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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

nyet n yahoo doesn't care about them though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

"nyet n yahoo"

Damn, that's a good one!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

🤣 нетняху

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Ok this is a legit question, not trying to troll or bait... Are there African or east Asian jews? Like Jewish communities in Ghana or Thailand for example?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yup.
Ethiopian Jews, Indian Jews, and tiny communties of Chinese and Japanese Jews.

Edit: There are more, but those are mostly Jews that ran away / were expelled from other countries.
Like Jews in Thailand who fled Russia and Iran.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, I only hear of American, European or Middle East jews.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Indian Jews are also the only ones amongst Jewish communities who haven't faced any discrimination. Despite their presence in India for around 2,000 years.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

First thing coming to mind are the Jews in Ethiopia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ethnically or religiously?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both. For example Ethiopian Jews

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It hasn't been disproved that Ethiopian Jews are ethnically Jewish.
A genetic study showed a possible genetic link.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I'm saying that jews are not necessarily ethically and/or religiously white

They can be black, and Ethiopian jews (amongst others) overwhelmingly are

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stupid English doesn't differentiate between citizenship and ethnicity

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is citizenship related to this post?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, I see what they mean, but that's probably racist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Finally, someone else who gets it. It's so weird that so many people think all Jews came from a single tribe at the edge of the desert. That's not how religions work...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

even weirder that most people seem to identify Judaism as an ethnicity and not as a religion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because it's both? Jews can be both semites (ethnicity) and followers of Judaism (religion). Not all Jewish people are both. To make things more confusing, not all Jews are zionists, and not all Israelis are zionists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It depends on how you define the word ethnicity. Look it up and it can mean any group that shares a common religion, custom, language, etc.

Debating if something is a religion or an ethnicity is like debating if it is a Group or a Club or a population.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to know a black guy that was German by heritage

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a country, not an ethnicity or religion.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The point still stands. All those categories are social constructs and we morally shouldn't make them dictate our behaviors towards others and we should treat all human beings with respect and dignity regardless of how they look or which group they belong to.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

The point was kinda weird to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His family came from Germany several generations back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, thats.. not that weird really.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but most (racist) people just assume he's from Africa.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In the US or what? Never seen that before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

...while some other people get it wrong in exactly the opposite way (you know, the Khazar nonsense)