More propaganda slop from the slop mill. Please, genetically define the "Arabs" and the "Jews". "Cultural traditions" are menaingless for a "tribal" people with a "blood" claim to their race/heritage/ethnicity/whatever else it needs to be at the moment. After all, without a scientifically agreed upon definition of terms, no discussion can be had. Define "Jew".
I have now received my DNA test kit! I hope I have some Jewish ancestry. I am a child of God, but I would love to be linked, somehow physically to His chosen people. As a devout Christian, I am linked spiritually in Jesus.
what a load of sophistry and propoganda "Nazi ideology spread to the Middle East, they found themselves facing violent attacks from their once peaceful neighbors. "...what you really mean when european zionist supremacists came to the Middle East in the late 19th cent to early 2oth century and when this european proto-fascist settlerist movement tried to change the landscape of jewish arabs...such a propaganda and garbage TH-cam channel. shame on you all.
I’m an Iraqi Muslim, and recently took a DNA test to find that I am 11% Mizrahi Jewish! How awesome. My parents took the test too, and they both have Jewish ancestry, even more than me ! 15% for my dad and 12% for my mum
The ancestors of the Ashkenazi's were Mizrahi before they first arrived in Europe, but IMO, since they were young men and escaped Roman persecution with just the clothes on their backs, they were forced to take local White European women as wives to birth their Jewish sons. And the rest is history.
@@BORN-to-Run LOLL NO M'AM DNA SHOWS THEY INVADED CANAAN THEY BARELY HAVE LEVANT DNA AND IT WAS BY FORCE IT'S NOT YOUR ANCESTORS E-V13/E-M123 IS EUROPEAN 40% OF ALBANIANS IN KOSOVO HAVE IT 20% OF SARDINIIANS 30% OF GREEKS AND SO ON E-M123 originated some 19,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age and have a mostly European distribution today and their ages point toward a Neolithic diffusion.The descendants of L791, Y2947 and Y4971, only appeared around 3500 BCE, during the Late Neolithic or Chalcolithic period. The K257 and Y4970 branch emerged around 3000 BCE and is found in Iran, Armenia, Turkey, Russia, Greece, Italy and France, among others. It might be linked to the expansion of the Kura-Araxes culture from the southern Caucasus to Anatolia and Iran. It would then have spread to Greece and Italy alongside haplogroup J2a1 and T1a-P77. Y6923 also emerged around 3500 BCE. Modern carriers of this lineage descend from a common ancestor who lived only 1,200 years ago, and all are European Hebrews.
I liked this video. I am 50/50 Ashkenazi and Yemenite, but I have to say that my family's story in Israel, the Yemenite side, began almost half a century before the modern state was created. My grandparents arrived in the area near Neve Tzedek around 1900. They were citizens of the Ottoman Empire and had lived in Yemen, then Alexandria, before arriving in Palestine. They never lived in Ma'abarot. But they were very poor and my grandmother and aunts worked washing clothes and cleaning houses for European Jews.
@@mulanho2993 Yes, we know it. The Jewish Diasporah in Yemen was created by the Babylonians who Exiled Judeans (Jews) to the Arabian Peninsula over 3000 years ago. This is the oldest Jewish diaspora. Yemeni Jews lived with Arabs for over 1000 years before Islam and remained there till the modern era of the past 200+ years. As I mentioned in a previous comment, it is an interesting case study to see why some Israelites got Lost and others didn't. The Yemenite Jews did not return to the Second Temple, why, how did they stay Jews? Many of the people identifying as Arabs today have Jewish Roots; That's what being LOST ISRAELITE means; so what's the difference.
Himyar not Jews but converted to Judaism, same with Turkic Jewish. 70% of Israel are from Middle-eastern jews, more than half, its mean if arab, turkic, iranian and northern african wipeout jews, i dont think israel can exist. because the population of jews are small.
The Jews of the Middle East especially in Iran have been there for more than 2500 years when the Persian king freed the Israelites from Babylon and offered them to either stay in Iranian territories or to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. Mysrahi Jews aren’t only those exiled by the Romans.
@@UmQasaann Who told you that Iranian Jews oppose Israel? The 5000 or so Jews left in Iran since the revolution have to tow the line while living in the overtly anti semitic and fanatically anti Israel regime in order to be able to live in semi peace while being considered guests of the islamic state! Your comment is based on wrong information.
My family is half Ashkenazi half Mizrachi (Iraqis) and I can tell you firsthand no one sees the other as anything other than Jews who had different experiences in the diaspora. No one thinks they are more Jewish than the other and no one thinks about who has lighter or darker skin. And most importantly none of the Mizrachi Jews ever thought of themselves as Arabs. Ever.
Some considered themselves jewish and there are some who still do..arab is not a bad thing if some jews want to consider themselves arabs then leave them alone..
@@mercyjames2639 it’s like a Japanese person calling himself Chinese. Jews are not Arabs by definition. I don’t care what any individual wants to do but I’ve never encountered any Jews who call themselves Arab.
I knew an Ashkenazi community that definitely preferred their children marry Ashkenazi...not saying the opposite doesn't exist but there is definitely discrimination
@@travelingva there isn’t “discrimination” - for generations communities married within their communities because of their customs. Ask any Syrian Jew how they feel about marrying outside Syrian Jews or Persian Jews… this ridiculous and false notion that Ashkenazim discriminated against other communities is absolute nonsense.
@@rocksteadyjew this isn't a binary issue...I didn't say all and I didn't say the groups thought less of eachother but there are definitely differences and there is definitely a desire for children to mary within their own denomination ...that being said there are probably millions that don't care. I found the more religiously adherent the more it might influence relations but definitely these groups are not necessarily negative towards eachother ...although I understand the ultra orthodox to be at odds with many of the other groups that are less conservative
This is the first doco I've ever heard mention anything about Jews in North Africa under Nazi occupation.I had never give it a thought myself until now.This is something I'll do some research on thats for sure!
It was France under the Vichy regime which collaborated with the Nazis by turning hostile to all Jews under its rule, i.e., French and Algerian Jews mostly. But this was temporary until the end of WWII.
great video, and thank you for touching on sensitive topics like discrimination against Mizrahi Jews, too. We still have a long way to go, though we progressed so much in so little time. both my grandparents from my mom's side are Iraqi Jews, they suffered great persecution and violence in Iraq, during the Farhood and other riots before the state of Israel was founded. they came to Israel and lived in Maabara tents for ten years, my great-grandma lived in a tiny Maabara house for the rest of her life.
@@mulanho2993 really? Then why did they only leave after the farhood and the 1947 massacres? Only after their houses wew robbed and they weren't allowed to go to university? My family was rich in Iraq and they had no intention to leave. But after my grandmother was abducted and almost raped and my great grandfather was badly injured in an antisemitic attack, what future could they find there? They wew forced to leave all their properties behind and lived more than 10 years in tents in israel. Does it sounds to you like they did it for fun?
I would like to add to that video about one interesting Mizrahi community - The Tunisian Jews. prior to establishment of the state of Israel there were 100K Jews in Tunisia, 50% migrated to Israel between 1948 to 1967 , most other 50% to France and some other French speaking countries, some to Italy. 1500 are still in Tunisia some in Island of Jerba. Jerba Jews came 2300 years ago from Judea to Jerba as sailors along with Phoenicians that established the Kingdom of Cartago (Phoenicians spoke a language very similar to Hebrew so they got along), those Jews were in North Africa even before the Arabs , so their neighbors were Phoenicians and Berbers, there was very few mixture in that community and they have higher middle eastern DNA than other Jews. Other Tunisian Jews came from Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece) , few men had Berber or Arab women that were converted. It could be concluded that the Tunisian Jews are partly Sephardic, Partly Mizrahi.
2:00 a small correction, the moroccan sultan Mohamed V refused to give up his jewish subjects to the french colaborationists and protected them from persecution
I am a Jew of Middle Eastern dissent born in Mexico. I grew up hearing Arabic at home, eating Arabic food, and hearing Arabic music. In fact until recently the Mexican Jews refer to themselves either as being judíos árabes (Arab Jews) or judíos yidish (Ashkenazim). Not only is the terminology Jews and Arabs divisive, it is erroneous. There are Christians, Muslims, and Jews of Arab lands. Saying “Arabs and Jews” would be the equivalent of saying “Anglos and Buddhists”. It should also be noted that the most ancient communities of Jews are from Yemen/Aden, Ethiopia, and Iraq. Surely had there been more Middle Eastern Jews in positions of power when Israel became a state, the subsequent history and current state of affairs would look very different. Having mostly European leaders in charge of establishing the Jewish state in the Middle-East was a fatal error. These were people who didn’t speak the language or have any exposure or desire to relate to the Middle-Eastern culture. All may not have been roses, but the Mizrahi Jews could have helped to bridge this perilous gap. And surely Arabic should have remained an official language alongside Hebrew. Speaking the same language is a basic element of communication and of RESPECT. So, at least we could have started by speaking the language of the Muslims and Christians living there at the time AND not denying the Arab Jews the comfort to speak their own language. Actually, I’d even go so far as saying that perhaps Aramaic could have been made one of the official languages. That would leave Hebrew pristine, for sacred purposes only, rather than watering it down with mundane daily speech. It’s a holy language and ought to be preserved as such.
Jews and Arabs are originally different ethnic group despite sharing common roots and having historically some admixture between them, but as Arabs conquered the Middle East and North Africa, many of us adopted Arabic and became identified as Arab Jews (taking into account that we lived in Arabic speaking countries). The same goes for many people of other ethnic groups (such as Assyrians, Egyptians, Armenians, Greeks and Kurds) also living in Arabic speaking countries or regions. I agree that it is important to preserve Arabic and perhaps Aramaic could indeed be an official language in Israel as well, but Hebrew is our ancient language and should not be preserved for religious rituals only. In regard to the conflict, perhaps things would also be better if people were more aware that many of the Muslims and Christians who self identify today as Palestinians actually have Jewish and Samaritan origins. In other words, they're also Israelites by bood (or at least partially Israelites) and therefore indigenous too (despite their admixture with Arabians and other people who settled in this land over the last 2,000 years).
Farmers in the Levant have been growing chickpeas since 8000 BC, do you really think that only 9000 years later only after the Arab invasion someone came up with the novel idea of frying crushed chickpeas into falafel balls. Arabic food is the local cuisine appropriated by the invading Arab Islamic colonizing forces.
Ashkenazi Jews are from Europe. They have no genetic links to the M.E. If you do your research, you will find the Europeans converted to Judaism round the 10th century. I could have my dates wrong, yet they converted and not at all genetically linked to the M.E..
I am African American. My paternal Great Grandfather, was purchased by a Jew from Kentucky in 1850. I have relatives that do not look Black at all. Others of us myself included, look mixed race. I have always wanted to do a DNA TEST. I have this romantic feeling about having Jewish ancestors. When if ever I find out the TRUTH, if I have Jewish ancestry--I hope it is Mizrahi. I want to live in Israel some day because I am a Bible believer in Jesus and a Christian as well as a romantic!
If you are African American and related some how to a Jewish ancestor than it is most likely an Ashkenazi Jew because back than only white Jews from Europe were allwoed to immigrate to the U.S..there were no Mizrahi Jews in the U.S back than ( even today almost all American Jews are Ashkenazi from Europe) if you want to know more you can take a dna test with 23andme or Ancestry its not that expansive
@@ori1676 I carry my possible ancestors' last name of Emery. The name is the French spelling of a German surname that means Work Ruler. I believe that surname is Almerich, but I am not certain of that. Nor am I certain of the German spelling. Thank you Ori. You have inspired me to do the DNA test.
I do drool about Jerusalem bagels, but my experience of America was entirely secular with a little sephardic mixed in, its only recently that I've met a number of Ashkenazi, but in Altai and Bukhara have lived with the Mizrahi and love the fact that we share so many traditions despite being seperated for so many years.
Moroccan jews are Sephardic so calling them Mizrahi is a stretch, Iraq, Persia, Medina, Yemen, Tashkent, Bukhara, Isfahan, Golestan, Karachi, Kabul, Kashgar, Kuchi and Kaifeng I think of as Mizrahi but North African Judaism is identical to my traditions from Spain, Italy, Turkey and Greece.
I met a lot of ashkenazi when traveling north Europe. I think they stuck around those parts. I certainly don’t know the answer but I know for sure ashkenazi Jews are very white Caucasian Jews. So ethnically they are European
@@israelizzyyarrashamiaak766 I’m Ashkenazi, blue eyed and my skin is, well, I guess light beige, but my sister has dark eyes, black hair and dark olive skin, I’ve been asked oftentimes if I am part East Indian or Italian, I guess, based on my slightly irregular features and very light olive skin, people are very confused, then there’s my sister lol. Guess I will need a DNA test to sort this all out as apparently we don’t look “classic Ashkenazi “ … I wonder if we have some Sephardic or Mizrahi in the mix. I dunno.
Thank you for producing and showing this informative and extremely interesting video I am not Jewish but I have the deepest respect for and find these programmes very educational and fascinating and I could spend hours watching and listening to them and I am eagerly awaiting your next one please keep up with your great work and don't forget to keep those excellent videos of yours coming good luck greetings from Swansea South Wales UK 🏴👍😃
As an Asian, considering their physical and cultural characters, I still think that Jewis, Arabic, Armenian, Romans, White people, they come from the same root. Just like the East Asian people, the Malayu, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Koreans, came from the same root. If we can live side by side in our different ways, why should we continue to fight? The Asians already forget it.
Technically white people and arabs would be like comparing east asians to central asians. Although Jews and Arabs honestly sometimes pass for each other and be treated with respect. Also, asians are by no means peaceful with each other, sometimes: They’re even more xenophobic. Koreans and Chinese to the Japanese
Yes its true Israeli culture is way more Mizrahi than Ashkenazi culture.. the food, music, custom, slang, mentality in Israel are all heavily influenced by the Mizrahi Jews (they used to be a minority but today the Mizrahim are 50% of the population, and 20% mixed with Ashkenazi and Mizrahi parents)
@@annastasiakohen From many Israeli articles and news reports about the Israeli Jewish demographics.. (they also said it in the video) but also I live here so I see it with my own eyes..most Jews here are from Mizrahi - Spharadic background.. Tel Aviv is a city with vast majority of Ashkenazis but in the rest of the country its something else
No it's not true stop making stuff up, The Israeli flag, Israeli Anthem, Zionist movement, Israeli music and Israeli way of life like Kibbutzim and Moshavim are all Ashkenazim, Mizrahim(Arab) Jews are not welcomed here and never were either.
@@Darktemplar99999 Kibutzim are not the majority of the population, they are not even one precent..today all the mainstream culture is Mizrahi look at the most popular songs in Israel, the popular food, the nerrative of the t.v shows, the Israeli slang..maybe you should go out of your Kibbutz more because it seems you dont know where you live (if you are Israeli at all)
I wish the terms Mizrahi and Ashkenazi would be a thing of the past. We are Jews and our DNA is the same. We unfortunately had to relocate to other countries following our expulsion. However, we have returned home and have created a unique culture molded in part by some of flare of the countries we were forced to relocate to. The major difference between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim is in the area of food but in terms of heritage and identity we are identical. These terms are divisive. We are Jews. We are family. We are Israeli. We are home.
Why do we all have to be the same I don't understand this we're not allowed to have variety weren't there 12 tribes wasn't it clear in the Torah that the different tribes had different Customs jobs even different accents so what's the problem it's not enough that the vast majority of the world only knows about the Ashkenazi and now you're complaining that we are trying to be recognized once and for all Maybe we have not had one Mizrahi prime minister not one even though we are the majority so you as an Ashkenazi it is easy to say forget about me the Mizrahi we have ignored them for Generations let's forget about them just like we used to forget about them and not mention their existence that is an insult
Hello all my Jewish brothers and sisters amazing oud playing on this post who is the musician please, or any other musician who may have similar sound...we Armenians enjoy this music..
Your statement that Jews banishment after Rome expelled from Judea lasted 2000 is intentionally wrong. Jews were allowed back to live in Jerusalem after Muslim Arab invaded Jerusalem and defeated Byzantine empire.
As a non Jewish person, it seems weird that the Mizrahi would be treated as second class citizens in Israel. Don’t the Mizhari bear the most resemblance to the original Jews?
I think it was due simply to Ashkenazim being unfamiliar with their customs and also the fact that they tended to be more religious than the often secular Ashkenazim, who were then the majority. However, I don’t think they’re discriminated against very much anymore. Ashkenazim are also no longer the majority.
My dad was born in a Jewish village with a large Muslim community in Morocco, I was told the only way to distinguish between a muslim and a Jew there was on Shabat or Jumuah (Friday ) the rest of the week they were almost the same, what amazed me was the muslims and Jews lived in Riad where they share one Kitchen and the Kitchen had to be 100% Kosher and they had one room to pray for muslims and Jews , there was a calendar in Arabic and Hebrew . amazing integration.
How can Israel and/or Arabia and/or North Africa be considered "European" in any way? LOL! That's so pathetic, I don't even have words. Literal Cultural Appropriation.
@Karl Karsnark as Israeli, I can say it is pathetic and only happened because asian nations boycotted us. But now, as Asian and Arab nations are normalizing ties with Israel - everything changes.
@@ef2718 The why put the name "Euro" in it at all? Because they so desperately want to be what they are not, have not and will never be. After all, no one is gonna watch Jew-o-Vision, now are they? I 100% bet the show's "Producer" "just happens" to be Jewish too.....What are the odds? ;)
It's true, Moroccan leadership was very different from other countries in the middle east. Whereas the Moroccan King protected his Jewish community from the Nazis, the Iraqi government allied with the Nazis. There is obviously a great degree of variance by country, but Moroccan Leadership was generally the best to its Jewish community relative to the other Arab nations.
@@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist Yiddish is made up of low,middle,high German with a few sprinkled Hebrew words. Somewhat like English is made up with the sprinkling of French words.. Ashkenazi Jews are not genetically linked to the Middle East. They are Europeans that converted to Judaism hundreds of years back.
Yiddish is a separate language from German. As a German speaker, I can't understand what they are saying most of the time - it's more distant to German than Dutch is@@imhere8380
@@mybodyisamachine It is a Germanic language with many borrowed words from Slavs, Romans mainly which came about round the 9th c. When many converted to Judaism they borrowed and adopted some Hebrew and Aramaic words. Just how English evolved, adapting and borrowing.
(OPENING QUESTION) I see Hasidim praying at the Western Wall in full regalia. (frock coat, hat, teflin, tallit) And then "What is Love" plays in my head because I'm twelve... I have a similar base image for Islam where I picture people circling the Kaaba.
very nice and informative video besided of few points you left out. 1)many of the mizrahi jews didnt live among arabs or aravic speaking societies-including my mom's family who lived in urmia. persian jews,assyriac speaking jews(north iran and kurdish areas of iraq),buchari jews,turkish jews(sefaradim and urfalim),georgian jews,azeri jews and russian caucasus jews,aphgani jews and on broader terms indian and pakistani jews(not to mention sepharadim in the balkans and gibraltar whose ladino culutre is almost identical to other sephardi jews in the middle east and egyotian jews who were mostly syrian sephardi,turkish sephardi and italians ) didnt even speak arab regularly ,and had stront cultural ties with the resr of the mizrahi jewish communities(more than theu had with the nations they lived among). 2) 120 k mizrahi and sephardi jews already lived in israel by 1948,300 thousand more came in the 1990s(buchari,georgian and caucsus jews). 3) most mizrahi jews in israel dont support shas party and their views and policies.
In the same vein, the Ashkenazi Jews are far from constituting a single, uniform cultural block. If Northeastern European origin and culture is the norm in the US and in Mexico, it is far from being the end all-be all of Ashkenazyiout. I often get (almost) offended by fellow Israelis of Mesopotamian and South-Mediterranean descent assuming that Ashkenazi cuisine is bland and tasteless, because all they've been exposed to is the ultra-kosher misery fare of Galicia, Volynia and other such dismal persecution hellholes of the former Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. My family is from the South of strictly geographical Ashkenaz, that is, the Western bank of the Rhine River, and yes, we mind flavors and use spices like the French, with what can pass as somewhat approximate kashrut. For some reason, the stronger, more numerous Romanian subtribe has a quite similar cuisine, perhaps because they're just as rural as we are, or because they're geographically close to the Bulgarians, who themselves are mostly Sepharadic. Moreover, our now-extinct Judeo-Alamanic dialect, which has thankfully been preserved by a French philological research lab, is ancestral to Yiddish, and predates the thirteenth Century's eastward migration of expelled French and persecuted German Jews into the more welcoming Central European Plains, with the formation of the Polish-Lithuanian entity that was in need of some commercial and financial expertise that could not be sourced locally. It's complicated.
Fascinating. It reminds me of Gypsy / Roma people who suffered in near identical situations. Also up to 2 million holocaust survivors. They like the Jews took on the culture of the land while remaining very separate Very interesting. ❤
My father, a sabra from a Yemenite background, Avshalom Cohen, wrote some of the most famous songs in Israel in the 1940s and early 1950s: "Agala V'Susa, "Ha Savta B'Negev," "Al Hof Eilat, "Abbale Bo L'lunapark." (the last song was stolen from him and he was not credited, the one who stole it changed a few notes in the melody.) He wrote songs for Shoshana Damari and for Yaffa Yarkoni. The Damari songs weren't big hits, very Arabic sounding, unlike his big hits. He grew up in Tel Aviv near the Allenby Cemetery. The State sold a few Yemenites land near the cemetery because the Ashkenazim didn't want to live there. My father's family were Yemenites who arrived in Palestine many years before the bulk of the Mizrachi Jews. They arrived around 1905.
May I ask what tribe Ashkenazi belongs to? they are 12 tribe referring to the 12 male Son of Prophet Yaquv , actually my great grandmother is one of the 1300 refugees from Europe they are called the Sephardi Jews , and his daughter (my grandmother my Lola )got married to the Local from the Royal house of Sulu , ( Sultanate of Sulu ) my grandfather from the Suluk or Tausug Muslim tribe in the Philippines, a just what to know my roots..
According to the Book, we are all descended from Judah, Benjamin and Levi, the tribes that were left in the Kingdom of Judah, after the rest of them in the seceded Kingdom of Israel had been smashed by the Neo-Assyrian conquest, ca. 740 BCE. It makes sense that some, or many members of these 10 tribes escaped the disaster into the Kingdom of Judah and were not driven away in chains into the Assyrian heartlands. There was never any real separation between Ashkenaz and Sepharad, all originated from the Kingdom of Judah with various converts joining in, especially around the Mediterranean in the days of the Roman Empire since conversion to Judaism ensured redemption from slavery. Even the far-away Yemenites were in contact and were kept current with all the developments and publications of Judaism, possibly through Basrah and Egypt. Legend has it that a bunch of Danites working as mercenaries for the Pharaoh of Egypt had ventured upriver a long time before the demise of the Kingdom of Israel, and they are the ancestors of the Jews of Ethiopia as well as instigators of the African Iron Age, since they were also blacksmiths of renown, not only fearsome warriors. Me, I have no trouble believing this romantic tale. Honestly!
If you can stand the truth, look right in the Torah. Askenaz is descended from Japheth not Shem even though they keep screaming and denying it. Just open your eyes and read it in Torah.
@@dorieldelorenzofelker5210 please stop already with this nonsense. The Ashkenaz person has nothing to do with Ashkenazi Jews even though they share the same name.
@@dorieldelorenzofelker5210 Ashkenaz is a name adopted thousands of years after the time of the original Ashkenaz son of Japeth, probably due to similarity of sound of Saxonian. It is easy to understand that the Shem, Ham and Japeth are allegorical, Noah did not really have one son that is totally black and one son who was totally white.
@@rocksteadyjew I never said Askenaz in the Torah was a bloodline relative of those Askenazi all European DNA Askenazi Jews who came from Khazaria and whose King Bulan in 753 AD was forced at the point of Muslim sword to choose a religion of the book meaning either Torah christian or Islam. King Bulan was allowed to study those books and speak to scholars and chose Torah. Probably because that book and culture is brutally violent and glorifies slavery and genocide just like the Christians used the Torah and tanakh to justify their enslavement of Africans and murder genocide and enslavement of indigenous people in the north America in Central America and I'm south America continents, and Muslims follow in the same violent cruel tradition from the Israelite Torah of slavery violence genocide and murder like my cruel Israelite ancestors did to the Canaanites. I am peaceful Yogini now. I was not talking nonsense like a stupid little kid. It is difficult to discern people's tone and total thoughts from the written word. Shalom peace be with you. And I might add the christian gid Jesus was not was never a blue eyed blonde pink skinned man in appearance. Just look at the Bedouin people in Iraq where Abraham and Sarah came from. Brown skin like all those Israelites in the Pashtun mountains in Afghanistan and Pakistan the Taliban are forced convert to to Islam and can never convert back because the Arab Muslims will kill them in 3 days according to an order in their holy book the Quran for refusing to stay muslim.
The video is not correct about the deportion camps in North Africa. Because in Morocco the Moroccan Jews in the country were protected by the late king Mohammed V. He rejected general Vichy by saying he could never turn over his own citizens. This is commonly known in Israël.
@@rocksteadyjew exactly. the chart on 6:00 shows Israeli population made up of only Mizrahhim and Aśkenazim. hence the question where the Sephardim are. are they included in the Mizrahhi or in the Aśkenazi half within the chart?
the sefardic community is mixed into two groups; Sefardic (sfaradi -ספרדי) are Jews that were from Spain (Sfarad) and exiled during the inquisition (which I assume you already knew) Half of them stayed in Europe, while the other half moved to Asia and Africa. The Sfaradim tham left Europe would be considered Mizrachi.
@@yoelalone No. Mizrachi Jews are Persian, Iraqi, Yemenite - although I think from a religious custom point of view they follow more closely the Sephardic customs such as which foods are eaten on Passover, etc and possibly the way the tefillin are wrapped.
Right wing and ultra conservative politics are just as harmful. In order to stay objective, middle ground is needed. Being one or the other is further polarizing us as Jews.
@@dannyv2468va2 it’s a democrat thing ,somehow they don’t want Jews in israel…dems only see the Jews defending themselves as aggression towards Palestinians..the dems don’t see the Palestinians throwing rocks ,and not accommodating the Jews who mearly want their homeland.
You didn't mention why the Arab countries came together to attack Israel, Jews were migrating to Palestine at the expense of the Palestinian people and thier identity, jews grew from less than 5% in 1900 to thier current level due to migration, you also mentioned that the Arab countries siezed jewish property but you didn't mention the worst atrocities committed by whites against the jews and you also didn't mention the Nakba where over 700,000 Palestinians were forced to flee thier ancestral native homeland for some foriegners who came from Europe
Mizrachi Jews came to Israel, not to Palestinian territory. Why arab countries attack Israel when they dont own Israeli lands? Arab countries have the audacity to tell Israelis what to do to Israeli lands?
This is a very lackluster video... I am very disappointed, I hoped to learn new things on mizrahim jews (as a moroccan muslim interested in learning more of the north african jews's history), but this is utter propaganda. +, why don't u talk about the poor treatement their received upon arriving in Israel ? The vast majority of them were poured into desert cities, they never saw jerusalem once, because of the askhenazis jews...
I feel like in Syria we werent poor. my dads parents and my mum had great lives there. so great that my mum and her parents went to lebanon and only left to france in 1978 on the last flight to paris before the airport closed during the civil war palestinians started. justr like in jordan.
@@MariaSanchez-kg2fl I have a comment on German Jews I met Blonde, White, Blue Eyed No way can they be from Middle East From Luthers day many converted to Judhaism. Spain had many converted to Judhaism too and are called Orthodox Jews.
I have fond memories in the 1980s seeing the bewitching Yemenite singer Ofra Haza sing a lament to the dead(the kaddish?) in Istanbul and falling love with a Yemenite lady called Irit Siani on a kibbutz. Oh, Irit, we could have had such beautiful babies!
"Ashkenazi Jews are European and also indigenous to the Middle East." Make that make sense. A European who converts to Judaism and has no link at all to Jerusalem can "return" but Arabs who were ethnically cleansed off their land in Israel cannot.
@@tagbarzeev8283 they are mixed middle eastern and European still doesn’t mean living for centuries in diaspora and then returning to home country expelling people who already live there is justified 😂
@@rajashashankgutta4334 Actually there was a large forced conversion to Judaism in antiquity by John Hyrcanus who forced the Edomites Semitic people( not a secret) to Judaism
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I wonder what it means that the majority of Jews who lived in Arab land, spoke Arabic, acted and made art like the Arabs and sang in Arabic still don’t consider themselves Arab. Even the ones that lived in Arabia 1600 years ago. It smacks of some perceived ethnic superiority. Especially since we know Arabs actually converted to Judaism and could hold both ethnicities simultaneously.
Because Jews never felt home in any place other than their homeland. Historical it never lasted long before they got bullied wherever they lived. And there was always discrimination. Jewish prayers always talk about returning to the land of Israel.
@@Fivetimesthree For the majority that's definitely the case. anti-Semitism is passed on every generation, there's no country historically where Jews were safe. Maybe India idk If you aren't fully accepted, do you feel like one of them? People left their houses behind for Israel (willingly and unwillingly) and had to start from 0 yet it was worth it. Where I live in Europe my friends already moved there and my family are constantly contemplating to move too. Just last week I overheard my grandma (who moved into Israel as well btw) on the phone telling my dad stories from her youth of how they kidnapped young Jewish girls in Morocco. I myself met a son of kidnapped Moroccan Jewish girl in Brussels. (He's Muslim) And Morocco is known as the safer place for Jews in the middle East of the last centuries.. Murder wasn't uncommon either, my last family member stayed behind in Marrakech was murdered. We've plenty of houses there left behind. Prayer books are well preserved from ancient times and it's filled with "returning to Jerusalem" prayers. It's in the daily prayers. So it's definitely not superiority issue. People are going to adapt to where they live, but Jerusalem is always in the back of their mind. And if they forget they inevitably get reminded by antisemitism. I have been verbally attacked over tens of times and physically a handful. I think in USA Jews feel less American than ever due to this issue as well. You're never safe. You can never rest.
Most of the Islamic art was Jewish. The praying style of Muslims today was originally Jewish. Even some food, like Hummus which mentioned couple of times in the Hebrew Bible. And we can't be Arabs because Arab countries were just an interval in the Jewish hiatory. We are from Judea (Israel), from the tribes of Judah-Benjamin-Levy-Simon, that's why we are called Jews - we belong to this land.
I’m disappointed that the initial partition of mandatory Palestine into current Israel and Jordan was not mentioned. It’s important listeners know that Jordan has a population of 75-80% that identify as Palestinian and that Jordan is 3/4 of Palestine.
Jordan was a British gift to the Hashemite family of Arabia for helping to re-conquer the Middle East for Allah-Christ and caliphates-kings. The northern half of Jordan is also Israel. "Palestine" is the Colonial Arab-European's name for the land of Israel, which they sought to divide up however they felt. Hence, why the Jewish people of Judea-Samaria formed our "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel" paramilitaries and fought the occupying British and Arabs for near two decades, until we could achieve decolonization on as much of our historic land as possible. The Colonial Arab-European world has hated us ever since for this.
This is the Two-State Solution. "Palestine and Transjordan are one." King Abdullah (1882 - 1951), king of Transjordan and its successor state, Jordan (1921 to 1951) -- Arab League meeting in Cairo,April 12 1948. "Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is only one land, with one history and one and the same fate," Prince Hassan bin Talal (b.1947) of the Jordanian National Assembly and brother of King Hussein was quoted as saying on February 2, 1970. "The truth is that Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan." - King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan (1935-1999) [King from 1952-1999], in 1981. Abdul Hamid Sharif, Prime Minister of Jordan declared in 1980, "The Palestinians and Jordanians do not belong to different nationalities. They hold the same Jordanian passports, are Arabs and have the same Jordanian culture." Arafat himself made a definitive and unequivocal statement along the same lines as late as 1993, when he declared that, “The question of borders doesn’t interest us… From the Arab standpoint, we mustn’t talk about borders. Palestine is nothing but a drop in an enormous ocean. Our nation is the Arabic nation that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and beyond it…The P.L.O. is fighting Israel in the name of Pan-Arabism. What you call 'Jordan' is nothing more than Palestine.”
This record omits the ruling of The League of Nations, and 3 rulings of the International Courts of Justice. I’ll leave it to the reader to find out what this means
My heart is over joked either culture European or that of Muslim lands, those that know their inheritance deserve this freedom and deserve to be left alone in this land, those haters need silence and end the hate today I pray..
Anti-Arab/Muslem retoric Jews were protected and lived relatively peacefully for centuries with their Arab cousins Only in 1948 did that change and the years that proceeded it I hope that once again, we return as one family - as we share too much in common
lol Jews were "dhimmi" and had to pay special taxes, could not ride horses, were humiliated etc since the 7th century. There were cases when things were not bad, but there were also plenty of pogroms, attacks etc. This increased in the 19th century alot. The Farhud was in 1941, btw. All before 1948. nice try, though. This is not so different than in Europe. Also there, Jews had periods of relative safety punctuated by pogroms, humiliations, anti-Jewish laws. etc. None of this has to do with the modern State of Israel.
False. We were prosecuted many times by Arabs back then, not like from the Christians, but still. The only place that Jews were fully protected in the Islamic world was Turkey.
Yet they all look white. I can tell the difference between a Mizrahi and Ashkenazi from a mile away. Ashkenazis don't look like they belong in the middle East at all.
@@AR777bomb actually Jews are one people, and “Ashkenazi” and “Mizrahi” are indicators of traditions cultivated in exile, not racial or ethnic origins. Sure the Ashkenazi leadership of early Israel was racist to the newly immigrated Mizrahim but that’s changed since then.
@@AR777bomb Today I know more racist Mizrahim than racist Ashkenazis, it's infuriating when I moved to Israel in the early 2000's who do you think was making fun of me for being Ukrainian? Mizrahim. Even a few years ago I saw a group of kids making fun of some russian kid walking through the streets
Yemeni Jews have a different history. They are of the Israelite Jews who were exiled to the Arabian Peninsula by the Babylonians and did not return to Israel formally as a Diasporah until the State of Israel was formed. They did not return with Ezra the Scribe to Judea to rebuild the Second Temple. The Yemenite Jews is a very interesting case study in the context of Lost Israelite, to better understand Why many Israelites were Lost in the Babylonian exile but the Jews of Yemen didn't. There are two answers: One is Antisemites who remember who is a Jew even when Jews themselves forget...and Second is the Rabbinical System, Jews who stayed connected to it, did not get lost.
The morrocon and Tunisia Jewish communities worth a series for their own. They made a strong foot print culturally, and had respect from the kings along the years. Unfortunately the new establish israel needed them to fill the country with Jewish people and knowingly rapid acquired bigger army for the wars yet to come.
Exactly jews in Morocco were wealthy accepted and respected but he should stick to the narrative of them being kicked out.. They were discriminated against in Isreal more than in Morocco.
Hello @Unpacked , this video is certainly very interesting, but certain points have, to tell the truth, shocked or even outraged me to the point of disgust. From the SECOND MINUTE of this video, you mention, in support of a map, the fact that Muslim and North African countries collaborated with the fascist regime of Vichy to strip the Jews of their nationality and handed them over to a fatal fate. (I also underline the fact that you amputated Morocco from its Sahara, but that is another story). To refresh your memory, Morocco never delivered its Jews to anyone, and moreover, the reigning monarch at the time, namely Sultan Mohamed V, declared "In Morocco there are no Jews , there are only Moroccans. And if you take them, you will take me with them. This is to tell you all the protection that Morocco has offered the Jews, who have always been (and until this very day) full citizens enjoying the same rights and advantages as their fellow Muslims in Morocco. Moroccan Jews will tell you, moreover I invite you to consult the many testimonies about this subject. And you, Unpacked, as a creator of content with many subscribers, remember that you have a great responsibility to respect history and above all to ensure that it is never tampered with, because if so, you are dangerously prejudicing those who have been “Righteous Among the Nations”. As for me, as a proud Moroccan citizen, please believe in my desire to highlight untruths of this kind and to give back the merit of something to its true author.
@Marwa SEMLALI Well yes , I agree it is quite true what you write about Moroccan Jews, as for Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan and Egyptian ( well that concludes North Africa) Jews were at some points very badly treated , but even in those countries there was no mass collaboration with Nazis , there was some in Tunisia though. As for Moroccan Jews you are 100% correct to my view.
La Bas! I’ve been to Morocco many times and I love the Moroccan people… I hope Israel and Morocco continue to develop a better relationship moving into the future…
Before the creation of Modern Israel there were around 800,000 Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa. Most were Mizrahi. A lot of the Jews in Morocco are descendants of Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal. The 100,000 Mizrahi Jews of Baghdad loved living in Iraq.
"Mizrahi Jew" just means a Hamite (specifically an Egyptian) calling himself "jewish," which is a word so overloaded as to be rendered meaningless, except to say not related to the ancient Israelites at all.
Self determination. A very interesting notion. If all people ought to be able to apply this concept, and they should, how is this to be done in light of the UN's/EU's interference in nation states? I would like to hear appraisals of apparent conflicts/tensions here....always seeking to learn 🙂
Nothing gladdens my heart like the punch line: a Jew is a Jew. Anti Semitism hates Jews, not Ashkenazi, Sephardic or Mizrachi. Yisrayel Chai. Shalom from Nigeria.
We, Mizrahi and Sefardi Jews already know that Ashkenazi (khazarian) are not semites. They are Christian that embraced Judaism as many Christian today embrace Islam and vice-versa. Ashkenazim so called Jews scientifically through DNA studies showed that they belong to the Aryan race that has no link to Middle Eastern who are a Semitic race. The fake history created by Ashkenazi about their Diaspora from middle east to Europe was the biggest false story created in the last century.
The old and racist Khazar theory is ridiculous due to some very clear facts: there was already a very large jewish population in Europe for CENTURIES before any Khazar conversions. The Khazar conversion was so small it left NO cultural or linguistic imprint on jewish culture in Europe. It took place in the 9th century long after Jews had been iving in Europe. Obviously Ashkenazi people have mixed with Europeans but quite clearly also have Middle Eastern roots. This was clearly established through genetic tests like the 'Cohen' gene. Cohen gene (google it)
Wow that was so interesting. I'd heard about the mistreatment of Ethiopian Jews in Israel, but I hadn't realised that the settler colonial regime had been white supremacist from the outset
I heard that the Mizrahi Jews were very much discriminated by Israel's Labor government in the 50s and 60s and that's why many of them voted for Begin in 1977. How much of that is true? Asking for the Israelis in the comments from a proud Zionist American Jew.
Yes it is true, the discrimination was very hrash back than..they were discriminated in education, jobs, place of living (most of them were sent to live in the Negev desert with no proper life which is why today the vast majority of the population in this area are Mizrahim until today.. Begin and the Likud party (the right wing) were the first to speak up against this discrimination (back than the left was in power)..over time the Mizrahim became the Majority in the country (they had higher birth rate) so in the 1977 Begin and the Likud won for the first time in the Israeli elections..since than traditionaly most Mizrahim are voting right wing especially for the Likud ,and since the Mizrahim are the majority the right wing is usually wins..today the current generation doesnt vote for the Likud just because of discrimination anymore, but they are used to this party and feel closer to it so they are still loyal to the Likud..in the elections, the Likud usually takes 80%-90% of the voters in the South (they are mostly Mizrahi Jews over there) this is the Likud main base of voters..also today the Mizrahim are not discriminated anymore, things has change...today most people in Israel are either Mizrahim or Mizrahim from one parent..so there is no discrimination and the Israeli culture is tend to be more Mizrahi than Ashkenazi ..and also today there is no hate between Ashkenazis or Mizrahim...we are all brothers
@@ori1676 it's ironic how leftists are actually more racist than the right wingers they regularly decry. I'll bet the leftists in Tel Aviv still have that attitude toward Mizrahim.
Yes back in the 70's the Mizrahis in Israel took lot of influence from the Black community in the U.S...but know they are the majority so their condition in Israel is not the same anymore
It's more complex. Only few radicals tried to imitate the Black Panthers. The majority just wanted better life and equal services from the state. Also - there is a lot of diversty within ashkenazi/mizrahi jews. For example Jews from Persia and Yemen are both considerd mizrahi but have very little in common. They don't speak the same langauge, eat different food and have different traditions.
@@asafb1984 back in the 70's the Black Panters (the Israeli movment) had lot of followers among the youth of Mizrahi people, they even met the prime minister Golda Meir..it wasnt a movment of just "few radicals" read about them and you'll see
@@ori1676 What you say is not based of facts. The media today likes to think they had more general support because of left tendencies. Look at results of elections from back then.
@@ori1676 I would hope not. Especially if they're the majority. The Dalit people in India did the same thing. They also called themselves Black Panthers.
The fact is, only Ashkenazi that counts. The rests are second class people. The pariahs are the Palestinians, comprising true Arabs and Biblical Jews converted to Arabs during the Arab occupation to avoid land tax, who don't have right at all.
Even North Africa never had any connections with sub saharan Africa. They were related to the Middle East. The berber, amazingh people of North Africa are the native people, and they are semetic, and related to other Middle Eastern people
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More propaganda slop from the slop mill. Please, genetically define the "Arabs" and the "Jews". "Cultural traditions" are menaingless for a "tribal" people with a "blood" claim to their race/heritage/ethnicity/whatever else it needs to be at the moment. After all, without a scientifically agreed upon definition of terms, no discussion can be had. Define "Jew".
I have now received my DNA test kit! I hope I have some Jewish ancestry. I am a child of God, but I would love to be linked, somehow physically to His chosen people. As a devout Christian, I am linked spiritually in Jesus.
what a load of sophistry and propoganda "Nazi ideology spread to the Middle East, they found themselves facing violent attacks from their once peaceful neighbors. "...what you really mean when european zionist supremacists came to the Middle East in the late 19th cent to early 2oth century and when this european proto-fascist settlerist movement tried to change the landscape of jewish arabs...such a propaganda and garbage TH-cam channel. shame on you all.
@@larryjones-emery807 🤨🙄so you read the Scholfield bible. smdh. you are a shabbos goy to the khazars.
@@larryjones-emery807 😆🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀
I’m an Iraqi Muslim, and recently took a DNA test to find that I am 11% Mizrahi Jewish! How awesome. My parents took the test too, and they both have Jewish ancestry, even more than me ! 15% for my dad and 12% for my mum
I got 14% Yemen dna from my mother side
Sara - did you parents know about this or were you all just surprised when the results came back?
@ZUIT0 did they move because of the Farhud in 1941?
What region are you from ?
My Palestinian customer is 15 percent Jewish as well
My paternal grandfather was Iraqi and my maternal grandfather was born in Sfat.
I am a proud Mizrahi.
mizrahi means oriental so you're a proud carpet
@@mulanho2993 Hell ye, carpets unite
The ancestors of the Ashkenazi's were Mizrahi before they
first arrived in Europe, but IMO, since they were young men and
escaped Roman persecution with just the clothes
on their backs, they were forced to take local White European women
as wives to birth their Jewish sons.
And the rest is history.
@@BORN-to-Run LOLL NO M'AM DNA SHOWS THEY INVADED CANAAN THEY BARELY HAVE LEVANT DNA AND IT WAS BY FORCE IT'S NOT YOUR ANCESTORS
E-V13/E-M123 IS EUROPEAN 40% OF ALBANIANS IN KOSOVO HAVE IT 20% OF SARDINIIANS 30% OF GREEKS AND SO ON
E-M123 originated some 19,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age and have a mostly European distribution today and their ages point toward a Neolithic diffusion.The descendants of L791, Y2947 and Y4971, only appeared around 3500 BCE, during the Late Neolithic or Chalcolithic period. The K257 and Y4970 branch emerged around 3000 BCE and is found in Iran, Armenia, Turkey, Russia, Greece, Italy and France, among others. It might be linked to the expansion of the Kura-Araxes culture from the southern Caucasus to Anatolia and Iran. It would then have spread to Greece and Italy alongside haplogroup J2a1 and T1a-P77. Y6923 also emerged around 3500 BCE. Modern carriers of this lineage descend from a common ancestor who lived only 1,200 years ago, and all are European Hebrews.
@@JacobIX99 Yeah so corny
I liked this video. I am 50/50 Ashkenazi and Yemenite, but I have to say that my family's story in Israel, the Yemenite side, began almost half a century before the modern state was created. My grandparents arrived in the area near Neve Tzedek around 1900. They were citizens of the Ottoman Empire and had lived in Yemen, then Alexandria, before arriving in Palestine. They never lived in Ma'abarot. But they were very poor and my grandmother and aunts worked washing clothes and cleaning houses for European Jews.
You do know the history of Jews in Yemen, excellent article called "The Rise of a Jewish Kingdom in Arabia."
@@mulanho2993 Thanks for your reply Mulan. I'll look for the article you cited.
@@mulanho2993 Yes, we know it. The Jewish Diasporah in Yemen was created by the Babylonians who Exiled Judeans (Jews) to the Arabian Peninsula over 3000 years ago. This is the oldest Jewish diaspora. Yemeni Jews lived with Arabs for over 1000 years before Islam and remained there till the modern era of the past 200+ years. As I mentioned in a previous comment, it is an interesting case study to see why some Israelites got Lost and others didn't. The Yemenite Jews did not return to the Second Temple, why, how did they stay Jews? Many of the people identifying as Arabs today have Jewish Roots; That's what being LOST ISRAELITE means; so what's the difference.
Himyar not Jews but converted to Judaism, same with Turkic Jewish. 70% of Israel are from Middle-eastern jews, more than half, its mean if arab, turkic, iranian and northern african wipeout jews, i dont think israel can exist. because the population of jews are small.
@@4clemptyes Abraham was the other of both.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing. I am Ashkenazi, so I am learning more about our Mizrahi sisters and brothers!
Do you ever feel shame for the CORRUPTION AND LIES that so many jews are responsible for?!?🤮
The Jews of the Middle East especially in Iran have been there for more than 2500 years when the Persian king freed the Israelites from Babylon and offered them to either stay in Iranian territories or to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. Mysrahi Jews aren’t only those exiled by the Romans.
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The are Jews in India in state of mizoram, nagaland how to explain that.
@@peterlamin8363 Jews traveled also to India along the routes. They were tradesmen. There were Jews in China also!
@@golalehkamran9529 A lot of Iranian Jews oppose Israel, it's a genocidal settler colonial project and an illegitimate European satellite state.
@@UmQasaann Who told you that Iranian Jews oppose Israel? The 5000 or so Jews left in Iran since the revolution have to tow the line while living in the overtly anti semitic and fanatically anti Israel regime in order to be able to live in semi peace while being considered guests of the islamic state! Your comment is based on wrong information.
My family is half Ashkenazi half Mizrachi (Iraqis) and I can tell you firsthand no one sees the other as anything other than Jews who had different experiences in the diaspora. No one thinks they are more Jewish than the other and no one thinks about who has lighter or darker skin. And most importantly none of the Mizrachi Jews ever thought of themselves as Arabs. Ever.
Some considered themselves jewish and there are some who still do..arab is not a bad thing if some jews want to consider themselves arabs then leave them alone..
@@mercyjames2639 it’s like a Japanese person calling himself Chinese. Jews are not Arabs by definition. I don’t care what any individual wants to do but I’ve never encountered any Jews who call themselves Arab.
I knew an Ashkenazi community that definitely preferred their children marry Ashkenazi...not saying the opposite doesn't exist but there is definitely discrimination
@@travelingva there isn’t “discrimination” - for generations communities married within their communities because of their customs. Ask any Syrian Jew how they feel about marrying outside Syrian Jews or Persian Jews… this ridiculous and false notion that Ashkenazim discriminated against other communities is absolute nonsense.
@@rocksteadyjew this isn't a binary issue...I didn't say all and I didn't say the groups thought less of eachother but there are definitely differences and there is definitely a desire for children to mary within their own denomination ...that being said there are probably millions that don't care. I found the more religiously adherent the more it might influence relations but definitely these groups are not necessarily negative towards eachother ...although I understand the ultra orthodox to be at odds with many of the other groups that are less conservative
This is the first doco I've ever heard mention anything about Jews in North Africa under Nazi occupation.I had never give it a thought myself until now.This is something I'll do some research on thats for sure!
Because it’s propaganda
If france didn’t take over their they would have been safe
It was France under the Vichy regime which collaborated with the Nazis by turning hostile to all Jews under its rule, i.e., French and Algerian Jews mostly. But this was temporary until the end of WWII.
I am inspired by Jewish people every day. Such a proud and wonderful culture that is strong and hopeful.
great video, and thank you for touching on sensitive topics like discrimination against Mizrahi Jews, too. We still have a long way to go, though we progressed so much in so little time.
both my grandparents from my mom's side are Iraqi Jews, they suffered great persecution and violence in Iraq, during the Farhood and other riots before the state of Israel was founded. they came to Israel and lived in Maabara tents for ten years, my great-grandma lived in a tiny Maabara house for the rest of her life.
thank you for sharing
Most MENA left due to colonizing aspiration, Iraq included.
@@mulanho2993 really? Then why did they only leave after the farhood and the 1947 massacres? Only after their houses wew robbed and they weren't allowed to go to university? My family was rich in Iraq and they had no intention to leave. But after my grandmother was abducted and almost raped and my great grandfather was badly injured in an antisemitic attack, what future could they find there? They wew forced to leave all their properties behind and lived more than 10 years in tents in israel. Does it sounds to you like they did it for fun?
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I would like to add to that video about one interesting Mizrahi community - The Tunisian Jews. prior to establishment of the state of Israel there were 100K Jews in Tunisia, 50% migrated to Israel between 1948 to 1967 , most other 50% to France and some other French speaking countries, some to Italy. 1500 are still in Tunisia some in Island of Jerba. Jerba Jews came 2300 years ago from Judea to Jerba as sailors along with Phoenicians that established the Kingdom of Cartago (Phoenicians spoke a language very similar to Hebrew so they got along), those Jews were in North Africa even before the Arabs , so their neighbors were Phoenicians and Berbers, there was very few mixture in that community and they have higher middle eastern DNA than other Jews. Other Tunisian Jews came from Europe (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece) , few men had Berber or Arab women that were converted. It could be concluded that the Tunisian Jews are partly Sephardic, Partly Mizrahi.
2:00 a small correction, the moroccan sultan Mohamed V refused to give up his jewish subjects to the french colaborationists and protected them from persecution
My grandmother love the sultan he was a fair man and protected the Moroccan Jew from hitler
Watching from Medellin Colombia
When will you make a video about Bukharian jewish history?
Do Bukharians understand Persian?
I am mizrahim according to DNA 100%😮 😂 amazing , got to find out more. ? My great grandma najmah was born in Egypt .
*Excellent documentary very well done*
I am a Jew of Middle Eastern dissent born in Mexico. I grew up hearing Arabic at home, eating Arabic food, and hearing Arabic music. In fact until recently the Mexican Jews refer to themselves either as being judíos árabes (Arab Jews) or judíos yidish (Ashkenazim). Not only is the terminology Jews and Arabs divisive, it is erroneous. There are Christians, Muslims, and Jews of Arab lands. Saying “Arabs and Jews” would be the equivalent of saying “Anglos and Buddhists”.
It should also be noted that the most ancient communities of Jews are from Yemen/Aden, Ethiopia, and Iraq. Surely had there been more Middle Eastern Jews in positions of power when Israel became a state, the subsequent history and current state of affairs would look very different. Having mostly European leaders in charge of establishing the Jewish state in the Middle-East was a fatal error. These were people who didn’t speak the language or have any exposure or desire to relate to the Middle-Eastern culture. All may not have been roses, but the Mizrahi Jews could have helped to bridge this perilous gap. And surely Arabic should have remained an official language alongside Hebrew. Speaking the same language is a basic element of communication and of RESPECT. So, at least we could have started by speaking the language of the Muslims and Christians living there at the time AND not denying the Arab Jews the comfort to speak their own language. Actually, I’d even go so far as saying that perhaps Aramaic could have been made one of the official languages. That would leave Hebrew pristine, for sacred purposes only, rather than watering it down with mundane daily speech. It’s a holy language and ought to be preserved as such.
Jews and Arabs are originally different ethnic group despite sharing common roots and having historically some admixture between them, but as Arabs conquered the Middle East and North Africa, many of us adopted Arabic and became identified as Arab Jews (taking into account that we lived in Arabic speaking countries). The same goes for many people of other ethnic groups (such as Assyrians, Egyptians, Armenians, Greeks and Kurds) also living in Arabic speaking countries or regions.
I agree that it is important to preserve Arabic and perhaps Aramaic could indeed be an official language in Israel as well, but Hebrew is our ancient language and should not be preserved for religious rituals only.
In regard to the conflict, perhaps things would also be better if people were more aware that many of the Muslims and Christians who self identify today as Palestinians actually have Jewish and Samaritan origins. In other words, they're also Israelites by bood (or at least partially Israelites) and therefore indigenous too (despite their admixture with Arabians and other people who settled in this land over the last 2,000 years).
Farmers in the Levant have been growing chickpeas since 8000 BC, do you really think that only 9000 years later only after the Arab invasion someone came up with the novel idea of frying crushed chickpeas into falafel balls.
Arabic food is the local cuisine appropriated by the invading Arab Islamic colonizing forces.
No you should’ve stayed your asses where you were. Arabic is the language of Palestine.
EXCELLENT presentation.
Wow!
The Mizrahi's are BEAUTIFUL in my sight!
They are indeed what the Ashkenazi ancestors started off as.
Thanks for sharing
Ashkenazi Jews are from Europe. They have no genetic links to the M.E. If you do your research, you will find the Europeans converted to Judaism round the 10th century. I could have my dates wrong, yet they converted and not at all genetically linked to the M.E..
Very interesting, watched from Old Harbour Jamaica.
Interesting, I'm from Old Harbour, Bowers Drive to be exact
I know the place, I wonder if I know you.
@@kennedysingh3916 I don't live there anymore unfortunately
I am African American. My paternal Great Grandfather, was purchased by a Jew from Kentucky in 1850. I have relatives that do not look Black at all. Others of us myself included, look mixed race. I have always wanted to do a DNA TEST. I have this romantic feeling about having Jewish ancestors. When if ever I find out the TRUTH, if I have Jewish ancestry--I hope it is Mizrahi. I want to live in Israel some day because I am a Bible believer in Jesus and a Christian as well as a romantic!
If you are African American and related some how to a Jewish ancestor than it is most likely an Ashkenazi Jew because back than only white Jews from Europe were allwoed to immigrate to the U.S..there were no Mizrahi Jews in the U.S back than ( even today almost all American Jews are Ashkenazi from Europe) if you want to know more you can take a dna test with 23andme or Ancestry its not that expansive
you know the last name of your Jewish ancestor? I can tell you if hes an Ashkenazi or not by his last name
@@ori1676 I carry my possible ancestors' last name of Emery. The name is the French spelling of a German surname that means Work Ruler. I believe that surname is Almerich, but I am not certain of that. Nor am I certain of the German spelling. Thank you Ori. You have inspired me to do the DNA test.
Yes way more Jews held slaves than the average white man. Also jews brought Africans on boats to America
you can always convert
it's free brother
just make sure you find the rigth rabbies
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I do drool about Jerusalem bagels, but my experience of America was entirely secular with a little sephardic mixed in, its only recently that I've met a number of Ashkenazi, but in Altai and Bukhara have lived with the Mizrahi and love the fact that we share so many traditions despite being seperated for so many years.
Moroccan jews are Sephardic so calling them Mizrahi is a stretch, Iraq, Persia, Medina, Yemen, Tashkent, Bukhara, Isfahan, Golestan, Karachi, Kabul, Kashgar, Kuchi and Kaifeng I think of as Mizrahi but North African Judaism is identical to my traditions from Spain, Italy, Turkey and Greece.
I met a lot of ashkenazi when traveling north Europe. I think they stuck around those parts. I certainly don’t know the answer but I know for sure ashkenazi Jews are very white Caucasian Jews. So ethnically they are European
@Izzy Yarra were all Jews, so the looks aren't that big of a deal, the traditions are what surprised me.
@Izzy Yarra for example, the traditions in Kaifeng removing the goat sinew were the same in Bukhara and Morocco and also Spain.
@@israelizzyyarrashamiaak766 I’m Ashkenazi, blue eyed and my skin is, well, I guess light beige, but my sister has dark eyes, black hair and dark olive skin, I’ve been asked oftentimes if I am part East Indian or Italian, I guess, based on my slightly irregular features and very light olive skin, people are very confused, then there’s my sister lol. Guess I will need a DNA test to sort this all out as apparently we don’t look “classic Ashkenazi “ … I wonder if we have some Sephardic or Mizrahi in the mix. I dunno.
Thank you for producing and showing this informative and extremely interesting video I am not Jewish but I have the deepest respect for and find these programmes very educational and fascinating and I could spend hours watching and listening to them and I am eagerly awaiting your next one please keep up with your great work and don't forget to keep those excellent videos of yours coming good luck greetings from Swansea South Wales UK 🏴👍😃
Watching this video gave me mixed emotions. I wanted to cry in sadness then cry with laughter and joy. Thank you for this video.
As an Asian, considering their physical and cultural characters, I still think that Jewis, Arabic, Armenian, Romans, White people, they come from the same root. Just like the East Asian people, the Malayu, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Koreans, came from the same root. If we can live side by side in our different ways, why should we continue to fight? The Asians already forget it.
Technically white people and arabs would be like comparing east asians to central asians. Although Jews and Arabs honestly sometimes pass for each other and be treated with respect. Also, asians are by no means peaceful with each other, sometimes: They’re even more xenophobic. Koreans and Chinese to the Japanese
Amazing video ! ישר כח
Yes its true Israeli culture is way more Mizrahi than Ashkenazi culture.. the food, music, custom, slang, mentality in Israel are all heavily influenced by the Mizrahi Jews (they used to be a minority but today the Mizrahim are 50% of the population, and 20% mixed with Ashkenazi and Mizrahi parents)
Where did you get that statistic?
@@annastasiakohen From many Israeli articles and news reports about the Israeli Jewish demographics.. (they also said it in the video) but also I live here so I see it with my own eyes..most Jews here are from Mizrahi - Spharadic background.. Tel Aviv is a city with vast majority of Ashkenazis but in the rest of the country its something else
No it's not true stop making stuff up, The Israeli flag, Israeli Anthem, Zionist movement, Israeli music and Israeli way of life like Kibbutzim and Moshavim are all Ashkenazim, Mizrahim(Arab) Jews are not welcomed here and never were either.
@@Darktemplar99999 Kibutzim are not the majority of the population, they are not even one precent..today all the mainstream culture is Mizrahi look at the most popular songs in Israel, the popular food, the nerrative of the t.v shows, the Israeli slang..maybe you should go out of your Kibbutz more because it seems you dont know where you live (if you are Israeli at all)
@@ori1676 This message is for you: if it looks like an arab, dresses like an arab, sounds and behaves like an arab it is an arab.
I wish the terms Mizrahi and Ashkenazi would be a thing of the past. We are Jews and our DNA is the same. We unfortunately had to relocate to other countries following our expulsion. However, we have returned home and have created a unique culture molded in part by some of flare of the countries we were forced to relocate to. The major difference between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim is in the area of food but in terms of heritage and identity we are identical. These terms are divisive. We are Jews. We are family. We are Israeli. We are home.
a home that belongs to muslims. ever heard prophet isaac prothet moses prophet david prophet jesus peace be upon them were all muslims
@@savage5833 Islam was created long after them so I don’t know where you are getting that information from.
@@snakeeyes8678 THE FIRST RELIGION IN THIS WORLD WAS ISLAM. then why do we believe all these prophets if they were not muslims
@@savage5833 😂 you cannot be serious right now.
Why do we all have to be the same I don't understand this we're not allowed to have variety weren't there 12 tribes wasn't it clear in the Torah that the different tribes had different Customs jobs even different accents so what's the problem it's not enough that the vast majority of the world only knows about the Ashkenazi and now you're complaining that we are trying to be recognized once and for all Maybe we have not had one Mizrahi prime minister not one even though we are the majority so you as an Ashkenazi it is easy to say forget about me the Mizrahi we have ignored them for Generations let's forget about them just like we used to forget about them and not mention their existence that is an insult
Hello all my Jewish brothers and sisters amazing oud playing on this post who is the musician please, or any other musician who may have similar sound...we Armenians enjoy this music..
זוהר ארגוב, ועוד
Listen to Miqedem.
Your statement that Jews banishment after Rome expelled from Judea lasted 2000 is intentionally wrong. Jews were allowed back to live in Jerusalem after Muslim Arab invaded Jerusalem and defeated Byzantine empire.
Very unfair to put Morocco’s treatment of Jews with iraqs treatment… Morocco treated my dad like a king😂
Brilliant, thank you
so grateful for these videos!😊❤
As a non Jewish person, it seems weird that the Mizrahi would be treated as second class citizens in Israel. Don’t the Mizhari bear the most resemblance to the original Jews?
The more white you look the better you will be treated...that goes for every race, every ethnic or religious group in the world without exemptions
I think it was due simply to Ashkenazim being unfamiliar with their customs and also the fact that they tended to be more religious than the often secular Ashkenazim, who were then the majority. However, I don’t think they’re discriminated against very much anymore. Ashkenazim are also no longer the majority.
Thank you❣️ I loved this video!
Jews are all COLOURS. LOVE them ALL.
Very cool! Much appreciated and looking forward to learning more!
What a fascinating video.
As a non Jew I can truly say I admire the Jews… they also make delicious foods 🤤
Great video. Really informative. I was reading an article about Jewish Moroccan communities earlier.
My dad was born in a Jewish village with a large Muslim community in Morocco, I was told the only way to distinguish between a muslim and a Jew there was on Shabat or Jumuah (Friday ) the rest of the week they were almost the same, what amazed me was the muslims and Jews lived in Riad where they share one Kitchen and the Kitchen had to be 100% Kosher and they had one room to pray for muslims and Jews , there was a calendar in Arabic and Hebrew . amazing integration.
🥰 I hope many see this so they remember we exist! I’m so tired of hearing Ashkenazi talk. We are here too!
You forgot that Izhar Cohen, Gali Atari and Dana International are all from a Yemenite background and won the Eurovision contest...
How can Israel and/or Arabia and/or North Africa be considered "European" in any way? LOL! That's so pathetic, I don't even have words. Literal Cultural Appropriation.
@Karl Karsnark as Israeli, I can say it is pathetic and only happened because asian nations boycotted us. But now, as Asian and Arab nations are normalizing ties with Israel - everything changes.
@@KarlKarsnark tells that to the so-called blue eyes European Jews who think of themself as Middle Eastern
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It is a Eurovision organization contest (not a European contest).
@@ef2718 The why put the name "Euro" in it at all? Because they so desperately want to be what they are not, have not and will never be. After all, no one is gonna watch Jew-o-Vision, now are they? I 100% bet the show's "Producer" "just happens" to be Jewish too.....What are the odds? ;)
Please correct your information Moroccan king refused to hand over the Jews by saying ""Only Moroccans live here ""
It's true, Moroccan leadership was very different from other countries in the middle east. Whereas the Moroccan King protected his Jewish community from the Nazis, the Iraqi government allied with the Nazis. There is obviously a great degree of variance by country, but Moroccan Leadership was generally the best to its Jewish community relative to the other Arab nations.
Ashkenazi: They look and sound like our unfriendly neighbours
Also Ashkenazi: Look and speak german lol
Ashkenazim spoke Yiddish, not German.
@@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist Yiddish is made up of low,middle,high German with a few sprinkled Hebrew words. Somewhat like English is made up with the sprinkling of French words.. Ashkenazi Jews are not genetically linked to the Middle East. They are Europeans that converted to Judaism hundreds of years back.
Yiddish is a separate language from German. As a German speaker, I can't understand what they are saying most of the time - it's more distant to German than Dutch is@@imhere8380
@@imhere8380 not true, they are half middle eastern paternally. Where do you get this idea. It's not backed by data at all.
@@mybodyisamachine It is a Germanic language with many borrowed words from Slavs, Romans mainly which came about round the 9th c. When many converted to Judaism they borrowed and adopted some Hebrew and Aramaic words. Just how English evolved, adapting and borrowing.
(OPENING QUESTION)
I see Hasidim praying at the Western Wall in full regalia. (frock coat, hat, teflin, tallit)
And then "What is Love" plays in my head because I'm twelve...
I have a similar base image for Islam where I picture people circling the Kaaba.
Islam is copy cat of Judaism and Christianity.
LOVE THIS VIDEO
very nice and informative video besided of few points you left out.
1)many of the mizrahi jews didnt live among arabs or aravic speaking societies-including my mom's family who lived in urmia. persian jews,assyriac speaking jews(north iran and kurdish areas of iraq),buchari jews,turkish jews(sefaradim and urfalim),georgian jews,azeri jews and russian caucasus jews,aphgani jews and on broader terms indian and pakistani jews(not to mention sepharadim in the balkans and gibraltar whose ladino culutre is almost identical to other sephardi jews in the middle east and egyotian jews who were mostly syrian sephardi,turkish sephardi and italians ) didnt even speak arab regularly ,and had stront cultural ties with the resr of the mizrahi jewish communities(more than theu had with the nations they lived among).
2) 120 k mizrahi and sephardi jews already lived in israel by 1948,300 thousand more came in the 1990s(buchari,georgian and caucsus jews).
3) most mizrahi jews in israel dont support shas party and their views and policies.
Wow! Thank you for your reply! I will reread it and study it. I appreciated you.
This is amazing. Thank you very much!
Somebody needs to inform the Hebrew black Israelite claiming that they are Jews in the USA sick cult
In the same vein, the Ashkenazi Jews are far from constituting a single, uniform cultural block. If Northeastern European origin and culture is the norm in the US and in Mexico, it is far from being the end all-be all of Ashkenazyiout. I often get (almost) offended by fellow Israelis of Mesopotamian and South-Mediterranean descent assuming that Ashkenazi cuisine is bland and tasteless, because all they've been exposed to is the ultra-kosher misery fare of Galicia, Volynia and other such dismal persecution hellholes of the former Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. My family is from the South of strictly geographical Ashkenaz, that is, the Western bank of the Rhine River, and yes, we mind flavors and use spices like the French, with what can pass as somewhat approximate kashrut. For some reason, the stronger, more numerous Romanian subtribe has a quite similar cuisine, perhaps because they're just as rural as we are, or because they're geographically close to the Bulgarians, who themselves are mostly Sepharadic.
Moreover, our now-extinct Judeo-Alamanic dialect, which has thankfully been preserved by a French philological research lab, is ancestral to Yiddish, and predates the thirteenth Century's eastward migration of expelled French and persecuted German Jews into the more welcoming Central European Plains, with the formation of the Polish-Lithuanian entity that was in need of some commercial and financial expertise that could not be sourced locally.
It's complicated.
Fascinating. It reminds me of Gypsy / Roma people who suffered in near identical situations. Also up to 2 million holocaust survivors. They like the Jews took on the culture of the land while remaining very separate Very interesting. ❤
My name is Mizrahi and im very proud of my name and family. They came from Turkey to France in the 1890's/1900's
is your surname mizrahi? In which city did they settle in Turkey?
@@minely8693 yes it's my family name on my mother side. My grand father familly came from Constantinople at that time, Istanbul now
@@minely8693 Why? i have my familly tree wich go back to the1890-1900's in Turkey
My father, a sabra from a Yemenite background, Avshalom Cohen, wrote some of the most famous songs in Israel in the 1940s and early 1950s: "Agala V'Susa, "Ha Savta B'Negev," "Al Hof Eilat, "Abbale Bo L'lunapark." (the last song was stolen from him and he was not credited, the one who stole it changed a few notes in the melody.) He wrote songs for Shoshana Damari and for Yaffa Yarkoni. The Damari songs weren't big hits, very Arabic sounding, unlike his big hits. He grew up in Tel Aviv near the Allenby Cemetery. The State sold a few Yemenites land near the cemetery because the Ashkenazim didn't want to live there. My father's family were Yemenites who arrived in Palestine many years before the bulk of the Mizrachi Jews. They arrived around 1905.
May I ask what tribe Ashkenazi belongs to? they are 12 tribe referring to the 12 male Son of Prophet Yaquv , actually my great grandmother is one of the 1300 refugees from Europe they are called the Sephardi Jews , and his daughter (my grandmother my Lola )got married to the Local from the Royal house of Sulu , ( Sultanate of Sulu ) my grandfather from the Suluk or Tausug Muslim tribe in the Philippines, a just what to know my roots..
According to the Book, we are all descended from Judah, Benjamin and Levi, the tribes that were left in the Kingdom of Judah, after the rest of them in the seceded Kingdom of Israel had been smashed by the Neo-Assyrian conquest, ca. 740 BCE.
It makes sense that some, or many members of these 10 tribes escaped the disaster into the Kingdom of Judah and were not driven away in chains into the Assyrian heartlands.
There was never any real separation between Ashkenaz and Sepharad, all originated from the Kingdom of Judah with various converts joining in, especially around the Mediterranean in the days of the Roman Empire since conversion to Judaism ensured redemption from slavery. Even the far-away Yemenites were in contact and were kept current with all the developments and publications of Judaism, possibly through Basrah and Egypt.
Legend has it that a bunch of Danites working as mercenaries for the Pharaoh of Egypt had ventured upriver a long time before the demise of the Kingdom of Israel, and they are the ancestors of the Jews of Ethiopia as well as instigators of the African Iron Age, since they were also blacksmiths of renown, not only fearsome warriors.
Me, I have no trouble believing this romantic tale. Honestly!
If you can stand the truth, look right in the Torah. Askenaz is descended from Japheth not Shem even though they keep screaming and denying it. Just open your eyes and read it in Torah.
@@dorieldelorenzofelker5210 please stop already with this nonsense. The Ashkenaz person has nothing to do with Ashkenazi Jews even though they share the same name.
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Ashkenaz is a name adopted thousands of years after the time of the original Ashkenaz son of Japeth, probably due to similarity of sound of Saxonian.
It is easy to understand that the Shem, Ham and Japeth are allegorical, Noah did not really have one son that is totally black and one son who was totally white.
@@rocksteadyjew I never said Askenaz in the Torah was a bloodline relative of those Askenazi all European DNA Askenazi Jews who came from Khazaria and whose King Bulan in 753 AD was forced at the point of Muslim sword to choose a religion of the book meaning either Torah christian or Islam. King Bulan was allowed to study those books and speak to scholars and chose Torah. Probably because that book and culture is brutally violent and glorifies slavery and genocide just like the Christians used the Torah and tanakh to justify their enslavement of Africans and murder genocide and enslavement of indigenous people in the north America in Central America and I'm south America continents, and Muslims follow in the same violent cruel tradition from the Israelite Torah of slavery violence genocide and murder like my cruel Israelite ancestors did to the Canaanites. I am peaceful Yogini now. I was not talking nonsense like a stupid little kid. It is difficult to discern people's tone and total thoughts from the written word. Shalom peace be with you. And I might add the christian gid Jesus was not was never a blue eyed blonde pink skinned man in appearance. Just look at the Bedouin people in Iraq where Abraham and Sarah came from. Brown skin like all those Israelites in the Pashtun mountains in Afghanistan and Pakistan the Taliban are forced convert to to Islam and can never convert back because the Arab Muslims will kill them in 3 days according to an order in their holy book the Quran for refusing to stay muslim.
The video is not correct about the deportion camps in North Africa. Because in Morocco the Moroccan Jews in the country were protected by the late king Mohammed V. He rejected general Vichy by saying he could never turn over his own citizens. This is commonly known in Israël.
So what After that his son king Hassan ll sell the moroccan jews (part of his people) to the zionists for money (250$) per jew person that in 50's
Jews are amazing 🇮🇱🇮🇱
Thank you.
how about Sefardim?
are they included among the Mizrahhim or the Aśkenazim in the charts shown in the video?
Ashkenazim Sephardic and Mizrachi refer to 3 separate diaspora Jewish communities.
@@rocksteadyjew exactly. the chart on 6:00 shows Israeli population made up of only Mizrahhim and Aśkenazim. hence the question where the Sephardim are.
are they included in the Mizrahhi or in the Aśkenazi half within the chart?
@@xolang You’re right. In the chart they are including Sephardim together with Mizrachim.
the sefardic community is mixed into two groups;
Sefardic (sfaradi -ספרדי) are Jews that were from Spain (Sfarad) and exiled during the inquisition (which I assume you already knew)
Half of them stayed in Europe, while the other half moved to Asia and Africa.
The Sfaradim tham left Europe would be considered Mizrachi.
@@yoelalone No. Mizrachi Jews are Persian, Iraqi, Yemenite - although I think from a religious custom point of view they follow more closely the Sephardic customs such as which foods are eaten on Passover, etc and possibly the way the tefillin are wrapped.
This is one of my favorite Chanel’s love it
Jews are our brother ! Support and prayers from Hindus of India! ❤
thank you! I will make it may mission to share this information with progressives and Democrats who are prejudiced against jews
Right wing and ultra conservative politics are just as harmful. In order to stay objective, middle ground is needed. Being one or the other is further polarizing us as Jews.
That's interesting I have yet to meet any ones who will openly are but everybody should be accepted of Jewish culture within their countries.
@@dannyv2468va2 it’s a democrat thing ,somehow they don’t want Jews in israel…dems only see the Jews defending themselves as aggression towards Palestinians..the dems don’t see the Palestinians throwing rocks ,and not accommodating the Jews who mearly want their homeland.
You didn't mention why the Arab countries came together to attack Israel, Jews were migrating to Palestine at the expense of the Palestinian people and thier identity, jews grew from less than 5% in 1900 to thier current level due to migration, you also mentioned that the Arab countries siezed jewish property but you didn't mention the worst atrocities committed by whites against the jews and you also didn't mention the Nakba where over 700,000 Palestinians were forced to flee thier ancestral native homeland for some foriegners who came from Europe
brother they never mention that, people like this only lie for israel
Mizrachi Jews came to Israel, not to Palestinian territory. Why arab countries attack Israel when they dont own Israeli lands? Arab countries have the audacity to tell Israelis what to do to Israeli lands?
This is a very lackluster video... I am very disappointed, I hoped to learn new things on mizrahim jews (as a moroccan muslim interested in learning more of the north african jews's history), but this is utter propaganda. +, why don't u talk about the poor treatement their received upon arriving in Israel ? The vast majority of them were poured into desert cities, they never saw jerusalem once, because of the askhenazis jews...
Beautiful! 🌟
thank you for this video.
I feel like in Syria we werent poor. my dads parents and my mum had great lives there. so great that my mum and her parents went to lebanon and only left to france in 1978 on the last flight to paris before the airport closed during the civil war palestinians started. justr like in jordan.
@@MariaSanchez-kg2fl They are descendants of Queen of Sheba who was married to King David
@@indigozen4794 solaiman not david
@@MariaSanchez-kg2fl I have a comment on German Jews I met Blonde, White, Blue Eyed No way can they be from Middle East From Luthers day many converted to Judhaism. Spain had many converted to Judhaism too and are called Orthodox Jews.
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They are probably converts from the time of Gideons. They didn't have anything written in Hebrew, which is very odd for Jews.
Many were not necessarily poor to begin with, but were made poor when their governments took away their assets.
Fantástico video, obrigado.
Hebrew was never a dead language
I have fond memories in the 1980s seeing the bewitching Yemenite singer Ofra Haza sing a lament to the dead(the kaddish?) in Istanbul and falling love with a Yemenite lady called Irit Siani on a kibbutz. Oh, Irit, we could have had such beautiful babies!
Mizrahi are based af
lol
@@mizrahiwithattitude2733 The nick haha
"Ashkenazi Jews are European and also indigenous to the Middle East." Make that make sense. A European who converts to Judaism and has no link at all to Jerusalem can "return" but Arabs who were ethnically cleansed off their land in Israel cannot.
Ashkenazi Jews are not European. We are just one of many Diaspora groups, we all come from the Levant.
And there was no historical large scale conversion into Judaism (cuz they were oppressed both in Europe and West Asia).
@@rajashashankgutta4334 what about the Khazars
@@tagbarzeev8283 they are mixed middle eastern and European still doesn’t mean living for centuries in diaspora and then returning to home country expelling people who already live there is justified 😂
@@rajashashankgutta4334 Actually there was a large forced conversion to Judaism in antiquity by John Hyrcanus who forced the Edomites Semitic people( not a secret) to Judaism
Shalom toda rabba words of true history as Persian Jewish yahoodi my late dad abba babajan is Pakistani jew and my ima mother madar jan is Iranian Jewish yahoodi we are spread on 4 corners of the world on 7 continents hashem have his bracha mercy on klal yisrael am yisrael will prevail all enemies amen 👆🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇷🇮🇷🇮🇷🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰👆Shabbat shalom shana tova happy New Year best wishes a Persian chabadnik Jewish family from New York USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@Shabaz Goondall Hello Brother. I am from Bangladesh.
It glad to hear your story. Can you speak Urdu?
God is One, Praise the One God!
And I may be only a half insider, but given the Mizrahi and the Askenazi: what about the Sephardic Jews?
Jews from Spanish and Portuguese origins. Most fled to the middle East after persecution in 1490's
As a mizrahi jew I dont approve of this partial propagandistic simple shallow video
Being raised Mizrahi was tough in America, I was a Jewish boy Named Syed✊🏾
I wonder what it means that the majority of Jews who lived in Arab land, spoke Arabic, acted and made art like the Arabs and sang in Arabic still don’t consider themselves Arab. Even the ones that lived in Arabia 1600 years ago. It smacks of some perceived ethnic superiority. Especially since we know Arabs actually converted to Judaism and could hold both ethnicities simultaneously.
Because Jews never felt home in any place other than their homeland. Historical it never lasted long before they got bullied wherever they lived. And there was always discrimination.
Jewish prayers always talk about returning to the land of Israel.
@@MusicPlaylistsChannel I’m sorry are you saying Jews never felt German or Moroccan or Russian or wherever they lived for thousands of years???
@@Fivetimesthree
For the majority that's definitely the case. anti-Semitism is passed on every generation, there's no country historically where Jews were safe. Maybe India idk
If you aren't fully accepted, do you feel like one of them?
People left their houses behind for Israel (willingly and unwillingly) and had to start from 0 yet it was worth it.
Where I live in Europe my friends already moved there and my family are constantly contemplating to move too.
Just last week I overheard my grandma (who moved into Israel as well btw) on the phone telling my dad stories from her youth of how they kidnapped young Jewish girls in Morocco. I myself met a son of kidnapped Moroccan Jewish girl in Brussels. (He's Muslim) And Morocco is known as the safer place for Jews in the middle East of the last centuries..
Murder wasn't uncommon either, my last family member stayed behind in Marrakech was murdered.
We've plenty of houses there left behind.
Prayer books are well preserved from ancient times and it's filled with "returning to Jerusalem" prayers. It's in the daily prayers.
So it's definitely not superiority issue.
People are going to adapt to where they live, but Jerusalem is always in the back of their mind. And if they forget they inevitably get reminded by antisemitism.
I have been verbally attacked over tens of times and physically a handful.
I think in USA Jews feel less American than ever due to this issue as well. You're never safe. You can never rest.
Most of the Islamic art was Jewish. The praying style of Muslims today was originally Jewish. Even some food, like Hummus which mentioned couple of times in the Hebrew Bible. And we can't be Arabs because Arab countries were just an interval in the Jewish hiatory. We are from Judea (Israel), from the tribes of Judah-Benjamin-Levy-Simon, that's why we are called Jews - we belong to this land.
@@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL
Interesting in india we call Jews yahudi and from ancient times our doors were open for our Jews friends
I’m disappointed that the initial partition of mandatory Palestine into current Israel and Jordan was not mentioned.
It’s important listeners know that Jordan has a population of 75-80% that identify as Palestinian and that Jordan is 3/4 of Palestine.
Jordan was a British gift to the Hashemite family of Arabia for helping to re-conquer the Middle East for Allah-Christ and caliphates-kings. The northern half of Jordan is also Israel. "Palestine" is the Colonial Arab-European's name for the land of Israel, which they sought to divide up however they felt. Hence, why the Jewish people of Judea-Samaria formed our "Fighters for the Freedom of Israel" paramilitaries and fought the occupying British and Arabs for near two decades, until we could achieve decolonization on as much of our historic land as possible. The Colonial Arab-European world has hated us ever since for this.
True
This is the Two-State Solution.
"Palestine and Transjordan are one." King Abdullah (1882 - 1951), king of Transjordan and its successor state, Jordan (1921 to 1951) -- Arab League meeting in Cairo,April 12 1948.
"Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is only one land, with one history and one and the same fate," Prince Hassan bin Talal (b.1947) of the Jordanian National Assembly and brother of King Hussein was quoted as saying on February 2, 1970.
"The truth is that Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan." - King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan (1935-1999) [King from 1952-1999], in 1981.
Abdul Hamid Sharif, Prime Minister of Jordan declared in 1980, "The Palestinians and Jordanians do not belong to different nationalities. They hold the same Jordanian passports, are Arabs and have the same Jordanian culture."
Arafat himself made a definitive and unequivocal statement along the same lines as late as 1993, when he declared that, “The question of borders doesn’t interest us… From the Arab standpoint, we mustn’t talk about borders. Palestine is nothing but a drop in an enormous ocean. Our nation is the Arabic nation that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and beyond it…The P.L.O. is fighting Israel in the name of Pan-Arabism. What you call 'Jordan' is nothing more than Palestine.”
Yet supremacy
This record omits the ruling of The League of Nations, and 3 rulings of the International Courts of Justice. I’ll leave it to the reader to find out what this means
My heart is over joked either culture European or that of Muslim lands, those that know their inheritance deserve this freedom and deserve to be left alone in this land, those haters need silence and end the hate today I pray..
Mizrahi jews closer to original judaism
Anti-Arab/Muslem retoric
Jews were protected and lived relatively peacefully for centuries with their Arab cousins
Only in 1948 did that change and the years that proceeded it
I hope that once again, we return as one family - as we share too much in common
lol Jews were "dhimmi" and had to pay special taxes, could not ride horses, were humiliated etc since the 7th century. There were cases when things were not bad, but there were also plenty of pogroms, attacks etc. This increased in the 19th century alot. The Farhud was in 1941, btw. All before 1948. nice try, though. This is not so different than in Europe. Also there, Jews had periods of relative safety punctuated by pogroms, humiliations, anti-Jewish laws. etc. None of this has to do with the modern State of Israel.
False. We were prosecuted many times by Arabs back then, not like from the Christians, but still. The only place that Jews were fully protected in the Islamic world was Turkey.
Here’s our newest video about that claim: th-cam.com/video/DnXSOQqzaKA/w-d-xo.html
The purest of Jews if you ask me...
Just for the record, Ashkenazi ≠ European
Yet they all look white. I can tell the difference between a Mizrahi and Ashkenazi from a mile away. Ashkenazis don't look like they belong in the middle East at all.
@@AR777bomb doesn’t mean they’re European. Also that’s incredibly racist to say.
@@calich33sehead it's incredibly racist for Ashkenazis to discriminate the Mizrahi. Most Mizrahi Jews know that Ashkenazis are European.
@@AR777bomb actually Jews are one people, and “Ashkenazi” and “Mizrahi” are indicators of traditions cultivated in exile, not racial or ethnic origins. Sure the Ashkenazi leadership of early Israel was racist to the newly immigrated Mizrahim but that’s changed since then.
@@AR777bomb Today I know more racist Mizrahim than racist Ashkenazis, it's infuriating when I moved to Israel in the early 2000's who do you think was making fun of me for being Ukrainian? Mizrahim. Even a few years ago I saw a group of kids making fun of some russian kid walking through the streets
Yemeni Jews have a different history. They are of the Israelite Jews who were exiled to the Arabian Peninsula by the Babylonians and did not return to Israel formally as a Diasporah until the State of Israel was formed. They did not return with Ezra the Scribe to Judea to rebuild the Second Temple. The Yemenite Jews is a very interesting case study in the context of Lost Israelite, to better understand Why many Israelites were Lost in the Babylonian exile but the Jews of Yemen didn't. There are two answers: One is Antisemites who remember who is a Jew even when Jews themselves forget...and Second is the Rabbinical System, Jews who stayed connected to it, did not get lost.
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The morrocon and Tunisia Jewish communities worth a series for their own. They made a strong foot print culturally, and had respect from the kings along the years. Unfortunately the new establish israel needed them to fill the country with Jewish people and knowingly rapid acquired bigger army for the wars yet to come.
Exactly
Exactly jews in Morocco were wealthy accepted and respected but he should stick to the narrative of them being kicked out.. They were discriminated against in Isreal more than in Morocco.
How about the Palestinian Jews who resided in Palestine before the creation of the State of Israel and the Nakba? Were they also Mizrahi Jews?
Hello @Unpacked , this video is certainly very interesting, but certain points have, to tell the truth, shocked or even outraged me to the point of disgust. From the SECOND MINUTE of this video, you mention, in support of a map, the fact that Muslim and North African countries collaborated with the fascist regime of Vichy to strip the Jews of their nationality and handed them over to a fatal fate. (I also underline the fact that you amputated Morocco from its Sahara, but that is another story). To refresh your memory, Morocco never delivered its Jews to anyone, and moreover, the reigning monarch at the time, namely Sultan Mohamed V, declared "In Morocco there are no Jews , there are only Moroccans. And if you take them, you will take me with them. This is to tell you all the protection that Morocco has offered the Jews, who have always been (and until this very day) full citizens enjoying the same rights and advantages as their fellow Muslims in Morocco. Moroccan Jews will tell you, moreover I invite you to consult the many testimonies about this subject.
And you, Unpacked, as a creator of content with many subscribers, remember that you have a great responsibility to respect history and above all to ensure that it is never tampered with, because if so, you are dangerously prejudicing those who have been “Righteous Among the Nations”.
As for me, as a proud Moroccan citizen, please believe in my desire to highlight untruths of this kind and to give back the merit of something to its true author.
@Marwa SEMLALI Well yes , I agree it is quite true what you write about Moroccan Jews, as for Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan and Egyptian ( well that concludes North Africa) Jews were at some points very badly treated , but even in those countries there was no mass collaboration with Nazis , there was some in Tunisia though. As for Moroccan Jews you are 100% correct to my view.
La Bas! I’ve been to Morocco many times and I love the Moroccan people… I hope Israel and Morocco continue to develop a better relationship moving into the future…
Before the creation of Modern Israel there were around 800,000 Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa. Most were Mizrahi. A lot of the Jews in Morocco are descendants of Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal. The 100,000 Mizrahi Jews of Baghdad loved living in Iraq.
Mizrahi Jews are the closest to biblical Jews.
they're also genetically very close to palestinian muslims so basically european jews are expelling jews from the holy land, it's insane
@@Cobbido Jews are expelling palestinian muslims from Israel?
"Mizrahi Jew" just means a Hamite (specifically an Egyptian) calling himself "jewish," which is a word so overloaded as to be rendered meaningless, except to say not related to the ancient Israelites at all.
You are totally wrong
Self determination. A very interesting notion. If all people ought to be able to apply this concept, and they should, how is this to be done in light of the UN's/EU's interference in nation states? I would like to hear appraisals of apparent conflicts/tensions here....always seeking to learn 🙂
Nothing gladdens my heart like the punch line: a Jew is a Jew. Anti Semitism hates Jews, not Ashkenazi, Sephardic or Mizrachi. Yisrayel Chai. Shalom from Nigeria.
We, Mizrahi and Sefardi Jews already know that Ashkenazi (khazarian) are not semites. They are Christian that embraced Judaism as many Christian today embrace Islam and vice-versa. Ashkenazim so called Jews scientifically through DNA studies showed that they belong to the Aryan race that has no link to Middle Eastern who are a Semitic race. The fake history created by Ashkenazi about their Diaspora from middle east to Europe was the biggest false story created in the last century.
The old and racist Khazar theory is ridiculous due to some very clear facts: there was already a very large jewish population in Europe for CENTURIES before any Khazar conversions. The Khazar conversion was so small it left NO cultural or linguistic imprint on jewish culture in Europe. It took place in the 9th century long after Jews had been iving in Europe. Obviously Ashkenazi people have mixed with Europeans but quite clearly also have Middle Eastern roots. This was clearly established through genetic tests like the 'Cohen' gene.
Cohen gene (google it)
Don't forget that jews were live in harmony with christians and muslims during Ottoman and Rashidun caliphate.
Wow that was so interesting. I'd heard about the mistreatment of Ethiopian Jews in Israel, but I hadn't realised that the settler colonial regime had been white supremacist from the outset
israel is majority non white
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I heard that the Mizrahi Jews were very much discriminated by Israel's Labor government in the 50s and 60s and that's why many of them voted for Begin in 1977. How much of that is true? Asking for the Israelis in the comments from a proud Zionist American Jew.
Yes it is true, the discrimination was very hrash back than..they were discriminated in education, jobs, place of living (most of them were sent to live in the Negev desert with no proper life which is why today the vast majority of the population in this area are Mizrahim until today..
Begin and the Likud party (the right wing) were the first to speak up against this discrimination (back than the left was in power)..over time the Mizrahim became the Majority in the country (they had higher birth rate) so in the 1977 Begin and the Likud won for the first time in the Israeli elections..since than traditionaly most Mizrahim are voting right wing especially for the Likud ,and since the Mizrahim are the majority the right wing is usually wins..today the current generation doesnt vote for the Likud just because of discrimination anymore, but they are used to this party and feel closer to it so they are still loyal to the Likud..in the elections, the Likud usually takes 80%-90% of the voters in the South (they are mostly Mizrahi Jews over there) this is the Likud main base of voters..also today the Mizrahim are not discriminated anymore, things has change...today most people in Israel are either Mizrahim or Mizrahim from one parent..so there is no discrimination and the Israeli culture is tend to be more Mizrahi than Ashkenazi ..and also today there is no hate between Ashkenazis or Mizrahim...we are all brothers
@@ori1676 it's ironic how leftists are actually more racist than the right wingers they regularly decry. I'll bet the leftists in Tel Aviv still have that attitude toward Mizrahim.
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Just curious to know which tribes of Israel you all come from within the 12 tribes.
It is news to me that they modeled they’re civil rights movement after the Black Panthers ✊🏽
Yes back in the 70's the Mizrahis in Israel took lot of influence from the Black community in the U.S...but know they are the majority so their condition in Israel is not the same anymore
It's more complex. Only few radicals tried to imitate the Black Panthers. The majority just wanted better life and equal services from the state. Also - there is a lot of diversty within ashkenazi/mizrahi jews. For example Jews from Persia and Yemen are both considerd mizrahi but have very little in common. They don't speak the same langauge, eat different food and have different traditions.
@@asafb1984 back in the 70's the Black Panters (the Israeli movment) had lot of followers among the youth of Mizrahi people, they even met the prime minister Golda Meir..it wasnt a movment of just "few radicals" read about them and you'll see
@@ori1676 What you say is not based of facts. The media today likes to think they had more general support because of left tendencies. Look at results of elections from back then.
@@ori1676 I would hope not. Especially if they're the majority. The Dalit people in India did the same thing. They also called themselves Black Panthers.
The fact is, only Ashkenazi that counts. The rests are second class people. The pariahs are the Palestinians, comprising true Arabs and Biblical Jews converted to Arabs during the Arab occupation to avoid land tax, who don't have right at all.
Israel was north east Africa not the Middle East in those times
Israel is on the Continent of Asia, not Africa.
Even North Africa never had any connections with sub saharan Africa. They were related to the Middle East. The berber, amazingh people of North Africa are the native people, and they are semetic, and related to other Middle Eastern people