“As an Indigenous Person, as a Jew Indigenous to Judea-Samaria, I know what it is like to feel seriously unheard in this world.”
When was the last time that you took a day or two to just browse my FB posts over the last year for interesting content? Content that both enlightens you and angers you at the same time? When was the last time that you shared real honest human responses to my posts, allies and enemies?
Every post that I’ve made over the last several years has been meant to *awaken* humanity to both of these emotional experiences. But, without your deliberately sitting down and reading, most enemies and allies *miss* what I am trying to share to this world *online*! That’s *not* okay, but we Indigenous Peoples be used to this.
As an Indigenous Person, as a Jew Indigenous to Judea-Samaria, I know what it is like to feel seriously unheard in this world. This is why we Indigenous Peoples struggle so deeply with how to communicate successfully *with influence* in this world of human beings. We are so *severely out numbered* and so regularly ignored and spoken for by the readily opinioned majority!
The traditional response to this – whether it’s the Jewish, Kurdish, San, Pueblo, Lakota, Cree, Lāhui, Māori (etc, etc!) people – is to focus inward, to be *insularly* a people and embrace ourselves for Indigenous survival – despite the *ever present* Colonial occupations of our lands and appropriations of our Indigenous cultures by Arabs and Europeans (of course, to further justify their Arab-European Colonialism upon lands not theirs to rule over!).
But, this must *NOT* be the answer forever! It is time for the majority of human beings in this world to *RESPECT* the minority and allow us to sit at the social table of discussion *AND* decision – with genuine interest in what *we minorities* have to share to humanity’s survival. Majority privilege is blindness – that threatens *ALL* humanity, that makes us humans no different than any other vulnerable to extinction species upon this planet!
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As an island Jew, my Polynesian kānaka brothers and sisters will always have my heart. For the Lāhui are the youngest to be colonized by Colonial Arabs-Europeans. As the Yehudim, the Jewish people, the first to be colonized and the only to successfully force our decolonization upon the Arab-European colonized world, we take great pride in our Sephardi ancestor who was a scribe for King Kamehameha, and who gave as a gift to Hawai’i one of our ancestral Torah scrolls (the origin myths and laws of our Indigenous Judean people). Hawaii Creole English, Canāanite Hebrew, and Hawaiian were my mother tongues, and the speakers of these Indigenous languages were my hanabata ‘ohana. It saddens me deeply that the Colonial European, the United States, has poluted the water and land so. That despite military policies that mandate it, they have no respect to this day for the āina! May the huaka’i pō chase the Colonial minded from the land in their sleep, so that a return to sovereignty can be more than just talk.
https: //fb.watch/eHX3oSPNvE/
O’ahu Water Protectors: “The US Navy knew. Our elected representatives knew. The Chamber of Commerce knew. We tried to warn them about the leaking Red Hill Fuel Facility for years – but they ignored us.
There’s still time to stop the worst from happening. But it’s going to take ALL of us to #ShutDownRedHill.”
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Shavua tov, ami! One mantra fo you. ‘Cause, good fo sing, ken? An get emunah! … Try lissen.
איפו אורי? אורי בי. איפו אהבתי? אהבתי בי. איפו עמי? עמי בי וארץ ישראל. הנה מה טוב ומה נעים שבט יהודה גם יחד!
èifo orì? orì bì. èifo ahavatí? ahavatí bì. èifo amì? amì bì v’èretz yisra’èl. hinè màh tòv u’màh na’ìm shèvet yehudàh gàm yàchad!
To be Indigenous, you must be born and raised to understand Indigenous. To be Indigenous, you must be actually Indigenous. This is something that Colonial settler-occupiers (presently, Arab-European worldwide) do *not* understand about indigeneity. Hence, *why* they keep dictating to Indigenous Peoples who and what “indigenous” is, according to colonized standards!
We Indigenous Peoples of this world will survive you, Arab-European colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands! For we have always known who we are, but you have forgotten – since a human, with his new found Allah/Christ, usurped your indigenous ethno-religions and sent you rampaging around this planet in the name of *said* Allah/Christ and caliphates/kings. You do not deserve our Indigenous respect, until you *stop* fully your (presently Arab-European) Colonial settler-occupations of Indigenous Peoples’ lands! Laugh emoji all you want, but this behavior changes absolutely nothing. The Jewish people, like all Indigenous Peoples, only want peaceful relations with our neighbors!
Again, to be Indigenous, you must be born and raised to understand Indigenous. To be Indigenous, you must be actually Indigenous. Not Colonial Arab-European, born to privilege and Indigenous appropriation. This *indigeneity* all starts with halacha, not some “faith” creed, theology, or religion!
הנה מה טוב ומה נעים שבט יהודה גם יחד!
How good and how pleasant, tribe of Judah also together (not just us here, now, but all Jews)!
One Hebrew Mantra from an Island Jew
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When I read/hear Torah (our sacred Jewish literatures), this is the world that I see within its stories! (Note: Torah never once demands our belief as Jews, only our devoted “love” for the “mitzvot”/halachot, the Indigenous covenant between deity, land, and people.)
Here is a list of the Canaanite gods important to Torah, for without the names of Elohim, the names of our mythic Jewish ancestors have no relational meaning with the deities and land of our Canaan/Jewish-Samaria:
El – Levant desert high god, represented by the bull (breath of the nostrils), married to Asherah, father of the 70 children land gods (represented in Noah’s sons, the 70 nations of the continent), known in Torah as el ‘olam, el shaddai, el elyon.
Asherah – Levant mother goddess of the 70 sons of El, represented by the tree of life (asherah pole) planted before the sacred temple, became wife of YHWH when Jewish culture adopted YHWH as national god and later usurped YHWH as El in the pantheon (henotheistic monolatry), cult center was Jerusalem.
YHWH – Levant storm god and war god, originally a son of El, was worshipped along with Baal, cult centers were Shiloh and Jerusalem, absorbed the role of both El and Asherah by 2nd Temple period and became the exclusive god-King (blesser and ruler of the land of Judea-Samaria, the weather god, and fertility god) with the rise of henotheism in Jewish Israel, cult center was Jerusalem.
Baal – Levant land god, storm god, and fertility god, represented by the bull, ram, thunder and lightening, married to Anat, became viewed as a false god (as Hadad) in 2nd Temple period.
Anat – war goddess, fertility goddess, known for her violent temper, fierce warrior skills, and for her ability to make peace, killed her brother Yam (El’s favorite child, and this favorite status went to YHWH by 2nd Temple period), gave birth to the mortal hero Shamgar (a demigod, other demigods specific to Jewish literatures were Noah, Isaac, Samson, Goliath, and several others).
Hadad – Levant storm and rain god, represented by the bearded bull, thunderbolt, club, wearing a bull-horned headdress, married to Shala (a Mesopotamian goddess of weather and grain).
Elohim – “the children of El,” name used when referring to the pantheon for Canaanite gods, thus refers to “gods” in many Torah uses (a generic name), later came to be used as a title (proper name substitute) for YHWH when Jews adopted henotheistic monolatry in the 2nd Temple period.
If you took this time to study our Indigenous Canaanite/Judean ethno-religious evolution from polytheism to henotheism to monotheism (by the first written Siddur, European Middle Age period) to (what will be next?)…, you will not read our Torah the same after this, and you will be richly blessed for this! Remember: Torah is best read on its own terms in our Canaanite Hebrew language. Pay close attention! The Torah does not cough, everything in there is in there for a reason.
P.S. This is why I like the television show Stargate SG-1 so much (and Atlantis, but another subject, another time)! Let’s discuss:
The Tau’ri (Jews, … okay, “humans”) are the Indigenous who are fighting colonization, in the hope of freeing all Indigenous Peoples from the Goa’uld (Colonial Arabs, … okay, “System Lords). The Jaffa (Jew’canos, … okay, indoctrinated Diaspora “humans”) are slaves to the corrupt and ever infighting System Lords, demanding and enforcing upon the defiantly resistant Indigenous the Colonial way of life (at repetitious great cost to the Indigenous!). The Tok’ra (Israeli Arabs and Europeans, … okay, the anti-Colonial former System Lords) are fighting with the Indigenous to decolonize *all* Indigenous Peoples.
But, wait, there’s three more!
The Ori (Evangelical European Crusaders, … okay, the Colonial humans that are convinced that they have directly met and are empowered by their unseen saviour god of energy, and must proselytize *all* the Indigenous at *all* costs). *Everyone is fighting the Ori!* The System Lords included! The only ones *not* fighting the Ori are the Ancients (Elohim, … okay, the now directly unseen gods of the Indigenous, who obviously prefer to not directly interfere in Colonial versus Indigenous events) and the Nox (the still yet not colonized Indigenous Peoples, who truly know how to hide from the Arab-European colonized world!).
And you thought that I was into Stargate SG-1 for the special effects, the wild adventures, and blatant disregard for scientific criticism for the sake of mythic story telling! … You don’t know me. 🙂
P.S.S. Maybe I didn’t make myself clear. The Asgard (the British occupier of Judea-Samaria from the end of WWI to post WW2, pre-1948, making negotiation deals between Colonial Arabs and Indigenous Judeans, and refusing to take a side (because who dares challenge the Asgard?!)… okay, the one who equally believes to be a superior race as other Europeans, … okay, the seemingly benevolent and gracious Colonial Europeans dividing up Arab-European re-colonized Indigenous lands, … okay, … And the Replicators are the “Palestinian people,” 1964 KGB-PLO created for long-term settler-occupation, who are determined to be the Indigenous (aka, Jewish Ancients) of a land they failed to fully re-colonize during the “nakba,” … okay, ….
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There will never be an end to Arab-European Colonial anti-Indigenous racism, until those born into Arab-European supremacist privilege – hint, Arabs and Europeans – put a societal end themselves to antisemiticism (aka, anti-Zionism, anti-Jewish racism). Antisemiticism is on the rise worldwide yet again, because the Jewish people will not bow down to Arab-European international pressure to give up our decolonized self-determination and sovereignty upon Judea-Samaria – 76 years and counting – and the militarized Kurdish people are about to achieve the same freedom from Arab Colonialism in Kurdistan. Who will be next to defy Arab-European dhimmi/ghetto status for non-Arab/Muslim and non-European/Christian peoples?
*ALL* indigenous peoples in this Arab-European colonized world share the same historical memories: land-theft by settler-occupation, identity theft by cultural appropriation, the raping and pillaging, the repeated attempted genocides and expulsions of our peoples from our lands, the forced conversions and second-class dhimmi status (reservations and ghettos), the racist tropes and demonization, and more – all in the names of Allah/Christ and caliphates/kings for Arab-European social supremacy over the humans of this planet! On both continents, from the Jewish and Kurdish people of the first continent to the Lakota, Pueblo, and Cree people of the second continent, the Colonial history of Arabs and Europeans is repetitiously the same to this very day. Make no mistake: for any other Indigenous nation to decolonize upon their ancestral land, the Jewish people *must* remain decolonized upon Judea-Samaria!
Arabs are the only Colonial settlers upon the land of Israel. 2 million Arabs upon Judea-Samaria are Zionism supporting citizens of Israel, supporters of Jewish sovereignty upon Judea-Samaria, members of all aspects of Israeli society. Our Israeli Arab, Druze, Bedouin, and European (obviously, not Jewish) citizens are politicians in our government, doctors in our hospitals, judges in our courts (civil courts, not ethno-religious courts), professors in our universities, and officers in our Israel Defense Forces (IDF) – protecting Jewish Zionism, Indigenous self-sovereignty. It is the 2.75 million non-citizen “Palestinian” Arab political land-squatters upon Judea-Samaria that insist upon maintaining a “no peace with Israel” land conflict.
What are these 2.75 million non-citizen “Palestinian” Arab political land-squatters upon Judea-Samaria willing to do to better their living conditions? Apply for citizenship in Israel, the world’s only decolonized Indigenous nation? Go back to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt from whence they came during the Jordanian 18+ year partial occupation of Judea-Samaria (the “nakba,” 1948 to 1967)? Continue their settler-occupation of Indigenous Judea-Samaria and accept becoming a nation next to Israel on Jewish decolonized ancestral land? Yes, the Jewish people are decolonized now upon our ancestral land, and we will not be dhimmi to your Arab-European Colonial land-theives *ever* again!
This deserves the repeating for, if all Christians and Muslims simply understood this, you would respectfully give Jews our space to be freely and safely under self-determination!
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Do “Palestinians” turn their backs to Jerusalem five times a day throughout Indigenous Judea-Samaria to prostrate themselves towards Mecca, Saudi Arabia? Yes! No matter where in this world, the Jewish people turn our bodies, our faces, daily towards Jerusalem and chant our obligations to the land of Israel and to the god-King of the land in Canāanite Hebrew.
Nothing spells Indigenous like religiously turning your back daily to the land that you claim to be “indigenous” from! Right “Palestinians,” who speak and chant in Colonial Arabic, and who observe not one uniquely Canāanite originating land ritual upon Indigenous Judea-Samaria? Al-Aqsa is your only reason for staying! Do you speak of obligations to the land in Canaanite Hebrew as the “Jews” daily do? But, Arabs are quick to call the Jewish people who are indigenous to Judea-Samaria the “Colonial settlers” and “occupation force” of our own land for defending our Indigenous Judean land rights from your 1964 KGB-PLO created “Palestinian” Arab long-term settler-occupation force!
The 2.75 million “Palestinian” Arabs that are crying and lying to the world about “Israeli Apartheid” are not the 2.5 million Israeli Arab, Druze, and Bedouin citizens of Israel. They are the 1964 KGB-PLO created long-term “Palestinian” Arab settler-occupation force, meant to force the Jewish people back into colonized victimized dhimmi status under Arab-European supremacist rule. These 2.75 million non-citizen Jordanian, Syrian, Lebanese, and Egyptian settler-occupiers upon the Jordan named “West Bank” portion of the land of Israel do *not* want to ever be citizens of Israel, *nor* to ever be a “Palestinian” Arab nation upon decolonized Jewish land next to Israel. The whole existence and purpose as a KGB-PLO 1964 created “indigenous” people is to force the end of the only successfully decolonized Indigenous refugee nation upon this entire planet Earth. Whereas, the 2.5 million Israeli Arab, Druze, and Bedouin citizens of Israel live with the Jewish people, are vital to our democratic way of life, fight side by side with us, and bleed with us to ensure our Indigenous Judean survival. Israel must survive, or no Indigenous nation will ever be decolonized from Arab-European Colonial supremacist rule!
The only thing keeping “Palestinian” Arabs in the land of Israel, our decolonized but still partially occupied Judea-Samaria, is their love for and attachment to that Colonial al-Aqsa Mosque. The Arabs “Mount Rushmore”(!) – that is sitting on top of our (European-Arab destroyed) Indigenous Judean Temple Mount! Not even the 400 other Jewish-protected Islamic mosques in Judea-Samaria can compare to the al-Aqsa Mosque, the standing symbol of Colonial Arab/Muslim supremacy upon Jewish ancestral land. And no other mosque in this world drives the Colonial Arab need for a Jordanian-Egyptian PLO sustained “Palestinian” long-term settler-occupation force upon the land of Israel. There to stay, *claiming* indigeneity and a non-existent “Israeli Apartheid,” so long as the Jewish people remain decolonized and self-sovereign upon our land, which we will resolutely continue doing!
If this al-Aqsa Mosque were in Jordan, instead of Judea-Samaria, *every* non-citizen “Palestinian” Arab would be in Jordan – and the Jewish people’s decolonization in 1948 would not have been so threatening and controversial to Arab-European Colonial supremacy over Zion! Arab settler-occupation of the Levant and Southwest Asia is, apparently, not complete, until the Jewish people are back to Arab-European victimized dhimmi status (second-class), ruled and taxed and shamed and blamed by the Colonizers of Indigenous Peoples’ lands. “From river to sea,” is this not what they keep swearing under their breaths and on any social media account that they get access to – to this very day?
The United (Arab-European Colonial) Nations wishes to dictate to the indigenous Jewish people of Judea-Samaria how we are to apportion our land into an Arab and Jewish state, after our forcible decolonization from Arab-European Colonial occupation and rule in 1948, which was followed immediately by the Jordanian 18+ year militarized occupation of the “West Bank” and East Jerusalem parts of decolonized Israel, the “nakba,” and our reunification of Israel, all of Judea-Samaria, in 1967.
The Jewish people are decolonized now, and all of Judea-Samaria is Israel, full stop. If these “Palestinian” Arab political land-squatters upon Judea-Samaria don’t like this, they are free to return back to Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt from whence they came! Their suffering is self-created through antisemitic racism.
The United (Arab-European Colonial) Nations do not get to decide for the world’s first and only decolonized Indigenous refugee nation upon this entire planet. The Jewish people will no longer be the victimized dhimmi of Colonial Arab-European land theives *ever* again – and we are resolute to remain independent and self-sovereign!
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“Nichols said she went to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, and announced she was quitting. “He was very upset about it. And he said, take the weekend and think about what I am trying to achieve here in this show. You’re an integral part and very important to it.” So that weekend, she went to an NAACP fundraiser in Beverly Hills and was asked to meet a man who said he was her number one fan: Martin Luther King, Jr.
“He complimented me on the manner in which I’d created the character. I thanked him, and I think I said something like, ‘Dr. King, I wish I could be out there marching with you.’ He said, ‘no, no, no. No, you don’t understand. We don’t need you … to march. You are marching. You are reflecting what we are fighting for.’ So, I said to him, ‘thank you so much. And I’m going to miss my co-stars.'”
“His face got very, very serious,” she recalled. “And he said, ‘what are you talking about?’ And I said, ‘well, I told Gene just yesterday that I’m going to leave the show after the first year because I’ve been offered… And he stopped me and said: ‘You cannot do that.’ I was stunned. He said, ‘don’t you understand what this man has achieved? For the first time, we are being seen the world over as we should be seen. He says, do you understand that this is the only show that my wife Coretta and I will allow our little children to stay up and watch.’ I was speechless.” ”
My three favorite charaters of Star Trek the Original Series was Spock, Uhuru, and Sulu – the Jew (Vulcan), the Waswahili (African), and the Filipino presenting as Japanese (Asian). Then, McCoy and Kirk (the atheist Colonials) grew on me over time. Star Trek Original was truly a cultural norm bending visionary series, not afraid to offend racists and not afraid to imagine our technological future (thankfully not hindered by Gene Roddenberry’s personal rabid antisemiticism).
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/31/1114792935/nichelle-nichols-dies-star-trek
NPR: Nichelle Nichols, Lt. Uhura on ‘Star Trek,’ dies at 89.
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There are the young Indigenous and there are the old Indigenous. The young do not always listen and are easily swayed by Colonial identity theft and appropriations (against their very own interests!). The old Indigenous know and maintain through every genocidal demonization and shoah/nakba inflicted upon us! The old Indigenous have been colonized for so long that we know the Colonizers’ languages by heart, along with our own, and we speak in each as is *necessary* to our survival. The young Indigenous should really listen to us – the old Indigenous of the *first* colonized continent – for we know things that they have yet to even imagine. It’s literally in our blood, our genetics, at this point! Confused? I’ll explain.
Most second continent Indigenous have more “reservation” land than enough registered Indigenous members to fill it. You all have to rally supporters to what is left of your land to defend it from the Colonials! This is a luxury *unheard of* on the first colonized continent! For example, the Kurdish people are 36 million strong, despite the repeated genocides inflicted upon them by the 62 million Colonial Arab occupiers of their indigenous land, Kurdistan, who live *with them* upon the same space of land. For example, the Levantine Jewish people’s land is the size Taiwan – 7 million Jews defending a land-locked island from an Arab colonized continent that seeks to end our very decolonized existence. And, by comparison, Colonial Arab (aka, “Palestinian”) occupied lands are as large the United States of colonized (European named) “America”!
Despite the Jewish people’s forced decolonization upon our ancestral land in 1948, we are still occupied seven decades later by 2.75 million Arab non-citizens of Israel – politically land-squatting (because they have the bodily numbers to do so) to erase our Indigenous Judean existence (while calling themselves the “indigenous” by playing upon European Colonial skin color racism)! Why do we *not* just evict them? Twenty-two Arab occupied nations have been waiting for the Jewish people Indigenous to Judea-Samaria to do exactly this since our reunification of the land of Israel in 1967! Like I said, we’ve been colonized for so long that we think too often like the Colonial Arabs-Europeans themselves.
A Colonizer for Allah/Christ and caliphates/kings is a Colonial, folks, no matter where in this world! Their objective is to absorb and assimilate, to usurp our Indigenous identity, at all costs to Indigenous Peoples! If they can’t do this, they turn us into victimized dhimmi/ghettoed (second class) peoples! They, these present Arab-European Colonials, are the *best* at lying for the sake of Colonial supremacy upon this entire planet. So, if we surviving Indigenous are not “terrorists” for resisting their self-righteous supremacy, then we are “Colonial settlers” and an “occupation force” upon our *own* ancestral lands! I did say that you have no idea yet, that you are too young to understand. This is why we old Indigenous persevere in this colonized world!
When will the young Indigenous ask questions for the old Indigenous to answer?! We know the Colonial Arabs-Europeans in a way you do *not* yet understand. … Our brothers and sisters, when you are ready, ask this old Indigenous a question or two (or three, or…), and I will have an easily verifiable answer for you! Besides my trying to unite all anti-Colonial Indigenous peoples together, my intention is to take a pause here on FB and, with this post, wait for Indigenous questions (actual Indigenous peoples’ questions, for you know already that I know a Colonial troll on sight! Yes, my plethora of hateful stalkers?). Hence, why I will continue to correct the antisemitic anti-Indigenous narratives on other peoples’/pages’ posts!
Give me, online world – an Indigenous person, outnumbered by 8 billion human beings – a reason to post another thought because others *want* to hear these thoughts online. FB “Likes” are *not* enough (and never have been!) when a third Colonial Arab-European *World War* is on the horizon, because Colonials are *unwilling* to bring us minorities to the planetary decision table for our future!
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Eh, שמע (listen)! The heart of the Jewish Indigenous is always in our chant, in our music, in our stories! Hear, now, the story that דודו טסה (Dudu Tassa, Mizrahi Jew from Iraq and Kuwait) and ברי סחרוף (Berry Sakharof, Sephardi Jew from Turkey) wishes now to share with you. שמע (hear, listen)!
ראי איזה פלא (לייב אקוסטי)
Shabbat shalom!
“מתוך לוע תנינים
מבין אלף סכינים
את הצצת אליי
עדיין ביחד
מתוך שקט בין צלילים
מבין אפס המילים
את הצצת אליי
עדיין ביחד
ראי איזה פלא,
ראי ראי איזה פלא,
ראי קרן שמש מתגנבת
את חולמת
ממלמלת שלא נשתה מי ים
לא
מתוך רוע הטובים
מבין עמק של נובלים
את הצצת אליי
עדיין ביחד
שלא נשתה מי ים”
#ברי_סחרוף #דודו_טסה
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