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.
Note: Byzantine Rome, the home of the creation of gentile Christianity, was the nation of Italy, Greece, and what is now known as Turkey. So, to properly represent the colonization of Europe by Christianity, we must contrast Italy and Greece Christian population with Europe’s total Christian population.
There are approximately 2.4 billion Christians in this world today, the overwhelming majority being so by Christian colonization. In just “number of bodies” size alone, Jews make up less than 1 percent of the number of Christians that are presently occupying this planet (0.0063)! About 2.35 billion of these Christians live *outside* of Byzantine Rome (only approximately 52 million live inside Italy and Greece). 543 million Europeans are presently adherents to the Christian colonizer religion that replaced the ethno-religions of Europe.
Presently there are 205 million adherents to Christianity in the USA, 385.2 million Christian colonized indigenous in South America (thus, have lost their ethno-religious indigeneity), and 22.1 million presently in Canada. The entire continent, save for remaining indigenous “reservations,” is ruled by the Christian colonizers from Europe.
Again, in comparison, there are only 15.2 million Jews in this entire world, and half are living in the nation-State of Israel. Further, we do not colonize, nor proselytize! We only seek to live in peace on a portion of our ancestors’ land in the Levant.
Jews have been colonized for so long, that we have forgotten how to think like an indigenous. Too busy trying to be unnoticed, and too busy avoiding confrontation! But, when will we learn that appeasement does not actually work? And when will *we* define the discussions that non-Jews are going to have with us about their misguided or delusional beliefs about Jews and Judaism?
“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.
In the end, we must all recognize that we are full of contradictions, colonizer and colonized alike. Even those of us who have a greater critical consciousness are tormented by the contradictions and compromises with which we must live. In the end, we all have considerable work to do. As Indigenous Peoples, for thousands of years we have been the first defenders of our homelands. We must resume that role. Those who presume to be our allies, must join us.”
– Professor Waziyatawin, Ph.D, Cornell University, Understanding Colonizer Status
May this post help all Jews to reframe our discussions with each other and with non-Jews in a *constructive* way – a way that brings us closer towards *peace* through a mutually shared *correct* historical perspective!
יוסף פרקשדי
Joseph Tsefanyahu Farkasdi
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