#African Jews

[secular-jew]

Ethiopian Jews, or "falasha" consider themselves descendants of King Solomon and Queen Sheva.

Between 1977-1993 the absolute majority of Ethiopian Jews moved to Israel, their number in Israel currently stands @ 155,000.

[foodglorious-food]

Shakshuka - A spicy egg and tomato dish invented by Maghreb Jews in North Africa and adopted all over the Middle East 🥚🍅🍳

[kemetic-dreams]

SO NOW JEWS ARE BLAMING AFRICAN AMERICANS FOR HAMAS

[archtroop]

Israel to send Hercules aitplanes to evacuate Israelis (re: Jews) from Amsterdam.

Oh, how I wish Israel existed in the 30s.

We could have evacuated Jews from Europe the day before the Kristalnacht then, too.

[battyhillel]

yall i’ve gotten hateful reblogs just for wanting to move to israel o.

apparently im a genocide excuser /sar

seriously though, have y’all anti israel ppl ever thought of the fact that as a queer jew, id have more rights? that i could actually get gender affirming care somewhat more easily than in many countries?

you wouldn’t have that in palestine.

just as israel deserves to be in a better state without constant attacks on freedom, so does palestine

antisemites, including “antizionist, not antisemitic” mfs, fuck off

[jewreallythinkthat]

Jewish food 😂😂 more like stolen land and food

Girl (gn) I hope you've never eaten a bagel in your entire life, you wouldn't want those nasty Jewish cooties we garnish them all with 🥱

[if-i-am-not-for-me]

Can anyone recommend good resources on Jewish folklore? Not necessarily the explicitly religious stuff, but the various regional and local tales and superstitions and creatures that arose in different Jewish communities over the past 2000 years.

I'm from an Ashkenazi background, but would live to learn about what MENA, Sephardi, African, and Asian communities have in their folklore.

I have an idea for a cozy, low-fantasy, Jewish and North American folklore inspired story. The North American folklore I want to build from is easy to research (going with lumberjack stories to avoid touching sacred Native mythology that does not belong to me), but I am much better at religious research for Judaism than folklore.

[originalhaffigaza]

[bimdraws]

Ver "White South Africans Convert & Move to Israel to Continue Apartheid" en YouTube

[nicosraf]

The weird thing about the debate on Israeli's indigenousness is that "indigenous" doesn't mean... you're From somewhere. You can stop being indigenous; you can stop being indigenous while still existing in the place your ancestors were born. "Indigenous" isn't that you have the memory of belonging to a place or notice little cultural things in your family that tie into your ancestral homeland. I mean, there's a reason we don't call British people in Britan indigenous.

Indigenousness is about perpetual opposition to settler colonialism, which is about the complete uprooting of a pre-existing culture and forcing that land to accommodate an extractivist, export economy. That's what it is. It's not about being from a place or even having a """tie to the land.""" (The "tie to the land" is definitely an element of indigenousness but it's really just a romanticized simplification of indigenousness — a simple answer for why indigenous people are at the frontline of environmental movements.)

When the Spanish came to Mexico, they worked with the noble Nahua people to de-indigenize them. They did this by converting them to Catholicism, teaching them European writing (Latin) and academics, and relying on the Nahua nobility to help enforce the new political system. Fransicans are usually credited with converting Mexico to Christianity, but the ones who did most of the work were the young, Nahua "niños del monasterio" who marched into the villages and burned the idols of the gods — of both their own and other indigenous communities. (Nahua soldiers are credited with being the ones who helped the Spanish conquer the rest of Mexico's native people).

Indigenous/mestizo scholar Chimalpahin wrote about the history of the "Aztecs" by calling every Nahua god a demon, by positioning the Spanish like a good development and by arguing his specific Nahua city was better than the other by appealing to Spanish sentiments. ("But maybe he was just speaking to the Spanish!!!" He wrote in Nahuatl for presumably a Nahua audience.) (Academics don't agree on whether to call him indigenous).

"Chimalpahin and the noble Nahuas were violently forced into assimilating into Spanish nobility; you are sick for trying to argue that they weren't indigenous anymore." I'm not arguing that they weren't, but they were players in de-indigenizing Mexico, and it's important that it was forced.

De-tribalization and de-indigenization are always violent and ugly; you don't lose your indigenousness, usually, because you're evil. Chimalpahin and the noble Nahuas were still victims and horribly traumatized. They were also enforcers of de-indigenization.

Anyway, I'm mestizo and have ties to central Mexico and feel a sense of belonging there, at times. I'm not indigenous to it though. The memory of any indigenousness in my family is just a memory now. We visit, and I eat so so many poblano peppers. But we've detribalized, become borderline settlers by participating in capitalism, lightened our skin through generations, probably intentionally (many Mexicans have heard the phrase that we have to "better our race"). If I wanted to actually reconnect, it would be a lot of work; any reconnecting indigenous person can tell you how much work it is.

I know people get really prissy about how "You can't compare Israelis to white European settlers in America because we actually have a connection to the land!!!! We are actually from there!! >:/ some of us are not even white!"

Well let's think of the majority brown mestizo (mixed) population of Mexico. Are they indigenous because they might have "ties to the land" and because they have lineage from it?? Maybe they were once, but for the majority now — no. Without a mass effort to oppose settler colonialism and reconnect, mestizos are not indigenous and might never be again, no matter how much of their pre-colombian culture persists in our quieter traditions and language. And the Mexican state is happy to co-opt aesthetic representations of indigenousness, to talk about our glorious "Aztec" ancestry, while actively hurting indigenous populations.

So assume some, or lets say all!, Israelis have every possible connection to the land (lets say they love the olive trees and cry over the murder of all the Nile crocodiles), maybe they're visibly non-white, maybe they can trace their lineage to the exact spot where they stand. But if they're on the side of a settler colonial, capitalist state (say it was even forced on them!! say they were even made to move there!!! say they are like the Nahua nobles) — how indigenous are you?

How much longer will you remain " indigenous " ???

[secular-jew]

Zulu's in the house!

[gay-----pisces2]

I hate how minorities emotions are blow way out of the water.

like, "oh your a minority experiencing anger, a normal human emotion, JESUS YOU DANGEROUS MONSTER!"

Like I'm not hurting anyone I'm just upset at the way I get treated and the hurtles I must jump over to hopefully be happy one day

[kemetic-dreams]

The phrase "I plead the blood" is a tradition that goes back to the Old Testament, when the Israelites applied the blood of an animal to their doorposts for protection. The phrase "I plead the blood" activates what happened through the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross. Some say that Jesus' blood was not spilled for the covering of sin, but for the remission of it. The blood of Jesus is the covering that allows us to enter into the presence of a perfect and holy God. 

1 John 1:7 says, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin”. 

The tradition of applying blood is considered important to uphold. 

Blood sacrifice is a common practice in many African spiritual traditions, such as Vodu, to feed deities and ancestors. The practice is believed to release a vital force that sustains life, and to empower spirits and ancestors to work. Blood is also a spiritual currency, and some believe that the spirits in shrines feed on the life-blood of the animals sacrificed.

[koenji]

Boys at a Jewish school in Morocco. Photographer, location and time unknown.

Part of the exhibition "Juifs d'Orient" about the once diverse and deeply rooted Jewish communities of North Africa and South West Asia, now often described as "a vanished world". With increasing antisemitic sentiments, as well as violence and heavy state discrimination against Jewish minorities, including dispossession and forced withdrawal of citizenship, only few Jews remain in many of these countries today.

[hindahoney]

The only people who benefit when black people and jews are divided are white supremacists