#there are arab jews??

[lemedstudent2021]

you had me in the first half ngl

Turkiye isnt an Arab country, its not even a Muslim country; its been officially secular since 1928. get your facts right.

Today i learned what a Tefillin is, and i dont think anyone would care if someone decided to wear/ use it, its the equivalent of me pulling out a Quran and reading it; its not bothering anyone, hence it is totally safe. watch out for the bigots though! they are the threat, not the people going about their day or running errands.

Pretty sure there are plenty of Jews in new york and london and elsewhere who are proud of their religion and show it, just like there are many Muslims who do the same (like wearing the hijab despite the rampant islamophobia in the west). the world isnt safe regardless who you are and what you believe in lol

israel is a disgusting apartheid state built on stolen Palestinian land and bloodshed, i have no idea where you got the 'most tolerant country' rubbish from. 75 years of war and a 16 year seige doesnt sound very tolerant to me.

Black Jews are discriminated against in israel. israel doesnt even treat its citizens equally, what makes you think they treat Arabs and Muslims and Christians like equals??? dont even get me started on Palestinians. "a country where people of all religions feel safe" my gluteus maximus.

the Palestinian israeli conflict never was nor will it ever be between Jews and Arabs, or Jews and Muslims, or Jews and anyone else. israel for the millionth time is not synonymous with Judaism. this war is strictly geopolitical; nothing to do with religion. and zionism isnt Judaism either. a simple google search can attest to it.

do your homework and assigned reading before spouting nonsense online thank you and good night.

A true story from Jerusalem:

A few weeks ago, I was walking through a Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem.

An Arab deliveryman had parked his motorbike on a busy street. He layed out a mat on the sidewalk and began his prayers.

What happened next was shocking.

People started walking past and noticing him. They kept walking. Nobody bothered him. Not one comment, not one glare. 

This was in one of the most religious Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem.

This was during a war the media paint as a battle between Jews and Arabs.

And a Muslim man stops to practice his religion in public, completely confident in the knowledge that he's safe to do so.

Can you imagine a Jew in an Arab country? Would any Jew be safe to stop and put on tefillin in the middle of Turkey for example?

Jews are scared to show any signs of their religion even in cities like New York and London.

But Israel is different. Israel is one of the most tolerant countries in the world. A country where people of all religions feel safe.

SoVeryIsraeli

[nimrochan]

Arab-Israeli questioning why Israel is accused of being apartheid when his personal experiences show him otherwise.

[mysharona1987]

[kaminando-kon-buenos]

I don’t like making my own posts, but after waking up to the news that there was a pogrom in the Netherlands, I would just like to say this:

I am a North African Jew. Many would call me an “Arab Jew”, because I look like an Arab and I am treated like an Arab here in North America unless I’m wearing a kippah. My family was terrorized, murdered, and exiled from Libya in the 1960’s and we cannot return because they would kill us

White people may feel uncomfortable saying this, but I do not. Arab society has a problem with antisemitism that must be seen. Middle Eastern Jews have been talking about our experiences with Arab antisemitism for many decades and are constantly silenced. There is an undeniable, vitriolic, hatred of Jews that has been normalized in Arab society, and Arab extremists are now being emboldened to act on that hatred, not just in Arab countries but anywhere in the world

I don’t believe that Arabs are violent or dangerous by nature. They don’t hate Jews by default because they are Arab. This is not about individual Arab people, and individual Arab people should not be punished for problems in Arab countries or the antisemitic actions of other Arabs. This is about the antisemitism that is deeply ingrained in Arab society and culture

Individuals have the opportunity to choose whether or not they want to participate in this hatred. Yes, when you have grown up your whole life being told that Jews are your enemy and that it is good to fight them, it is much harder to make the choice to not act on this because it is all you know, but there are many who still choose peace with Jews. I have many Arab Muslim friends who have no problem being friends with a Jew. My family have many stories about Arab Muslim families trying to save Jews. I have had also many experiences with threats and intimidation and even assault by Arab Muslims because I was wearing a kippah or Magen David

My Arab friends who come to Shabbat dinner at my house and the Arab men who pushed me onto the ground and spat on me and called me a yahood are all equally Arab. The Arabs who call for peace and the Arabs who hunted down Jews in Amsterdam yesterday are all equally Arab. The difference is because my friends and the people calling for peace see Jews as human beings like them, whereas the people committing violence have allowed them to be swayed by Arab nationalist antisemitism

I always hold my tongue when I talk to white people about my experiences with Arab antisemitism or post about them because I know that many people will insist that you can’t criticize Arab extremists without being racist. YOU can’t criticize Arab extremists without being racist because you are a racist white person. I am a North African Jew with firsthand and familial experience with Arab antisemitism both in Libya and in the other places we have lived. I am tired of holding the burden of other people’s racism so I’m posting this without caring if it makes them mad. I’m not going to be responding to hateful responses. I will just block you, so don’t bother

[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

[weemietime]

[cluelessbees]

Reminder that almost no western country even recognised the State of Palestine

And yet, we’re supposed to believe they want a two state solution?

[a-s-fischer]

I just can't get over how much of a confession it is when somebody says, "I'm not antisemitic, Jews aren't even really a semitic people anyway".

What you're saying with that line of logic is that yep, you hate Jews. You just don't want to be called the word for people who hate Jews.

[mossadspypigeon]

if you believe all “colonizers” should be killed…i hate to tell you this, but arabs are not the indigenous population of the levant. they got there through, guess what, conquering and colonization. so what, by your logic, they should be killed?

i’m not saying it, nor is it my logic. however, a whole lot of you ARE saying it when it comes to groups you happen to hate, like jews, who are the indigenous population of israel and judea. it IS your logic. and why?

none of you even know who the actual colonizers are in this conflict. if you did, you would not be screaming for them to be murdered. you’re already claiming a war is a genocide.

please grow a fucking braincell.

[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.

[labelma]

I keep seeing a post going around saying that people should stop using the “colonized” names for cities in Israel/Palestine and should instead use the Arabic names.

I need you guys to be so for real right now, Hebrew is quite literally the indigenous language of the area. Like believe what you want about Israel, but Hebrew objectively and factually originated in that land. The earliest record of written Hebrew is the Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription, found near Beit Shemesh which dates back to the 11th-10th century BCE.

The first record of the name Jerusalem is in the Egyptian Execration Texts which date back to the 20th century BCE.

Arabic was introduced to the land in the 7th century CE. The first recorded use of “Al-Quds” was in the 9th century CE.

I could do this for every single ancient city in the land. Bethlehem, Hebron, Jericho, Jaffa, Beer Sheva, Acre, and Ashkelon all existed prior to the Arab conquests in the 7th century CE and the introduction of Arabic to the land.

The fact that we use the Hebrew names of these cities isn’t some conspiracy to make them sound “more Jewish”, the modern Hebrew names are direct descendants of the ancient Canaanite words for these places. Hebrew is the only surviving Canaanite language.

Believe what you want about Israel, but claiming that the Hebrew names for these cities are “colonial” names is a disgusting erasure of Jewish history in the land.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

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[eretzyisrael]

[kaminando-kon-buenos]

Jews were kicked out of Libya because they were overwhelmingly zionist and Libyans didn’t want genocide enablers living in their country. Nothing to do with antisemitism

You say that ‘Libyans’ didn’t want us living in ‘their’ country as though Libyan Jews were never Libyans and Libya was never our country. Perhaps you’re right, considering the Arab government of Libya denied us citizenship, stole our property, raided our homes, and allowed Arab Libyans to terrorize and murder us in the streets. That wasn’t happening to Arab Libyans, because apparently they are ‘real Libyans’ and we were not, right? If we weren’t ’real Libyans’ then what were we? If Libya was not ours, where was ours? You will not like the answer….

[leroibobo]

really do not think people understand the extent to which palestinian sites/landmarks (especially muslim ones) were destroyed, beginning in 1948 until now, even in cities. the oldest extant mosque in jaffa (al-bahr mosque) was built in 1675, even though islam came there in the 7th century

[stedesbonnets]

the irony of calling israel an enthostate while so many mena and muslim countries have made themselves actual enthostates by pushing every last jew out.......... also muslims, arabs, christians, and bedouin are very much Here