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You can call me a Hebrew if you want, but Jews and Hebrews are synonyms for us the Jews... or the Hebrews... or the sons of Israel.
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The reason I said Jewish and Hebrew are seperate things is because Samaritans are not considered Jewish are they but they're Hebrew, similarly some Hebrews converted to Islam but they'd still be Hebrew, just like Greeks were still Greek even after accepting Christianity.
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Regarding the Ashkenazi, well, The Jews were dispersed and settled in different places. Some settled in the Northen Africa, some in Asia, some in Europe. I don't think that settling in Europe makes you less Jewish in some way. I'm an Ashkenazi, and my ancestors lived for many generations in Europe. But if I ever decided to pass myself as a person of European decent, my Semitic nose would betray me every time. It is like the black Americans, who lived for many generations in the US. They could never pass as Anglo-Saxons and they did not become less black because of many generations living in North America.
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Why does it matter where our ancestors came from?
Far back enough we all probably originated in Africa, so what do we do move back to Africa?
By your logic most white people from USA, Austrailia, New Zealand should move back to Britain.
American or European Jews are not Middle Eastern, they are American and European, that's their home and that's what they should be loyal to. The Ashekenazi look white, other than their noses but nothing wrong with big noses they add charecter to your face.
It doesn't matter what our ancestors were because we're all racial hybrids anyway, including Jews that's why European Jews look Caucasian whilst Mizrahi Jews look brown like us.
I'm Muslim, of Pakistani descent but it is said that the Pashtun and Kashmiri people of Pakistan/Afghanistan are atleast partially descended from the Lost Tribes of the Israel. What do I do move back to Israel? We've also have Greek, Dravidian, Ind-Aryan etc. as part of our racial makeup so how lost and confused would we be if we decided to move back to where our ancestors came from!!
I'm brown, my parents came from Pakistan but I'd probably solely identify as British because this is where I'm born and all my family that I care about is British, I still have a connection with Pakistan but my children and grandchildren wont.
In my opnion The Holy Land belongs to local Mizrahi Jews, Palestinian Christians and Palestinian Muslims. Europeanised Jews belong in Europe.... Well I hope there is a peaceful soloution soon, whatever it is.
Anyways dude welcome aboard, enjoy your stay here, we can have different political/religious views but that shouldn't stop us being cordial and friendly towards each other, at the end of the day we're all human and need love...
We might not agree with your political views mate but know that we have nothing against Judaism, Jews, Bani-Israel or Hebrews. I'd probably have been a Jew had I not heard of Islam.
sab ke saath intehai narm mizaji ke saath pesh aaya kartey they, apne dushmano ke saath bhi aur hamen bhi unn ki Sunnat-e-Aqdas pe amal karna chahiyey.