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Every people started somewhere, Jews started at— and are indigenous to—the land of Israel.

That doesn’t mean other peoples are not connected to this land.

Acknowledging one group’s history doesn’t erase another’s.

Where is that energy when Israel constantly delegitimises Palestinian claim to their land, by describing them as Arab invaders. When, both historically and genetically, Palestinians have a direct link to the land of Canaan.

I also find it very interesting how you continue to delegitimatise Palestinians by:

1. Placing the blame on the victims as if cultures do not naturally change over time.

2. Alluding that Palestinians can only have descended from OTHER native populations.

Don’t talk to me about being informed when you have no idea what you’re talking about. Next, you’ll tell me that an Ethiopian Jew, a Polish Jew and a Palestinian Jew are all the same ethnicity because they all follow the Jewish religion.

Whether Yemeni Muslims, Christians, and Jews are genetically the same, which is a weird argument to make, is really immaterial. Ethnicity and genetics are not the same thing. Race and genetics are not the same thing. 

And yes, an Ethiopian Jew, a Polish Jew, an American Jew, a Colombian Jew, and Australian Jew, a Bulkharan Jew, and Cochin Jew all share a common ethnicity — even if we do not share the same race, nationality or familial genetics — because we all share a common central language, foodways, customs, religious observance, themes in our art, music, and literature — even though those things are heavily influenced by the place where we live — and lifecycle. No matter where we are on the globe or our primary language we can communicate our shared principles with one another, eat, worship and live together fluidly.

That doesn’t make us a race, it makes us a people.

Feel free to be mad about it. Put on a cape and be super mad about it if you prefer.

Try to address the argument, rather than just repeating the talking points you’ve been taught to regurgitate. As I previously said this perception of “Jewish” as a race is a recent phenomena tracing back to 19th century racial science.

“We all share a common central language”

A language that was revived in the 20th century? That previously was only used in religious texts? And even then only by certain groups within the Jewish religion? That common language?

“Whether Yemeni Muslims, Christians, and Jews are genetically the same, which is a weird argument to make, is immaterial”

Don’t be disingenuous. YOU made the argument that Yigal Amir was somehow distinct from the rest of the Yemeni population, simply because he followed the Jewish faith.

“Feel free to be mad about it”

You write paragraphs and yet say nothing at all. It seems like you’re the one that’s mad. That’s okay though, I understand being blindly devoted to what one has been taught.

And now you have just slid directly into intentional use of antisemitic talking points that have been debunked so many times by so many people that I have neither the willingness nor energy to do it all again for someone who doesn’t care. 

Every people started somewhere, Jews started at— and are indigenous to—the land of Israel.

That doesn’t mean other peoples are not connected to this land.

Acknowledging one group’s history doesn’t erase another’s.

Where is that energy when Israel constantly delegitimises Palestinian claim to their land, by describing them as Arab invaders. When, both historically and genetically, Palestinians have a direct link to the land of Canaan.

I also find it very interesting how you continue to delegitimatise Palestinians by:

1. Placing the blame on the victims as if cultures do not naturally change over time.

2. Alluding that Palestinians can only have descended from OTHER native populations.

Don’t talk to me about being informed when you have no idea what you’re talking about. Next, you’ll tell me that an Ethiopian Jew, a Polish Jew and a Palestinian Jew are all the same ethnicity because they all follow the Jewish religion.

Whether Yemeni Muslims, Christians, and Jews are genetically the same, which is a weird argument to make, is really immaterial. Ethnicity and genetics are not the same thing. Race and genetics are not the same thing. 

And yes, an Ethiopian Jew, a Polish Jew, an American Jew, a Colombian Jew, and Australian Jew, a Bulkharan Jew, and Cochin Jew all share a common ethnicity — even if we do not share the same race, nationality or familial genetics — because we all share a common central language, foodways, customs, religious observance, themes in our art, music, and literature — even though those things are heavily influenced by the place where we live — and lifecycle. No matter where we are on the globe or our primary language we can communicate our shared principles with one another, eat, worship and live together fluidly.

That doesn’t make us a race, it makes us a people.

Feel free to be mad about it. Put on a cape and be super mad about it if you prefer.

Try to address the argument, rather than just repeating the talking points you’ve been taught to regurgitate. As I previously said this perception of “Jewish” as a race is a recent phenomena tracing back to 19th century racial science.

“We all share a common central language”

A language that was revived in the 20th century? That previously was only used in religious texts? And even then only by certain groups within the Jewish religion? That common language?

“Whether Yemeni Muslims, Christians, and Jews are genetically the same, which is a weird argument to make, is immaterial”

Don’t be disingenuous. YOU made the argument that Yigal Amir was somehow distinct from the rest of the Yemeni population, simply because he followed the Jewish faith.

“Feel free to be mad about it”

You write paragraphs and yet say nothing at all. It seems like you’re the one that’s mad. That’s okay though, I understand being blindly devoted to what one has been taught.

Every people started somewhere, Jews started at— and are indigenous to—the land of Israel.

That doesn’t mean other peoples are not connected to this land.

Acknowledging one group’s history doesn’t erase another’s.

Where is that energy when Israel constantly delegitimises Palestinian claim to their land, by describing them as Arab invaders. When, both historically and genetically, Palestinians have a direct link to the land of Canaan.

I also find it very interesting how you continue to delegitimatise Palestinians by:

1. Placing the blame on the victims as if cultures do not naturally change over time.

2. Alluding that Palestinians can only have descended from OTHER native populations.

Don’t talk to me about being informed when you have no idea what you’re talking about. Next, you’ll tell me that an Ethiopian Jew, a Polish Jew and a Palestinian Jew are all the same ethnicity because they all follow the Jewish religion.

Every people started somewhere, Jews started at— and are indigenous to—the land of Israel.

That doesn’t mean other peoples are not connected to this land.

Acknowledging one group’s history doesn’t erase another’s.

Where is that energy when Israel constantly delegitimises Palestinian claim to their land, by describing them as Arab invaders. When, both historically and genetically, Palestinians have a direct link to the land of Canaan.

I also find it very interesting how you continue to delegitimatise Palestinians by:

1. Placing the blame on the victims as if cultures do not naturally change over time.

2. Alluding that Palestinians can only have descended from OTHER native populations.

Every people started somewhere, Jews started at— and are indigenous to—the land of Israel.

That doesn’t mean other peoples are not connected to this land.

Acknowledging one group’s history doesn’t erase another’s.

Where is that energy when Israel constantly delegitimises Palestinian claim to their land, by describing them as Arab invaders. When, both historically and genetically, Palestinians have a direct link to the land of Canaan.

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Leonor Fini, 1951