{"id":1709,"date":"2024-02-07T23:09:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T23:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2024-02-07T23:43:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T23:43:41","slug":"our-problem-is-your-problem-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.takemeon.org\/dir\/2024\/02\/07\/our-problem-is-your-problem-black-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"“Our Problem Is Your Problem”, Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When Malcolm X uttered his consequential 1964* speech that included the words, \u201cour problem is your problem\u201d, he was not talking to the \u201cwhite people\u201d of the United States of Colonial \u201cAmerica\u201d. Like now in this 21st century, they would not hear his words. Rather, he was making a speech of alliance to Indigenous peoples, specifically to Africans suffering from Colonial European Apartheid upon African Indigenous peoples\u2019 lands. We SWANA Indigenous peoples \u2013 Jews, Druze, Kurds, Balochs, Assyrians, etc(!) \u2013 hear Malcolm X\u2019s words, too! It is true that black history is indigenous peoples\u2019 history, also. So, let us learn why! Shall we?!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Malcolm<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

History is not an enigma, folks! It is a spiral repetition of similar events that are occuring between those who have social privilege and those who do not have social privilege. Quibble all you want over minute details of this, but this does NOT change our minority peoples\u2019 lived<\/em> histories! For example, regarding the above\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Note, 1964, the year that Malcolm X gave his speech to Indigenous Africans who are traumatized by Colonial \u201cwhite\/European\u201d South Africa Apartheid, is the very same year that the \u201cwhite\/European\u201d Soviet Union, the USSR, invented through their KGB *both* the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, with Ernesto \u201cChe\u201d Guevara at its leader, and<\/em> the PLO, the Palestinian Liberation Organization (\u0645\u0646\u0638\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u062d\u0631\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u0644\u0633\u0637\u064a\u0646\u064a\u0629 Muna\u1e93\u1e93amat at-Ta\u1e25r\u012br al-Filas\u1e6d\u012bniyyah), with whom Cairo born Egyptian Brotherhood terrorist Yasser Arafat became the leader of through \u201cwhite\u201d European KGB recruitment and grooming!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further, please note another two self-evident historical facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the Soviet Union, the USSR, through their PLO occupation force that declared to the United Nations, in the 1970\u2019s, that Zionism \u2013 the Jewish land back and self-sovereignty movement \u2013 is \u201cracism\u201d towards \u201cArab\u201d Colonizers of Southwest Asia Indigenous peoples\u2019 lands. It was also the USSR that invented the idea of Israel being an \u201cApartheid\u201d state like South Africa, as part of its misinformation campaign targeting Indigenous Israelis (Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel) for our resolute Israeli resistance to re-colonization and, hoped for, to weaken U.S. support for Israel\u2019s national survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pay attention to the name that these post-WW1 Arab settler Colonialists upon the SWANA Indigenous lands of Israel and Kurdistan gave to themselves, when forming the PLO and its fictitious \u201cPalestinian people\u201d with the KGB in 1964. \u201cFilastiniyah\u201d \u2013 \u201cPalestinian\u201d in English \u2013 is a Canaanite Jewish word for the northern Aegean invaders of our Gaza portion of our Southwest Asia (Levant) Canaan Judean land of Israel. This word Felishti \u2013 \u201cPalestinian\u201d \u2013 literally means in our SWANA Indigenous peoples\u2019 Canaan language \u201cthose who rolled in\u201d, in other words \u201cinvaders\u201d, \u201cforeigner\u201d occupiers upon our Canaan Judean (Jewish) peoples\u2019 land!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folks, easily verifiable historical facts don\u2019t disappear, no matter how much racistly anti-Indigenous Colonial propaganda is served to Arab-European Colonial subservients (\u201ccitizens\u201d)! We surviving vulnerable Indigenous Peoples of this world have no reason to lie to you!!! Black history in the Colonial United States of \u201cAmerica\u201d is ALSO Indigenous peoples\u2019 history, too, planet Earth-wide! So, back to Malcolm X\u2019s speech to a South Africa Indigenous peoples, read below what he had to say!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Kaumatua<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Malcolm X\u2019s words to South Africa (Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, etc) in 1964 is now Malcolm X\u2019s words to African Americans regarding Southwest Asia (Israel and Kurdistan):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour [South Africa] problems will never be fully solved until and unless ours [African American\u2019s] are solved.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, \u201cYour [African American desegregation] problems will never be fully solved until and unless ours [Indigenous Peoples\u2019 decolonization problems] are solved. You will never be fully respected [African Americans] until and unless we [Indigenous Jews and Kurds] are also respected [upon our Southwest Asia lands, no more UN funded Arab settler Colonialism and Apartheid (ethnic cleansing)!]. You will never be recognized [African Americans] as free human beings until and unless we [Indigenous Peoples worldwide, including here under the rule of Colonial America] are also recognized and treated as human beings. Our problem is your problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every day and every month is \u201cBlack History\u201d month! Every day and every month is \u201cIndigenous History\u201d month! Let\u2019s bring an end to Arab-European settler Colonialism and historical ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, read the whole theme of Malcolm X\u2019s speech to understand why this is so. (Hint, all roads lead to the United States, like all roads lead to Iran!):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The African continent\u2019s struggle is also the Southwest Asia Indigenous peoples\u2019 struggle (Jews, Druze, Bedouin, Kurds, Balochs, Assyrians, ethnic Persians, etc, etc!) Let\u2019s expand that quote here, and PLEASE listen carefully to the echo of our SWANA Indigenous voices who have experienced firsthand this Arab-European Colonial Apartheid and endless terrorisms upon our peoples!:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur problems are your problems. We have lived for over three hundred years in that American den of racist wolves in constant fear of losing life and limb. Recently, three students from Kenya were mistaken for American Negroes and were brutally beaten by the New York police. Shortly after that two diplomats from Uganda were also beaten by the New York City police, who mistook them for American Negroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Africans are brutally beaten while only visiting in America, imagine the physical and psychological suffering received by your brothers and sisters who have lived there for over three hundred years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our problem is your problem. No matter how much independence Africans get here on the mother continent, unless you wear your national dress at all time when you visit America, you may be mistaken for one of us and suffer the same psychological and physical mutilation that is an everyday occurrence in our lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your problems will never be fully solved until and unless ours are solved. You will never be fully respected until and unless we are also respected. You will never be recognized as free human beings until and unless we are also recognized and treated as human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our problem is your problem. It is not a Negro problem, nor an American problem. This is a world problem, a problem for humanity. It is not a problem of civil rights, it is a problem of human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We pray that our African brothers have not freed themselves of European colonialism only to be overcome and held in check now by American dollarism. Don\u2019t let American racism be \u201clegalized\u201d by American dollarism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

America is worse than South Africa, because not only is America racist, but she is also deceitful and hypocritical. South Africa preaches segregation and practices segregation. She, at least, practices what she preaches. America preaches integration and practices segregation. She preaches one thing while deceitfully practicing another. South Africa is like a vicious wolf, openly hostile toward black humanity. But America is cunning like a fox, friendly and smiling, but even more vicious and deadly than the wolf.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malcolm X\u2019s Speech to The African Summit Conference (August 21, 1964)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note, the Arab Colonial world preaches segregation and practices segregation. Oh, 22 Arab nations across the Middle East, Southwest Asia, and Africa, where are your ethnically cleansed Jews? In Israel, of course! The United States preaches integration and practices segregation. She preaches one thing while deceitfully practicing another. This is why Indigenous Israelis (Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel) and Indigenous Kurds have achieved zero peaceful decolonizations of our ancestors\u2019 lands, since the Arabs with the British and French invaded during WW1 to divide our SWANA lands into racistly violent and oppressive Arab Colonial nations!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Colonial<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The mother of modern Zionism was Gracia Mendes Nasi, who built the first modern Jewish community in Israel in 1558. The father of modern Zionism was Rabbi Yehuda Bibas, the scion of Moroccan rabbinical royalty, who traveled across Europe in 1839 to encourage Jews to make aliyah and reclaim Jerusalem. It was Jews Indigenous to Judea and Samaria and Jews who returned from Colonial Iraq and Yemen after Arab violence upon Jews and Jews who had already returned from the European diaspora that restored our Jewish land and waters sovereignty upon the land of Israel in the EARLY 1800\u2019s in preparation for Zionism, decolonization from Arab-European settler Colonialism upon the Levant and Southwest Asia regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theodor Herzl was born in 1860 up in the northern European diaspora, and he is wrongfully titled as \u201cthe father of Zionism\u201d. While Theodor Herzl was writing books and holding conferences on Zionism, speaking in the Colonial language of our historic European oppressors, MENA Jews (Middle Eastern North African Jews) were preparing the land of Israel. Because MENA Jews were being allowed to decolonize under the new Ottoman rule, the Arabs \u2013 with British and French support \u2013 invaded the Jewish and Kurdish SWANA land region to re-occupy it for Colonial Allah-Christ dominionism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This post-WW1 militarized British-Arab occupation of the land of Israel caused MENA Jews to smuggle in weapons into the \u201cPalestine Mandate\u201d to fight the Arab-European Colonial occupiers of the land of Israel. For near two decades, 5,000 MENA Jewish women and men freedom fought against the over 100,000 British-Arab troops for the liberation of Israel. During the 1930\u2019s, the Arab settler occupiers of \u201cPalestine\u201d (only foreigners call the land of Israel \u201cPalestine\u201d) joined the German Nazi party, trying to spread the European Holocaust upon Jews throughout the Middle East and North Africa. In 1948, we MENA Jews successfully decolonized our SWANA Indigenous nation\u2019s land!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the Jews that survived the northern European diaspora Holocaust went to the United States and Canada for survival. This is why Israel\u2019s Jewish population is majority Mizrahi-Sephardi to this very day. Perhaps you should learn the actual history of the Levant and Southwest Asia regions \u2013 not Arab-European history revisionisms that erases our Indigenous Judean presence upon the land of Israel. Don\u2019t be an antisemite, go study easily verifiable history instead! Be the source of PEACE upon this Arab-European colonized world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snapshot above: The Arab Colonial nations of Jordan, Syria, and Iraq were all created after WW1, with the help of the British and French, all because Indigenous Jews were decolonizing our land for Zionism \u2013 Indigenous Sovereignty \u2013 in the 1800\u2019s! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the League of Nations, invented after WW1, which is now known, since WW2, as the United Nations of Arab-European Colonial nations that formed the Arab Colonial nations of Jordan, Syria, and Iraq, Arab nations that were conceived between Arabia royals and the British-French. This is why Jordanian royals can marry Saudi Arabia royals \u2013 and the British royals can attend their weddings \u2013 because the Jordanian and Saudi royals are all part of the same extended Arabia royal families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Willie<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A Guide for the Perplexed: Real Life Indigenous Jewish history, and How We Jews are Still Around today\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWillie \u201cthe Lion\u201d Smith, was Jewish. Smith\u2019s New York birth record shows him as William H. Bertholf, with father, Frank Bertholf, an electrician from nearby Monroe, New York. Smith became at least somewhat conversant in Yiddish and studied Hebrew with children of a Jewish family who were clients of his mother\u2019s. He made his bar mitzvah at age thirteen in Newark. His mother, Ida Oliver, had \u201cSpanish, Negro, and Mohawk Indian blood\u201d.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wikipedia does have useful Indigenous peoples\u2019 information, if you are willing to learn about life. Just saying! We only wish as Indigenous peoples that we had a Colonial privileged audience to express to, \u201cwhite\u201d (Arab-European) or \u201cblack\u201d (everyone else!). Every day and every month is \u201cBlack History\u201d month! Every day and every month is \u201cIndigenous History\u201d month! Let\u2019s bring an end to Arab-European settler Colonialism and historical ignorance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that we don\u2019t need a #BlackHistoryMonth ! Nor an #IndigenousHistoryMonth , nor a #JewishHistoryMonth , nor a \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ta\u00edno<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Ta\u00edno of the Caribbean were the first Indigenous people to encounter the Spaniards \u2013 aka, the Conquistadors \u2013 when Christopher Columbus arrived in 1492 to colonize these islands for gold extraction. By 1504, the Indigenous Ta\u00edno were the first to experience mass genocide and subjugation of their people. Along with them were Sephardi Jews who had fled from the Spanish Inquisition to what Europeans called the Caribbean islands and America continents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not uncommon at all to find Caribbean and South American Indigenous with Sefardi DNA, nor to find North American Indigenous with Sefardi and Ashkenazi DNA, from the intermarriages between these stateless Southwest Asia Indigenous Jews and the Indigenous peoples who are still to this day occupied by Colonial \u201cAmerica\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though most of the Sephardi Jews that were ethnically cleansed from the Iberian Peninsula returned to the Levant, Middle East, North Africa, or settled within Ottoman Southeastern Europe, the impact of this Christian expulsion of Jews is felt throughout the islands and continents of European colonized \u201cAmerica\u201d. Prior to WW2, the majority of the Jewish extreme minority population of Michilimackinac (Turtle Island, North \u201cAmerica\u201d above Spanish Colonial Mexico) was Sephardi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen, now, to a Ta\u00edno history lesson, as shared by Chief Joseph AmaHura RiverWind \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost Taino from Boriken and other islands have a large percentage of Sephardic DNA. Thousands of Spanish Jews fled the Inquisitions and forced conversions then sought refuge in the \u201cNew World\u201d. We, Arawak Taino, were the first tribe to give refuge to them. When the Sephardim saw what the Spanish Conquistadors were doing to our native ancestors they sided with our people because the same atrocities were done to them and they paid the price by hanging or execution by the Spanish if caught.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s sickening to see how many natives are siding with the Islamic conquistadors and colonizers of the Middle East who have been ethnically cleansing millions of indigenous people since the 7th century and still persecuting and murdering indigenous people to this day. If this was 1492 you would be siding with the Spanish Conquistadors who raped, hanged, slaughtered, burned our chiefs and leaders at the stake and more atrocities that mirror Hama tactics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vast majority of these keyboard activists have never been to Israel and are talking out of their orifice with ZERO knowledge about what is really happening here except for the spoon fed propaganda they happily gobble up. Get educated and learn the truth of whose bloodlines you carry within you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black history in the Colonial United States of \u201cAmerica\u201d is also Indigenous peoples\u2019 history planet Earth-wide, let us worldwide Indigenous peoples\u2019 show you why!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Indigenous<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If the United States and UN had not been UNRWA funding Arab \u201cPalestinian\u201d terrorist schools, weapons purchases, and tunnel constructions, then Oct 7th wouldn\u2019t have happened and the United Nations would not be directly responsible for Gaza\u2019s destruction by Arab Palestinian Hamas! If the Arabs had not invaded Southwest Asia with the British and French during WW1 to divide SWANA Indigenous peoples\u2019 lands into Colonial Arab nations \u2013 all to prevent Indigenous Israeli decolonization \u2013 then Indigenous Israelis (Jews, Druze, Bedouin, and Israeli Arab citizens of Israel) would not still be needing to freedom fight for our literal survival from racistly violent Arab settler occupiers and terrorists upon Israel and Kurdistan, self-named Palestinians since 1964! Easily verifiable historical facts really do matter, folks! Look these facts up. Easily verifiable historical facts don\u2019t go away, no matter how much the antisemitic world around us lies about our history to justify their antisemitic racism!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hey, anti-Indigenous racists, Mizrahi-Sephardi Jews are NOT \u201cEuropeans\u201d, neither are Ashkenazi Jews in the European diaspora! Enough with that racist lie! All Jews that return to the Jewish people of Israel \u2013 who never left Judea-Samaria, despite every Arab-European attempt to ethnically cleanse us from our land(!) \u2013 are all SWANA Indigenous Jews, full stop. Yes, the Jews that returned from the Arab colonized Middle East diasporas, Southwest Asia diasporas, and North Africa diasporas. Yes, the Jews that returned from the South Africa diaspora and the northern European diaspora, and even Jews that returned from the Colonial named \u201cAmerica\u201d diasporas. Jews are not European and will always be anti-Colonial to Arab-European settler Colonialism upon this planet Earth! Get used to it, racist Colonizers and appropriators of Indigenous Jewish culture for your Colonial Christian-Muslim religions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ysoscher<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThanks so much for this thoughtful post. As an Israeli living here with sons and son in law in active miluim service, I ask myself where all the American Jews are right now. At least the affiliated and Israel-oriented ones. They don\u2019t come to do or to be. They simply don\u2019t come. \u2026 I believe that this is going to be one of the big questions to be addressed \u201cthe day after\u201d as we approach the rebuilding of more \u201cunited\u201d Jewish society in the wake of October 7. Not only the religious- secular and left-right, divides \u2013 but also the Israel-Diaspora divide\u2026\u201d (See post AND comments!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ysoscher Katz has thoughts on those who do and those who be in our support of Indigenous Israelis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy Am I Here?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To use Brisker terminology, there are \u201ctzvei dinim\u201d (two models) in the post October 7th diaspora Jewry\u2019s Israel hopover, the thousands who embark on a short pilgrimage to Israel for a few days and then return home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1) There is the \u201ckum ve\u2019asai\u201d model; the active pilgrim where one comes to Israel for a short while in order to DO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They arrive prepared with a jam-packed itinerary, filled with moments of chesed and alturism. They help prepare food for the chayalim to provide them with a bit of comfort, visit hospitals to offer a modicum of relief for the injured, attend funerals to cry with the bereaved (sadly there are too many of those), and pay shiva visits to alleviate some of the pain of the mourners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2) Then there is the \u201cshev ve\u2019al ta\u2019aseh\u201d model; the passive model, whereby one comes more to BE than to DO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They come here just like that, with no itinerary in hand. Mostly they come to do a lot of NOT DOING; to spend some time sitting in silence with friends, loved ones, and the country as a whole. They crave to be here because it feels wrong to be away during this trying time, when am Israel in eretz Israel is experiencing fear, anxiety, innumerable deaths, and debilitating uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They want to be in that space even if only for a short time; walk the streets in fear of the next rocket attack, refrain from extravagant laughter and frivolity while a few short miles away some of our brothers and sisters, some of them very young and some of them not so very young, wither in chilly Gazan subterranean tunnels\u2014so close by that in the serenity of late at night you imagine yourself hearing their bone crushing cries for help and relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two models, equally valid but for a variety of conscious and unconscious reasons, some embrace the first model while others adopt the second.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am here for a few days to do the latter. I am more of a BE\u2019er than a DOer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hopped over for about 120 hours. To hold my children\u2019s hands, wipe their tears, comfort my little grandchildren who even if they don\u2019t have the words yet to express themselves undoubtedly sense that something is askew. Hopefully, Zaidy\u2019s presence can provide a modicum of reassurance, and help steady them a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along those lines, on shabbat morning when we recite the mi shebeirach for Tzahal, I want to shed a tear in response to the tear shed by the person sitting next to me, who quite possibly has a child serving in Gaza\u2013or maybe worse, God forbid! (Perhaps my neighbor\u2019s child did serve but is no longer able to because it\u2019s hard to fend off an enemy from inside a grave.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, with all the bloodshed happening on my behalf it felt right for me (others might disagree) to spend a few moments to be a part of this operation, at least vicariously. The burden of carrying the consequences of the aggressive war tactics (albeit necessary) should not just fall on those who live here. Perhaps for a few days, I too should feel safe only by owning that which Tzahal is doing on our behalf. It\u2019s necessary but no less horrific, devastating, and tugs at your conscience. It\u2019s one thing to grapple with this from afar. Up close it is a very different experience, for better and for worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being in such close proximity to the Gazan theater of war enables you, at least for a couple of days, to better understand the necessity of this brutal war. And, at the same time, the brutality feels more intimate when you go to bed a mere 5\/10 miles from where all the mass killing is taking place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rabbis tell us, \u05db\u05e9\u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc \u05d1\u05e6\u05e2\u05e8, \u05e9\u05db\u05d9\u05e0\u05d4 \u05de\u05d4 \u05d0\u05d5\u05de\u05e8\u05ea \u05e7\u05dc\u05e0\u05d9 \u05de\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d9 \u05e7\u05dc\u05e0\u05d9 \u05de\u05d6\u05e8\u05d5\u05e2\u05d9. When the Jewish nation is in pain, God says: I am in pain as well. My head is aching, my arms are hurting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This little aphorism teaches us an incredibly deep lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we know, traditional Judaism believes in an omnipotent God who can do anything. This then begs the following question: when God notices that His children are in pain, why doesn\u2019t He immediately heal them, alleviate their pain?! He can easily do it! The answer is: there are times when healing is NOT called for. There are moments when before we try to minimize the suffering of our loved ones we just need to join them in that painful space, to be with them and suffer alongside them; cry and ache just as they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is Godly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When God\u2019s beloved experiences heartbreak, before God invokes His Godly healing powers, He first just sits with the broken hearted and tries to lend a shoulder, carrying the burden of hurt with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is why I am here, just for a few short days. I made a conscious choice not to reach out to friends because that is not what mourners do. The bereaved person does not hang out with friends and share coffee with acquaintances. Other than being with my family, I am here to spend time in silence, crying, contemplating and soaking up every bit of fear, uncertainty and anxiety hovering all over the horizon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully, I\u2019ll absorb enough of it so that I can bring some of that back home with me. This way, even after I return, the broken reality stays as raw and as palpable as it is while I am here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like HKB\u201dH, \u05e7\u05dc\u05e0\u05d9 \u05de\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d9 \u05e7\u05dc\u05e0\u05d9 \u05de\u05dc\u05d1\u05d9; for the couple of days that I have been here I am not experiencing the joie di vivre I usually associate with our Tel Aviv community. Instead, my head hurts and my heart aches\u2013and that is the only way I want it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Academic<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Like Rabbi Menachem Manis HaKohen Friedman said, \u201cI\u2019m glad Judaism is not a religion\u201d! I am so happy that our TaNaKh and Talmud prevent our SWANA Indigenous Jewish people from becoming a religion! For idolatry is in the heart of theology based religions. We Jews have survived for 3,800 years by maintaining our connection to our Canaanite Hebrew language, our Canaan Judean land, and our ethno-religion and laws that define who we are as a people and who is a member of our people and, thus, successfully resisting \u201cconversion\u201d to any of the salvation religions! Again, as Hasidic Rabbi Manis Friedman teaches, \u201cDon\u2019t go to heaven, bring G-d down to Earth\u201d! How do we do this? Not by theology! But, by maintaining our people\u2019s ethno-religious ways and mitzvot\/halachot. In other words, by STUDYING in every way possible our ancestors\u2019 writings!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Let\u2019s learn today some Black History from U.S. Congressman @ritchietorresny15 !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.<\/a>instagram<\/a>.com<\/a>\/reel\/C2fERedJ8Xs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe main narrative of our detractors, of our haters, is to try to separate the Jewish people from the land of Israel. This is their strategy, this is their tactic\u2026. The Jewish people became the Jewish people in this land [of Canaan Israel, Judea and Samaria]!\u2026 The only thing that they [these Arab and European anti-Indigenous racist Colonizers] can do is to try and separate us from the very place in which we were created [as a Southwest Asia Indigenous Canaan people, known as \u201cthe Jews\u201d worldwide]. But, it is our wonderful friends from the different Indigenous communities from around the world who see the [historical] truth, because you all know what it is like to be a people from a land, you know what that feeling is! And, you recognize that the Jewish people have that same feeling in this [Southwest Asia] land [of Israel].\u201d \u2013 Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan Nahoum, Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem, 1 February 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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