I can’t tell you how many groups that I’ve been kicked out of very shortly after being accepted in. Why? Because most Arabs-Europeans and their colonized have no real desire to hear an actual Jew’s voice, unless we are parroting what makes them feel comfortable with our presence among them. How dare a Jew who is בן אחר בן point out when our Jewish identity is being appropriated by identity thieves, *regardless of their skin color*!
When appropriation of Jewish culture by African Americans is more important than hearing the voices of the Jewish people about this appropriation of Jewish identity, we have a big “gap” problem between the African American community and the Jewish/Israeli people! I’ve been, apparently, kicked off of the group “Jews, African Americans and Israel: Supporting One Another” for pointing out three times now that this group has a serious Jewish appropriation problem. When African Americans are allowed to come into the group and pretend to be Jewish, when they are actually Hebrew Israelites (Christians stealing Jewish identity and speaking for Jews in *ignorance* of Jewish laws, beliefs, and customs) this directly hurts our Jewish attempts to get real Judaism, Judea-people-ism, heard and understood by African Americans.
For protecting our Jewish identity, I am the one punished with removal (I’m guessing by Aaron Jeffrey, Admin), because a real discussion about non-Jewish appropriation of Jewish identity must not be had! The appropriators of Jewish identity must not be questioned, no matter how many blatantly wrong and antisemitic misrepresentations they make on behalf of the Jewish people!
Yes, there is a *big* “bridging the gap” problem between the Jewish people and the African American people, if this is allowed to continue. This is saying to us Jews that you, the African American community, do not really want to have the uncomfortable discussions! You do not want to hear the authentic voices of Jews who are indigenous to Judea-Samaria, the land of Israel. Especially, if they call out African Americans for pretending to be Jewish, when they are not. By their actions (for example, in this group “Shalomim Halahawi,” and “Mordecai Yosef Ben Avraham” whose real name is Shariff Hasan), the Jewish people further get a BAD name in this world by culture/identity appropriating misrepresentations!
Identity theft is a sin against Eloah, a direct chillul ha’Shem – a desecration of the name of our Levant land’s god-King, who vassal treatied his “people of Israel” after creating us from the Levant soil (to tend his garden) – Christians and Muslims who do this to us! This is why we call you out. For outside of your historic racist supremacy, in numbers and in social power, you have *NO* right to speak for our Indigenous Judean people – especially, when you know *nothing* about us, as you keep showing when we Jews of Judea-Samaria engage with you! *You need to be listening to us, and learning from us. You need to be asking questions!* Not Christiansplaining who the Jewish people are, and doing this while engaging in identity theft – by calling yourself a Jew, Kohen, Levi, Rabbi (etc) when you are not. But, we are the “indecent” human beings, as I’ve been called in this group, for being protective of how our Indigenous minority is being perceived in this world – because of non-Jews in this world, who feel that they have the supremacist right to speak *for* us.
There are 1.9 billion converts to Arab Islam in this world (includes the wannabe Nation of Islam) and there are 2.4 billion converts to European Christianity in this world (includes the wannabe Hebrew Israelites). There are only 15.2 million Jews worldwide by the halachot of our Judean-Samarian people. Being here in this world as an extreme minority is very difficult – hence, why USA Jews often publicly pretend to be just a religion, to avoid antisemitic violence against Jewish communities. In comparison to our worldwide Jewish 15 million, the African American community of the USA are 42 million strong. You do not need to appropriate our Judean identity, ever! Jews already present in *all* skin colors and human shapes.
As I tried to share with Aaron Jeffrey, allow African American Rabbi Shais Rishon to explain this difference to you, so a Jew like me is not kicked away from the discussion table – meant towards “bridging the gaps” – so that a non-Jew pretending to be Jewish is free to speak *for us* unfettered by real Jews in this world. We have no law in Judaism that defines Jews based upon skin color presentation in this world. But, this doesn’t mean that anyone gets to be Jewish – on “faith” or by theft, identity appropriation!
A Case of Mistaken Identity: Black Jews & Hebrew Israelites
#DumisaniWashington and #InstituteforBlackSolidaritywithIsrael #IBSI
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This group, “Jews, African Americans and Israel: Supporting One Another,” says that it is about creating more allies between African Americans and Jews/Israelis through understanding (as on their about, “bridging the gap”). But, how can this happen, if we do not point out cultural appropriation? Shalomim Halahawi is not Jewish, full stop! He is Hebrew Israelite, and even his own Christian people reject his titles and call him “fake”, a “liar”, and a “false prophet” (IKYN! And he does like to pretend to be a Mizrahi-Ethiopian Jew, from Florida and Georgia, a Kohen, a Levi, a Doctor, and a whole lot of other titles, plus he’s filled with the authoritative prophetic “edenic” messianic spirit of prophecy from “Hashem”). So, he neither knows Hebrew, nor what is actually Torah, nor anything about Judaism – but feels the personal liberty to speak for the Jewish people about the Jewish people to African Americans. Which is also known as cultural appropriation or identity theft.
Though allowed free uncriticized expression in African American communities, he does not understand that: Hosea is not Torah, but Nevi’im. Proverbs is not Torah, but Ketuvim. Judges is not Torah, but Nevi’im. Psalms is not Torah, but Ketuvim. Isaiah is not Torah, but Nevi’im. Jeremiah is not Torah, but Nevi’im. Ezekiel is not Torah, but Nevi’im. The Dead Sea Scrolls are not Torah. The Quran is not Torah, but an Arab appropriator’s work that is based on Torah. He speaks of Torah, but cites not one Torah law directly until nearly finished with explaining his right to be rich as a “Levi.” And, when he finally got to citing Torah law, he provides no context for correct understanding of them. Now, to be fair, in the first half of his opinions, he did mention the address of the following…
D’varim 15:8 is a Torah law, that is not to be violated: “If there will be among you a needy person, from one of your brothers in one of your cities, in your land the Name, your God, is giving you, you will not harden your heart, and you will not close your hand from your needy brother. Instead, you will open your hand to him, and you will lend him sufficient for his needs, which he is lacking.”
D’varim 28 (the whole chapter, I guess): “And it will be if you obey the Name, your God, to observe to fulfill all His commandments which I [Moshe] command you this day, the Name, your God, will place you supreme above all the nations of the earth….”
My question is, how do you obey the laws, when you are not taught the laws (and taught them correctly)? A Cohen and a Rabbi would do this law teaching, every time! But, Christians and Muslims think that Nevi’im and Ketuvim are also Torah. No! Not when it comes to teaching the Covenant of the Jewish people – the mitzvot/halachot!
Torah is all about capitalistic socialism, the freedom to grow in prosperity until the Jubilee, in which all prosperity is then set aside and all citizens are made equals again. The citizens include the land itself. Surely, anyone who has read D’varim his/her-self knows what I’m talking about. Torah recognizes that life is unpredictable and, thus, the poor will always be among us, hence the Covenant laws that demand fair treatment of the rich and poor under one law. And, most importantly, Torah only applies to the land of Israel and her Jewish people. No one else anywhere is obligated to these laws.
The key take-aways of Torah are:
D’varim 1:13,16-17: “Prepare for yourselves wise and understanding men, known among your tribes, and I will make them heads over you… And I commanded your judges at that time, saying, “Hear [disputes] between your brothers and judge justly between a man and his brother, and between his litigant. You will not favor persons in judgment; [rather] you will hear the small just as the great; you will not fear any man, for the judgment is upon the Name, and the case that is too difficult for you, bring to me [Moses], and I will hear it.”
Sh’mot 23.10-11 “For six years you will sow your land and gather in its produce, but in the seventh [year] you shall release it and abandon it; the poor of your people shall eat [it], and what they leave over, the beasts of the field shall eat. So shall you do to your vineyard [and] to your olive tree[s].”
D’varim 15.1-3,9 “At the end of seven years you will make a release. And this is the manner of the release; to release the hand of every creditor from what he lent his friend; he shall not exact from his friend or his brother, because time of the release for the Name has arrived. From the foreigner you may exact; but what is yours with your brother, your hand shall release…. Beware, lest there be in your heart an unfaithful thought, saying, “The seventh year, the year of release has approached,” and you will begrudge your needy brother and not give him, and he will cry out to the Name against you, and it will be a crime to you.”
D’varim 12.5-7 “But only to the standing-place which the Name your God shall choose from all your tribes, to set His Name there; you shall inquire after His dwelling and come there. And there you shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and the separation by your hand, and your vows and your donations, and the firstborn of your cattle and of your sheep. And there you shall eat before the Name, your God, and you shall rejoice in all your endeavors you and your households, as the Name, your God, has blessed you.
Vayikra 23.22 “When you reap the harvest of your Land, you will not completely remove the corner of your field during your harvesting, and you will not gather up the gleanings of your harvest. [Rather,] you will leave these for the poor person and for the stranger. I am the Name, your God.”
And, probably here, the most important one…
D’varim 14.27-29 “And [as for] the Levite who is in your cities you shall not forsake him, for he does not have to him a (property) portion or inheritance with you [aka, he is always poor and physically needy, like the poor]. At the end of three years, you shall take out all the tithe of your crop in that year and place it in your cities. And the Levite because he has no portion or inheritance with you and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are in your cities, will come and eat and be satisfied; so that the Name, your God, will bless you in all the work of your hand that you will do.”
For “Prosperity” Christianity is not Judaism, Judea-people-ism, full stop!
Okay, this should be a clue as to why I say that creating real allies between African Americans and Israelis should not come at the price of including non-Jewish appropriators into these discussions. It only hurts we – the Jewish people – to do so! In every community upon this planet, Jews are the extreme minority, even in the Levant ! And we do not need non-Jews pretending to be Jews and speaking for the Jewish people as if they are or represent Jews!
Only a pretender would be so fearful of his own words, that he would invite no criticism of his elaborate identity and rambling opinions, in fact even threaten to prevent legitimate criticism by written disclaimer. Yet, when we MENA Jews speak, even among supposed African American allies, we are chased from the table of discussion – because what we have to share about Judaism angers the colonized on both continents.
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A fake “Jewish orthodox Rabbi (from New York)” of the Hebrew Israelites persuasion, first snapshot, made the the following claim: “Tsefan Josef, Jews have been building and creating in Africa before the temple was destroyed[,] and sold into slavery[,] afterwards by the Romans[,] millions of Israelites [“original Hebrews”]. Most of which ended up on the west coast of Africa.”
I really do appreciate this Hebrew Israelite’s response. For it is so antisemitic, and I’ll explain why. It is pure racist skin-color based antisemitism, taught to them by European Christian Colonial enslavers of African peoples. All because most Jews are Levant-Persian “white” presenting in this world – whether Mizrahi, Sephardi, or Ashkenazi. And, now, shared to me by an *appropriator* of Jewish ancestral identity, full stop! How should we respond to such a blatant racist antisemitic lie from a non-Jew (but “of color”)? … With the historical truth, of course, always! That ahistorical accusation about the Jewish people of the land of Israel, that’s not Canaanite Jewish – but, it is a very *popular* antisemitic trope among some!
That “history” presented in his/her comment is Christians seeing themselves in Christian-appropriated Jewish ancestral myths, and re-making the origins of our Levant Indigenous People about their historic past, full stop. The people of Israel became so in Moab (southern part of Jordan today) and not before, so says our (Christian-appropriated and poorly translated) Torah. From Moab origination, we became an ethno-religious nationality north of Moab and throughout Judea and Samaria. We are the living descendants of the Canaanite people of the Levant. We Jews are the speakers of Canaanite Hebrew and storytelling worldview. Africans enslaved by Colonial Arabs and Europeans had their own uniquely African ethno-religions, until their forced assimilation. So, no need to appropriate our northern Levant-Persian Indigenous culture.
Hebrew Israelites are *not* Jews, full stop, no matter how much they appropriate Canaanite Judean culture to remake it into “ancient” African culture, for Baptist-originating reasons, and to call it true or original Judaism/Israelite-ism/Hebrew-ism. This very same self-declared “Cohen,” here, second snapshot, has called a Jew Indigenous to Judea-Samaria an “indecent” human being for pointing out Judean cultural appropriation of our numerically challenged halacha-based people – 15 million total worldwide by mitzvot/halachot, which is our indigenous Judean law system that defines and informs the people of Israel – after this very same “Cohen” went to my profile photo and laugh emoji-ed at my factual and accurate explanation of who is legally and authentically Jewish/Israelite in this world by halacha, and who is not.
Both of these adherents to the Hebrew Israelite (USA-orginating) religion, who are speaking *for* the Jewish people in online social media platforms – about who and what we are, the Canaanite-descended Jewish people – are displaying their supremacist European Christian appropriator’s racism towards the Jewish people. An Indigenous people of the Levant, who have not one halachic law that defines Jews based on “skin color” presentation to this world, and they are targeting Jews based upon this 3rd century CE European Christian invented skin-color racism categorization of human beings. We the Jewish people simply lack the numbers to be the world’s anti-racism police! We struggle just to keep self-sovereignty upon the Levant soil from which our Indigenous people were born from.
First, it was the white Baptists that came for us, trying to proselytize their white Jesus upon us. Then, it was the black Baptists that came for us, trying to proselytize their black Jesus upon us. Both white and black Baptists, since the 20th century, have been trying rigorously to replace our Judean people in the Colonial European social media world. The white Baptists now play dress up as Jews, have translated their Greek Aegean-created Bible into Hebrew, and are calling themselves Jews while worshipping their human messiah – and they try regularly to infiltrate and get acknowledged as one the people of Israel. The black Baptists, too, dress up as Jews, and regularly walk the European’s Colonial streets with their Bibles, while preaching antisemitic racist tropes about Jews who present “white” in European skin-color terminology (most Jews present this way!), and are calling themselves Israelites/Jews while worshipping their human messiah – and they regularly try to infiltrate and get acknowledged as one the people of Israel.
Identity theft is a sin against Eloah, a direct chillul ha’Shem – a desecration of the name of our Levant land’s god-King, who vassal treatied his “people of Israel” after creating us from the Levant soil (to tend his garden) – Christians and Muslims who do this to us! This is why we call you out. For outside of your historic racist supremacy, in numbers and in social power, you have *NO* right to speak for our Indigenous Judean people – especially, when you know *nothing* about us, as you keep showing when we Jews of Judea-Samaria engage with you! *You need to be listening to us, and learning from us.* But, we are the “indecent” human beings for being protective of how our Indigenous minority is being perceived in this world – because of non-Jews in this world, who feel that they have the supremacist right to speak *for* us.
There are 1.9 billion converts to Arab Islam in this world (includes the wannabe Nation of Islam) and there are 2.4 billion converts to European Christianity in this world (includes the wannabe Hebrew Israelites). There are only 15.2 million Jews worldwide by the halachot of our Judean-Samarian people. Being here in this world as an extreme minority is very difficult – hence, why USA Jews often publicly pretend to be just a religion, to avoid antisemitic violence against Jewish communities. In comparison to our worldwide Jewish 15 million, the African-American community of the USA are 42 million strong. You do not need to appropriate our Judean identity! Jews already present in *all* skin colors and human shapes.
Again, as I have done so many times before, I regularly encourage African-Americans to re-embrace their original African ethno-religious traditions, for they are beautiful traditions to engage in! We Jews admire *all* Indigenous Peoples’ traditions, again, full stop!
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Post Script: It hasn’t even been a day, and I have already been accused of: “racism” towards “Christians and Africans” and of שנאת חנם between “Jews and Israelites.” Let’s address this:
Besides there being no such thing as reverse racism…. Jews are the only remaining Israelites left of our Canaanite Hebrew peoples. The kingdom of Israel was assimilated into the Assyrian empire in language, culture, religion, and citizenship. They ceased being Israelites at this point, and became Colonizers. Thus, leaving the Jewish people and the Edomite people (who assimilated within the Jewish people) as the remaining Israelites of this world. Hence, the Judean written lament of the lost tribes of Israel. You don’t get to see your modern self in our Jewish written ANE ancestral writings and, then, decide for yourself that you are now Jewish. It doesn’t work that way and it will never work that way, if we – the Jewish people – intend to survive as the indigenous Judean-Samarian people of the Levant!
As to the accusation of שנאת חנם (Sinat Hinam). Defining who is actually Jewish/Israelite, and who is not, is simply a matter of halacha – not emotions. Yoma 9b:8 explains that the First Temple was destroyed due to “idol worship, forbidden sexual relations, and bloodshed” and that the Second Temple suffered the same fate, also because of Sinat Hinam. As it says, “the crime of wanton/baseless hatred is equivalent to the three transgressions.” “שנאת חנם כנגד שלש עבירות” – try learning something in life!
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