#jew are native to Israel

[stereotypicaljewishmother]

So when Jews have big noses were disgusting Eastern Europeans, but when a pretty pale Arab woman has a big nose she’s indigenous?

Antisemitism I’ll tell you that much.

@spot-the-antisemitism

[mavkarants]

Woke north Americans: Decolonize Canada! Decolonize America! Decolonize language! Decolonize law! Decolonize education! Decolonize blah blah blah!

Guys, you can't even handle Israel. A country made from a decolonization project. Trust me, you arent looking to really decolonize North America, you are just looking to sound good.

[girlactionfigure]

Native Americans show support for Jews and Israel.

Thank you!

[ace-hell]

Oh this makes me so fucking mad

So SO fucking mad

You mean israelites, hebrews ffs you mean CANAANITES

THERE WEREN'T PALESTINIANS 3,000 YEARS AGO

THERE WERE JEWISH KINGDOMS

If the tatreez originated 3,000 fucking years ago it makes it jewish, israelite. NOT palestinian

This horrendous cultural and historical erasure of a whole ass ethnic group is absolutely sickening

This accepted activity of rewriting and changing jewish history is so fucking disgusting

This is the kinda shit that makes it so hard for me to feel sympathy and accept the modern palestinian identity

ITS NORMAL FOR NEW IDENTITIES TO EMERGE AND BE BORN, BUT ITS NOT OK TO CHANGE HISTORY SO IT'LL LOOK LIKE YOU HAVE AN ANCIENT AND NATIVE IDENTITY!

I Just fucking hope for the sun to blow us all up soon ffs

[ne0n-and-garbage]

✡️✨JEWS ARE INDIGENOUS TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL. PASS IT ON. ✨✡️

[the-catboy-minyan]

"Jews are not native to Israel, they're colonizers!!!" ok, tell me then:

what does the word Judaism references? what's the meaning of the word diaspora, and and then where are diaspora Jews really from? when was Jerusalem built? what was the name of the region Israel and Palestine are on currently 3000 years ago? what is the "promised land" from the story of the exodus? where does the story of Chanukkah take place? what do people say during Jewish marriage ceremonies? what would DNA results show for ancestry of Jews who are not recent converts (ashkenazi, mizrahi, and Sephardi)? what do the 7 species represent? what were the major groups present in Palestine for the past 2000 years? where was Hebrew first developed as a language?

isn't even 1 of these enough for you to understand that Jews have a connection to the land? come ON.

[soxiyy]

“Ashkenazi Jews are white” i can’t even count how many times people have thought I’m Iranian.

[thegaycousin-upgrade]

My new year’s resolution is to stop arguing with antisemites who I know won’t listen because it wastes my energy and I don’t owe them anything.

[secular-jew]

Indigenous knows indigenous. We welcome First Nations people from around the world.

[spot-the-antisemitism]

FOUND ANOTHER ONE,

WHYYYYY

They repeating arafat's lies for convenience

[screamingfromuz]

the "decolonize Palestine" bullshit is just making this whole thing last longer. you are calling for ethnic cleansing of a native population. you are calling for a destruction of 4000 years of Jewish existence, and most importantly, you are spewing a narrative that leads to the death of thousands. "Decolonize Palestine from Jews" is a fucking bullshit lie.

you are supporting a fucking lie. Delegitimizing the Jewish connection to the land and changing fucking history is causing active harm.

YOU ARE LITERALLY ENCOURAGING AN ETHNIC CLEANSING OF JEWS IN THE GUISE OF OBJECTING AN ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS.

and for the fucking brain dead, the only fucking solution is not eradicating Palestinian presence or making millions of Jewish refugees, it is creating a place where both peoples get to live together in safety.

That piece of "Israel is just a European colonial settler imperialistic state that stole Palestine" bullshit is just that, bullshit. Palestine was never an independent state, the Palestinians never had a fucking state, get it through your fucking mind. Should they get a state? SURE! did they refuse one again and again because the idea that Jews will have their state was considered unreasonable?

YES!

Did Jordan an Egypt prevented Palestine from becoming by annexing land between 1948-1967?

ALSO YES!

is there a fucking imbalance?

YES

are the Palestinians just innocent victims of the big bad Zionists?

NO!

Palestinians are part of this story, and if they will not take accountability for their behavior in the last 106 years, nothing will be solved!

the only fucking solution is for both sides to take accountability! AND I MEAN IT!

This is not a fucking colonizer vs. colonized situation! this is two natives fighting over who gets to live in the fucking house!

NON OF IT IS FUCKING OK!

[matan4il]

Hello. This is a rather mundane question considering all the things, but I got curious. Does Hebrew have accents? How do they vary in and out of Israel?

I understand if you choose not to reply as this is a difficult time for you. In any case, take care🩷🩷🩷

Hi Nonnie! No, don't worry, all questions that are truly interested in Jewish culture are welcome! ^u^

TBH, something to remember about Hebrew is that it has quite a unique history. To the best of my knowledge, it is the only language that was used on a daily basis as the lived in language of a native population, then "died" as a result of Jews being exiled. As they found themselves in other countries, they had to speak the local language. They didn't abandon Hebrew, but it stopped being the langauge in which they lived their daily lives. Hebrew became the language of prayer, of scripture study, and terms from it bled into the local languages Jews spoke, creating Jewish versions of these languages (Yiddish being the Jewish version of German, Ladino being the Jewish version of Spanish, Yevanik being the Jewish version of Greek, and there are also Jewish versions of Arabic and other languages, too), so Hebrew still had an impact on Jews, and they were still connected to it... but it was no longer a "living" language. It was closer to what Latin is today. A language in which religious ceremonies are conducted, that theologians study, but not a language that anyone conducts their daily life in.

Then, as a part of the project of reclaiming and reviving the Jewish native life in Israel that came to be known as Zionism, people set out to revive our native language, too. There was a realization that it had to be adapted to modern life, give it terms for things that didn't exist 2,000 years ago, so it would be useful for people who wanted to conduct their daily lives in Hebrew again. And that's how the last of the Canaanite languages became the only "dead" language to be revived, and return to be the lived in language of its native people.

I mention this unique history, because modern Hebrew isn't the same as biblical Hebrew (though about 60% of modern Hebrew IS biblical). It means if there were different Hebrew accents during biblical times, we don't know it for sure.

At the same time, the fact that Jews were spread out in the diaspora, and their pronunciation of Hebrew (as a dead language) came to be influenced by the local languages they spoke while in exile. So a Jew who returned to Israel from the diaspora in Germany, a Jew who returned to Israel from the diaspora in Argentina, and a Jew who returned to Israel from the diaspora in Yemen do not have the same accent when speaking Hebrew.

But these are not considered regional accents of Hebrew in the same way that you can find different regional accents of English when traveling across England... If we put aside the accents of Jews returning to Israel, and instead we look at the accents of Jews born in Israel, the ones born into speaking modern Hebrew, there's a myth of a Jerusalem accent. I say myth, because you'll hear all over Israel people swearing, that Jerusalemites pronounce a few words differently. The most common example is the word 'mataim' (which means two hundred), and many Israelis insist Jerusalemites pronounce it ma'ataim, with the first vowel prolonged and emphasized. I have lived in Jerusalem since 2002 and I have never heard it. I think in this sense, regional accents are usually, at least in part, a product of geography. It determines how far apart people live, how much they interact, how much they hear others speaking the same language as they do. The smaller a country, and the easier travel in it is, the fewer accents it's likely to produce. And I think that's the main reason why there aren't really accents in Israel (other than those of people who came to speak Hebrew as a second language), because it's a very small country, and because today, it's pretty easy to travel in it (you can cross it from the most northern point to the most southern one in slightly over 5 hours).

I hope that kind of answers it? Thank you for the kind words, I hope you're well, too! xoxox

[slyandthefamilybook]

me when I'm the dumbest motherfucker alive

[ace-hell]

JUST WITNESSED THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD

This is amazing lol. If the land name was changed by colonizers then that means its the native name and a real identity 🤔💀

[ne0n-and-garbage]

Friendly reminder that JEWS ARE INDIGENOUS TO ISRAEL. GET OVER IT. Shove that between your fucking river and sea.

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

I really appreciate your blog.

Your normal about gerim, right? I've seen people use us as a reason to deny Jewish indigeneity, completely ignoring that many if not most Indigenous peoples had practices of "adopting" people into their culture/religion/community before colonialism- the only difference is that instead of getting rid of the practice we just formalized it.

Ilysm <3

This is the second ask I’ve gotten about gerim, which is funny because my dad is one.

Whoever uses gerim as an excuse to delegitimize Jews in any way doesn’t know anything about Judaism. Or indigeneity. Or much about religious and cultural developments throughout history at all really.

If conversion somehow made the Jewish people and Jewish heritage and history less legitimate, Halacha wouldn’t allow it. If hundreds of years of rabbis can be “normal” about gerim, random uneducated goyim on the internet can be too.