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.
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.
It's not an issue of where one's genetic ancestors come from or where they used to live at some point of history. The main point is one's national identity. You are right that there are no pure races, and if traced well back anybody is a genetic relative of anybody else on this planet. However, sometimes people form a certain connecting identity - a tribe, a nation, a people. Sometimes, when separated from the rest of the group or from their national homeland, they lose this connection and assimilate within the local majority. Yet, sometimes it does not happen and people preserve their national identity, their link to their national homeland and the rest of their people. No matter where they are and how much time has passed, they keep this link, passing it from generation to generation.
I'll give you an example. The right of return is a very big issue for the Palestinians. I mean the Palestinians, majority of whom where born outside of Palestine and have never been to Palestine. Those people, who live in London or Toronto, were born there and their children were born there, some of them speak English much better than Arabic, and yet insist that they are Palestinians, demand their right of return to Palestine and promise that they will never abandon this demand and will return eventually no matter how much time will pass. Some would say that this promise is completely unrealistic, but I don't know... It did happen to the Jews after all.
