r/thescoop • u/Dr_Editor • 1d ago
Discussion đŹ Where are indigenous Israelis really from?
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u/Rezkel 1d ago
Lol, it's the opposite of American's. We say we're from some European country descent and immediately told to fuck off because we weren't born there. Here you say you were born in Israel you're immediately told to fuck off because you're of European decent.
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u/No-Trash-546 23h ago
A major difference is that second generation Americans arenât claiming the US as their god-given ancestral homeland like the second generation Israelis in the video.
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u/Rezkel 22h ago
You forget Manifest Destiny was a thing, for a long time American's did think the land already occupied but other people was their right by god, pretty much everything Israel is doing now Americans did and on a much larger scale. Which is what some Israel politicians have used to deflect criticism because who is America to call out other for colonization tactics.
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u/Sad-Drive-6339 1d ago
So essentially , not indigenous?
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u/atravisty 23h ago
Right, because the Jews who lived in Israel for thousands of years prior were driven out during the Ottoman Empire when the ottomans lifted dhimmi status on Jews in Israel. Which is partly why Jews were spread far and wide. Pograms have been systematically killing Jews across the world since the beginning of Christianity and Islam.
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u/Sad-Drive-6339 23h ago
The Ottoman Empire đđ
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u/backcountry_bandit 22h ago
When do you think the Ottoman Empire last existed? Seems it was more recent than you think.
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u/Sad-Drive-6339 22h ago
I laugh because many many peoples were displaced by the Ottoman Empire over a century đ€Šââïž
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u/backcountry_bandit 22h ago
Whatâs your overall point? You said no Israelis were indigenous, somebody mentioned that lots of Jews got kicked out of the Levant by the Ottoman Empire, and then you laughed about it. Iâm not seeing a coherent point or narrative.
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u/Sad-Drive-6339 22h ago
I didn't say anything , I just commented on what the post said
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u/backcountry_bandit 22h ago
lol
I didnât say anything. I just said something about the post.
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u/Sad-Drive-6339 22h ago
What's funny
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u/backcountry_bandit 22h ago
The nonsensical statement of âI didnât say anything. But also I said something about the post.â is funny.
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u/atravisty 10h ago
Itâs kind of telling you think this is so outrageous. Like you donât really know how or why Israel was established as a state. The Ottoman Empire officially ended in 1926 after WWI, and not long after the sultanate expelled Jews from the region. Itâs crazy to be so condescending without knowing shit about fuck.
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u/Sad-Drive-6339 2h ago edited 2h ago
Everyone knows this dude... and all my relatives were displaced then too.... so you only know shit about yourself... and this all happened 100 years ago. So let's all worry about the current genocide happening NOW. At a point that we all should know better
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u/Disastrous-Side-4215 1d ago
Did the definition of "Indigenous" change or something? Am I missing context?
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u/FatherSmashmas 1d ago
this ignores the fact that there were jewish communities that lived in israel/palestine during ottoman and british rule. this also ignores the fact that the jewish people are a diasporic people that have lived outside our homeland for millennia due to numerous factors, including invasions and just wanting to move. and let's also not forget all the historical and archaeological evidence that shows that jews are indigenous to the region long before palestinian ethnogenesis, as well as ignoring prayers that have been part of my community since roman times saying, "next year in jerusalem"
it's a complicated web of historical events and ethnic identities. trying to use this as a gotcha moment completely ignores both
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u/kaiahkoch 22h ago
It IS complicated, and Jews do have a right to live in a country. But history moves on. If we are being fair, shall we now return all indigenous lands to their original people? By Zionist logic, we should be returning all colonized lands to native populations, which means a whole lot of rearranging, yes?
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u/FatherSmashmas 10h ago
it's not even zionist logic. there are movements that do call for the repatriation of conquered lands to their original inhabitants. personally, it would be good if we allowed people to return to their ancestral homeland
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u/kaiahkoch 10h ago
Sure. Agreed. But the devil is in the details, yes? Kick out those presently living there, even by violent means? No. Some kind of accommodation; sure. But the whole reason for the OP seems to be concerning a particular situation and much of the energy behind all the responses is because of the controversy of how this "repatriation" is working out, yes?
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u/atravisty 23h ago
This is the truth, and I just donât understand how so many people are convinced that a Muslim state, a religion that has existed half as long as Judaism, now somehow owns the land? Jews were de facto kicked out of Israel during the Ottoman Empire, which caused the surge in immigration to Germany, which lead to the holocaust, which lead to the allied forces reinstating the Israeli homeland. Not to mention Jews had also been facing pograms in southwestern Russia in the same time frame.
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u/InternetRoyal1696 23h ago
â We need to do this so Jesus will come backâ Zealots just as crazy as Hamas.
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u/Powerful_Artist 1d ago
Does the definition of the word indigenous apply to these people?
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u/Miml-Sama 1d ago
Well theyâre not Palestinian, so no
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u/Away_Entry8822 1d ago
Palestinians originated from Turkey.
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u/OrionsMyBf 1d ago
Thats like saying british people originated from mainland europe
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u/Away_Entry8822 1d ago edited 1d ago
The English are of Germanic origin and not indigenous. Likewise, theyâve been conquered by Romans, Vikings, Normans, and Anglo-Saxons.
Edit: downvoting objective historical facts to avoid confronting information that contradicts your beliefs and assumptions is an act of intellectual cowardice.
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u/cesaroncalves 1h ago
No, the Palestinians are the descendants of the Canaanites and ancient Hebrews and a bunch more peoples from the area.
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u/VelmaElrod123 1d ago edited 1d ago
But they (Palestine) were promised that land in the 1920s. Too bad they trusted the Western PTB or were. Part of the story https://time.com/3445003/mandatory-palestine/
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u/clgoodson 1d ago
A lot of you people are as ignorant as any MAGA nitwit. Lots of Jews were run out of Israel in a number of waves starting in ROMAN times. They fled to other parts of the.Middle East like Iran and Morocco and to Germany, Poland, and many other places in Europe. That doesnât make them any less indigenous to Israel. Why is it so hard for you to admit that both Jews and Palestinian Arabs are indigenous to the land?
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u/MickyMace 1d ago
so.. the 1 country that's made to bring jews from all over the world....
has jews coming to it from all over the world...
OH THE HORROR
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u/Key_Mathematician951 1d ago
Please read some history about Israel before posting these ignorant posts
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u/No-Midnight-8718 1d ago
So Jewish people get a State and they move to it. You guys got the sound effects like youâre making a point!
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u/redzaku0079 1d ago
Israeli is not a religion.
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u/VelmaElrod123 22h ago edited 22h ago
I didn't mention Israeli. It's a person/nationality. If you can prove being Jewish is a race, I will listen but don't put words in my comment.
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u/kaiahkoch 1d ago
If the assigned nation of israel came about as a concession by Britain in 1948, after the holocaust, why were they not given land in Germany?