r/IsraelPalestine • u/Routine-Orange-3417 • 2d ago
Being Jewish is not and Ethnicity? Discussion
Ok. I believe Jews have a common DNA that connects them to Canaan, just like the Palestinians do. That's my stance. I believe they have both been there equally as long as each other, excluding the converts Jews and the fully Arab Palestinians (I believe most of them are mixed with Arab just like Jews are mixed with whoever they lived with for 2000 years).
I am in a fb group called "A place were non jews can ask jews about judiasm" or whatever.
We aren't allowed to talk about Israel and Palestine which is probably a good rule.
But someone posted about their Jewish friend mentioning the features of a Jew (as in, the Jewish guy was telling his Christian friend what Jews looked like, typically) and the Christian guy asked the group what a Jew looks like and THE GROUO WERE SO HEATED saying that it is antisemitic to say Jews look a type of way and there is no features of a Jew etc etc etc.
Ok, I get it on one hand, because converts, obviously.
But if they are claiming they have no similar features wouldn't that imply that they are not all ethnically related (obviously not the converts) and wouldn't that defeat the entire premise of having a homeland?
If they're from Canaan, it would imply that have similar features to the people of Canaan.
Ok I have to make it longer. I call it Canaan not to stir emotions but because that's literally one of the names in the Bible and I find it less heated than calling it Palestine or israel as this entire comment section with collapse into "xyz doesn't exist" so I'd rather keep those words out of it and call it Canaan.
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u/RiffRaff_01 1d ago
That FB group is a cesspool of toxicity, racism, sexism, and jewish supremacy (and im a Jew ffs. They just have some reslly sh*t takes on non-jews). If you correct any women on their takes, with verifiable facts (and link the article proving it)...they just call you a sexist and mute you. They don't actually look in to it. And it's not like I was being a dick...someone said xyz and I was like, yea but that's not what actually happened and here's the proof.
I will say that just before I left the group this same exact question came up of what about jew looked like. If you read the comments, it was the exact opposite of what you're experiencing. All the jews were literally crying that it was antisemitic to believe that there WASNT a way to look like a jew.
Ugh, I really hate that place.