#palestinian ingredients

[claraameliapond]

Cultural Appropriation in Settler colonialism is nothing new, reaching into every facet of a country's identity and globally rebranding it as their own, to steal a history and an identity in an attempt to delegitamise native peoples, culture, history and community, erase their connection to their own land and violently assert the coloniser as 'authentic'.

Even in crops, produce and food, ingredients and recipes are stolen from Palestine and rebranded as 'Israeli' , in yet another blatant attempt to erase Palestinian culture, history and people and their true historical connection to their own land.

A country's food is its identity. Its history. Its connnection to land. All the things violent settler colonies like Israel wish to erase by ursurping. But it is not their history. It is not their identity. It is not their land. Zionists are historically European.

Do not let Israel erase Palestinian identity by staying silent about their cultural identity theft. Google Palestinan cuisine specifically, correct anyone anywhere and everywhere calling it Israeli. That is not their food. That is not their culture. That is not their History. That is Not their Land.

Israel has never been and is still not a peaceful immigrant population. They are genocidal thieves who wish to legitimise themselves and claim stolen land that has always belonged to other people by erasing the original native population, their culture, history and identity.

[llycaons]

I just realized I never made a post about it, but for the global strike I am

keeping my socmed posts focused on Palestine

refraining from all shopping as possible

not working

buying eSims for Gaza

paying even more attention to the news of the genocide

reading more about the history of the Nakba and Palestinian culture

[dullanyan]

Love when people making recipes have a very different definition of simple/easy.

You, a professional, may find it easy, but you straight up told me to cut up 6 onions. This is no longer easy and is now a trial of wits.

[hazemfromgaza]

‏, I am Hazem and these two children, my nephews and sisters, "Majdi and Essam, their condition, and all Gaza families are very difficult, they have no ingredients for life, no medicine, no food, no health, no education, nothing but death, destruction and hunger. I appeal to all those who see my campaign to stand by my family, whether by donating or sharing the story with your friends to collect an amount that helps my family get out of Gaza safely, this video before the attack on Rafah 💔🍉😔😔😔

10£ may seem small

But ‏ your contribution helps save the life of an entire family suffering from the threat of genocide, repeated bombing, and displacement in Gaza. Hand in hand, we put hope and a smile back on my family’s face Please donate now 🙏

[justsomeunsurefancat]

The Palestinian Hamza Abu Toha from the north of Gaza : “My wife just gave birth to our son, Ali, and I wanted to bring her a gift of appreciation. I spent five days looking for meat in the North of Gaza, and some rice. The ingredients that you see in this photo cost me $95 $70 for the meat, and $25 for the rice. This type of food became luxurious gifts for our loved ones.“

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[najia-cooks]

[ID: A decorative orange ceramic plate with a pyramid of green herbs and sesame seeds, topped with deep red sumac and more sesame seeds. End ID]

زعتر فلسطيني / Za'tar falastinia (Palestinian spice blend)

Za'tar (زَعْتَر; also transliterated "za'atar," "zaatar" and "zatar") is the name of a family of culinary herbs; it is also the name of a group of spice blends made by mixing these herbs with varying amounts of olive oil, sumac, salt, roasted sesame seeds, and other spices. Palestinian versions of za'tar often include caraway, aniseed, and roasted wheat alongside generous portions of sumac and sesame seeds. The resulting blend is bold, zesty, and aromatic, with a hint of floral sourness from the sumac, and notes of licorice and anise.

Za'tar is considered by Palestinians to have particular national, political, and personal importance, and exists as a symbol of both Israeli oppression and Palestinian home-making and resistance. Its major components, olive oil and wild thyme, are targeted by the settler state in large part due to their importance to ecology, identity, and trade in Palestine—settlers burn and raze Palestinian farmers' olive trees by the thousands each year. A 1977 Israeli law forbade the harvesting of wild herbs within its claimed borders, with violators of the law risking fines and confiscation, injury, and even death from shootings or land mines; in 2006, za'tar was further restricted, such that even its possession in the West Bank was met with confiscation and fines.

Despite the blanket ban on harvesting wild herbs (none of which are endangered), Arabs are the only ones to be charged and fined for the crime. Samir Naamnih calls the ban an attempt to "starve us out," given that foraging is a major source of food for many Palestinians, and that picking and selling herbs is often the sole form of income for impoverished families. Meanwhile, Israeli farmers have domesticated and farmed za'tar on expropriated Palestinian land, selling it (both the herb and the spice mixture) back to Palestinians, and later marketing it abroad as an "Israeli" blend; they thus profit from the ban on wild harvesting of the herb. This farming model, as well as the double standard regarding harvesting, refer back to an idea that Arabs are a primitive people unfit to own the land, because they did not cultivate or develop it as the settlers did (i.e., did not attempt to recreate a European landscape or European models of agriculture); colonizing and settling the land are cast as justified, and even righteous.

The importance of the ban on foraging goes beyond the economic. Raya Ziada, founder of an acroecology nonprofit based in Ramallah, noted in 2019 that "taking away access to [wild herbs] doesn't just debilitate our economy and compromise what we eat. It's symbolic." Za'tar serves variously as a symbol of Palestinians' connection to the land and to nature; of Israeli colonial dispossession and theft; of the Palestinian home ("It’s a sign of a Palestinian home that has za’tar in it"); and of resistance to the colonial regime, as many Palestinians have continued to forage herbs such as za'tar and akkoub in the decades since the 1977 ban. Resistance to oppression will continue as long as there is oppression.

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Ingredients:

Za'tar (Origanum syriacum), 250g once dried (about 4 cups packed)

250g (1 2/3 cup) sesame seeds

170g (3/4 cup) Levantine sumac berries, or ground sumac (Rhus coriaria)

100g (1/2 cup) wheat berries (optional)

2 Tbsp olive oil

1 Tbsp aniseed (optional)

1/2 Tbsp caraway seeds (optional)

Levantine wild thyme (also known as Bible hyssop, Syrian oregano, and Lebanese oregano) may be purchased dried online. You may also be able to find some dried at a halal grocery store, where it will be labelled "زعتر" (za'tar) and "thym," "thyme," or "oregano." Check to make sure that what you're buying is just the herb and not the prepared mixture, which is also called "زعتر." Also ensure that what you're buying is not a product of Israel.

If you don't have access to Levantine thyme, Greek or Turkish oregano are good substitutes.

Wheat berries are the wheat kernel that is ground to produce flour. They may be available sold as "wheat berries" at a speciality health foods store. They may be omitted, or replaced with pre-ground whole wheat flour.

Instructions:

1. Harvest wild thyme and remove the stems from the leaves. Wash the leaves in a large bowl of water and pat dry; leave in a single layer in the sun for four days or so, until brittle. Skip this step if using pre-dried herbs.

2. Crumble leaves by rubbing them between the palms of your hands until they are very fine. Pass through a sieve or flour sifter into a large bowl, re-crumbling any leaves that are too coarse to get through.

Crumbling between the hands is an older method. You may also use a blender or food processor to grind the leaves.

3. Mix the sifted thyme with a drizzle of olive oil and work it between your hands until incorporated.

4. Briefly toast sumac berries, caraway seeds, and aniseed in a dry skillet over medium heat, then grind them to a fine powder in a mortar and pestle or a spice mill.

5. Toast sesame seeds in a dry skillet over medium heat, stirring constantly, until deeply golden brown.

6. (Optional) In a dry skillet on medium-low, toast wheat berries, stirring constantly, until they are deeply golden brown. Grind to a fine powder in a spice mill. If using ground flour, toast on low, stirring constantly, until browned.

Some people in the Levant bring their wheat to a local mill to be ground after toasting, as it produces a finer and more consistent texture.

7. Mix all ingredients together and work between your hands to incorporate.

Store za'tar in an airtight jar at room temperature. Mix with olive oil and use as a dipping sauce with bread.

[littlestpersimmon]

When ppl talk about the "banality of evil" its often about how boring the system that upholds imperialism is, but it's also how evil is commonplace, an ingredient to the cement that builds the foundation of the imperial core. You read about what the IOF is doing to Palestinians and yet fail to realize that American soldiers were doing the same things in the Philippines in 1902 during the american occupation, which is still not recognized as a genocide to this day. You think about Congo today but don't realize that a hundred years ago within the same land, the king of Belgium would cut off the hands of natives if they didn't collect and extract enough rubber, and its not much different when you replace"rubber" with "cobalt", "Belgian king" with "American oligarch".. the world immediately, utterly feels godless. One war seamlessly transitioning into another. How can there be so much grief for something as ordinary as a component to something I am literally holding in my hands right now. How can you make sense of that.

In the Philippines, there is a legend that says that the sturdiest, strongest buildings are constructed using the blood of a thousand children. The most prominent structure to remember this legend by, was a bridge called "Tulay ng San Juanico", built by none other than Philippine Dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who is renowned to this day by his record of unfathomable human rights abuse. San Juanico Bridge stands, used for commute in the daily lives of filipino civilians under the shadow of the empire, in an all consuming, impenetrable and unbearable mundanity. You can find 20, 45, a hundred, a million people who are kind, but at the same time I think about how so many of these kind people walk this earth without thought or personal responsibility, completely and totally unwilling to lose an iota of comfort and convenience, without once stopping to think, what do they owe the next coming generation, the ones that are still here, and the ones nameless and buried in this world's wreckage, in the necessity of its evil.

[xclowniex]

It is still wild to me that people will claim that "Israel is stealing palestinian food/cusine and calling it Israeli"

Cause like, most countries have food taken from other cultures as part of their cusine.

Like i don't see anyone yellings at New Zealand for eating fish and chips and calling it a Kiwi Classic even though it originated in Portugal. Suprised that I didn't say Britian? Yeah that because it didn't orignate in Britian despite most people thinking it did.

The reason why there is so much middle eastern cuisine in Israel which is considered Israeli cusine is because A) Mizrahim literally were forced out of the middle eastern countries they resided in by the government of said middle eastern countries and were forced to go to Israel and took their food and cooking with them, B) Israel isn't made up of only jews, C) a lot of palestinian cuisine are foods which did not originate in Palestine and instead come from other middle east countries (which is valid and still palestinian cuisine) and D) its almost like countries also use ingredients that are around them in their cooking and don't only eat imported food.

Like Manuka is used in NZ as its native to here. Its wood chips are used to smoke meat and you get manuka honey from bees making honey from manuka pollen.

If Palestine gets to have food which did not originate in Palestine be labeled as Palestinian cusine, then so does Israel. Either all countries can have food which didn't orignate from that country as their cusine or no country can. Israel should not be the exception.

[sugarmarbles21]

Finally!🎉

The day that Netanyahu has been dreading is coming soon: his incarceration day! If we ever get the chance, let’s send a bunch of party stuff and ingredients for cakes to the Palestinians because they definitely deserve to celebrate this!

Also, I know everyone here, including myself, wants the icc to put arrest warrants on everybody who is complicit in these killings, but they can only do so much, so they target the people on top while those below is dealt with by the local authorities and in this case it’s the state of Palestine and the state of Israel, but with our luck, it’s the Israeli who gets to decide what to do with the IDF, which is nothing.

Anyway, Netanyahu is going to prison! And the Hamas leaders too, I guess. I am not terribly sad about that, honestly. I just think that the Palestinians rather want someone who isn’t a war criminal in charge, that’s all.

[butchsophiewalten]

03/03/2024 Twitter Space Recap (1/2)

Martin & Kyle did a twitter space (with a late appearance of Eva) in the earliest hours of the day on the 3rd, here's a recap of what they talked about then:

-Kyle brings up that he wants to do a charity stream for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund! He says Him, Martin, Coral, and Eva would be there playing Lethal Company. He says he plans to do this "sometime this month".

-Martin describes the 'Walten Dog Saga', saying that first the family got Carlitos, who was Sophie's dog, and everybody loved him, but then one day in 1968, they're playing and then Carlitos gets run over. And it's so tragic that they're like, 'no more dogs!', until one day in 1973 Jack runs into this homeless street dog and brings him home, and names him Jaimito, and they have him for a few months before he bites Edd's arm and "almost gives him rabies", so Jack just gives the dog to Susan, and the one week that she has this dog is like the worst week of her life. He pees everywhere, he tears up her furniture, and after a week of that he just peacefully dies while Susan is out of the house.

-Martin says that aspects of episode 5 are inspired by some of the leaked stuff he's seen from Joker 2. "It's a very fairy-tale, unreliable narrator kind of episode."

-Martin spitballs his "perfect idea for a Walten Files game", a PS1-style game where you work as a Bon's Burger's employee, "in the kitchen at 3am making burgers", fixing up orders to be delivered (by another employee, I'm assuming? He mentions 'a guy with a motorcycle', so I think this is what he means. Like pizza delivery.) He talks about how the supply closet would be on the other side of the restaurant, so whenever you run out of ingredients you'd have to walk all the way over there and back in the dark. He says it'd be really funny if there wasn't even anything supernatural in it.

-Martin talks about how it really bothers him when people say or imply that, because The Walten Files takes place in the time period it does, it would be more accurate or make more sense for his characters to be bigoted. He brings up a specific instance where someone asked him how the other BSI employees would treat Chris. "The point that this person was making is that it would make sense for the team to be racist, and I was like 'No, it doesn't make sense! That shouldn't happen, it shouldn't be a thing!'" He goes on to say... "And then it was shit like, [mockingly] 'Why are Sophie and Jenny a couple if it was the 1980s?' and it's like, gay people existed in the 1980s!"

"It's just like, just because something was the thing back then, doesn't mean the characters should do a very bad and harmful thing, y'know? It's a really stupid mindset, in my opinion."

-Kyle talks about this genuinely really funny Showstoppers Halloween special idea he had a long time ago, where the Showstoppers are really excited for the holiday, but for some reason Bon has never heard of Halloween before, and the other Showstoppers have to explain it to him, telling him about costumes and trick-or-treating and everything. And it culminates with them going up to somebody's doorstep to trick-or-treat, and all the Showstoppers are telling Bon that he should go first since he's the newbie, and when he knocks on the door some lady answers, going "Hello! How are-" and then she looks up in horror. And the shot reverses to show like a full, "hyper-realistic" Scary Animatronic Bon looming over to her, with a Text-To-Speech voice going "Trick.... Or.... Treat."

-Martin talks about his own funny showstoppers idea, where Bon, for some inexplicable reason, has the feeling that he is dying. and he spends the whole episode trying to make amends with people and be nice to his friends, like 'I don't hate you, Banny, I really care about you,' 'Boozoo, you can have Bon's Burgers when I'm gone, because you're my friend and I trust you,' etc. And at the end of the episode you find out he just had a tummy ache, and he was being really dramatic about it.

-After some related banter, Martin jokes that it'd be funny if Jack was at a table eating with the rest of the 'Bunny Smiles family', and out of the blue he goes, like, 'I've got a tummy ache! :(' in a really high-pitched voice. Eva, who had joined the space a while earlier, jokes that his normal voice is just him faking it, and the high-pitched voice is what he actually sounds like.

-They talk about various Godzilla movies for a while, and Martin brings up how he really enjoyed the way Minus One managed to connect the narrative between its human and its monster characters, and how that's something he thinks a lot of other monster movies and horror films fail to do.

"Y'know, it's funny, because when I wrote The Walten Files, I always had the idea that like, there are two parts of the story? Part one, which is like, the human drama, and Edd and Molly, and the crash. And then part two, which has more to do with the animatronics and the place itself. And you have this feeling where there's going to be a moment where those two parts connect and link to each other, and I think that's something you gotta have in, like, horror movies, where- it- you can't just like, make up characters, and just put them in the existing world and have them exist, and then just sit around waiting for the killer to appear, y'know?"

-Eva brings up an incident that's been happening in the Walten Files community on Twitter, where some people have been getting some flack over headcanoning members of The Showstoppers as Black. Martin gets really incensed talked about how much this bothers him, saying "I saw that, it's so fucking stupid. If you- It's just common sense! If you look at someone going 'Hey, I think this character would be Black, I headcanon this character as black,' and you go, like 'I'm not comfortable with that,' what the fuck do you mean? How? That's so weird! And that's what I'm saying, it's like, how does it effect the story in any way that would be negative to you? Like, the only way you would be against that, is if you were like, racist. And it's like, huh? And I think, a lot of people bring up the argument that, 'Ah, but this character is clearly intended to be White,' and it's like, who cares! Who gives a shit? Like, that's not, like a valid argument to go against someone for doing something like that. It would be very different if, for example, someone looked at Chris and went, like, 'What if he was White?', it's very different. The context of that is very different, than just headcanoning a character as Black, y'know? That's completely fine and normal. Why would you be against that, that's so weird."

"I find it even funnier, because, from what it looked like, it was because someone said they headcanon Sha as Black, and it's like, that makes so much sense! I mean, like, I think that if Sha had a human design, she'd definitely not- she wouldn't be white... again, if you're against headcanons like that, you- you're not welcome here."

-"We end this stream saying these few words: Headcanoning characters as people of color is great, supporting Palestine is great, uh, being a Zionist is Bad! Being a racist is bad! And if you like Godzilla: I will give you a kiss on the head. Muah!"

___ They ended up holding another Space much later the same day, which I've decided to cover in a separate post, because it's twice as long as this one, and a lot more of the conversation in it was Walten Files-Centric, so the recap will take way longer to write.

[chilewithcarnage]

that tiktok I just reblogged of the man making a huge amount of smash burgers to give away made me tear up low key. I really love food and cooking as an expression of love. the time it takes to prepare, the sheer exorbitant amount it more than likely cost to obtain fresh clean food and ingredients amongst abject scarcity, the danger to find said ingredients as we’ve seen from the specific targeting of people searching for food by the ruthless, cruel iof killers. i love you Palestinian men. The amount of love, resilience, and sacrifice you all display everyday for your loved ones, your people and your country. we will never stop caring for you as you care for others, we will not rest until the israeli regime is no more and every last one of you is safe in your homes and cooking meals in your kitchens once again.

[nagdabbit]

What's your new favourite recipe?

(And an answer: I just made a fucking awesome chicken stock into chicken soup. It has bowtie pasta and a metric fuckton of garlic, and a homemade spice blend of turmeric, paprika, oregano, and fresh parsley.)

I wouldn't call it "new" so much as it's been constant since we moved since we can get the ingredients pretty cheap and it's hearty and nourishing! Spinach and Chickpea Stew from The Palestinian Table by Reem Kassis, which I HIGHLY recommend, both politically and for how goddamn fuckin GOOD Palestinian food is

It's one of my favorite recipes from the books

(Oh hell yeah, that sounds GOOD!)

[grecoromanyaoi]

Savta Michaela's potato kugel (Passover Kosher)

my grandma passed away last october, so i wanted to share her potato kugel recipe! our ethnic backround is. um. we're jewish, that's for sure, ashkenazi jews. my family immigrated to palestine in the 18-19th centuries from what was then russia. so our cultural practices are interesting, a mix of traditional ashkenazi with palestinian and middle eastern sephardic influences. for example my family generally ate kugel, as well as gefilte fish, with tahini. it's apparently pretty good (i dont eat fish so i wouldn't know). however, sesame is chametz so its not passover kosher :(

ingredients:

5-6 potatoes, preferably red. sliced into thin slices, either by hand or by machine

5-6 eggs

matzah flour

salt

pepper

oil (any type)

preparation:

- it's preferable you use a pot you can also put in the oven

- boil 3-4 cm (~1-1.5 inch) of oil in said pot

- add all the ingredients and mix.

- cover and leave for 10-15 minutes on medium-high flame

- remove all the leftover extra oil from the pot

- move to an oven which has been preheated to 200c (390f) for 10 minutes, uncovered

- lower the heat to 175c (350f) and bake for another 30 minutes

- take out of the oven when it reaches a brown color.

[najia-cooks]

فول مدمس فلسطيني / Ful mudammas falastini (Palestinian fava bean dish)

Fūl mudammas is a dish of boiled and mashed fava beans often flavored with spices, aromatics, herbs, and vegetables. It is commonly considered to have originated in Egypt before spreading throughout North Africa, the horn of Africa, and the Levant.

Ful is most typically eaten as a breakfast food with bread and raw vegetables, but may also be eaten for dinner. Parsley, mint, garlic, and lemon juice add freshness and zest to the base of hearty, earthy beans. Palestinian versions of the dish are often topped with a spicy دقة ("dugga") of chili pepper, lemon juice, and garlic.

Some researchers consider fava beans to be one of the "founder crops" of the Southwest Asia. A pile of about 2,600 charred fava beans (Vicia faba) discovered in a Neolithic site in Palestine suggests that fava beans were cultivated in the Lower Galilee about 6500 to 6000 B.C.E. The wild progenitor of these cultivated beans is still unknown.

فُول ("fūl") is likely, like many Arabic words, a borrowing from the Aramaic, in which פולא ("pōlā") means "fava bean." The Arabic would then yield the Coptic "ⲫⲉⲗ" ("phel"), "bean".

مُدَمَّس ("mudammas") is probably from مُ ("mu"), verb prefix, + د م س (d m s), a verb root related to hiding, burying, and storing. This may refer to a cooking method commonly used in rural areas of North Africa and West Asia: namely, burying an earthen pot containing beans or lentils and water alongside hot embers and leaving it for several hours, or overnight.

Notes:

The Coptic romanization scheme used is LOC (Library of Congress) 2014.

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Ingredients:

For the dish:

100g dried fava beans, soaked overnight

4 cloves garlic, grated or pounded

Juice of 1 lemon

2 Tbsp tahina (tahini)

1 tsp table salt, or to taste

1/2 tsp cumin

2 Tbsp good olive oil

Parsley, mint, or tomato, to top

For the dressing:

1/4 green bell pepper

1 green chili pepper

1 clove garlic

Juice of 1 lemon

Salt to taste

Instructions:

For the dish:

Cook fava beans in enough water to cover for about an hour, until very soft and breaking apart.

Mash beans, in their cooking water, to desired texture.

Mix in other ingredients.

For the dressing:

Combine all ingredients in a mortar and pestle, or blender, and process to desired texture.

To assemble:

Spread ful in a plate or bowl. Top with dressing, parsley, mint, or tomato, as desired. Serve warm or cold with khubiz al-kmaj, olives, green onion, and/or pickles.

[therewasabrowncrow]

The British Poem

Take some Picts, Celts and Silures And let them settle, Then overrun them with Roman conquerors. Remove the Romans after approximately 400 years Add lots of Norman French to some Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings, then stir vigorously. Mix some hot Chileans, cool Jamaicans, Dominicans, Trinidadians and Bajans with some Ethiopians, Chinese, Vietnamese and Sudanese. Then take a blend of Somalians, Sri Lankans, Nigerians And Pakistanis, Combine with some Guyanese And turn up the heat. Sprinkle some fresh Indians, Malaysians, Bosnians, Iraqis and Bangladeshis together with some Afghans, Spanish, Turkish, Kurdish, Japanese And Palestinians Then add to the melting pot. Leave the ingredients to simmer. As they mix and blend allow their languages to flourish Binding them together with English. Allow time to be cool. Add some unity, understanding, and respect for the future, Serve with justice And enjoy. Note: All the ingredients are equally important. Treating one ingredient better than another will leave a bitter unpleasant taste. Warning: An unequal spread of justice will damage the people and cause pain. Give justice and equality to all.

Benjamin Zephaniah

RIP 🕊️

[xclowniex]

I think that the current trope that is going around of "Jews steal food (recipes)" is absoltely bonkers.

Like don't get me wrong, food can be colonized. Like do y'all remember that viral recipe that went around last year where a white women called Oi Kimchi "spicy pickled cucumbers" and that she invented it when it was actually invented in Korea before her grandparents were even a thought?

That is an example of food colonization/stealing recipes.

What is not food colonization or stealing recipes is jews consuming food that is also eaten in palestine.

There are 3 foods which I hear this about the most. Falafel, Shashuka and Donar Kebabs. The thing is, none of those dishes are uniquely Palestinian.

Most theories place Falafel as originating in Egypt. Donor Kebabs comes from Bursa (modern day city in Turkye) under Ottoman rule Shashuka comes from Tusnia.

None of those countries are Palestine.

Below are two less common foods that Israeli chefs get accused of stealing recipes from Palestine for making or using.

Hummus - First recorded in Syria Sumac - Native to Iran but used in the middle east and northern africa.

If other arab countries can cook food and use ingrediants from other arab countries, why are Israeli's and Jews not allowed to?

Southern Levant was occupied by Jewish nations from 1047 BC until 587 BC. No one singular Jewish nation occipied the whole of Southern Levant for the entirety of that as at one point there were multiple Jewish nations in Southern Levant. However for that time period, either one or more Jewish nations occupied the land. Do you expect that jews never used the native flora and fauna in their cooking?

Another thing is that arab jews exist. They have brought their cusine to Israel as well. Are Iranian Jews who are ethnically Iranian from Iran stealing recipes from Iran?

If Palestinians can lay claim to those foods being Palestinian cusine instead of the countries of their respective origins, why can't Israel?

The matter of the fact is, by anti-zionists defitions of stealing food/recipes, most arab countries have stolen food from other countries. Most countries across the globe have done that.

The idea that Israel is the only country in the middle east which steals food and recipes, is antisemetic. Either all countries in Levant can lay claim to recipes orignates in the Levant region, or only the countries where food originated from can lay claim. There cannot be an execption for only jews.

Claiming that jews cannot make certain food was a tactic used in our oppression. Thats how bagels exist. In Poland, for a period of time jews were not allowed to bake raw bread as it was seen as appropriating Christianity and Jews baking bread was unholy. Bagels were boiled first and then baked to get around that.

It is bonkers that we are starting to see old antisemetic tactics starting to resurface and become popularized

Ps: If you want to make a recipe that originated in Palestine, I reccomend Musakhan as it is very delicious. Recipe from a Palestinian cook here