Even the most non-religious of our Jewish people are devoutly Jewish. I’ll explain! There are things that we wish to believe is the reality, and there is the *historical demonstrable* reality. For examples:
1a) The Jewish people became an ethno-religious Indigenous People in Moab (Jordan of today, in the Levant) and not before this (“not with our fathers this covenant,” the scroll of D’varim, the first scroll that Jews ever wrote) in approximately the 13th century BCE. We, then, crossed the river, and became an ethno-nationality in Judea-Samaria. From here, in the Levant, members of the Levantine Jewish community spread slowly across the entire continent, southwards into Africa and northwards in Europe (many times, by force(!), through occupiers of our ancestral land). Both Torah and ANE Stellas of other nations attest to this.
There are historical facts in Torah, yet these facts are not contained in most of the pre-Moab ancestral stories *as* historical facts. For example, the concept of the 70 nations deriving from Noah’s descendants is Canāanite in origin, and is referencing the pantheon of gods – wherein Asherah gives birth to seventy child gods, each of whom rule over a nation/people of the earth. YHWH was the Judean national child god of El, until the writers of Torah had YHWH usurp El’s high god position. Torah says Jews sojourned in Egypt, but it was our ancestors the Canāanite people that did so. Torah says Jews wiped out the Canāanite people, but admits as well that Jews lived with the Canāanites and inherited their stories (putting a uniquely Jewish spin on it, to compete with the tall tales of the Assyrians, Babylonians, and Egyptians surrounding Israel, to discourage other nation invasions!).
Arabs historically and presently within Judea-Samaria (only foreigners, the *non-indigenous*, call our Jewish ancestral land “Palestine”) are not indigenous to the land, but post-Islam Colonizers invading from down south.
1b) There is only one tribe of the twelve tribes of Israel remaining in this world, and this is the tribe of Judah. The rest of the tribes of Israel were assimilated in the BCE period into Assyrians in identity, language, culture, religion, and citizenship – or – were assimilated into the tribe of Judah because of empire intrusions into our ancestral land, to avoid losing their Indigenous identity. This includes the southern “brother” tribe of Edom/Idumea, (“Do not foget your brother,” says Torah, and the Jewish people did not!)
With the Assyrian’s conquest and outright assimilation of the northern kingdom of Israel, we thus get the Torah’s lament of the “lost tribes” of Israel! For once indigeneity (indigenous language, ethno-religion, halacha, attachment to a land) way-of-life is lost – meaning, the continuous transmission of this way of life from family to family is broken – at this point, one loses their Indigenous identity altogether (aka, becomes a non-Jew, aka, one of the Colonizers or one of their fully colonized). This is how indigeneity works among indigenous peoples, colonized folks!
Seriously, indigeneity/membership in an ethno-religious people is based upon family lineage and halacha (indigenous law), which defines clearly who is a member of the people and who is not – regardless of anything superficial (such as skin color, sexual orientation, or last geographic location lived – consider Moses, who was UAE/Egyptian light-brown, polygamous, and married an Ethiopian for a second wife; and consider King David, who was a Persian white Ginger Jew, bisexual, and a renown polygamous by default)!
1c) All that Jews need for our continued self-identity as an Indigenous People of the Levant is Torah! Unlike *religions*, like Christianity and Islam, the Jewish people don’t need to prove the historicity of ancestral myths. So long as Torah says it happened, this is enough for Jews! All that the Jewish people need to maintain our ethno-religious identity and connection to our ancestral land is the stories that we wrote to preserve our Indigenous ethno-religious identity as the Jewish people of Judea-Samaria. And all this is right here in our Torah for those who can read it in the ancestral language – meaning, the Jewish people – to discover l’dor v’dor (generation after generation).
Torah says it, and this is *all* we Jews need to “believe” it. We know that D’varim says we became Israel in Moab, full stop on that origination point. We *do not* have to prove the historicity of our Torah myths. We *do not* even need, as the Jewish people, to prove the historicity of Maimonides’s “God” in our ancestral Torah (the non-henotheistic version – aka, the modern monotheistic version – of “God” that most Jews believe in today, even if born and raised secular Jews). I’m glad Judaism is *not* a religion! We’d be fully colonized by conquesting European Christianity and Arab Islam by now, if we were not Judaism (Jewish-people-ism), as Torah demands of us, the Jewish people!
(2) The idea of a “Palestinian” people was created in the 1960’s by Yasser Arafat, who – with Jordan’s and Egypt’s occupying blessing – encouraged the descendants of Arab-created war refugees (see 3) and Jordanian and Egyptian citizens to squat upon our Jewish land, in an effort to force an end to Jewish self-sovereignty, so that Arabs can prop up an Islamic government in Israel’s place.
(3) – The “nakba” was caused by a three nation Arab 10 month siege of “Palestine” to reconquest it for Arabs. They tried twice and lost twice, then made peace with Israel. But, they didn’t want their land squatting citizens back. Jordan has admitted in publications of the time that they, the Arab nations, are the reason for the war refugees (the “nakba”), that they encouraged them to flee “Palestine,” and Arabs are the reason for the “Palestinian” problem.
(4) The only reason that Arabs and Christians are obsessed with the Jewish people’s ancestral land, Judea-Samaria, is because their religions tell them to be obsessed. Arabs had their own ancestors and ethno-religion, until Mohammed usurped Arab identity by telling Arabs that they are descendants of the Jewish people’s ancestors (though they are factually not!). Europeans had their own ancestors and ethno-religions, until Marcion, Tertullian, and Irenaeus usurped European identities by telling Europeans that they are descendants of the Jewish people’s ancestors (though they are factually not!).
(5) The word “Palestine” originates in BCE Hebrew. It means “invader,” a reference to the Nordic Philistines that occupied Gaza in the BCE period. By Arab Muslims squatting on Jewish ancestral land in Judea-Samaria and calling themselves “Palestinians,” they are literally calling themselves “invaders.” They may be a people now, under Arab terrorist dictatorships, but they were not such before the late 1960’s.
(6) Israel is 17 times smaller than the nation of Japan, about the size of Hiroshima Prefecture and Nagasaki Prefecture, which the United States nuked in WWII. Israel is six times smaller than the USA State of New York, and Arabia is 3.2 times larger than the USA State of Texas. Arabs colonized and rule 12 of the 15 nations of the Middle East and still this is not enough! They have rule over all of it, for the Indigenous Peoples of the lands. Why?!!!
(7) Most of the Jews in Israel are descendants of MENA Jews, Mizrahi-Sephardi, who never left the Middle East, but were ethnically cleased from Arab colonized nations. Jews from European nations are the minority. Both political and religious Zionism is a basic intregal part of Judaism, regardless where Jews live. We are an Indigenous People, the Indigenous People of Judea-Samaria, who must remain sovereign in our land, so that we may continue our indigenous halachic way of life and sustain the land for future Jewish families. This is the essense of Zionism, which is a demand for Indigenous Rights upon our ancestral land.
(8) Lastly, Colonizers, occupiers of other peoples’ lands, are historical liars! All history must self-justify the perceived innocence and self-righteousness of Colonizer culture and history. If extreme minority groups like Jews, Pueblos, Hawaiians, etc. speak up or challenged the revisionist history (or reestablish self-sovereignty on colonized ancestral land), they are demonized, terrorized, spoken for in Colonizer societies, not listened to and, even, socially erased.
Of course, despite all these demonstrable facts that I’ve shared here, Arabs and Europeans in all their supremacist social privilege will respond to these facts with comments like, “your only justification for Jewish indigeneity is the Bible, which isn’t fact, therefore your not the indigenous” and “Abraham was Arabian, you ethnically cleansed the Canaanites, so your not indigenous,” etc. But, this is SO common among Arabs and Christians when they are communicating with an extreme minority group, such as the Jewish people. They, the Colonizers, know all that is to be known, and they speak for all – because, if the world doesn’t match their view of reality, it is the world that is in the wrong! Not them. Every single time! They cannot and/or will not hear us, the minorities within their midsts.
One more thought on accurate ME history: In WWI, the British courted the Hashemite family of Arabia, created the Arab Revolt flag, and promised the Arabs they’ll give them rule over conquested lands, if they joined the British in conquest of Judea-Samaria (only foreigners call it “Palestine”), by forcing the Ottomans out of the “Holy Land.” When the British occupied “Palestine” in 1918, they were shocked to find Jews cultivating and sustaining the land, and declared to the world Zionism was already established.
The British gave the Hashemite family all of Jordan, despite part of it being Jewish ancestral land. They played Arabs who were immigrating into “Palestine,” because of Jewish prosperity in the land, that they’ll give this land to them, while saying to Jews that the British will eventually leave so Jews could reestablish self-sovereignty upon our ancestral land. The British duplicity reached it’s worst, when the British kept allowing Arabs to settle in “Palestine,” while preventing Jews from Europe entry during WWII.
So, the Jewish people, the Indigenous People of Judea-Samaria, began guerilla warfare against the British – 5,000 Jewish men and women against 100,000 British troops – until the British occupation ended. Jews declared self-sovereignty again. The very next day, three Arab nations came to “Palestine” and waged a 10 month siege to re-conquest “Palestine” for Arabs, and place Jews back under Islamic rule. You might know of it, the “nakba,” which Syria admitted to deliberately creating.
We’re tired as a people! Hence, my human – but Jewish – voice. 1,600 years of anti-Jewish racism and counting. We would mind our own business, if others would give us a chance. But, we are the obession of the entire world, thanks to appropriating Christianity and Islam! It’s about time that Jews stop capitulating to the Colonizers in fear of violent reaction!
It’s going to be awhile before I post again, so I leave you with this:
Snapshot: Yes, it looks like a Jewish Kipa. But, no! It was one of many gifts to Egyptian royalty from Assyrian royalty, via their elite craftsmen. In ANE Hebrew it’s called a takhash, a worthy covering for a BCE mishkan! Care to learn more?
https://www.thetorah.com/article/what-was-the-tachash-covering-the-tabernacle
What Was the Tachash Covering in the Tabernacle?
Animal, vegetable or mineral? Assyriology and archaeology provide an answer to an ancient question.
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“Amnesty capped its bloodlust off with a call for Israel’s destruction through the immigration of millions of hostile, foreign-born Arabs allegedly descended from Arabs who left Israel during the 1948 pan-Arab invasion of the nascent Jewish state.” – Caroline Glick, 2022
The anti-Jewish racist claim that Israel is engaged in “Jewish supremacy” over Arabs erases the historical truth. The Jewish people reestablished our self-sovereignty, despite Arab and European occupation of our ancestral land – Judea-Samaria, a land that never belonged to the occupying Arabs and Europeans engaged in land-grabbing racial supremacy over the Jewish people for the last 1,400 years. We are the Indigenous People of Judea-Samaria, we are physically out numbered in this world, we have been ethnically cleansed and outright murdered numerous times by racist Europeans and Arabs, and we have Indigenous Rights to our land and security upon our ancestral land. But Arabs and Europeans want to vilify Israel for being a Jewish nation-State on Jewish ancestral land. And, because Arabs and Europeans – the historic colonizers of the world – don’t like that an extreme minority group has managed to decolonize, they now insist that we the Indigenous Jewish people share our ancestral land equally with the occupiers, the invaders, the Arab/Muslim and European/Christian oppressive and violent Colonizers. A “democracy” they call it, where Jews once again are sovereign-less upon our ancestral land – elsewise, it’s the minority Indigenous folk engaged in “Apartheid” over the conquesting and colonizing Arab/European occupiers of our land.
These “Palestinians” are not squatting on Jewish ancestral land for a two state solution. They are not squatting on Jewish ancestral land to be citizens of Israel. These self-named “Palestinians” (which literally means “invaders”) are a mixture of Jordanian and Egyptian citizens and *descendants* of former Arab 3-nation-caused war refugees (think “nakba”, the failed 10 month Arab military siege to conquest and re-occupy all of Judea-Samaria) are squatting to occupy and terrorize Judea-Samaria, until they can force the end of Israeli sovereignty – to place a non-indigenous Islamic government in rule over all of our Jewish ancestral land. It’s not going to happen again, for either Colonizer!
Abd Al-Ghani Salameh, Arab historian, 2017: “Before the Balfour Promise (i.e., Declaration) when the Ottoman rule ended [in 1917], Palestine’s political borders as we know them today did not exist, and there was nothing called a Palestinian people with a political identity as we know today, since Palestine’s lines of administrative division stretched from east to west and included Jordan and southern Lebanon, and like all peoples of the region [the Palestinians] were liberated from the Turkish rule and immediately moved to colonial rule, without forming a Palestinian people’s political identity. However, Palestine as a geographic area and the people dwelling within it enjoyed prosperity.” – Official PA TV, Nov. 1, 2017
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This is how precarious the situation is for Jewish survival in this world: Israel is about 17 times smaller than Japan. A bit larger than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki Prefecture, which the United States nuked during World War 2. Now, Iran’s Islamic dictatorship funds Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and Hezbollah terrorist activities against Israel. One nuclear bomb over Israel would slaughtered half the Jewish people presently alive on this planet. Think about this, please!
The animus toward Jewish sovereignty upon our ancestral land is so intense around this world that it is ultimately about our Jewish existence, our survival as an Indigenous People, itself. As Jean Amery wrote in 1969: “Anyone who questions Israel’s right to exist is either too stupid to understand that he is contributing to or [he/she] is intentionally promoting an über-Auschwitz.”
“By mobbing me that day in front of the offices of the ADL in Boston, the [SJP and NOI] crowd was sending a message to the Jewish community in the area. “We will suspend the death sentence that has historically been directed at Jews as Jews, but only if you abandon any hope of sovereignty and self-determination. We will tolerate your existence, but don’t expect to exercise any agency or power in our presence. Look what we can do to your friend with impunity.”” – Dexter Van Zile, Feb 2022
https://dextervanzile-18513.medium.com/the-pinch-point-is-upon-us-8a0131f71394
The Pinch Point Is Upon Us
The geographic size of our Jewish ancestral land matches our demographic size within humanity.
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Lastly, because it is Black History Month:
In the USA, whites make up 61.6 percent of the USA population. Blacks are a minority at 12.7 percent (42 million out of near 340 million). Jews are a severe minority at 1.7 percent (5.8 million out of near 340 million). Not only are we spoken for and spoken about by society at large, not only are we not listened to, not only is racism culturally ingrained in the USA white-established culture, but we literally do not have the physical numbers to change this ourselves.
If you can’t talk about the history of European Christian and Arab Muslim anti-black and anti-Asian and anti-Jewish racism, the privileged citizens of these societies will learn nothing and not attempt to change!
The United States is a European Christian representative republic for white folk only, born out of an insurrection by white landowners/slaveowners against their ruling British government to avoid paying taxes, born in the egregious sin of dehumanizing Chattel slavery to fuel the Capitalistic economy of white society, upon stolen land-grabbed First Nations lands. It was Jews and blacks together who protested in the streets and forced white Christian society of the USA to give minorities some kind of Civil Rights Acts to move us towards democracy.
Until this is taught by whites/Christians to whites/Christians and whites/Christians legislate real consequential change in the United States to be applied to whites/Christians for white/Christian acts of racism, nothing will change in the United States! The same thing for Arab/Muslim supremacy and racism over the lands of the Indigenous Peoples of the Levant – you know, Assyrians, Kurds, Druze, and Jews!
“Tsefan Josef, you obviously haven’t learned that there were Jewish people who played a part in the trans Atlantic slave trade, from Dutch Jews owning slave ships to directly trading them, along with many black slave owners in the south of America. Also you didn’t point out that at slavery’s peak, between 1.4% & 7.1% of Americans owned slaves depending on how you count including family members. Let me put that another way, in slavery’s peak 93% of Americans didn’t own slaves. Please take your racism else where.”
KapStar, it’s always a Colonizer trying to defend systemic white Christian racism with false historical equivalencies.
Yes, there were an extreme few Jews who internalized white Christian racist behavior, because they were sufficiently white-passing. Around maybe a hundred Jews out of 12 million Jews.
But, we Jews did not go out to sea and steal an entire continent from the Indigenous Peoples for Christ and King as our Zion. The Jewish Zion has always been our ancestral land, Judea-Samaria.
But, we Jews did not start the SubSaharan Slave Trade between Arabs and Europeans, yet we Jews were included in those trades as slaves, courtesy of European Christians.
And, we Jews did not start and barely participated (those few) in the TransAtlantic Slave Trade between European Christians and white Christians of “America.”
And, we Jews sure as the sun rises did NOT invent the cruelest most inhumane form of slavery ever known to human kind – turning kidnapped humans into domesticated farm animals to be bred, worked, raped, and tortured on plantations for the white Christian’s national “American” economy, all because of their skin color is not white!
There is absolutely no relationship between Jewish values and behaviors as a people and white Christian values and behaviors as a people. Only you all privileged supremacists claim that we are the same, just alike – which is demonstrable B.S.!
Europeans and Arabs talk of accountability for crimes against humanity, but enforceability is governed by the very European and Arab nations with the greatest blood on their hands. The International Criminal Court’s 1998 Rome Statute describes exactly what every European Christian and Arab Muslim nation has done to Indigenous Peoples upon their ancestral lands around this world. So far, white Christian and Arab Muslim crimes of “systematic oppression and domination” over Indigenous Peoples and those of African ancestry (formerly slaves) “with the intention of maintaining an institutionalized regime” (for example, European or Arab governing/national supremacy on other peoples’ lands) has gone on for 1,600 years now – and, still, counting – with supremacist impunity.
And, yet, when the Indigenous fight for their ancestral lands and Indigenous Rights, when racially marginalized minorities demand equal civil rights and justice, it’s always the Colonizers – Europeans and Arabs – who then claim victimhood from their oppressed minorities – again, with socially privileged impunity!
The Jewish people of Judea-Samaria stand with the descendants of peoples victimized by European and Arab colonizing/land-grabbing atrocities, their continued denial of actual demonstrable history, and our need for equal rights and social justice in this world for minority folks! Black Lives Matter, folks – everyday, not just one month a year!
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