Ten Tribes Studies (22 May 2017, 26 Iyar, 5777)
Contents:
1. New Article. Atlantic Britain
The British Isles are Considered Israelite!
2. BDS anti-Jewish Retrogades
3. New Article.
Jewish Mother. When did the rabbis start ruling that your mother has to be Jewish for you to be a Jew?
4. Question on the Difference between Jew and Lost Tribe Israelite
5. The Netherlands as Zebulon. A Humorous Yet Pertinent Illustration
6. Two Questions on Spanish Ancestry and Jewish Origins with Brit-Am Reply
7. Query from New Zealand of Irish Descent
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1. New Article. Atlantic Britain
The British Isles are Considered Israelite!
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/rabbi/atlantic.html
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2. BDS anti-Jewish Retrogades
Quora: Is the BDS movement a reaction to Israel's mere status as a Jewish state or to the conduct of the Israeli government?
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Brit-Am Answer:
The BDS is against Jewish existence.
The behavior of the Israeli government has little if anything to do with it.
The Arabs are much worse tot heir own kind than Israel ever was to them.
Take the Christians for instance,
In Israel and the Palestinian areas there are Christians who are also Arabs.
Christians in the Arab world are Roman Catholics or Greek Orthodox or Maronite.
Others belong to one or other of the Protestant groups.
In 1990, Christians made up a majority of the residents of Bethlehem;
today they make up only about 15%.
Up until the 1990s Bethlehem had been ruled by Israel.
After that the Palestinians took over.
See:
Why are Palestinian Christians Fleeing?
Robert Nicholson
https://providencemag.com/2016/03/why-are-palestinian-christians-fleeing/
Palestinian Treatment of Christian Arabs
http://www.sullivan-county.com/id4/christian_arabs.htm
Where Israel has control the Christian Arab population increases.
Where the Palestinians (of Ramallah or Gaza) rule the Christians leave.
Christians are forced out by acts of terror, murder, sexual molestation, robbery, harassment, etc.
They leave Arab areas.
The world does not care about them.
They may no longer care that much about themselves.
They just leave.
Those who stay in some cases support Israel. Others work for the Palestinian cause.
Hatred of the Jews seems to have a kind of religious appeal about it.
That explains the BDS movement.
Being physical and/or spiritual descendants of Nazis and Judeophobes the BDS does what it can to hurt Jews.
The Palestinians are an excuse.
If the Palestinians disappeared tomorrow morning by the afternoon another excuse would already be there.
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3. New Article.
Jewish Mother. When did the rabbis start ruling that your mother has to be Jewish for you to be a Jew?
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/18/mother.html
Extract:
Incidentally, the Biblical Commentator, Abarbanel ("Mashmia Yishuah," 2;3), understood a Biblical text to indicate that in the End Times when the Lost Israelites return it will not be as it was in the time of Ezra.
He says that at that time the returnees will be allowed to keep their foreign wives and their children will be recognized.
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4. Question on the Difference between Jew and Lost Tribe Israelite
Ben Yochanan wrote:
Shalom Yair, what's the difference between a Jew and a lost tribe Israelite? Do you also call those people 'Jews'? And how can they return to the Land? By becoming 'Jew' according to the Orthodox way or is there another possibility to enter the Land for a repented, Torah observant member of the lost tribes? Thank you!
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Brit-Am Reply:
We try to be very careful and exact in our nomenclature.
We use the term "Jews" ONLY for descendants of Judah who adhere to Judaism.
Other people however, including Jews and including Identity type, sometime use the expressions such as "Lost Jewish Tribes," etc. This causes unnecessary confusion.
A Lost Ten Tribe Israelite is a descendant of one of the Ten Tribes (or of Judah who became attached to them) and will usually not be a practitioner of Judaism.
They will not be considered Jewish unless they or their recent forebears converted to Judaism.
People who really want to come to Israel and receive citizenship without converting to Judaism sometimes find all kinds of ways to do so.
There are cases where they pretend to be Jewish, or convert to Reform Judaism, or marry an Israeli citizen, or marry a Jew, or come and live in Israel and make a special application, etc.
The only legitimate way at present is to convert to Orthodox Judaism.
Even this is not always so simple and is not automatically accepted.
Why not just spread knowledge of Israelite ancestry and make the USA an Israelite nation?
See:
Predicted Hebrew Islands
Were the British Isles and North America Promised to Become Israelite?
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/rabbi/sofer.html
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5. The Netherlands as Zebulon.
A Humorous Yet Pertinent Illustration
We identify the Netherlands as Zebulon.
See:
Zebulon (the Dutch) and the Sea-Shores
http://www.britam.org/Proof/geo/geoSeaZebulon.html
The article below is pertinent to our evidence:
Which country is the most difficult to invade?
Geographically, not militarily.
Bas Leijser
https://www.quora.com/Which-country-is-the-most-difficult-to-invade/answer/Bas-Leijser
Extracts:
Since the Netherlands is the only country worldwide that is almost entirely below sea-level, it even has a plan where flooding the country is used as a defence strategy (Hollandic Water Line - Wikipedia) and this can easily be done by destroying various flood defences; I say we are the most difficult to invade because there will be nothing to invade if we are desperate enough.
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6. Two Questions on Spanish Ancestry and Jewish Origins with Brit-Am Reply
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(a)
J. wrote:
Hello Yair
My test, according to Ancestry shows significant DNA from the Iberian peninsula. Could that indicate some Jewish ancestry?
J.
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(b)
Shalom!
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My name is S... and a friend referred your site to me. I love all of the content you put out on there and I have learned a lot from it. They you for the wealth of knowledge you put out. I'm looking to do a DNA test soon, but I wanted your thoughts on something.
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My moms side of the family is from the Philippines and I was told we have Jewish descent from that side. My grandfather (moms father) told me that it was orally passed down in his family that they were Jewish. They came from Spain on ship and each generation spoke fluent Spanish up until this last generation or the one before. The name is Rosalejo and Orbiso, this is something I never knew till recently and what came to mind is maybe they were conversos?
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What are your thoughts?
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Brit-Am Reply:
Statistically it is claimed that possibly a fifth of all Spaniards have some Jewish blood.
See:
Sephardic Bnei Anusim
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sephardic_Bnei_Anusim
We would like to make the following remarks:
Saying that a fifth have some Jewish blood means only on average. Some may have a great deal and some have much less.
People of the same type often instinctively intermarry with each other.
The same applies every way.
The Commentator Abarbanel who himself came from Spain opined that the descendants of captive Jews would return with the Ten Tribes and that their fates were intertwined.
Even though in theory Spain may be shown to have received much Israelite Input through the Jews who were forced to convert, and also through Israelites who sojourned there,
and through Celts, and Vigisigoths, etc, Spain has not fulfilled most of the Criteria.
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/criteria.html
Spain is, from our point a view, a country in which many Israelites may have sojourned but always remained separate from.
God bless you,
Yair
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7. Query from New Zealand of Irish Descent
Hello.
My name is Jared O'Meagher and I am from New Zealand.
As you can probably tell I am of Irish decent and have recently become very interested in the idea of Israelite's being among the British Isles including Ireland.
My name stems from the heart of Ireland in Tipperary. I was wondering if you could suggest some books to me in regards to 'Anglo-Israel' history and more specifically Ireland.
Thank you.
Regards
Jared O'Meagher.
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Brit-Am Reply:
Shalom,
Our work Ancestry. The Hebrew Identity of Celtic Races is dedicated to the question of Celtic Israelite origins with much emphasis on Irish sources.
http://britam.org/Ancestry.html
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All of our works in effect have great pertinence to your query.
You may find special interest may be found in the books:
Ephraim
http://www.britam.org/ephraim.html
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The Tribes
http://www.britam.org/the-Tribes.html
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Origin
http://britam.org/origin.html
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