The smugness of this is taking me out 😭 no historians, zero percent, actually think there's evidence of an ancient Davidic Empire that extended to those borders in the thumbnail. Many religious people believe it to be true, and no offense to them, but there was never a United Kingdom of Israel during the First Temple Period. However, these antisemitic troll channels will never contend with the irrefutable historical record on the Kingdom of Iudaea, which had diplomatic relations with, and later conflict with, Rome. Kind of hard to deny that that was a real Jewish state in the southern Levant, no?
If they're even smart enough to acknowledge Judea, it's usually brushed aside with some "Yeah but Judaism as we know it today didn't even exist at that time." The conceit being that modern Rabbinical Judaism is some grand lie or conspiracy. Anything and everything Jews do is shady and duplicitous after all. They not only want to break off Jewish history after the destruction of the First Temple, but also the Second. "No see your alleged people's culture and history and spiritual practices changed, were they ever real in the first place 🤣? No, you're not a nation, ignore the bevvy of 19th century philosophers who laid the foundation for Zionism as a political movement which centered on Jewish Peoplehood as its own ethnic group, First Temple "Judaism" was actually polytheistic lol! And that's why Israel intends colonize Iraq and Egypt and also are orchestrating the replacement of the white ra- 🤓"
I didn't watch this video, I don't need to. I saw enough of the comments and more recommended videos from this channel to know what I already knew: this person is a rabid antisemitic conspiracy theorist and their audience is mostly made up of the same. Every comment under the sun from "the Israel lobby" to "chosen people lol" to "what they don't realize is that they're not the only semites." It's tedious.
I'm so bored with people who refuse to learn about Jewish history, who revel in their own ignorance as they decide who the Jewish people were and are, and why they have done all the things they've done. They don't want a Jewish perspective, that's tantamount to "brainwashing." Making up stories and relaying secondhand theories from people who unironically peddle in blood libels is "waking up from brainwashing." And when you only accept information about a historically persecuted and vulnerable minority group from people outside that group on the pretext that said group is too dangerous and powerful and ill-intentioned to tell their own story... how are you not a bigot? That's more than bigotry, that's like one step away from a call to violence in my mind.
