the Indigenous Jewish people of Judea-Samaria and our ways of life. It’s been this way since the 13th century BCE.
“Faith” religions are for the gentiles of this world, the non-Jews – of whom, many who like to appropriate our Jewish ancestors and ancestral literatures as their own. For erasure of Jewish indigeneity upon our ancestral land is a fundamental mandate for Christianity and Islam, the non-Jewish Colonizer religions. Just like it is the Arab and European Colonizers’ objective for all other still surviving Indigenous Peoples in this world. #DefundRacism – – anti-Indigenous racism, anti-Jewish racism (aka, anti-Zionism), anti-Asian racism, and anti-black racism !
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What being a “chosen” people means to Indigenous Jews…
Only the non-indigenous, the foreigners, the Colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands, pull out the “chosen people” card to racistly denigrate the Jewish people for decolonizing upon our ancestral land. Worse, you don’t even know what this means, a “chosen people”! Other than to use this phrase as an anti-Indigenous statement of hate. Let me explain what “chosen people” means:
It means that we, the Jewish people, became an Indigenous People within Moab, distinct from the Moabites and from our “brother” people of Edom. It means that, as the Jewish people – who became an ethno-nationality north of Moab and across the (Jordan) river in Judea-Samaria – we are a vassaled people to this Levant land, Judea-Samaria, and its ANE god-King, YHWH. It means that we, the Jewish people, are responsible for living on this Jewish land and keeping sovereignty as best that we can!
Being “chosen,” this means that we, the Jewish people, are bound for all generations to living the language of the land, the halachot (Indigenous Jewish laws) of the land, the seasonal rituals and festivals of the land, and our chanted reverence for keeping these obligations to the land of Judea-Samaria. “If my hand should forget you, Zion,…!”
Do the Arabs fulfill this “chosen” mandate, or are they just trying to occupy and take this land from us (by pretending to be the indigenous)? Do the Europeans fulfill this “chosen” mandate, or are they endlessly trying to proselytize the Jewish people and pretending to be us, all to turn Judea-Samaria Christian? No! *Neither Arabs not Europeans are “chosen” to keep the land uniquely and honestly Jewish!* As per the commandments of the god-King, YHWH.
*Stop occupying us, stop ruling over us, stop trying to replace us, stop subjecting us to repeated genocides and terrorism! Stop being an anti-Indigenous racist towards the only Indigenous nation in this world, Israel, to successfully decolonize upon our ancestral land.*
We, the Jewish people of Judea-Samaria, thank you for supporting Indigenous land Rights in this world! Here is a thought for every day of this week on Indigeneity:
1- Jews are the Indigenous People of Judea-Samaria, and we have had a continuous presence on our ancestral land – whether self-sovereigned or occupied – for over 3,000 years.
2- Arab Colonizers of the Levant (aka, Judea-Samaria) are from Arabia, and European Colonizers of the Levant (aka, Judea-Samaria) are from Europe.
3- In this CE period of history, Judea-Samaria (only non-indigenous call it “Palestine”), was sparsely filled with “Palestinians” – Jewish “Palestinians” who have always lived on our Jewish Indigenous nation’s land, “Palestinian” Arabs whom most arrived to “Palestine” during 1922 to 1947 (UNSCOP, 1947), a few Christian families that have lived in the region for generations – all ruled over by Imperialists seeking to land-grab, occupy, and control Indigenous Peoples’ lands – Europeans, Arabs, and Turks.
4- The Jewish people are an Indigenous People with an ethno-religion, Judaism (Judah-people-ism). Zionism, a return to “self-sovereignty” upon our Jewish ancestral land, is a fundamental requirement of Judaism. ANE King David was a Zionist. The BCE Maccabees and CE bar Kokhba war fighters were Zionists. The 1930-40s Irgun and Lehi and Palmah freedom fighters were Zionists (the well trained British troops and their Arab allies lost their efforts to prevent our decolonization and Independence upon our Jewish land).
5- Modern Zionism began with my Middle Eastern North African Jewish families in 1882. Why? Because Arabs wouldn’t stop violently oppressing us in the countries they colonized with the British! This inspired European Jewish families to do the same. Israel of today is majority Mizrahi-Sephardi MENA Jewish families.
6- Learn some history, please. Not Russian-PLO propaganda and Colonizer revisionist history! Avoid anti-Indigenous racist trolling organizations, like Jewish Voice for Peace and B’Tselem, that deliberately spread dishonest and revisionist lies and libels about the Jewish people! Ask an Indigenous Jew about Israel.
7- What is Zionism? Zionism is the bedrock of our Jewish ethno-religion, Judaism (Judah-people-ism). Zionism, literally “returning to self-sovereignty,” is a mandate in every generation for our Indigenous People. We are the vassaled people, covenanted to YHWH and to YHWH’S land, Judea-Samaria. We are required by this covenant to fulfill the “democratic” principles within the scroll of D’varim on our ancestral land.
Lastly, All Jews are Jews by the same fundamental halachot of our Indigenous People. This makes every Jew by halacha a MENA Jew, regardless where their communities are in this world. There is only Jews by halacha and non-Jews in this world. This is not being biased, this is Indigenous Jewish law, full stop.
There are many colonized Jews who have internalized the Arab and European Colonizers’ anti-Jewish racism, because they think wrongly that being anti-Zionist (aka, anti-Jewish) will somehow appease the hateful and violent Arabs and Europeans. They are *fools* who are losing their Indigeneity to Judea-Samaria, and *stupidly* helping to cause another Shoah genocide upon the Jewish people.
When Arabs stopped being indigenous to Arabia, by violently conquesting the Levant (Judea-Samaria) for Muhammad’s Allah and Caliphates (kind of like, for Christ and Kings), Arabs ceased to be an Indigenous People at this point and became one of the two CE world Colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands (like Europeans). Anyone forcibly or voluntarily turned Arab in ethnicity in these colonized lands have lost their indigeneity, too, and have become part of the Arab (and European) Colonizer problem in this world for *all* surviving Indigenous Peoples.
Jews are not a religion like Arab Islam and European Christianity. We are the Indigenous People of Judea-Samaria with an ethno-religion that defines our identity as separate from Arabs and Europeans and other non-Jews.
It’s been this way since the 13th century BCE. For once indigeneity is lost, one is no longer a member of an Indigenous People. Halacha, the Indigenous laws of Judea-Samaria, is very clear about this!
Anyone can be Arab/Muslim or European-ish/Christian. There are over 4.3 billion of you. Very few get to be a member of a surviving Indigenous People, like the Jewish people. Only 15 million of us worldwide.
If you hate Zionism, you hate the Jews! Jewish sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is Zionism. Zionism is the heart of Judaism! Judaism is “Judah-people-religion”. If you hate Zionism, you hate the Jews!
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There are two Colonizer flags that fly upon occupied Indigenous Peoples’ lands to this very day – the British designed Arab Revolt flag (seen here) and the British designed USA Stars and Stripes!
*Stop occupying us, stop ruling over us, stop trying to replace us, stop subjecting us to repeated genocides and terrorism! And, please! Stop being an anti-Indigenous racist towards the only Indigenous nation in this world, Israel, to successfully decolonize upon our ancestral land.*
The Kurds (ME Southwest Asia), Jews (MENA Levant), Druze (ME Levant), San (South Africa), Sámi (Sápmi Europe), Coahuiltecans (south/north “America”), Wampanoag (north “America”), Pueblo (north “America”), Lakota (north “America”), Cree (“Canada”), Māori (South Pacific), Lāhui (North Pacific), etc (etc, etc) all thank you supporters of Indigenous Rights upon Indigenous Peoples’ lands!
The Jewish people have been conquested/colonized for so long (1600 years) that we still aren’t fully realizing that we’ve been decolonized on our ancestral land for nearly 74 years! This matters! And this is why their hasn’t been (yet) another European Shoah to finish the first one. But, should we lose sight of the historical signs before us *now*?! Europeans are still the ruling Colonizers among the two Colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands, Arabs and Europeans, and history observant Arabs don’t know what to do about this. … Except make peace with Israel? Where do we go from here?!
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Our “Palestinian” *Arab* “peace partners” in Shchem (Nablus) perpetrated an ISIS-style act and vandalized the tomb of Joseph, the son of biblical patriarch Jacob.
All true peace-loving Muslims and Christians should immediately put pressure on the Palestinian Authority to end the incitement leading to this wave of terror in Israel and to respect holy sites.
This act is disgusting and only proves further that “Palestinian” *Arab* hatred towards Israel supersedes their love for their own religion and even their lives.
If you hate Zionism, you hate the Jews! Jewish sovereignty over Judea and Samaria is Zionism. Zionism is the heart of Judaism! Judaism is “Judah-people-religion”. If you hate Zionism, you hate the Jews!
Anyone can be Arab/Muslim or European-ish/Christian. There are over 4.3 billion of you. Very few get to be a member of a surviving Indigenous People, like the Jewish people. Only 15 million of us worldwide.
*Stop occupying us, stop ruling over us, stop trying to replace us, stop subjecting us to repeated genocides and terrorism! Stop being an anti-Indigenous racist towards the only Indigenous nation in this world, Israel, to successfully decolonize upon our ancestral land.*
We, the Jewish people of Judea-Samaria, thank you for supporting Indigenous land Rights in this world!
Photo credit: Samaria Regional Council
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*Please, watch this video! Watch both Arab and Jew connect on a cousin level, and tell the European handlers around them to shut up and let us speak to one another!*
Between grassroots Jewish-Arab activism for peace in Judea-Samaria (what non-Jews call “Palestine”) and those of us Jews fighting to bring our Indigenous People’s narrative to the worldwide conversation, there is hope that Jews and Arabs can live side by side in Israel/Judea-Samaria in a near generation!
It is the *European and Arab Colonizer nations* of Indigenous Peoples’ lands that are profiting off of this regional conflict. Most, especially, the European nations!
The Jewish people are the first Indigenous People in this world to successfully decolonize upon our ancestral land. But, it has come with a painful bloody price! We had to fight the British and their Arab allies off of enough of Judea-Samaria to reestablish self-sovereignty.
Now, we are struggling with being pawns of European nations created and Arab nations supported anti-Indigenous racism towards the Jewish people. Specifically, the USSR-created “Nazi-style” hate in Arabs towards Jews, and the dependence (for survival) of Israel upon the United States.
This is the very reason why Jews and Arabs recently manipulated the USA into hosting the Abraham Accords, to begin the *end to this European nations created hatred* between Arabs and Jews.
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