My Chinese wife told me that wherever there are people you find Chinese, but the same goes for Jews. In fact, there do also exist Chinese Jews, and even Japan and the Philippines have or had small communities. Absolutely breathtaking video. Im Dutch and the Netherlands took many Spanish and Portuguese Jews which helped flourish the Dutch Republic. Unfortunately, in the Second World War, 75 percent of Dutch Jews perished.
Jews came from the result of a coalition of Waring tribes with many mythical beliefs. The existence of a Jew God is a myth. After groups of Hebrews became jews that was the end of the question of where most all Jews are from. Jews have become Zionists. What do we know about Zionists today: . - forever the victim, never to blame . - offended by everything/everyone, ashamed of nothing they do . - always demanding and expecting tribute where none is deserved
It is evident from observing these videos that Ashkenazi Jews from Europe receive significantly more attention and more exposure compared to Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East. It is unfortunate that the descendants of the Jews who settled in the Middle East, who are geographically closer to the Promised Land, do not receive the attention they rightfully deserve. hope next vids they post more length vids on Mizrahi Jews.
@@subcommanderxelios800 Though it is on a cline, from Strict Observances to Assimilation into whatever the Dominant Culture is. Judaism is Judaism. Beliefs are simple, implementation of those beliefs hugely involved.
It's simple to explain: Ashkenazi community used to be significantly larger, as well the majority of us Jewry. As well, with terrible speed of assimilation, more represented to the outside world
When Israel were established in Palestine, Mizrahi got expulsed from neighboring countries as a retaliation, oftentimes we heard the story of Nakba, however we seldom talk about Jews exodus that happen accidentally because of Israel foundation.
4:20 fun fact. Jews thriving was made possible by the Muslim empire in the Iberian peninsula. And Owh yes, allot of the Jews were expelled by the Christian king (once they conquered Spain) and these Jews ended up living in Muslim Morocco.
@@Benzion-x3q Don't oversimplify. It's way more complicated. Finding refuge during the Inquisition is not an insignificant chapter in J. history. Also, look at Albania's protection during WWII.
Where you getting these false stories from. Christianity and inquisition are two different things. Im here because my grandparents took refuge under Christian families during the inquisition. Don't compare inquisition with Christianity. One is done by the kings/queens for social image while the other is not. And yes since you mentioned muslim, it's not all rainbows and butterflies. Not all religion has rulers that are tolerant, yes people may be nice but not the rulers. Muslims either took a high tax or asked to convert from jews who already had no property cause it was stolen and forced to pay tax. So what option do they have ?. And yes majority of muslim communities that are peaceful with us jews all have a story whereby their ancestors were Jewish and forced to convert.
@@ZohanFall yes, lots of forced conversion. Vespasian sacked Jerusalem and use the money and slaves from doing that to build to Coliseum in Rome. There's a Jewish section of Rome that predates Christianity, it's still there, I've visited the place.
I have been wondering about your family history every time I see one of your videos. Thank you, Yirmiyahu, for explaining it. :) Your fresh style and the openness with which you report is awesome.
We Cricket lovers know about Guyana, they and other islands play as one team that is West Indies. Ivanhoe Mordecai Barrow, to give him his full name, made 105 at Old Trafford when the West Indies toured England in 1933 - not only the first and only Jewish centurion but the first cricketer to reach three figures for the West Indies overseas. So cheers.
its propaganda. No one saw themselves as jewish/ or was jewish. These zionists are trying to do to do with everone around the word what they they middle eastern jews in countries around the middle east
This video is genius! I'm 76 and a Northern European-descended/American Protestant who is a lifelong student of philosophy, religion. law, history and genealogy with many, many Jewish friends and colleagues. I knew all this general information before, in bits and pieces, but recently struggled to explain it all (badly) to my less-educated Italian Catholic wife, who literally had no clue about the complex history of the Jewish people and religion. Using your own unique and complex family history to illustrate and explicate that history was a wonderful vehicle to spread truth and understanding. Kudos to you for doing the hard work to make a great contribution to public discourse by pulling all the threads together in such an entertaining way. And in only a fast-paced 20-minute video! Again, genius! Thank you, my friend. Shalom!
Estimated 40% of southern Italians worldwide have Jewish ancestry. I am an Ashkenazi Jew with an Italian ancestry of 55%, Phoenician-Greek-Etruscan, and original Italic peoples, all of thast originating in Sicily.All my Italian American friends who have had DNA analyzed report Jewisj ancestry.
Excellent comment, I to have known this history for years and having traced my family history to pre WW1 Poland I can only wonder, am I to Jewish? IDK but it does raise a good question. Thx. for your input ✌️
I grew up hearing adults say Jews were like our (Catholics) older cousins. My grandpa served in WWII in the Brazilian navy and I remember him telling stories, one of them was the moral imperative of accommodating Jewish families that were brought in so they could thrive and grow in numbers to make up the loss during the Holocaust… I miss grandpa..
Thanks for that! As a Jew your support really means a lot to me. Our population numbers are just now reaching pre-WW2 levels, so, yeah, it was a heavy blow. I am currently, for the first time, studying Catholicism and enjoying it a lot.
if thats the case, then keep asking "where are you from?" even before Israel. Then we are all brothers and sisters. Unfortunately, some people don't believe we are all brothers and sisters.
We are brothers and sisters but everyone on earth has an ethnicity and ethnicity is not necessarily connected to one geographic area. No one is saying Jews sprouted from the earth in the Levant. We are a mixed multitude who made a covenant with G-d and we're given the land...then lost it because of our disobedience.
Thank you for this video Adonai Bless you. I really enjoyed listening to your family history. I love learning about Jewish history. God bless Jews and Holy Jerusalem. I am praying for the war to end. Manashantii The Christian
The mass derangement expressed in many of these comments is scary. Millions of people from all around the world that can look completely different from each other have collectively convinced themselves they're all indigenous to a small piece of land that comprises only .1% of the land mass in the middle east based primarily on their religion. That's beyond ridiculous.
@@yoKentucky Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it isn't true. The vast majority of Jews share DNA that traces them back to Israel.
Maybe because that is the origin of their culture they still follow today... its quite delusional of you to deny this fact, and you should ask yourself why you choose to deny it.
@@enrijuan96 They would describe themselves as Arabs i.e from the Arabian peninsular. Basically all the Muslims in that area are a direct result of Islamic conquest and colonization although some do share the same DNA as the Jews . What separate the Jews from all the other folks in tha area is their direct connection to the land, its built into their theological and cultural identity. Its a fundamental part of being a Jew much like doing the hajj to Mecca is intrinsic to being a Muslim, its a return to the source.The Jews have said 'L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim' for hundreds of years, 'Next year in Jerusalem' said during passover is a constant reminder of their ever present wish to return to their home.Its a desire that has never not been there, the Jews are very aware that they were torn from their home. There were those that never ever left, the mizrahi Jews and those who came back a few hundred years ago during the Ottoman colonization of the area, the old yeshuv talked about in the video, and its only now the rest of the family has been able to rejoin them.
I'm living in the land of my forfathers eretz Israel, born inthe Brazilian Amazon (Manaus) from Moroccan family(from fez, Marrakesh ,tetuan and Casablanca) that lived 7 generations in brazil, previously Portugal (Lisboa and Porto) and previously Spain (mostly Toledo and Cordoba), according to family tradition before the Jewish revolt from Jerusalem. My wife on the other hand is Ashkenazi of polish Ukrainian Origins.
Mind Begs the Question: ▪︎If God exiles a people from a land ▪︎For their Transgressions,Wickedness ▪︎To reestablish State with Messiah ▪︎If reestablish State without Messiah ▪︎Righteous or Wicked?
This is always fascinating how some people claim they are not only for example Kohanim but even able to claim that can prove it up to Aron. Like as it would be there any documents from 2000 or 3000 years ago. And there are NOT . Dont exist. No jew and no jewish family on whole earth can show any document which prove that their family is jewish and always was jewish starting from Moses or Aron or even 1000 years from now.
@@dshevach77 Obviously all ketubot or marriage certificate and birth certificate .. .. I dont believe at all And EVEN if .... where is this from Moses or Aron or even second temple or even Roman Empire or even from crusaders time (as in that time were influx of people from and to Israel both way) ? you just cant prove your origin at all. If your ancestor lets say converted in Chazaria and then came to Spain.. still you are not a middle eastern jew
@@avitalsheva I don't have any Ashkenazi blood on me, with the exception of one grandmother who was Lebanese Jewish (Chalabi) my whole family is Moroccan Jewish 2 grandparents Spanish Portuguese one Berber Jewish, my brother did do DNA test, his results were basically Jewish general 70%, berber 12%, hiberian (Portugal and Spain)7% ,Phoenician/Lebanese 4%, Greek and Italian 2%. And there is no such a thing as a pure race, there are always admixtures, for example I know that one of my ancestors were from the Assayag family, there are Berber Jews, who converted to Judaism over 1000 years ago, this doesn't make them less Jewish and because they married in the broader community they are genetically indistinguishable from the broader Jewish community in Morocco.
I’m a Barbadian Jew. My family came from Portugal/Spain thanks to the inquisition as well. Thank you for this walk through your family history and the history of our people.
@@DaydreamerAaren Lol yeah barbarian is right, seriously. I mean.. they said in this video that God had expected them to become an example nation and that was part of their godly contract? Well... did they achieve that? Doesn't seem like they did, did they? There's loads of nations in the world today that's better in that regard. And I'm NOT saying they started the wars with the Palestinians. ....But I AM saying that they hardly did anything to build a proper relationship with them
@@DaydreamerAaren Instead of integrating the Palestinians into their western-style advanced democracy that they got now and making them equal citizens, they did what? They built walls to keep them out of their homeland, which is of course also the Palestinians' historical homeland too, because that's what it's been for 1000+ years. Clearly both nations have an equal right to the land. So they should have been living together, both of them in the same homeland and in peace. And they WOULD HAVE, if they had acted in any sort of godly way, like Jesus. But they didn't, did they? Why doesn't he mention what they've acted like up to today? And how did they act? They built walls to keep them out of their homeland. Is the God of Israel pleased?
What a beautiful and succinctly explained story. My roots are Russian and Polish. I have blue eyes and a small nose. If I had a nickel for every time someone said “but you don’t look Jewish!” Thank you for helping to diffuse the ignorance.
I am a Jew of African descent. My Paternal ORAL history places our Origins in Ethiopia. However, Paternal DNA places our Origins in The Levant (Typically known as “Israel” today) then to Eastern Africa (Malawi Bantu and Kenyan Bantu) to Western Africa/Angola/Nigeria (Igbo) to Central America (Indigenous Yucatan Peninsula) to the United States (Indigenous North American Peoples). Because all of this is from my Father (and not my Mother), I made formal Return (Teshuvah) to comply with Halacha. FYI - I don’t believe the Igbo DNA trek from Nigeria to the Yucatán Peninsula was voluntary. Also - FOR ME: It’s not about being Jew-ish….For many in Diaspora….We didn’t get to attend services in Synagogues. For us it’s about the oral history about being descendants of Ya’akov, which is proven out via our DNA, coupled with the oral traditions (keeping Shabbat, etc) handed down thru all the generations that seals it for us. Am Israel Chai!! 🥰✡️
@@amira8070 You make an inaccurate assumption that I have not made formal return Teshuvah (or ‘Conversion’….the term you might best understand). Matriarchal lineage as a determinant of one’s Halachic standing is Rabbinic…..and as such is not found in Torah, where lineage follows the male….not the female. That said, I have, personally, fulfilled all necessary Halachic requirements for formal inclusion into Am Israel. Perhaps, you should ask a question before making an uninformed (and potentially hurtful) statement……yes? May you have a peace-filled Shabbat, if observance of Shabbat applies to you. ✡️
@@alisameireis3628 do some research on Islam. Why would Allah put a population on this earth to just have a religion to a lineage, and now he’ll fire . This life is a test.
I am from Brazil and recently discovered that my Portuguese ancestors who came to Brazil were Jews. I really enjoyed the video, it's great to learn new things.
It's a good time to explore, there's been a Ladino revival movement in both South America & North America the last few years, making it easier to find people locally but also to study online... this secondary (bridge) language may make it easier for you to connect to the community and explore the history. Which also may make genealogy research a little eaiser too and inevitably learning hebrew. Henry Abramson has a channel on youtube under his name and is also good for history. There are also a few brasil, chile, argetine libraries and oral histories of elders on youtube but many are quite dated, 10+ years old on here. Several universidade J departments but lecture quality, video/audio not always so good. And of course, several temples, synagogues and a plethora of music, many top sephardi performers from SA. . . also, entertainment in other areas too to explore. the mid 90s to mid 2000s was the peak period for films, several memoirs from brasilian Jews.
My family is Sephardic but we look European because we went to England before the US. We were very fortunate. At least one of my ancestors died because he refused to convert. Pedro de Bassano was his name. Original we were Iberian Jews. In Spain and Italy my ancestors became very involved with the Kabbalah revival at the time the Zohar appeared in print. I love knowing this because I love the mystical part of Judaism especially. We may have some French Ashkenazi dna from when my family was in England and married into the same French family a few times.
The Kabbalists say the Moshiach will come in the year 6000 of the Jewish Calendar. Since we are at year 5784 on the calendar the Moshiach will be here in 216 years.
😂😂😂 Going to live in England does not change your looks. Many different nationalities live, for now, in England and none of them look the same as the native English.
My brain keeps stalling. I hear what you are saying, but can’t set the facts aside. The black community, mostly likely farmers, were taken as prisoners from their homelands in Africa, sold and became slaves in Guyana, and other Caribbean Islands. That is what I learned for my history degree. I was just presented with some information that doesn’t fit that narrative. This is a huge learning curve to accept.
Happy to (maybe" talk) - but not interested in thoughts of others with no direct contact. Thank you for putting the time to put this together, as most of us will not. I appreciate your time and commitment.
Wow!! This story just takes me back to stories I've read in the Bible, especially Jeremiah, Nehemiah and Ezra: the captivity and rebuilding. Also Daniel, Ezekiel and Esther paint a picture of what happened in captivity. Also in Nigeria, I've heard about aspects of Igbo culture that makes believe them when they say they are of Jewish ancestry, and they are equally hated by others, they've also suffered massive genocide and had to rebuild in the 70s.
Deuteronomy 28:64 (NIV): "Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods-gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known." This verse is part of a larger passage in Deuteronomy 28, which outlines the blessings for obedience and the curses for disobedience. The dispersion of the Israelites among the nations is one of the curses for turning away from God.
This biblical text refers to a very ancient period in the history of the Jewish people. That was the period of transition from paganism to monotheism among the Jews. But you apply these divine words to a much later period. And this is completely wrong. The reasons for the dispersion of Jews around the world were, firstly, the Roman conquest when the pagan Romans tried their best to eradicate Jewish monotheism, and secondly, the Arab conquer of Palestine between 634 and 640 AD. BTW, by justifying the conqueror's violence against the Jews by the will of God, you are stepping on a very slippery slope along which you will land straight into the arms of the hideous tyrant of the last century with his policies towards the Jews.
@@Michael-wq7qx The dispersion of Jews and the return of the Jewish people to Israel is a process, not a one-time event. God scattered them across the world due to their disobedience, but He has promised to bring them back if they turn to Him, which they are doing now. However many still not believed their messiah has come 2000 years ago, this sets the stage for the Second Coming of Jesus.
@relaxchil5796 How did you manage to get into God's head? I think it's not appropriate not only for a Christian but for ANY believer to justify violence, especially by reference to the will of God. But to some people, His actions are clear, like the palm of their hand. At the same time, they cleverly manipulate quotes from Biblical texts, feeling their superiority over "some Jews."
@@relaxchil5796 your god said you will be brought back by messiah. but you guys are not waiting for messiah, you a doing it by your selfs. so basically all of you will just land in hell
I grew up thinking I was 25 percent Russian my dad told me we were “Russian Jews” when I took the dna test and found out I was actually 23 percent Jewish I was pretty amazed and have been researching every since!
@@martycap5700 The funny part is if you actually dig into the DNA, many Russian Jews aren't actually that closely related to non-Jewish Russians and often show mostly Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ancestry.
@@candidbayproductions True. Among the hundreds of Ashkenazi Jewish DNA haplogroups, only one (N-BY127009) possibly has ethnic Russian origin. However, there is some significant West Slavic (Polish & Czech) DNA in all Eastern Ashkenazim. An example of a West Slavic lineage in Ashkenazim is haplogroup H11b1c. But all Ashkenazim have 5 to 10 times more Middle Eastern DNA than Slavic DNA.
Those who left the land for 2,000 years and came back get to live like kings, whilst those who have been there since the beginning and never left, are treated like garbage. That's what I don't understand.
Because you don't know anything about Jewish history, the history of Palestine and how the Jews created a thriving economy in the places where they settled in that backward region.
The Jews who have been there since the beginning aren’t treated any different from other Israelis 🤷♂️ And by “those who left the land”, you mean those who were ethnically cleansed and exiled from their homeland, right?
Many Jews never left, there were more than a million Jews in Israel at the 16th century, and then the Ottoman arrived, forcibly expelling Jews, taking over Jewish land. giving it to Muslims. Now it's time for de-colonialism, taking back Jewish land from the Arab occupiers. BTW only 2% of the Arabs in Israel lived on this land more then a hundred years, the rest are Egyptians, work immigrants and former ottoman soldiers.
If you mean the Palestinians, they're not native and have been here since their ancestors colonized the Land of Israel. They built on the Temple Mount and claimed it as their own. They have no claim to the land and are foreigners to it. No language except the Canaanite languages, of which Hebrew is the only living one, is native to the Land of Israel.
@@Benzion-x3q check out the DNA comparisons between Arab Jews , druze , Bedouin and palestinians. It disproves that "foreigner" theory, that is unless the Arab Jews followed them. Oh, the DNA studies were from an Israeli university if I remember correctly. They called the palestinians "cousins".
I’m white, Polish, Danish, Dutch and Jewish. I usually get clocked as Dutch or Danish but some people have a hard time believing I’m Jewish. People think some weird crap. I have been told I look “Catholic” which makes no sense. Also, I’m as pale as you can get with blue eyes and blonde hair naturally. Everyone assumes Jews have dark hair and eyes.
@@ariannawiniarski5889 I see Judism as a religion and not as a race if you have European features that becuase you are European and somewhere down the line you family decided to convert to Judism or they married into Judaism with out doing a dna test you can not confirm you have middle eastern roots and that’s fine
@@romanzusman2892King David was not Blonde where did you get that lie/fabrication from? Go read the Hebrew, he was Admoniy which is Brown(Chesnut) also called Red- like the Red Heifer which is clearly Brown!!!! Wake up and cut the lies!!!!
King David was descended from Ruth, a Moabite, a foreigner. Throughout Jewish history, there hsve been infusions of outside blood into the Jewish people. Judaism is a people WITH a national religion. To say Judaism is only a religion misses the mark entirely.
And who are you to tell me who is a Jew? All my great grandparents escaped pogroms in Russia to come to the US. One strain were of a rabbinical lineage. The others were atheists who escaped religion oppression from tradition. All Jewish, 100%.
@@deuteronomy6.4bw when the whites and russians started colonizing Palestine, they had to prove that the mother was a jew not the father. according to shlomo sand "the invention of the jewish people"
The Muslims converted to Christianity, they are today's Spaniards. Jews, we cannot convert. If we can avoid it, and we have the means, we have to give it all in order to keep being Jews. We have a sense of duty to continue existing as a people. Am Israel chai!
I am a Christian, but I know of the Jewish prayer with the verse, "Next year in Jerusalem!" It was recited for centuries wherever Jews lived in the diaspora.
To all my Jewish cousins , whatever is happening in Israel is definitely not what prophet Moses PBUH preached for . If we all time travel 3000-4000 years back most of us will definitely not be were we are now. Your religion came from God , God will never accept what you are doing . Peace ✌🏼
That’s not true. “Most people” don’t move around the globe, “most people” have never travelled from where they are now; Chinese, Russians, Afghans, Indians, Europeans, Africans … Those with means to travel may move for a time, but they usually return “home.” The others, without means, have no clue what the rest of the world looks like.
There is no evidence that Moses ever lived and the jewish exdus never happened. If the jewish exdus from Egypt ever happened .. When the jewish people arrived in Israel Israel was still part of the Egypt empire, and cannnnites have been living there for hundreds of years
Great video...as always. I'm a German Jew who mainly grew up in Australia who made Aliyah to Israel almost 4 years ago. Despite the war I love my home and I'm certainly not leaving.
So, if I become jewish My home country is now Israel I could move to Israel and the west bank See, relgion is so stupid The law of return Jewish atheist - you are jewish Jewish Buddhist- you are jewish Practicing jew- you are jewish Jewish Muslim - you are not jewish Jewish Christian-You are not jewish
I'm not Jewish but my wife is. My bloodline originated in Denmark and is one of great historical significance and the vast majority of my ancestors were of high nobility and power and I'm very proud of my bloodline and the accomplishments of my ancestors. But I also strongly support and encourage my wife to fully embrace her bloodline and Jewish heritage and culture. We have 2 children together and 2 from her previous marriage but all of them are my children fully I don't call them my step kids especially since their dad never has or never will be in their lives so they are my kids and always will be. But our 2 kids we have together are so different in appearance from each other it's crazy lol our son (which is my first and only biological son) has blonde hair and green/blue eyes like me but our daughter has brown hair and brown eyes like their mom. It's really cool and I find it so interesting to learn and understand the history of people that were so different than that of my family. I know there's a lot of white people who are or try to claim that they are of the Scandinavian decent or viking etc and they are white supremacists and hate the Jews and I would give anything to get rid of these types of people and their ignorant ridiculous ideology and not all of us who are white and come from these places in the world share these beliefs and ideologies. Anyone who claims that their race or religion or anything else makes them better and above others in the world is completely ignorant and wrong. It's our individual accomplishments and deeds and especially the way we treat others that makes us special but never superior to anyone else. We really need to start acting and thinking differently and learning to treat our fellow humans better. We are all different and we have different beliefs and cultures and all kinds of things but that shouldn't be a reason to fight against each other or go to war etc. It's a shame that we are still not there yet but hopefully some day we will..
Should have also mentioned Bharat (India), where Jews were never persecuted. Late Lieutenant General Jacob was an Baghdadi Jew, born in Kolkata. He was also the Governor of the state of Punjab 🙏🏽❤️🇮🇳🇮🇱
I'm sure this will be misinterpreted and perhaps even twisted by others, but I know a little about the history of the Jews of India, and their historic ability to coexist peacefully with their neighbors always seemed absolutely the way I would have imagined, had I ventured a guess. I have had extremely positive working relationships with many Indian-Americans, and there's a basic goodness, warmth, intelligence and gentleness that always makes me feel like we're cut from very similar cloth, so to speak...
Too self Consciously jingoistic ( Bharat ! sic) .. ( Me Too !! Isms) (without a more complete understanding of the underlying realities / background - & the historicity of the phenomenon / phenomena) .. It happened all over the ancient world - from north Africa, Ethiopia - all across the Mediterranean, the Arabian peninsula, across ancient kingdoms & powers - today's Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, into parts of Europe. Plus India - since the fall of the second temple at Jerusalem or thereabouts. Small core diaspora community of Jewish traders who settled in today's Cochin - & flourished peacefully - an approx 2000 yrs continuum.. During the Raj, a flourishing Jewish community settled in Calcutta - plus some other cities / harmonious places in India.. transplanting from other communities of Jews like the Baghdadi Jewish community.
The beauty of social media is that any story can gets some attention….is anyone asking how the Jews were exiled to go live with German “barbarians”, very questionable….. also can the presenter look up implicit bias!!!
I'm from Kerala, India and we are proud say that there was no discrimination or persecution of Jews here in Kerala. Jews lived as equals for 2000 years until they decided to go back to Israel. 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇱
@@deuteronomy6.4bw tall those people commenting here... "i am a jew but secular", "my ancestors came from Israel 2000 years ago", "i am a jew but Christian"... basically 0 knowledge about anything. And that's probably 95% of the worlds population. I had a great laugh here, but on the other hand this idiotism is really scarry.
@@deuteronomy6.4bw christ never established any religion. He came for all and was born in a Jewish family. His disciples were Jews. Christian term came much later when the message went to gentiles. A Jew is always a Jew and non Jew were called christian and their religion Christianity. Love to all jews❤
@@Constatine101do you? Because it's actually possible to do ancestral DNA test if rests of the body are available! Check out the new developments in the Pompeii ruins findings!
The first people to settle in what we know as Palestine were Egyptian not Jews. Throughout the centuries many groups of people lived there. It was the British empire that forced Jews into Palestine as a last ditch colonial project.
Any serious person who is really wants to know his real root / origin he must do a Y-DNA test and within 4 weeks the results will come out and show you your Haplogroup . In our modern era very easy to track your ancestors just you need a courage to do the YDNA test .
Literally a bunch of Europeans and Americans claiming because their 800th grandparents were from Israel it’s their right to the land 😂 by that definition I’m owed a lot of land 🤬
Not only they, but also the UN General Assembly that adopted resolution number 181 on the partition of Palestine between Jews and Arabs which was gladly accepted by Jews and indignantly rejected by Arabs. It was the rejection of that UN resolution that led to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinians. Its latest phase was sparked by the two genocidal acts committed by Hamas-led Palestinians: the planned massacre of Israelites and the abduction of Israeli citizens to Gaza, where they are tortured, raped, and murdered.
No, they were murdered in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, and Iran, so they fled to Israel to escape the genocide and murder in the Arab world. They also fled Europe to escape the genocide and murder there. They bought the land and mostly obtained it fairly, with exceptions. They refused to be murdered and bullied further, so they declared independence from the murderers, people like you, who had abused them for centuries.
@@shalevbenhamo6336 Why did you decide to say Half African and not the African country but then for Poland you didn't say half European but instead you say Polish? .... just weird when people do this Africa have countries too you know
@@blackinton2526 hi, it's because it's from a general area . In general west Africa. And yes I know Africa got countries. I got Saharan Moroccan and for some reason some Nigerian DNA in me. It's a big mix so I just say African / west Africa
Some of my family is Lithuanian. To know that they came from Israel is so amazing to find out. I'm also Polish and Ukrainian. I have family in Israel now. To see now that my family has come full circle just makes me so happy.
How do you discuss Jewish origins without reference to DNA data? According to several studies by geneticists Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews hail from the Zagros mountains of Iran and the Caucasus mountains. They migrated to Palestine circa 4,000 years ago and intermixed with the natives of the Palestine/Canaan region.
Why does it matter? Just share the land with other ethnic and cultural groups and stop this "indigenous measuring test" and "my religion is the true religion" b.s.
I'd like to see your sources for that... (although it does not contradict anything in this video, since c.4000 years ago is when Abraham is said to have begun worshipping one god). But it is interesting to speculate as to whether there is any connection between Jewish monotheism and the monotheistic tradition started by Zarathustra (to become Zoroastrianism) in Iran, which arguably pre-dates Judaism.
You forgot to mention how Abraham was born in Mesopotamia, and migrated to Canaan (Palestine) allegedly because God told him that all of this land which is inhabited by the Canaanites (Levantines, mostly modern-day Palestinians), that it is to be yours. So wars were waged between them and eventually King David took over the Canaanite city that is called today Jerusalem. So what does this tell us? Jews are originally at the very earliest, from Mesopotamia.
You confuse religion and science, Biblical legends and reality revealed by science. Modern scholars agree that the Bible doesn't provide an authentic account of the Israelites' origins. The consensus supports that the archaeological evidence shows largely indigenous origins of lsraeli people in Canaan. The culture of the earliest Israelite settlements is Canaanite, their cult objects are those of Canaanite God EI, the pottery remains in the local Canaanite tradition, and the alphabet used is early Canaanite. The almost sole marker distinguishing the "Israelite" villages from Canaanite sites is an absence of pig bones as an ethnic marker. According to modern archaeological accounts , the Israelites and their culture branched out of the Canaanite peoples and their culture through the development of a monotheistic religion centered on the national God Yahweh.
@@Michael-wq7qx I am absolutely aware of that, however to believe this as a Jew is very problematic which would undermine their Jewish traditions and religion which then begs the question whether they have apostatized. Surely, you can't be a religious Jew and disbelief in God?
I'm struck by the lead question, because there was no Israel until the middle of the 20th century. I would think it's clearer to say Palestine because it's an older name.
Love this video! My own family tree has some similarities, and it’s a good subject to engage with - to address some of the negative myths out there about Jews. Having this video to potentially send to people is so helpful.
It is from the political and religious viewpoint of Jews. It ain't necessary so, as the song says. For Europeans, Jews are Ashkenazi and Sephardi, not those from Guyana, Iran, India, Ethiopia. I doubt the Romans made Jews leave whatever you call that place in the Levant. Similarly no one forced Ethiopians to convert, or Jews to move to China. I don't consider non White people to be true Jews just converted ones either way, the original people that lived in the Levant who decided that there is one God without any form are extinct and all the people claiming to be Jews are fakes, adoptees of certain beliefs and customs.
The explosion of Jews by the Romans is a bullshit. Some Jews left looking for better opportunities elsewhere and some stayed. The ones who stayed behind most eventually converted to Christianity and Islam. So when the IDF kills Palestinians, they are killing the original Jews. The irony is beyond belief. Zionism is a poison to Judaism and thrives on fomenting antisemitism for its own "perpetual victimhood" status to manipulate the masses. Judaism is a religion and not a nationality.
So you think a whole group of people decided to take on the language the writing keeping Sabbath the commandments of G-d? To be hated in their communities so they can go to Israel and tale over the land? Did you think that through?
Serious question… When going over the history of Jewish migration after the destruction of the temple. If the Jews were escaping persecution from Rome why would they flee towards their oppressor’s by going to Europe instead of fleeing into Africa or further into Asia, away from the Roman Empire. That just doesn’t make sense.
They weren’t escaping persecution- they were forcibly exiled from their homeland m (or ethnically cleansed, as kids call it these days) back to the capital or other regions of the conquering empires
Please don’t use Jews and Jewish interchangeably because they are two totally different things. Being Jewish doesn’t mean one is a Jew. Jewish is a term attributed to a person who practices Judaism as his birth religion or a convert to Judaism, regardless of his race or nationality. On the other hand, Jews are an ancient tribe (one bloodline, one race). Now “lost”, they were the original direct descendants of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin (sons of Jacob/Israel), who occupied the Southern Kingdom of (ancient) Israel, which the Romans called Judaea. No is the answer to the title, as the land now known as Israel is now inhabited by a potpourri of nationalities and races who are bound together by their common religion, Judaism. Founded in 1948, Israel is a fairly new country that not even modern-day Israelis are indigenous to the land. Jerusalem/Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire until the British conquered it, occupied it, then drafted the Balfour Declaration of 1917, allowing for the “establishment of a ‘national home’ for the Jewish people.” (Note that the word “Jews” was not used.) Palestinians also occupied the land before the British invaded. In biblical times, Canaan squatted on the land because he didn’t want to live in Africa, the land Noah had given to Ham, his father. And Joshua conquered it from the Canaanites because it was the Promised Land for the Israelites coming out of bondage from Egypt. I would say the Naqab, a Bedouin tribe of the Negev desert are the indigenous peoples in southern Israel, but even they are not natives to the land. Bedouins belong to the Arabian Peninsula, the land given by Abraham to Ishmael as his inheritance. But because it’s the Promised Land, it’s safe to say it belongs to the Israelites of the House of Jacob. The Northern Kingdom of (ancient) Israel was occupied by the 10 tribes: Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Ephraim (Joseph) & Manasseh (Joseph) and they were all called Israelites. The Southern Kingdom of (ancient) Israel was occupied by the 2 tribes of Judah & Benjamin (the real Jews by blood) and they were called Jews. The sons of Levi were scattered among the other tribes. All the 12 tribes remain lost after Nebuchadnezzar conquered the Northern Kingdom/Samaria in 721 BC, and the Romans, through a succession of conquests, captured the Southern Kingdom/Jerusalem in 70 AD. One has to be a direct descendant of the 12 tribes to be called an Israelite; and one has to be a direct descendant of just the 2 southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin to be called a Jew, as well as an Israelite. In addition to that, all the 12 tribes are also called Hebrews because they’re direct descendants of Heber, and Semites because they’re direct descendants of Shem.
Jews are not indigenous to Eretz Israel? You are really at odds with genetic studies. Google, for example : "Jewish Ethnic Divisions- Genetic studies," and read the results of the US National Academy of Science study on Jewish genetics. Keep in mind that scientific data can be refuted only by scientific data. BTW, genetic studies are based on comparison between the DNA material from human remains (some of them are 3,000 years old) taken from numerous ancient Canaan Jewish burials and the results of the studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations which show the significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry.
@@deuteronomy6.4bw You just practically repeated almost everything I wrote. 😂 My point was how today the terms Jews and Jewish are used interchangeably so it confuses people who don’t know they’re totally different. (Etymology: Jews - inhabitants of ancient Judah/Judaea; Jewish - a group of people who converted to Judaism during the Second Temple Era, around the 3rd to the 6th century.) Also, after successive conquests from the Assyrians, Babylonians and Romans, the Israelites of the north and the Jews of the south were NOT completely obliterated from the face of the earth. There’s a remnant of them that survives to this day. But nobody knows where they are. Only Gods knows where He put His Chosen People. That’s what we now call the mystery of the “Lost Tribes of Israel”
They are from the Eurasian Stepp. Like every European, Persian, Middle Easterner. As far as I understand from the Genetic drift. Two waves, one roughly 4-5 thousand and 7-9 thousand years ago. As far as the historians believe so far.
"Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry and several Jewish groups show genetic proximity to Arabs "(Genetic studies of Jews, 3d paragraph). Lawler, Andrew "DNA from the Bible's Canaanites lives on in modern Arabs and Jews " - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC September 28, 2020. Google: "Landmark study proves 90% of Jews are genetically linked to the Levant." "No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin for the Askenazi Jews " - HUMAN BIOLOGY, 2013, 86(5): 859-900. All that proves that most Jews are descendants of ancient Israelites and that Jews are indigenous to their historical homeland. Google also: Ryan Bellerose " Are Jews Indigenous to the Land of Israel?". Remember: people like you will never deprive the Jews of their homeland.
@@wescolumbus621 I challenge you and others if you can bring me a single male who is a real descendant of Jacob son of Isaac son of Abraham . Don't forget to bring me also his result of Y-DNA test .( Paternal line )
Palestinians are Arabs living in Palestine. According to the Bible, Abraham is the common ancestor of the Jews and the Arabs. Genetic findings indicate that Jewish groups show genetic proximity to Arabs("Genetic studies of Jews ", 3d paragraph). But proximity doesn't mean identity. BTW, DNA analysis of human remains taken from Canaan ancient Jewish burials definitely indicates that modern Jews are descendants of those Canaan Jews. See: Katsnelson, Alla "Jews worldwide share genetic ties." NATURE. 3 June 2010; Fudakis, Tony "Ashkenazi Jews " in "Molecular Photofitting: Predicting Ancestry and Phenotype Using DNA." Elsevier, 2010, p.383. And don't miss the article: Lawley, Andrew "DNA from the Bible's Canaanites lives on in modern Arabs and Jews." NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, 28 September 2020. All those questions solved by science are deliberately confused by antizionists(a modern euphemism for antisemites).
Amazing doucheFace thumbnail! Congrats you look like every unimaginative, lazy creator on YT. Clearly intelligent people choose stupid face thumbnails because looking like an idiot is a huge indicator that your content must be amazing! 😂
Ancestors? When you convert to a religion that doesn’t mess up with your dna. What ancestors ??? Whet are you guys on? Same way if you learn greek doesnt make you greek and ancient greeks are not your ancestors.
You are badly mistaken. Jews are not converts, excluding Khazars, a people of Turkic origin who are not considered Jews in Israel, and Ethyopian Jews. There are 142,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel(1.4 % of Israel's population). Don't you know that Jews were a persecuted race deprived of their basic rights? If you don't Google the article "Antisemitism". Conversion to Jewry in Europe would have been an unprecedented case. Did genuine Jews have their ancestors on the Middle East? Yes, they did. "Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry"("Genetic studies of Jews", 3d paragraph). Scientific conclusions speak for themselves.
@@giannis7123 There are very few people like her. A mass conversion to Judaism hasn't been observed. But there were not a few cases of Jews converting to Christianity. Take, for example, the major Russian writer of the last century Boris Pasternak who wrote one of the most important novels of his time "Doctor Zhivago," remember?
I am on one minute in the program and i cant belive you are jewish- No offence , becasue you look like someone straight from a Mayan civilization - as latin myself 😂 All good , insightful programe. I am very fascinated myself about heritage. Thanks for the topic.
This is interesting, and I think many of us have similar histories if we go back generations. It’s been the way of the world to conquer and take over land. That being said, my problem with Jews claiming that they are indigenous to the land is that it assumes that they were the first and only people living there. Which isn’t true. This line of thinking just leads us to where we are today and not moving forward with peace.
Actually, there is no undisputed evidence that Jewish communities existed in Germany between ancient Roman rule and the Middle Ages. Genetic studies suggest, the founding group of Ashkenazi Jews consisted of about 300 families that probably moved from Italy to Germany somewhere between 9th and 10th century (after Charlemagne united both regions in his Carolingian Empire).
in fairness, relatively few histories are substantiated by undisputed evidence; think in terms of Germania for region, and TH-cam video, to rationalise a lil more "benefit a la doubt", and 'valid observation' notwithstanding, never give up a willingness to accumulate more knowledge
That aligns with much of Christian history, too, and works for me. There's no Turkic language or custom in the Ashkenazi, Yiddish is German/Hebrew. Jews were also brought to England as chattel property in 1066 by William the Conqueror, although they were later expelled and lost to history.
A PCA analysis of human genomes in Europe and Middle East compared medieval Erfartern jews and suggest that they have ancestry from present day Italy which is shared by present day Ashkenazi jews. ( 65% South Italy, 19% Middle Eastern , and 16% East-European) Cell Volume 185, Issue 25p4703-4716.e16December 08, 2022 Fig. 2
With the video ending him standing on the square by the wall of old temple... That square made on the ruins of an old Palestinian quarter that was bulldozed in 1948.
The Arabs were defeated in a war that they themselves started. In November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution number 181 on the partition of Palestine between Jews and Arabs. Then, there were 633,000 Jews and 1,150,000 Arabs living in Palestine. Jews gladly accepted this resolution, but Arabs indignantly rejected it. Having been inspired by the following words of the Secretary General of the Arab League Azzam Pasha: "We'll sweep them into the "(a clear call for genocide), they attacked the emerging Jewish state but were defeated. They called the Nakba their defeat. Up to this day, Iran-backed terrorists organizations that rule the roost among the Palestinians don't recognize that resolution. And this is the root of the ongoing conflict. The latest phase of it was sparked by the two genocidal acts committed by Hamas-led Palestinians: the planned massacre of Israelites and the abduction of Israeli citizens to Gaza where they are tortured, raped, and murdered.
@@Michael-wq7qx I am writing about the square next to the wall of the old temple... That residential quarter was demolished post 1948 ... Also if you really want to debate UN 181 then look at the shares of the land... In 1947 Jews were a minority... Still they were - by UK / UN - offered about 60% of the land... and you think a rejection is what should be the focus?
@YetiFix Do you know why the partition was so disproportionate? The UN took into consideration the growing immigration of Jews to their homeland and tried its best to accommodate as many Jews as possible into the Jewish State. After all, very little time had passed since the Holocaust which showed quite well how dangerous it was for Jews to remain dispersed without a sovereign state protecting them.
@YetiFix Theoretical? Palestinian land? I see you know nothing about the topic you are writing about. Learn history - you have almost the Library of Congress at your fingertips.
But before the jews came to jerusalem is the question right? I’m curious where my Ancestor Abraham comes from. Can anyone tell me please? He for sure did not carved out the borders of Israel we know today. And wich other indigenous people lived also in the region at the time Abraham lived?
This question is in peace and truth. Where in the Torah is it written that the house of the mother make one a son or daughter of Israel? בראשית 10 : 1 ואלה תולדת בני נח שם חם ויפת ויולדו להם בנים אחר המבול׃ Bereshis 10 1 0 Now these are the toldot of the Bnei Noach: Shem, Cham, and Yephet; and unto them were banim born after the mabbul (flood). Bamidbar 1 18 And they assembled kol HaEdah together on the first yom of the second month, and they declared their family after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, one by one. במדבר 1 : 18 ואת כל העדה הקהילו באחד לחדש השני ויתילדו על משפחתם לבית אבתם במספר שמות מבן עשרים שנה ומעלה לגלגלתם׃ Please provide answer in Torah Scriptures Thank you
@@EPhiri777 When Yehuda was conquered by the Neo-Babylonians, the men of the leading houses were slaughtered and the women taken into slavery. Ultimately, the children of these slaves, by their masters, were returned to Canaan, where they were installed as the new elites. The maternal succession was introduced in order to give them legitimacy. It is indeed completely in conflict with Jewish history up intil that point, but nobody was in any position to contest it.
@@Meevious Are you referring to this time when the Babylonia and the Gentiles of Japhet coveted? Esther 8:17 [17]And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them. Esther 1:1 [1]Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
@@EPhiri777 The Neo-Babylonian conquest appears in 2 Kings 24-25. According to this text, they carried away the nobles, leaving just the poor behind, but returned an uncle of the king to rule. When the uncle rebelled, they sacked Jerusalem, slaughtering everyone but their collaborators.
If you only look at the written Torah, you are unfortunately missing half of Jewish law. However, in Bereshis, parshas Va'yara, Perek 21, Pasuk 13, וְגַם אֶת-בֶּן-הָאָמָה, לְגוֹי אֲשִׂימֶנּוּ: כִּי זַרְעֲךָ, הוּא This is a reference to Hagar, thru whom Avraham had Yishmael, the progenitor of the Arab nations. In other words, the pasuk says that Ishmael, who is the son of Hagar, will be of a different nation than Yitzchak, who was Sarah's (Avraham's first wife) son and the first child of the Jewish people. Later, the law of matrilineal descent was codified in written form in the Mishna (Yebamot 2:5; Kidushin 3:12).
Being an Israelite is a blood right and a belief . It is by your blood and not the belief that most people are telling themselves . God Almighty Yahweh choose the Hebrews as his people and not the people deciding to themselves " We are Jews ! " Praise and pray to God Almighty Yahweh in King Yahshua HaMashiach's name .
Ask a Palestinian if a Zionist Jew is “Indigenous” to Palestine. I love the heartwarming background music… 🎶 Perhaps ask a culture anthropologist what the academic standards are for “Indigenous” people? Perhaps genetic testing is a scientifically valid method for establishing “Indigenous” people?
Yes, it is. "Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry..."("Genetic studies of Jews, 3d paragraph).
@@deuteronomy6.4bw Apparently the Dreyfus affair, (1890’s France) is what convinced Herzl that Jews were not safe “anywhere”. I’m not buying it. And the British, Zionists and everyone under the sun kept telling the Arab leaders that Zionists were not looking to establish a Jewish state. Merely pointing out that European Jews want a place to immigrate to. American Jews from Brooklyn have no business illegally occupying Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Remind me of the United Nations charter that stipulates illegal occupiers do not have a right to defend themselves against attack from indigenous people?
I have such similar family history but with different countries, Chile, Peru, Turkiye, Ukraine, Poland, Rumania... when people ask where is your family from, it's so difficult to explain
You can be jewish, but it's a religion, not an etnicity from a specific place in the world. You can be jewish and not semitic; like those who have taken over Palestine.
You can learn more about that here: th-cam.com/video/aEbsai9YWDU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=J6rP9BE2gAj7pJr1 And did Israel take over Palestine?? th-cam.com/video/0BasXaiHiiI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0lQwZpVBHgQ6gAYY
The majority of Jews have DNA that comes from the Middle East in general and a large share from the Levant and Israel. The lineage goes back to the end of the last Glacial Period, 12,000 years ago.
Who’s “we” and how did you try and save Israel? And you should learn more about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians: th-cam.com/video/wIP0TMkuqGw/w-d-xo.html
Good question. I am guessing from your question that you are a fellow American and/or live in a country with presidential elections. Israel has a parliamentary system, which means the head of the party in power gets to be prime minister. There is a president, but his responsibilities are much smaller. Hope this helps understand.
@@dianas2766 What I'm wondering is why is Bibi still walking free? He should be in prison, not out slaughtering women and children. Israel was about to bring him to trial, when Hamas conveniently attacked Israel, which took the focus off his domestic crimes. BTW, the Hamas attack was permitted. IDF and Bibi were warned ahead of time. They let it happen. Bibi's "get out of jail" card only cost a few 10s of thousands of lives. Israeli and Palestinian. Bibi doesn't care.
Jewish is a belief not an ethnie i thought. So the question does not make sense. And if i ask where he is from why should i want to know if he thinks he vame 4000 years ago from somewhere? That ridicilous.
You write about something you know nothing about. Google at least "Jews" in online encyclopedia and read this article based on several hundred scientific sources.
Being a Jew is both an ethnicity and a religion. Its the only religion on earth that also has a parallel ethnicity. You don't have to be religious to be a Jew. In fact, you can be an athiest and still be a Jew. "Ethnicity" is different than race, although it sometimes can be connected. "Ethnicity" is simply a social group of people who share similiar behaviors, beliefs, traditions, culture, customs, identity and geographical origin. Unlike Christians, Muslims, Buddahists, etc, most jews are born into Judaism. You can't just join and be baptized in like a Christian. Its a hard process of steps, and you have to be accepted in. But aside from all that I have mentioned, even if the Jews never wanted to be an ethnicity, the rest of the world has done a great job forcing that ethnic identity upon them.
@@TheJTcreate just a little side note- Jews aren’t even the only ethno religious group in the Levant. The Druze meet that qualification but there’s also ethnic Mennonites and Sikhs elsewhere. Wikipedia has a great article labeled „ethnoreligious group”.
To be a "Jew" is to be a part of a religious sect, it's not an ethnicity. The Hebrews were Jews...but not all Jews are Hebrews. A distinction that must be learned and stated in order to bring clarity to the issue of heritage.
You are mistaken. " the terms Hebrews, Jews, and Israelites all refer to the same people..." - Harold Hancock (U of Delaware) " Is there a difference between Hebrews, Jews, and Israelites?"(Google this article). That's why "Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry.."(Genetic studies of Jews, 3d paragraph). Google also: "Landmark study proves that 90% of Jews are genetically linked to the Levant". These genetic conclusions are based on genetic analysis of human remains taken from numerous ancient Canaan Jewish burials covering the period of more than 3,000 years and the comparison of its results with the gene pools of present-day Jews, regardless of their area of residence.
Thank you for this wonderful story. as an Ashkenazi Jew it’s hard for me to explain to Gentile that I am from Israel. Thank you for the beautiful story and the clear explanation of your history and mine. #BaruchHashem
Why? Why would anyone who isn’t of the Jewish faith care where you are from? It’s not hard to tell a person who is not Jewish that you are from Israel - just say, “I’m from Israel.” Everyone will understand perfectly and they won’t care. That’s your business.
@@enigma_-_79 Because people like to bother us with "where are you really from?" "doesn't that make you european?" "you're not middle eastern lmao" "youre white" "you're not native to israel the arabs are(despite the fact that they come from arabia)" a lot of it is done because of ignorance but some do it out of hate
@@enigma_-_79you don’t think it’s a natural reaction of curiosity to inquire further when someone says they’re from a place where the current inhabitants do not resemble them? I’d imagine the first person to question that would be yourself which shouldn’t come as a surprise when others share the same curiosity. And wouldn’t the struggle of explanation if anything, highlight your own struggle of understanding what you’ve been told your own identity is and isn’t ?
Bravo. Finally... Hollywood films promote white Judaism... A great example is "You People" the film. Jews came from East Africa (my guess). My father's grandmother came to Jamaica from Europe as a Jew.
Not confirmed by science. "Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry..."("Genetic studies of Jews", 3d paragraph). How does genetics determine the genotype of ancestors who lived thousands of years ago? Based on DNA analysis of archaeological finds, ancient burials, and even corpolites(petrified excrements). Genetics not only works great with the corpses of recently deceased people(for criminology) but also with human remains, regardless of their antiquity, and not only with human material. For example, DNA of some species of ancient animals, such as mammoths and cave bears were extracted and analyzed.
@@deuteronomy6.4bwExactly who also married non-Jews all of them! We know Yehudah married into Kenani, Yosef an Egyptian princess! So other than Lear or the children of Dinah!, by todays definition that Judaism comes from the mothers side no one is Jewish! - so it lives all in the same boat! Look at king David, in great-grand mother Moabite!, even his great-grandfather Oved was mixed union, too! Yes we admit the current Jewry are the elites that survived but it doesn’t disqualify all of us we went furthest running away from our God and Father! Baruch HaShem! Now we are coming Home! For once more Yerushalayim and eretz Yisra’el will be as defined by Elokhim huge from Africa South of Asia - that’s all our Land! it’s written! 🙏🔥🙌🏾
@@Michael-wq7qxcorrect and wrong! Yes if you test the fee with a few! But a diverse group 12 man that married different women now you can test their Jewry! Infact on that basis the Lemba Tribe of Southern Africa (Zimbabwe and SA) have the highest kohanim gene! - 🧬 so what they become Jews! No! The ones who are Jews now - are Jews - we respect that - but don’t deny those who identify as Jews and love the Elokhim of Yisra’el as their God! There is no kudos to seeking Jewish identity - what benefits does one get but being persecuted! - it’s like seeking to be Black! - it has no benefits but to be ridiculed! So imagine being Black and Jewish! - double the worst label! - history of Europe shows that Blacks and Jews were the most persecuted! This is why Mashiach is coming and the true Jew is them that worships the Elokhim of Yisra’el with all their heart, all their soul and all their Might! Shema Yisra’el ADONAI Eloheinu ADONAI Echad! Baruch b’Shem ADONAI! We are waiting for Shiloh - to unite us! Come our Husbandman - out King! Bring the Father! Avinu Malkeinu! 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️ 🙏🔥🙌🏾
A better question is If the majority of an ethnic group leaves its homeland for more than 1,500 years, is that land still theirs? Because, this is really what we're talking about when it comes to the Israeli - Arab conflict. Jewish immigrants from Europe-descendants of Jews who left the Holy Land more than 1,000 years ago, started immigrated to Palestine before WW2, when it was under British control. Then many more of them immigrated to Palestine after WW2 and started forcing Palestinians, whose ancestors had been there for thousands of years, off their land. It's the Jewish immigrants who started the whole conflict.
You don't have any idea of the history of the Jewish people. Google, for example, "Jewish history," and read this encyclopedic article based on several hundred scientific sources. Google also "Jews" in online encyclopedia. But I understand you: knowledge dispels the intellectual darkness of antizionism you prefer to be in.
@lordharry423 In November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution number 181 on the partition of Palestine between Jews and Arabs. Then there were 633,000 Jews and 1,150,000 Arabs living in Palestine. Jews gladly accepted that resolution but Arabs indignantly rejected it. Having been inspired by the following words of the Secretary General of the Arab League Azzam Pasha "We'll sweep them into the sea ", they attacked the emerging Jewish state but were defeated. They called the Nakba their defeat. Up to this day Iran-backed terrorists organizations that rule the roost among the Palestinians don't recognize that resolution. And this is the root of the ongoing conflict. Live and learn, Lord Harry.
Buddy, youre clearly not from there. You're mixed race, and MAY havs some heritage therr throufh your paternal grandfather, but at the end of the day, you are not from a region that some of your ancestors were in 2500 years ago. Your DNA test would verify this
It is stupid to define a person( Jew/non Jew - who is he in this case?) by the degree of his or her ritualism. And all attempts to deprive a Jew of his ethnicity - despite the inexorable truth of genetic findings - seem ridiculous if not madcap.
Judaism is not an ethnicity or a race, it is a religion. The ethnicity is the country where the people of Jewish religion come from. There are only 8 million Americans with the religion of Jewish. There are only 20 million in the world with the religion of Jewish.
Natenhatu is the devil's advocate
My Chinese wife told me that wherever there are people you find Chinese, but the same goes for Jews. In fact, there do also exist Chinese Jews, and even Japan and the Philippines have or had small communities. Absolutely breathtaking video.
Im Dutch and the Netherlands took many Spanish and Portuguese Jews which helped flourish the Dutch Republic. Unfortunately, in the Second World War, 75 percent of Dutch Jews perished.
Jews came from the result of a coalition of Waring tribes with many mythical beliefs. The existence of a Jew God is a myth. After groups of Hebrews became jews that was the end of the question of where most all Jews are from. Jews have become Zionists. What do we know about Zionists today:
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It is evident from observing these videos that Ashkenazi Jews from Europe receive significantly more attention and more exposure compared to Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East. It is unfortunate that the descendants of the Jews who settled in the Middle East, who are geographically closer to the Promised Land, do not receive the attention they rightfully deserve. hope next vids they post more length vids on Mizrahi Jews.
It’s amazing how diverse the Jewish people are. Some are religious while others are not.
@@subcommanderxelios800 Though it is on a cline, from Strict Observances to Assimilation into whatever the Dominant Culture is. Judaism is Judaism. Beliefs are simple, implementation of those beliefs hugely involved.
It's simple to explain: Ashkenazi community used to be significantly larger, as well the majority of us Jewry. As well, with terrible speed of assimilation, more represented to the outside world
@@alexanderanoshkin3571 It’s weird that when someone mentions Jews they always think about the ashkenazi, when Mizrahi Jews exist as well.
When Israel were established in Palestine, Mizrahi got expulsed from neighboring countries as a retaliation, oftentimes we heard the story of Nakba, however we seldom talk about Jews exodus that happen accidentally because of Israel foundation.
4:20 fun fact. Jews thriving was made possible by the Muslim empire in the Iberian peninsula. And Owh yes, allot of the Jews were expelled by the Christian king (once they conquered Spain) and these Jews ended up living in Muslim Morocco.
"Thriving", we mean as 2nd class citizens doing the dirty work as Dhimmi and paying a tax for the privilege of staying alive? LOL
Muslims treated us horribly and horrifically. What are you talking about?
@@Benzion-x3q Don't oversimplify. It's way more complicated. Finding refuge during the Inquisition is not an insignificant chapter in J. history. Also, look at Albania's protection during WWII.
Where you getting these false stories from. Christianity and inquisition are two different things. Im here because my grandparents took refuge under Christian families during the inquisition. Don't compare inquisition with Christianity. One is done by the kings/queens for social image while the other is not. And yes since you mentioned muslim, it's not all rainbows and butterflies. Not all religion has rulers that are tolerant, yes people may be nice but not the rulers. Muslims either took a high tax or asked to convert from jews who already had no property cause it was stolen and forced to pay tax. So what option do they have ?. And yes majority of muslim communities that are peaceful with us jews all have a story whereby their ancestors were Jewish and forced to convert.
@@ZohanFall yes, lots of forced conversion. Vespasian sacked Jerusalem and use the money and slaves from doing that to build to Coliseum in Rome. There's a Jewish section of Rome that predates Christianity, it's still there, I've visited the place.
I have been wondering about your family history every time I see one of your videos. Thank you, Yirmiyahu, for explaining it. :) Your fresh style and the openness with which you report is awesome.
We Cricket lovers know about Guyana, they and other islands play as one team that is West Indies. Ivanhoe Mordecai Barrow, to give him his full name, made 105 at Old Trafford when the West Indies toured England in 1933 - not only the first and only Jewish centurion but the first cricketer to reach three figures for the West Indies overseas. So cheers.
its propaganda. No one saw themselves as jewish/ or was jewish. These zionists are trying to do to do with everone around the word what they they middle eastern jews in countries around the middle east
Well presented. I'm from USA, parents/grandparents, great-grandparents from Iraq, Italy, Spain, Marocco, Egypt and Israel.
This video is genius! I'm 76 and a Northern European-descended/American Protestant who is a lifelong student of philosophy, religion. law, history and genealogy with many, many Jewish friends and colleagues. I knew all this general information before, in bits and pieces, but recently struggled to explain it all (badly) to my less-educated Italian Catholic wife, who literally had no clue about the complex history of the Jewish people and religion. Using your own unique and complex family history to illustrate and explicate that history was a wonderful vehicle to spread truth and understanding. Kudos to you for doing the hard work to make a great contribution to public discourse by pulling all the threads together in such an entertaining way. And in only a fast-paced 20-minute video! Again, genius! Thank you, my friend. Shalom!
Estimated 40% of southern Italians worldwide have Jewish ancestry. I am an Ashkenazi Jew with an Italian ancestry of 55%, Phoenician-Greek-Etruscan, and original Italic peoples, all of thast originating in Sicily.All my Italian American friends who have had DNA analyzed report Jewisj ancestry.
Excellent comment, I to have known this history for years and having traced my family history to pre WW1 Poland I can only wonder, am I to Jewish? IDK but it does raise a good question. Thx. for your input ✌️
@@michaelkeats3300 Maybe that explains the origin of the Mafia
WtF! Nunca había leído un comentario tan racista!@@lauraly2712
I grew up hearing adults say Jews were like our (Catholics) older cousins. My grandpa served in WWII in the Brazilian navy and I remember him telling stories, one of them was the moral imperative of accommodating Jewish families that were brought in so they could thrive and grow in numbers to make up the loss during the Holocaust… I miss grandpa..
I am a Roman Catholic that love Judaism
Thanks for that! As a Jew your support really means a lot to me. Our population numbers are just now reaching pre-WW2 levels, so, yeah, it was a heavy blow.
I am currently, for the first time, studying Catholicism and enjoying it a lot.
@@sw6155 You're right, you all come from the Caucasus mountains, that borders Russia and the Ukraine.
Catholics persecuted Jews during the 1,260 years of Papal rule and into the 20th century
@@mychloebaby1 *Casually ignores sephardim and mizrachim*
if thats the case, then keep asking "where are you from?" even before Israel. Then we are all brothers and sisters. Unfortunately, some people don't believe we are all brothers and sisters.
@@Cyberphunkisms the mother of creation is the same people that are treated like crap . It’s Africa ok
No, we are not. There are bad breeds and good breeds...
We're all Somalian. Stop fighting over dumb religion
We are brothers and sisters but everyone on earth has an ethnicity and ethnicity is not necessarily connected to one geographic area. No one is saying Jews sprouted from the earth in the Levant. We are a mixed multitude who made a covenant with G-d and we're given the land...then lost it because of our disobedience.
We also have the Erev Rav inside of our collective. Only Hashem can deal with them...
Thank you for this video
Adonai Bless you.
I really enjoyed listening to your family history.
I love learning about Jewish history.
God bless Jews and Holy Jerusalem.
I am praying for the war to end.
Manashantii The Christian
The mass derangement expressed in many of these comments is scary. Millions of people from all around the world that can look completely different from each other have collectively convinced themselves they're all indigenous to a small piece of land that comprises only .1% of the land mass in the middle east based primarily on their religion. That's beyond ridiculous.
@@yoKentucky Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it isn't true. The vast majority of Jews share DNA that traces them back to Israel.
Maybe because that is the origin of their culture they still follow today... its quite delusional of you to deny this fact, and you should ask yourself why you choose to deny it.
@@Ben-gd4dbwhat about the people from the West Bank?
@@enrijuan96 They would describe themselves as Arabs i.e from the Arabian peninsular. Basically all the Muslims in that area are a direct result of Islamic conquest and colonization although some do share the same DNA as the Jews . What separate the Jews from all the other folks in tha area is their direct connection to the land, its built into their theological and cultural identity. Its a fundamental part of being a Jew much like doing the hajj to Mecca is intrinsic to being a Muslim, its a return to the source.The Jews have said 'L'Shana Haba'ah B'Yerushalayim' for hundreds of years, 'Next year in Jerusalem' said during passover is a constant reminder of their ever present wish to return to their home.Its a desire that has never not been there, the Jews are very aware that they were torn from their home. There were those that never ever left, the mizrahi Jews and those who came back a few hundred years ago during the Ottoman colonization of the area, the old yeshuv talked about in the video, and its only now the rest of the family has been able to rejoin them.
It's the fact that they kept their indigenous culture throughout the generations. It has little to do with religion as such.
I'm living in the land of my forfathers eretz Israel, born inthe Brazilian Amazon (Manaus) from Moroccan family(from fez, Marrakesh ,tetuan and Casablanca) that lived 7 generations in brazil, previously Portugal (Lisboa and Porto) and previously Spain (mostly Toledo and Cordoba), according to family tradition before the Jewish revolt from Jerusalem.
My wife on the other hand is Ashkenazi of polish Ukrainian Origins.
Mind Begs the Question:
▪︎If God exiles a people from a land
▪︎For their Transgressions,Wickedness
▪︎To reestablish State with Messiah
▪︎If reestablish State without Messiah
▪︎Righteous or Wicked?
This is always fascinating how some people claim they are not only for example Kohanim but even able to claim that can prove it up to Aron. Like as it would be there any documents from 2000 or 3000 years ago. And there are NOT . Dont exist. No jew and no jewish family on whole earth can show any document which prove that their family is jewish and always was jewish starting from Moses or Aron or even 1000 years from now.
@@avitalsheva in our case we have a family tree going to 1440, all the way to Spain, going all the way to Ribbi Abraham Saba of Castilia
@@dshevach77 Obviously all ketubot or marriage certificate and birth certificate .. .. I dont believe at all
And EVEN if .... where is this from Moses or Aron or even second temple or even Roman Empire or even from crusaders time (as in that time were influx of people from and to Israel both way) ?
you just cant prove your origin at all. If your ancestor lets say converted in Chazaria and then came to Spain.. still you are not a middle eastern jew
@@avitalsheva I don't have any Ashkenazi blood on me, with the exception of one grandmother who was Lebanese Jewish (Chalabi) my whole family is Moroccan Jewish 2 grandparents Spanish Portuguese one Berber Jewish, my brother did do DNA test, his results were basically Jewish general 70%, berber 12%, hiberian (Portugal and Spain)7% ,Phoenician/Lebanese 4%, Greek and Italian 2%. And there is no such a thing as a pure race, there are always admixtures, for example I know that one of my ancestors were from the Assayag family, there are Berber Jews, who converted to Judaism over 1000 years ago, this doesn't make them less Jewish and because they married in the broader community they are genetically indistinguishable from the broader Jewish community in Morocco.
You have a connection to Tirat Tsvi! I lived there in the 80s.
facist gathering?
I’m a Barbadian Jew. My family came from Portugal/Spain thanks to the inquisition as well. Thank you for this walk through your family history and the history of our people.
I'm sorry but I read "barbarian" and I was really confused for a second 😂
@@DaydreamerAaren Lol yeah barbarian is right, seriously.
I mean.. they said in this video that God had expected them to become an example nation and that was part of their godly contract?
Well... did they achieve that?
Doesn't seem like they did, did they? There's loads of nations in the world today that's better in that regard.
And I'm NOT saying they started the wars with the Palestinians.
....But I AM saying that they hardly did anything to build a proper relationship with them
@@DaydreamerAaren Instead of integrating the Palestinians into their western-style advanced democracy that they got now and making them equal citizens, they did what?
They built walls to keep them out of their homeland, which is of course also the Palestinians' historical homeland too, because that's what it's been for 1000+ years. Clearly both nations have an equal right to the land.
So they should have been living together, both of them in the same homeland and in peace.
And they WOULD HAVE, if they had acted in any sort of godly way, like Jesus. But they didn't, did they?
Why doesn't he mention what they've acted like up to today? And how did they act?
They built walls to keep them out of their homeland. Is the God of Israel pleased?
@@JamesMiller-d9z You are no Israelite. 🤦🏿♂️You're just a European colonizers...lol.. Your people have no genetics of Northeast Africa. 😂
WTF IS Barbadian? oh you really from Barbados?
What a beautiful and succinctly explained story. My roots are Russian and Polish. I have blue eyes and a small nose. If I had a nickel for every time someone said “but you don’t look Jewish!” Thank you for helping to diffuse the ignorance.
I'm Guyanese ,I never knew we had a jewish community, thanks for sharing 😊
There isnt, its just propaganda. Propaganda to counteract Israeli colonialism of Palestian claims
He is Lying
@@carabbot1 🤣
He is Lying.
It doesnt. They always do stuff like this.And dont go to wikipedia. They control all the Wikipedia pages
I am a Jew of African descent. My Paternal ORAL history places our Origins in Ethiopia. However, Paternal DNA places our Origins in The Levant (Typically known as “Israel” today) then to Eastern Africa (Malawi Bantu and Kenyan Bantu) to Western Africa/Angola/Nigeria (Igbo) to Central America (Indigenous Yucatan Peninsula) to the United States (Indigenous North American Peoples). Because all of this is from my Father (and not my Mother), I made formal Return (Teshuvah) to comply with Halacha. FYI - I don’t believe the Igbo DNA trek from Nigeria to the Yucatán Peninsula was voluntary. Also - FOR ME: It’s not about being Jew-ish….For many in Diaspora….We didn’t get to attend services in Synagogues. For us it’s about the oral history about being descendants of Ya’akov, which is proven out via our DNA, coupled with the oral traditions (keeping Shabbat, etc) handed down thru all the generations that seals it for us. Am Israel Chai!! 🥰✡️
They don’t claim u lol
@@amira8070 You make an inaccurate assumption that I have not made formal return Teshuvah (or ‘Conversion’….the term you might best understand). Matriarchal lineage as a determinant of one’s Halachic standing is Rabbinic…..and as such is not found in Torah, where lineage follows the male….not the female. That said, I have, personally, fulfilled all necessary Halachic requirements for formal inclusion into Am Israel. Perhaps, you should ask a question before making an uninformed (and potentially hurtful) statement……yes? May you have a peace-filled Shabbat, if observance of Shabbat applies to you. ✡️
@@alisameireis3628 do some research on Islam. Why would Allah put a population on this earth to just have a religion to a lineage, and now he’ll fire . This life is a test.
Hahaha 😂
@@amira8070I’ve have a Jewish friend a he sees many black Jews lmao
I am from Brazil and recently discovered that my Portuguese ancestors who came to Brazil were Jews. I really enjoyed the video, it's great to learn new things.
It's a good time to explore, there's been a Ladino revival movement in both South America & North America the last few years, making it easier to find people locally but also to study online... this secondary (bridge) language may make it easier for you to connect to the community and explore the history. Which also may make genealogy research a little eaiser too and inevitably learning hebrew. Henry Abramson has a channel on youtube under his name and is also good for history. There are also a few brasil, chile, argetine libraries and oral histories of elders on youtube but many are quite dated, 10+ years old on here. Several universidade J departments but lecture quality, video/audio not always so good. And of course, several temples, synagogues and a plethora of music, many top sephardi performers from SA. . . also, entertainment in other areas too to explore. the mid 90s to mid 2000s was the peak period for films, several memoirs from brasilian Jews.
@@KieroSi After watching this video I really wanted to explore more about this.
Google Christopher Bollyn on youtube. AND you will feel pride for your jewish heritage and know who is trying to hijack it.
Thank you so much for getting this history out there! I am a 70 year old Hebrew woman, I live in New Mexico. Bless you ❤
IM DESI & JEWISH. I HAVE FAMILY IN GUYANA / RICHMOND HILL ON MY DADS SIDE. LIVICH FROM LITHIANIA ON MY MOMS SIDE.
why are you shouting and what is lithiania?
its a place south of estonia and latvia.
@@christophersmith1155 I am pretty sure that place isnt called Lithiania
maybe. dont ask the russians or poland. they still think its theirs.
richmond hill like ontario?
THANK YOU for making this video!!!! I’ve found most people don’t understand diaspora and aliyah.
Shalom!🕊️
My family is Sephardic but we look European because we went to England before the US. We were very fortunate. At least one of my ancestors died because he refused to convert. Pedro de Bassano was his name.
Original we were Iberian Jews. In Spain and Italy my ancestors became very involved with the Kabbalah revival at the time the Zohar appeared in print. I love knowing this because I love the mystical part of Judaism especially. We may have some French Ashkenazi dna from when my family was in England and married into the same French family a few times.
The Kabbalists say the Moshiach will come in the year 6000 of the Jewish Calendar. Since we are at year 5784 on the calendar the Moshiach will be here in 216 years.
😂😂😂 Going to live in England does not change your looks. Many different nationalities live, for now, in England and none of them look the same as the native English.
My brain keeps stalling. I hear what you are saying, but can’t set the facts aside. The black community, mostly likely farmers, were taken as prisoners from their homelands in Africa, sold and became slaves in Guyana, and other Caribbean Islands. That is what I learned for my history degree. I was just presented with some information that doesn’t fit that narrative. This is a huge learning curve to accept.
Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content 🙏🏾
Go far enough back then all humans originated from Kenya. Do you wanna occupy Kenya too?
Go even deeper! You have not even scratched the surface yet!!!!
Happy to (maybe" talk) - but not interested in thoughts of others with no direct contact. Thank you for putting the time to put this together, as most of us will not. I appreciate your time and commitment.
Wow!! This story just takes me back to stories I've read in the Bible, especially Jeremiah, Nehemiah and Ezra: the captivity and rebuilding. Also Daniel, Ezekiel and Esther paint a picture of what happened in captivity. Also in Nigeria, I've heard about aspects of Igbo culture that makes believe them when they say they are of Jewish ancestry, and they are equally hated by others, they've also suffered massive genocide and had to rebuild in the 70s.
We made a whole video about the Igbo: th-cam.com/video/BHwI3MaRWBc/w-d-xo.html
@@UNPACKED Great, That Will Be Fascinating!!! I Liked This Video Too!!!
Deuteronomy 28:64 (NIV):
"Then the Lord will scatter you among all nations, from one end of the earth to the other. There you will worship other gods-gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known."
This verse is part of a larger passage in Deuteronomy 28, which outlines the blessings for obedience and the curses for disobedience. The dispersion of the Israelites among the nations is one of the curses for turning away from God.
This biblical text refers to a very ancient period in the history of the Jewish people. That was the period of transition from paganism to monotheism among the Jews. But you apply these divine words to a much later period. And this is completely wrong.
The reasons for the dispersion of Jews around the world were, firstly, the Roman conquest when the pagan Romans tried their best to eradicate Jewish monotheism, and secondly, the Arab conquer of Palestine between 634 and 640 AD.
BTW, by justifying the conqueror's violence against the Jews by the will of God, you are stepping on a very slippery slope along which you will land straight into the arms of the hideous tyrant of the last century with his policies towards the Jews.
@@Michael-wq7qx The dispersion of Jews and the return of the Jewish people to Israel is a process, not a one-time event. God scattered them across the world due to their disobedience, but He has promised to bring them back if they turn to Him, which they are doing now. However many still not believed their messiah has come 2000 years ago, this sets the stage for the Second Coming of Jesus.
@relaxchil5796
How did you manage to get into God's head? I think it's not appropriate not only for a Christian but for ANY believer to justify violence, especially by reference to the will of God. But to some people, His actions are clear, like the palm of their hand. At the same time, they cleverly manipulate quotes from Biblical texts, feeling their superiority over "some Jews."
@@relaxchil5796 your god said you will be brought back by messiah. but you guys are not waiting for messiah, you a doing it by your selfs. so basically all of you will just land in hell
But still praying to STONE WALL?😅
Ashkenazi Jew here! Thanks for this video
I grew up thinking I was 25 percent Russian my dad told me we were “Russian Jews” when I took the dna test and found out I was actually 23 percent Jewish I was pretty amazed and have been researching every since!
@@martycap5700 The funny part is if you actually dig into the DNA, many Russian Jews aren't actually that closely related to non-Jewish Russians and often show mostly Mediterranean and Middle Eastern ancestry.
@@candidbayproductions I have learned that
@@candidbayproductions but I thought modern Ashkenazi would not have much middle eastern dna and woukd just be considered European
@@candidbayproductions True. Among the hundreds of Ashkenazi Jewish DNA haplogroups, only one (N-BY127009) possibly has ethnic Russian origin. However, there is some significant West Slavic (Polish & Czech) DNA in all Eastern Ashkenazim. An example of a West Slavic lineage in Ashkenazim is haplogroup H11b1c. But all Ashkenazim have 5 to 10 times more Middle Eastern DNA than Slavic DNA.
Those who left the land for 2,000 years and came back get to live like kings, whilst those who have been there since the beginning and never left, are treated like garbage. That's what I don't understand.
Because you don't know anything about Jewish history, the history of Palestine and how the Jews created a thriving economy in the places where they settled in that backward region.
The Jews who have been there since the beginning aren’t treated any different from other Israelis 🤷♂️
And by “those who left the land”, you mean those who were ethnically cleansed and exiled from their homeland, right?
Many Jews never left, there were more than a million Jews in Israel at the 16th century, and then the Ottoman arrived, forcibly expelling Jews, taking over Jewish land. giving it to Muslims. Now it's time for de-colonialism, taking back Jewish land from the Arab occupiers. BTW only 2% of the Arabs in Israel lived on this land more then a hundred years, the rest are Egyptians, work immigrants and former ottoman soldiers.
If you mean the Palestinians, they're not native and have been here since their ancestors colonized the Land of Israel. They built on the Temple Mount and claimed it as their own.
They have no claim to the land and are foreigners to it. No language except the Canaanite languages, of which Hebrew is the only living one, is native to the Land of Israel.
@@Benzion-x3q check out the DNA comparisons between Arab Jews , druze , Bedouin and palestinians. It disproves that "foreigner" theory, that is unless the Arab Jews followed them. Oh, the DNA studies were from an Israeli university if I remember correctly. They called the palestinians "cousins".
I’m white, Polish, Danish, Dutch and Jewish. I usually get clocked as Dutch or Danish but some people have a hard time believing I’m Jewish. People think some weird crap. I have been told I look “Catholic” which makes no sense. Also, I’m as pale as you can get with blue eyes and blonde hair naturally. Everyone assumes Jews have dark hair and eyes.
Yet King David was a blonde 😅. People should read more(especially if they consider themselves Believers)
@@ariannawiniarski5889 I see Judism as a religion and not as a race if you have European features that becuase you are European and somewhere down the line you family decided to convert to Judism or they married into Judaism with out doing a dna test you can not confirm you have middle eastern roots and that’s fine
@@romanzusman2892King David was not Blonde where did you get that lie/fabrication from? Go read the Hebrew, he was Admoniy which is Brown(Chesnut) also called Red- like the Red Heifer which is clearly Brown!!!! Wake up and cut the lies!!!!
@@wasiqmohammad9879well said
King David was descended from Ruth, a Moabite, a foreigner. Throughout Jewish history, there hsve been infusions of outside blood into the Jewish people. Judaism is a people WITH a national religion. To say Judaism is only a religion misses the mark entirely.
Hello and thank you from a secular Jew in the north woods. Beautifully explained history from a memorable presenter.
And who are you to tell me who is a Jew? All my great grandparents escaped pogroms in Russia to come to the US. One strain were of a rabbinical lineage. The others were atheists who escaped religion oppression from tradition. All Jewish, 100%.
@@deuteronomy6.4bw you must be joking.
there are no secular jews. jews are not a nation. it is just a religion. like there is no secular christian, or secular Buddhist and so on
@@deuteronomy6.4bw except that paternal geneology does not count. it has to be maternal
@@deuteronomy6.4bw when the whites and russians started colonizing Palestine, they had to prove that the mother was a jew not the father. according to shlomo sand "the invention of the jewish people"
Remaining the Jews of Nigeria AKA IGBOS to come back to Zion someday.
Wonderful video ✌🏽
Yeah, don't that myth flies.
umm he failed to mention the Spanish inquisition was both against muslim and jew
And against about any one other than Catholic.
The Muslims converted to Christianity, they are today's Spaniards.
Jews, we cannot convert. If we can avoid it, and we have the means, we have to give it all in order to keep being Jews. We have a sense of duty to continue existing as a people. Am Israel chai!
And protestant.
@@cocokai9661 Protestants didn't exist yet during the inquisition that expelled the jews. That wasn't until much later.
@@turnercommunicationsgroupLLC Do more research. Yes, they did. And yes, they were persecuted.
I am a Christian, but I know of the Jewish prayer with the verse, "Next year in Jerusalem!" It was recited for centuries wherever Jews lived in the diaspora.
Who killed your Jesus ?
@@fatalhussain1471 the romans
also pls stfu, muslims legit kill everyone without regard for human life
Heretic Christian
To all my Jewish cousins , whatever is happening in Israel is definitely not what prophet Moses PBUH preached for . If we all time travel 3000-4000 years back most of us will definitely not be were we are now. Your religion came from God , God will never accept what you are doing . Peace ✌🏼
That’s not true. “Most people” don’t move around the globe, “most people” have never travelled from where they are now; Chinese, Russians, Afghans, Indians, Europeans, Africans …
Those with means to travel may move for a time, but they usually return “home.” The others, without means, have no clue what the rest of the world looks like.
Speak for yourself.
There is no evidence that Moses ever lived and the jewish exdus never happened.
If the jewish exdus from Egypt ever happened .. When the jewish people arrived in Israel
Israel was still part of the Egypt empire, and cannnnites have been living there for hundreds of years
These people are pure evil.
May palestine be free
Great video...as always. I'm a German Jew who mainly grew up in Australia who made Aliyah to Israel almost 4 years ago. Despite the war I love my home and I'm certainly not leaving.
So, if I become jewish
My home country is now Israel
I could move to Israel and the west bank
See, relgion is so stupid
The law of return
Jewish atheist - you are jewish
Jewish Buddhist- you are jewish
Practicing jew- you are jewish
Jewish Muslim - you are not jewish
Jewish Christian-You are not jewish
I'm not Jewish but my wife is. My bloodline originated in Denmark and is one of great historical significance and the vast majority of my ancestors were of high nobility and power and I'm very proud of my bloodline and the accomplishments of my ancestors. But I also strongly support and encourage my wife to fully embrace her bloodline and Jewish heritage and culture. We have 2 children together and 2 from her previous marriage but all of them are my children fully I don't call them my step kids especially since their dad never has or never will be in their lives so they are my kids and always will be. But our 2 kids we have together are so different in appearance from each other it's crazy lol our son (which is my first and only biological son) has blonde hair and green/blue eyes like me but our daughter has brown hair and brown eyes like their mom. It's really cool and I find it so interesting to learn and understand the history of people that were so different than that of my family. I know there's a lot of white people who are or try to claim that they are of the Scandinavian decent or viking etc and they are white supremacists and hate the Jews and I would give anything to get rid of these types of people and their ignorant ridiculous ideology and not all of us who are white and come from these places in the world share these beliefs and ideologies. Anyone who claims that their race or religion or anything else makes them better and above others in the world is completely ignorant and wrong. It's our individual accomplishments and deeds and especially the way we treat others that makes us special but never superior to anyone else. We really need to start acting and thinking differently and learning to treat our fellow humans better. We are all different and we have different beliefs and cultures and all kinds of things but that shouldn't be a reason to fight against each other or go to war etc. It's a shame that we are still not there yet but hopefully some day we will..
You know... Jewish law says your kids would be Jewish if the mother is Jewish.
Amazing, excellent, well done! Inspiring and illustrative! Not to mention timely!
Should have also mentioned Bharat (India), where Jews were never persecuted. Late Lieutenant General Jacob was an Baghdadi Jew, born in Kolkata. He was also the Governor of the state of Punjab 🙏🏽❤️🇮🇳🇮🇱
I'm sure this will be misinterpreted and perhaps even twisted by others, but I know a little about the history of the Jews of India, and their historic ability to coexist peacefully with their neighbors always seemed absolutely the way I would have imagined, had I ventured a guess. I have had extremely positive working relationships with many Indian-Americans, and there's a basic goodness, warmth, intelligence and gentleness that always makes me feel like we're cut from very similar cloth, so to speak...
Too self Consciously jingoistic ( Bharat ! sic) ..
( Me Too !! Isms) (without a more complete understanding of the underlying realities / background - & the historicity of the phenomenon / phenomena) ..
It happened all over the ancient world - from north Africa, Ethiopia - all across the Mediterranean, the Arabian peninsula, across ancient kingdoms & powers - today's Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, into parts of Europe.
Plus India - since the fall of the second temple at Jerusalem or thereabouts. Small core diaspora community of Jewish traders who settled in today's Cochin - & flourished peacefully - an approx 2000 yrs continuum..
During the Raj, a flourishing Jewish community settled in Calcutta - plus some other cities / harmonious places in India.. transplanting from other communities of Jews like the Baghdadi Jewish community.
@@Prasenjit8657 But would never have been so - under the racist NaMo Modi Sarkar.
Very impactful! All of your videos are masterful!
The beauty of social media is that any story can gets some attention….is anyone asking how the Jews were exiled to go live with German “barbarians”, very questionable….. also can the presenter look up implicit bias!!!
I'm from Kerala, India and we are proud say that there was no discrimination or persecution of Jews here in Kerala. Jews lived as equals for 2000 years until they decided to go back to Israel. 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇱
Malayali
@@ahmyr yes brother. Namaskaram
@@BBKMotoLove221 naatil evideya bro
@@ahmyr Kochi bro
Israelites have in India before Solomon was born.
Nice video, I am a Jew from Romania but an Orthodox Christian
@@deuteronomy6.4bw My ethnicity is Jew and my religion is Christian
@@deuteronomy6.4bw tall those people commenting here... "i am a jew but secular", "my ancestors came from Israel 2000 years ago", "i am a jew but Christian"... basically 0 knowledge about anything. And that's probably 95% of the worlds population. I had a great laugh here, but on the other hand this idiotism is really scarry.
@@deuteronomy6.4bw Brother my ethnicity is Jew and the Christian religion !!
@@deuteronomy6.4bw christ never established any religion. He came for all and was born in a Jewish family. His disciples were Jews. Christian term came much later when the message went to gentiles. A Jew is always a Jew and non Jew were called christian and their religion Christianity. Love to all jews❤
@@deuteronomy6.4bw yes there is one God and we all gentiles who became Christian worship that God.
DNA test....?
PLEASE! do an ancestral DNA test.... we all got time to wait for the results😅😂😂😂
@@Constatine101do you? Because it's actually possible to do ancestral DNA test if rests of the body are available! Check out the new developments in the Pompeii ruins findings!
DNA test for religion???? I don't think so !
The first people to settle in what we know as Palestine were Egyptian not Jews. Throughout the centuries many groups of people lived there. It was the British empire that forced Jews into Palestine as a last ditch colonial project.
Well, that is a bunch of bs
Any serious person who is really wants to know his real root / origin he must do a Y-DNA test and within 4 weeks the results will come out and show you your Haplogroup .
In our modern era very easy to track your ancestors just you need a courage to do the YDNA test .
You can do an mDNA and Chromosomal DNA. They help point to ancestry
Your very stupid 😂
Literally a bunch of Europeans and Americans claiming because their 800th grandparents were from Israel it’s their right to the land 😂 by that definition I’m owed a lot of land 🤬
Not only they, but also the UN General Assembly that adopted resolution number 181 on the partition of Palestine between Jews and Arabs which was gladly accepted by Jews and indignantly rejected by Arabs. It was the rejection of that UN resolution that led to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinians. Its latest phase was sparked by the two genocidal acts committed by Hamas-led Palestinians: the planned massacre of Israelites and the abduction of Israeli citizens to Gaza, where they are tortured, raped, and murdered.
No, they were murdered in Iraq, Yemen, Syria, and Iran, so they fled to Israel to escape the genocide and murder in the Arab world. They also fled Europe to escape the genocide and murder there. They bought the land and mostly obtained it fairly, with exceptions. They refused to be murdered and bullied further, so they declared independence from the murderers, people like you, who had abused them for centuries.
im half african half polish, full jew. people are always surprise about the reach of our culture
😂 I meant both parents are Jewish. I know it's only by mom@@deuteronomy6.4bw
How can you be half African half polish and full jew?
My father is from South Morocco, full jew. Mom is from Poland, full jew. I'm their son...
@@shalevbenhamo6336 Why did you decide to say Half African and not the African country but then for Poland you didn't say half European but instead you say Polish? .... just weird when people do this Africa have countries too you know
@@blackinton2526 hi, it's because it's from a general area . In general west Africa. And yes I know Africa got countries. I got Saharan Moroccan and for some reason some Nigerian DNA in me. It's a big mix so I just say African / west Africa
Some of my family is Lithuanian. To know that they came from Israel is so amazing to find out. I'm also Polish and Ukrainian. I have family in Israel now. To see now that my family has come full circle just makes me so happy.
How do you discuss Jewish origins without reference to DNA data? According to several studies by geneticists Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews hail from the Zagros mountains of Iran and the Caucasus mountains. They migrated to Palestine circa 4,000 years ago and intermixed with the natives of the Palestine/Canaan region.
lol very helpful
Why does it matter? Just share the land with other ethnic and cultural groups and stop this "indigenous measuring test" and "my religion is the true religion" b.s.
Post your facts here!
I'd like to see your sources for that... (although it does not contradict anything in this video, since c.4000 years ago is when Abraham is said to have begun worshipping one god). But it is interesting to speculate as to whether there is any connection between Jewish monotheism and the monotheistic tradition started by Zarathustra (to become Zoroastrianism) in Iran, which arguably pre-dates Judaism.
@@rhapsag "The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant" published in Cell Journal 2023
You forgot to mention how Abraham was born in Mesopotamia, and migrated to Canaan (Palestine) allegedly because God told him that all of this land which is inhabited by the Canaanites (Levantines, mostly modern-day Palestinians), that it is to be yours. So wars were waged between them and eventually King David took over the Canaanite city that is called today Jerusalem. So what does this tell us? Jews are originally at the very earliest, from Mesopotamia.
Sorry- here you go: instagram.com/reel/C2fO1A_tPmk/
You confuse religion and science, Biblical legends and reality revealed by science.
Modern scholars agree that the Bible doesn't provide an authentic account of the Israelites' origins. The consensus supports that the archaeological evidence shows largely indigenous origins of lsraeli people in Canaan. The culture of the earliest Israelite settlements is Canaanite, their cult objects are those of Canaanite God EI, the pottery remains in the local Canaanite tradition, and the alphabet used is early Canaanite. The almost sole marker distinguishing the "Israelite" villages from Canaanite sites is an absence of pig bones as an ethnic marker.
According to modern archaeological accounts , the Israelites and their culture branched out of the Canaanite peoples and their culture through the development of a monotheistic religion centered on the national God Yahweh.
@@Michael-wq7qx I am absolutely aware of that, however to believe this as a Jew is very problematic which would undermine their Jewish traditions and religion which then begs the question whether they have apostatized. Surely, you can't be a religious Jew and disbelief in God?
@@hossamakarkach4429 Science and religion are compatible because they are generated by different brain zones and meet different human needs.
@@Michael-wq7qx Not in this case, because science is contradictory to Jewish tradition on the origins of the Israelites
Everywhere else apart from Israel as it only existed after the 2nd world war
False, dozens of new nation/states were created after WW2, including JORDAN.
I'm struck by the lead question, because there was no Israel until the middle of the 20th century. I would think it's clearer to say Palestine because it's an older name.
You sure about that? th-cam.com/video/0BasXaiHiiI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2gynkpoKwiyDKAwp
Love this video! My own family tree has some similarities, and it’s a good subject to engage with - to address some of the negative myths out there about Jews. Having this video to potentially send to people is so helpful.
It is from the political and religious viewpoint of Jews. It ain't necessary so, as the song says. For Europeans, Jews are Ashkenazi and Sephardi, not those from Guyana, Iran, India, Ethiopia. I doubt the Romans made Jews leave whatever you call that place in the Levant. Similarly no one forced Ethiopians to convert, or Jews to move to China.
I don't consider non White people to be true Jews just converted ones either way, the original people that lived in the Levant who decided that there is one God without any form are extinct and all the people claiming to be Jews are fakes, adoptees of certain beliefs and customs.
The explosion of Jews by the Romans is a bullshit. Some Jews left looking for better opportunities elsewhere and some stayed. The ones who stayed behind most eventually converted to Christianity and Islam. So when the IDF kills Palestinians, they are killing the original Jews. The irony is beyond belief. Zionism is a poison to Judaism and thrives on fomenting antisemitism for its own "perpetual victimhood" status to manipulate the masses. Judaism is a religion and not a nationality.
So you think a whole group of people decided to take on the language the writing keeping Sabbath the commandments of G-d? To be hated in their communities so they can go to Israel and tale over the land? Did you think that through?
You’re confused!! It’s the opposite!! Non-melanated people are the converts! 😅
Serious question… When going over the history of Jewish migration after the destruction of the temple. If the Jews were escaping persecution from Rome why would they flee towards their oppressor’s by going to Europe instead of fleeing into Africa or further into Asia, away from the Roman Empire. That just doesn’t make sense.
They weren’t escaping persecution- they were forcibly exiled from their homeland m (or ethnically cleansed, as kids call it these days) back to the capital or other regions of the conquering empires
Please don’t use Jews and Jewish interchangeably because they are two totally different things. Being Jewish doesn’t mean one is a Jew. Jewish is a term attributed to a person who practices Judaism as his birth religion or a convert to Judaism, regardless of his race or nationality. On the other hand, Jews are an ancient tribe (one bloodline, one race). Now “lost”, they were the original direct descendants of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin (sons of Jacob/Israel), who occupied the Southern Kingdom of (ancient) Israel, which the Romans called Judaea.
No is the answer to the title, as the land now known as Israel is now inhabited by a potpourri of nationalities and races who are bound together by their common religion, Judaism. Founded in 1948, Israel is a fairly new country that not even modern-day Israelis are indigenous to the land.
Jerusalem/Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire until the British conquered it, occupied it, then drafted the Balfour Declaration of 1917, allowing for the “establishment of a ‘national home’ for the Jewish people.” (Note that the word “Jews” was not used.) Palestinians also occupied the land before the British invaded. In biblical times, Canaan squatted on the land because he didn’t want to live in Africa, the land Noah had given to Ham, his father. And Joshua conquered it from the Canaanites because it was the Promised Land for the Israelites coming out of bondage from Egypt. I would say the Naqab, a Bedouin tribe of the Negev desert are the indigenous peoples in southern Israel, but even they are not natives to the land. Bedouins belong to the Arabian Peninsula, the land given by Abraham to Ishmael as his inheritance.
But because it’s the Promised Land, it’s safe to say it belongs to the Israelites of the House of Jacob. The Northern Kingdom of (ancient) Israel was occupied by the 10 tribes: Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Ephraim (Joseph) & Manasseh (Joseph) and they were all called Israelites. The Southern Kingdom of (ancient) Israel was occupied by the 2 tribes of Judah & Benjamin (the real Jews by blood) and they were called Jews. The sons of Levi were scattered among the other tribes. All the 12 tribes remain lost after Nebuchadnezzar conquered the Northern Kingdom/Samaria in 721 BC, and the Romans, through a succession of conquests, captured the Southern Kingdom/Jerusalem in 70 AD.
One has to be a direct descendant of the 12 tribes to be called an Israelite; and one has to be a direct descendant of just the 2 southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin to be called a Jew, as well as an Israelite. In addition to that, all the 12 tribes are also called Hebrews because they’re direct descendants of Heber, and Semites because they’re direct descendants of Shem.
Jews are not indigenous to Eretz Israel? You are really at odds with genetic studies. Google, for example : "Jewish Ethnic Divisions- Genetic studies," and read the results of the US National Academy of Science study on Jewish genetics. Keep in mind that scientific data can be refuted only by scientific data.
BTW, genetic studies are based on comparison between the DNA material from human remains (some of them are 3,000 years old) taken from numerous ancient Canaan Jewish burials and the results of the studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations which show the significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry.
@@deuteronomy6.4bw You just practically repeated almost everything I wrote. 😂 My point was how today the terms Jews and Jewish are used interchangeably so it confuses people who don’t know they’re totally different. (Etymology: Jews - inhabitants of ancient Judah/Judaea; Jewish - a group of people who converted to Judaism during the Second Temple Era, around the 3rd to the 6th century.)
Also, after successive conquests from the Assyrians, Babylonians and Romans, the Israelites of the north and the Jews of the south were NOT completely obliterated from the face of the earth. There’s a remnant of them that survives to this day. But nobody knows where they are. Only Gods knows where He put His Chosen People. That’s what we now call the mystery of the “Lost Tribes of Israel”
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@@deuteronomy6.4bwWhat is the main advantage of social networks? Everybody can use it, even if
Best video you ever made, thank you. Greetings from a Jew living in the Netherlands! ❤✡️
Ive been searching for this answer for years. I'm Scottish Irish French Native Blood but Jewish Heritage is very confusing
Have you been to Edinburgh or Dublin?
They are from the Eurasian Stepp. Like every European, Persian, Middle Easterner. As far as I understand from the Genetic drift. Two waves, one roughly 4-5 thousand and 7-9 thousand years ago. As far as the historians believe so far.
"Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry and several Jewish groups show genetic proximity to Arabs "(Genetic studies of Jews, 3d paragraph).
Lawler, Andrew "DNA from the Bible's Canaanites lives on in modern Arabs and Jews " - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC September 28, 2020.
Google: "Landmark study proves 90% of Jews are genetically linked to the Levant."
"No evidence from genome-wide data of a Khazar origin for the Askenazi Jews " - HUMAN BIOLOGY, 2013, 86(5): 859-900.
All that proves that most Jews are descendants of ancient Israelites and that Jews are indigenous to their historical homeland.
Google also: Ryan Bellerose " Are Jews Indigenous to the Land of Israel?".
Remember: people like you will never deprive the Jews of their homeland.
Where are the descendants of Jacob ( Bnei Yesrael ) at present days ?
Oh what a boring Q. Speedy recovery!
@@wescolumbus621 I challenge you and others if you can bring me a single male who is a real descendant of Jacob son of Isaac son of Abraham . Don't forget to bring me also his result of Y-DNA test .( Paternal line )
Learning how rebelious the Jews were one cant help but know in his guts, that at least some of the Palestinians are Jews converted to Islam.
Palestinians are Arabs living in Palestine. According to the Bible, Abraham is the common ancestor of the Jews and the Arabs. Genetic findings indicate that Jewish groups show genetic proximity to Arabs("Genetic studies of Jews ", 3d paragraph). But proximity doesn't mean identity.
BTW, DNA analysis of human remains taken from Canaan ancient Jewish burials definitely indicates that modern Jews are descendants of those Canaan Jews. See: Katsnelson, Alla "Jews worldwide share genetic ties." NATURE. 3 June 2010; Fudakis, Tony "Ashkenazi Jews " in "Molecular Photofitting: Predicting Ancestry and Phenotype Using DNA." Elsevier, 2010, p.383.
And don't miss the article: Lawley, Andrew "DNA from the Bible's Canaanites lives on in modern Arabs and Jews." NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, 28 September 2020.
All those questions solved by science are deliberately confused by antizionists(a modern euphemism for antisemites).
Most Jews have fascinating family histories. That Semite's story is no exception and particularly interesting! Thank you for sharing!
@BSman617
So true. My Family is from Mars, they are convos from the 1400's who went there to exploit the Martians
Amazing doucheFace thumbnail! Congrats you look like every unimaginative, lazy creator on YT. Clearly intelligent people choose stupid face thumbnails because looking like an idiot is a huge indicator that your content must be amazing! 😂
Ancestors? When you convert to a religion that doesn’t mess up with your dna. What ancestors ??? Whet are you guys on? Same way if you learn greek doesnt make you greek and ancient greeks are not your ancestors.
You are badly mistaken. Jews are not converts, excluding Khazars, a people of Turkic origin who are not considered Jews in Israel, and Ethyopian Jews. There are 142,000 Ethiopian Jews living in Israel(1.4 % of Israel's population).
Don't you know that Jews were a persecuted race deprived of their basic rights? If you don't Google the article "Antisemitism". Conversion to Jewry in Europe would have been an unprecedented case.
Did genuine Jews have their ancestors on the Middle East? Yes, they did. "Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry"("Genetic studies of Jews", 3d paragraph). Scientific conclusions speak for themselves.
@@Michael-wq7qx thats why israel
Restricts dna tests. You call it science i call it IMAGINATION
@@Michael-wq7qx so ivanka trump when she became jew she can go to isra and settle there .
@@giannis7123 There are very few people like her. A mass conversion to Judaism hasn't been observed. But there were not a few cases of Jews converting to Christianity. Take, for example, the major Russian writer of the last century Boris Pasternak who wrote one of the most important novels of his time "Doctor Zhivago," remember?
@@Michael-wq7qx how about starwars
Unfortunately people think history is not important until something like this reminds us that its incredibly important for understanding the world.
A tremendous amount of effort has gone into this. Well done.
Everyone's American until u really ask them .
Actual Americans don’t put their religion first,that’s like saying aim Irish Catholic which is unacceptable and rude
Who cares
I am on one minute in the program and i cant belive you are jewish- No offence , becasue you look like someone straight from a Mayan civilization - as latin myself 😂
All good , insightful programe. I am very fascinated myself about heritage.
Thanks for the topic.
@@deuteronomy6.4bwlol what stupid comment lol
This is interesting, and I think many of us have similar histories if we go back generations. It’s been the way of the world to conquer and take over land. That being said, my problem with Jews claiming that they are indigenous to the land is that it assumes that they were the first and only people living there. Which isn’t true. This line of thinking just leads us to where we are today and not moving forward with peace.
Who was there before the Jews got to Israel, who still exists?
Actually, there is no undisputed evidence that Jewish communities existed in Germany between ancient Roman rule and the Middle Ages. Genetic studies suggest, the founding group of Ashkenazi Jews consisted of about 300 families that probably moved from Italy to Germany somewhere between 9th and 10th century (after Charlemagne united both regions in his Carolingian Empire).
in fairness, relatively few histories are substantiated by undisputed evidence; think in terms of Germania for region, and TH-cam video, to rationalise a lil more "benefit a la doubt", and 'valid observation' notwithstanding, never give up a willingness to accumulate more knowledge
That aligns with much of Christian history, too, and works for me. There's no Turkic language or custom in the Ashkenazi, Yiddish is German/Hebrew. Jews were also brought to England as chattel property in 1066 by William the Conqueror, although they were later expelled and lost to history.
A PCA analysis of human genomes in Europe and Middle East compared medieval Erfartern jews and suggest that they have ancestry from present day Italy which is shared by present day Ashkenazi jews. ( 65% South Italy, 19% Middle Eastern , and 16% East-European) Cell Volume 185, Issue 25p4703-4716.e16December 08, 2022 Fig. 2
@@matsholmqvist3941 Yep, not converted in a small trading region in the caucuses known as Khazar, not turkic.
Very interesting!
Regards from British Columbia
With the video ending him standing on the square by the wall of old temple... That square made on the ruins of an old Palestinian quarter that was bulldozed in 1948.
The Arabs were defeated in a war that they themselves started.
In November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution number 181 on the partition of Palestine between Jews and Arabs. Then, there were 633,000 Jews and 1,150,000 Arabs living in Palestine. Jews gladly accepted this resolution, but Arabs indignantly rejected it. Having been inspired by the following words of the Secretary General of the Arab League Azzam Pasha: "We'll sweep them into the "(a clear call for genocide), they attacked the emerging Jewish state but were defeated. They called the Nakba their defeat. Up to this day, Iran-backed terrorists organizations that rule the roost among the Palestinians don't recognize that resolution. And this is the root of the ongoing conflict. The latest phase of it was sparked by the two genocidal acts committed by Hamas-led Palestinians: the planned massacre of Israelites and the abduction of Israeli citizens to Gaza where they are tortured, raped, and murdered.
@@Michael-wq7qx I am writing about the square next to the wall of the old temple... That residential quarter was demolished post 1948 ... Also if you really want to debate UN 181 then look at the shares of the land... In 1947 Jews were a minority... Still they were - by UK / UN - offered about 60% of the land... and you think a rejection is what should be the focus?
@YetiFix Do you know why the partition was so disproportionate? The UN took into consideration the growing immigration of Jews to their homeland and tried its best to accommodate as many Jews as possible into the Jewish State. After all, very little time had passed since the Holocaust which showed quite well how dangerous it was for Jews to remain dispersed without a sovereign state protecting them.
@@Michael-wq7qx fair consideration... but why should the Palestinians respect that... a theoretical immigration of people taking their land?
@YetiFix Theoretical? Palestinian land? I see you know nothing about the topic you are writing about. Learn history - you have almost the Library of Congress at your fingertips.
But before the jews came to jerusalem is the question right? I’m curious where my Ancestor Abraham comes from. Can anyone tell me please?
He for sure did not carved out the borders of Israel we know today. And wich other indigenous people lived also in the region at the time Abraham lived?
We made a short video about that: instagram.com/reel/C2fO1A_tPmk
@@UNPACKEDthank you this explains much more to me. And i found different people on wiki that are indigenous to Canaan. Thanks for your reply🙏🏾
This question is in peace and truth.
Where in the Torah is it written that the house of the mother make one a son or daughter of Israel?
בראשית 10 : 1
ואלה תולדת בני נח שם חם ויפת ויולדו להם בנים אחר המבול׃
Bereshis 10
1 0 Now these are the toldot of the Bnei Noach: Shem, Cham, and Yephet; and unto them were banim born after the mabbul (flood).
Bamidbar 1
18 And they assembled kol HaEdah together on the first yom of the second month, and they declared their family after their mishpekhot, by the bais of their avot, according to the number of the shmot, from twenty years old and upward, one by one.
במדבר 1 : 18
ואת כל העדה הקהילו באחד לחדש השני ויתילדו על משפחתם לבית אבתם במספר שמות מבן עשרים שנה ומעלה לגלגלתם׃
Please provide answer in Torah Scriptures
Thank you
@@deuteronomy6.4bw When or more importantly WHO changed the law?
@@EPhiri777 When Yehuda was conquered by the Neo-Babylonians, the men of the leading houses were slaughtered and the women taken into slavery. Ultimately, the children of these slaves, by their masters, were returned to Canaan, where they were installed as the new elites. The maternal succession was introduced in order to give them legitimacy. It is indeed completely in conflict with Jewish history up intil that point, but nobody was in any position to contest it.
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Are you referring to this time when the Babylonia and the Gentiles of Japhet coveted?
Esther 8:17
[17]And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
Esther 1:1
[1]Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
@@EPhiri777 The Neo-Babylonian conquest appears in 2 Kings 24-25. According to this text, they carried away the nobles, leaving just the poor behind, but returned an uncle of the king to rule. When the uncle rebelled, they sacked Jerusalem, slaughtering everyone but their collaborators.
If you only look at the written Torah, you are unfortunately missing half of Jewish law. However, in Bereshis, parshas Va'yara, Perek 21, Pasuk 13,
וְגַם אֶת-בֶּן-הָאָמָה, לְגוֹי אֲשִׂימֶנּוּ: כִּי זַרְעֲךָ, הוּא
This is a reference to Hagar, thru whom Avraham had Yishmael, the progenitor of the Arab nations. In other words, the pasuk says that Ishmael, who is the son of Hagar, will be of a different nation than Yitzchak, who was Sarah's (Avraham's first wife) son and the first child of the Jewish people. Later, the law of matrilineal descent was codified in written form in the Mishna (Yebamot 2:5; Kidushin 3:12).
So are Iraqi jews have same background as Persian and mountain jews?
Yes. We all descendants of the ancient Israelites.
@@Rivkavlogs I'm saying did both groups got expelled from Israel under same diaspora?
@@Brararaf101yes
Yeah@@Brararaf101
@@Rivkavlogs no you are not
Wow, this is so well done. So informative, and personal. כל הכבוד.
Being an Israelite is a blood right and a belief . It is by your blood and not the belief that most people are telling themselves . God Almighty Yahweh choose the Hebrews as his people and not the people deciding to themselves " We are Jews ! " Praise and pray to God Almighty Yahweh in King Yahshua HaMashiach's name .
No, conversion is acceptable and in some orthodox frameworks overseen by Beit Din, a rabbinical court.
Very interesting subject matter. Also, we Poles are everywhere...😂😂
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Not in space
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@@jeshkam what happened in 1978?
@@Oak_II Polish astronaut went to space. So at least one of us has been there once.
@@jeshkam SO POLAND CAN INTO SPACE!!!
Ask a Palestinian if a Zionist Jew is “Indigenous” to Palestine.
I love the heartwarming background music… 🎶
Perhaps ask a culture anthropologist what the academic standards are for “Indigenous” people?
Perhaps genetic testing is a scientifically valid method for establishing “Indigenous” people?
Yes, it is. "Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry..."("Genetic studies of Jews, 3d paragraph).
@@deuteronomy6.4bw Apparently the Dreyfus affair, (1890’s France) is what convinced Herzl that Jews were not safe “anywhere”. I’m not buying it.
And the British, Zionists and everyone under the sun kept telling the Arab leaders that Zionists were not looking to establish a Jewish state. Merely pointing out that European Jews want a place to immigrate to.
American Jews from Brooklyn have no business illegally occupying Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Remind me of the United Nations charter that stipulates illegal occupiers do not have a right to defend themselves against attack from indigenous people?
It is,was checked,and the genes of Yemen jews are similar to the genes of Norway jews and they both are different from the genes of the local people .
Has it ever crossed your mind that both Palestinians and Jews are indigenous to the land?
@@deuteronomy6.4bw Contradicting my comment doesn’t make your point look credible.
We are all brothers from another mother and we are all jewish. Great Video
👉🗣📖 Revelation 1:14-15,Daniel 10:6,Daniel 7:9,Isaiah 11:11,Zephaniah 3:10,ACTS13:1
Speak for yourself, I certainly am not
And you never know, you may also be related to other modern-day ancestors of the Canaanites who aren't Jews.
I have such similar family history but with different countries, Chile, Peru, Turkiye, Ukraine, Poland, Rumania... when people ask where is your family from, it's so difficult to explain
You can be jewish, but it's a religion, not an etnicity from a specific place in the world. You can be jewish and not semitic; like those who have taken over Palestine.
You can learn more about that here: th-cam.com/video/aEbsai9YWDU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=J6rP9BE2gAj7pJr1
And did Israel take over Palestine?? th-cam.com/video/0BasXaiHiiI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0lQwZpVBHgQ6gAYY
PS-qv7xy. The Jews are a separate people. The should be protected!
The majority of Jews have DNA that comes from the Middle East in general and a large share from the Levant and Israel. The lineage goes back to the end of the last Glacial Period, 12,000 years ago.
You are so lucky just knowing your family dna both sides from generation to generation. My grandmother would chat about Vilna as well.
5:40 "the mighty Roman Empire rolled and refused to leave" Do you also often refuse to leave the place you roll into, Murikan?
6 centuries later probably
Well done, extremely informative I grew up and live in N.Y.C. and I can say from my experience,Jews are usually noble,they take morality serious.
How often are your presidential elections? Are you guys allowed to choose your leaders? Why is Bibi still in power?
Good questions! We made a video to help explain: th-cam.com/video/L4V3xRqggS4/w-d-xo.html
@@UNPACKED Israels treatment of Palestinians for 75 years is unacceptable. It's monstrous and Genocidal. It's what we tried to save YOU from.
Who’s “we” and how did you try and save Israel?
And you should learn more about Israel’s treatment of Palestinians: th-cam.com/video/wIP0TMkuqGw/w-d-xo.html
Good question. I am guessing from your question that you are a fellow American and/or live in a country with presidential elections. Israel has a parliamentary system, which means the head of the party in power gets to be prime minister. There is a president, but his responsibilities are much smaller. Hope this helps understand.
@@dianas2766 What I'm wondering is why is Bibi still walking free? He should be in prison, not out slaughtering women and children. Israel was about to bring him to trial, when Hamas conveniently attacked Israel, which took the focus off his domestic crimes. BTW, the Hamas attack was permitted. IDF and Bibi were warned ahead of time. They let it happen. Bibi's "get out of jail" card only cost a few 10s of thousands of lives. Israeli and Palestinian. Bibi doesn't care.
Thank you. I am Guyanese i didn't know Guyana had Jews
Jewish is a belief not an ethnie i thought. So the question does not make sense. And if i ask where he is from why should i want to know if he thinks he vame 4000 years ago from somewhere? That ridicilous.
You write about something you know nothing about. Google at least "Jews" in online encyclopedia and read this article based on several hundred scientific sources.
Being a Jew is both an ethnicity and a religion. Its the only religion on earth that also has a parallel ethnicity. You don't have to be religious to be a Jew. In fact, you can be an athiest and still be a Jew. "Ethnicity" is different than race, although it sometimes can be connected. "Ethnicity" is simply a social group of people who share similiar behaviors, beliefs, traditions, culture, customs, identity and geographical origin. Unlike Christians, Muslims, Buddahists, etc, most jews are born into Judaism. You can't just join and be baptized in like a Christian. Its a hard process of steps, and you have to be accepted in. But aside from all that I have mentioned, even if the Jews never wanted to be an ethnicity, the rest of the world has done a great job forcing that ethnic identity upon them.
@@TheJTcreate just a little side note- Jews aren’t even the only ethno religious group in the Levant. The Druze meet that qualification but there’s also ethnic Mennonites and Sikhs elsewhere. Wikipedia has a great article labeled „ethnoreligious group”.
Exactly!
@@TheJTcreateThat’s a ridiculous statement.
To be a "Jew" is to be a part of a religious sect, it's not an ethnicity. The Hebrews were Jews...but not all Jews are Hebrews. A distinction that must be learned and stated in order to bring clarity to the issue of heritage.
You are mistaken. " the terms Hebrews, Jews, and Israelites all refer to the same people..." - Harold Hancock (U of Delaware) " Is there a difference between Hebrews, Jews, and Israelites?"(Google this article). That's why "Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry.."(Genetic studies of Jews, 3d paragraph).
Google also: "Landmark study proves that 90% of Jews are genetically linked to the Levant".
These genetic conclusions are based on genetic analysis of human remains taken from numerous ancient Canaan Jewish burials covering the period of more than 3,000 years and the comparison of its results with the gene pools of present-day Jews, regardless of their area of residence.
Thank you for this wonderful story. as an Ashkenazi Jew it’s hard for me to explain to Gentile that I am from Israel. Thank you for the beautiful story and the clear explanation of your history and mine. #BaruchHashem
Thank you!
Why? Why would anyone who isn’t of the Jewish faith care where you are from? It’s not hard to tell a person who is not Jewish that you are from Israel - just say, “I’m from Israel.” Everyone will understand perfectly and they won’t care. That’s your business.
Thank you for your generosity to this channel. I hope you spread this kindness to your waterless, foodless, homeless, schooless neighbours...
@@enigma_-_79 Because people like to bother us with "where are you really from?"
"doesn't that make you european?"
"you're not middle eastern lmao"
"youre white"
"you're not native to israel the arabs are(despite the fact that they come from arabia)"
a lot of it is done because of ignorance but some do it out of hate
@@enigma_-_79you don’t think it’s a natural reaction of curiosity to inquire further when someone says they’re from a place where the current inhabitants do not resemble them? I’d imagine the first person to question that would be yourself which shouldn’t come as a surprise when others share the same curiosity. And wouldn’t the struggle of explanation if anything, highlight your own struggle of understanding what you’ve been told your own identity is and isn’t ?
11:15 goosebumps 😁🇮🇱
Bravo. Finally... Hollywood films promote white Judaism... A great example is "You People" the film. Jews came from East Africa (my guess). My father's grandmother came to Jamaica from Europe as a Jew.
Not confirmed by science. "Studies on the genetic composition of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish populations of the Jewish diaspora show significant amounts of shared Middle Eastern ancestry..."("Genetic studies of Jews", 3d paragraph). How does genetics determine the genotype of ancestors who lived thousands of years ago? Based on DNA analysis of archaeological finds, ancient burials, and even corpolites(petrified excrements).
Genetics not only works great with the corpses of recently deceased people(for criminology) but also with human remains, regardless of their antiquity, and not only with human material. For example, DNA of some species of ancient animals, such as mammoths and cave bears were extracted and analyzed.
@@deuteronomy6.4bwExactly who also married non-Jews all of them! We know Yehudah married into Kenani, Yosef an Egyptian princess! So other than Lear or the children of Dinah!, by todays definition that Judaism comes from the mothers side no one is Jewish! - so it lives all in the same boat! Look at king David, in great-grand mother Moabite!, even his great-grandfather Oved was mixed union, too! Yes we admit the current Jewry are the elites that survived but it doesn’t disqualify all of us we went furthest running away from our God and Father! Baruch HaShem! Now we are coming Home! For once more Yerushalayim and eretz Yisra’el will be as defined by Elokhim huge from Africa South of Asia - that’s all our Land! it’s written! 🙏🔥🙌🏾
@@Michael-wq7qxcorrect and wrong! Yes if you test the fee with a few! But a diverse group 12 man that married different women now you can test their Jewry! Infact on that basis the Lemba Tribe of Southern Africa (Zimbabwe and SA) have the highest kohanim gene! - 🧬 so what they become Jews! No! The ones who are Jews now - are Jews - we respect that - but don’t deny those who identify as Jews and love the Elokhim of Yisra’el as their God! There is no kudos to seeking Jewish identity - what benefits does one get but being persecuted! - it’s like seeking to be Black! - it has no benefits but to be ridiculed! So imagine being Black and Jewish! - double the worst label! - history of Europe shows that Blacks and Jews were the most persecuted!
This is why Mashiach is coming and the true Jew is them that worships the Elokhim of Yisra’el with all their heart, all their soul and all their Might! Shema Yisra’el ADONAI Eloheinu ADONAI Echad! Baruch b’Shem ADONAI!
We are waiting for Shiloh - to unite us!
Come our Husbandman - out King! Bring the Father! Avinu Malkeinu!
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@@aleftav12The subject of the study was only Jews by blood, that is, those who were born from Jewish mothers.
A better question is If the majority of an ethnic group leaves its homeland for more than 1,500 years, is that land still theirs? Because, this is really what we're talking about when it comes to the Israeli - Arab conflict. Jewish immigrants from Europe-descendants of Jews who left the Holy Land more than 1,000 years ago, started immigrated to Palestine before WW2, when it was under British control. Then many more of them immigrated to Palestine after WW2 and started forcing Palestinians, whose ancestors had been there for thousands of years, off their land. It's the Jewish immigrants who started the whole conflict.
That is what is happening in Europe now.
You don't have any idea of the history of the Jewish people. Google, for example, "Jewish history," and read this encyclopedic article based on several hundred scientific sources.
Google also "Jews" in online encyclopedia. But I understand you: knowledge dispels the intellectual darkness of antizionism you prefer to be in.
@lordharry423 In November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted resolution number 181 on the partition of Palestine between Jews and Arabs. Then there were 633,000 Jews and 1,150,000 Arabs living in Palestine. Jews gladly accepted that resolution but Arabs indignantly rejected it. Having been inspired by the following words of the Secretary General of the Arab League Azzam Pasha "We'll sweep them into the sea ", they attacked the emerging Jewish state but were defeated. They called the Nakba their defeat. Up to this day Iran-backed terrorists organizations that rule the roost among the Palestinians don't recognize that resolution. And this is the root of the ongoing conflict.
Live and learn, Lord Harry.
@@Michael-wq7qx Google "self-righteous ignoramus." You'll find a picture of yourself.
@@Philmoscowitzabuse is your last weapon
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Completely deranged, so I'm a white English Roman Catholic,, so I'm now indigenous to Rome or Palestine, because that's where Christianity began
Yea I don’t think you understand how indigeneity works.
Lets not forget that Palestinian dna if you go far enough back (several thousand years) also comes from the same area
True, I’m Jewish and I’m distantly related to two Palestinians.
Buddy, youre clearly not from there. You're mixed race, and MAY havs some heritage therr throufh your paternal grandfather, but at the end of the day, you are not from a region that some of your ancestors were in 2500 years ago. Your DNA test would verify this
Yah?
Both Netanyahu and his mother were born in what is now Israel. Bibi's father from Poland, but not him, nor his mother.
This is was why learning history is important.Understanding history we can all appreciate humility clearly.
Let's not forget the last 75 years too ❤
It is stupid to define a person( Jew/non Jew - who is he in this case?) by the degree of his or her ritualism. And all attempts to deprive a Jew of his ethnicity - despite the inexorable truth of genetic findings - seem ridiculous if not madcap.
Judaism is not an ethnicity or a race, it is a religion. The ethnicity is the country where the people of Jewish religion come from. There are only 8 million Americans with the religion of Jewish. There are only 20 million in the world with the religion of Jewish.
Jewish is a religion!