Chaya 🎗️🪶 עם שראל חי

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[soxiyy]

So @omeryotam4 requested I make a master list of articles involving Jewish indigenous identity and Arab colonialism

History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel - Wikipedia

History of ancient Israel and Judah - Wikipedia

History of ancient Israel and Judah - Wikipedia

Letters to the Editor: Jews are indigenous to Israel. They're defending their homeland, not 'colonizing' it

Characterizing the war in Gaza as a 'colonial' battle belittles Jews' ancestral ties to Israel and their history of being forced from their

Are Jews Indigenous to the Land of Israel? Yes.

Discover the archaeology, genealogy, and history that supports Jewish claim as the indigenous peoples of Israel.

Jewish Indigeneity to Israel by Sarah Levin - JIMENA

By Sarah Levin October 15, 2021 Late last night as I was falling asleep, I was reading a narrative cartoon from Jewish Currents called “When

To speak of the Jewish diaspora as though those people have always been splattered across the Earth is to deny their cohesive origin and the

Are Jews Indigenous People? Here's What a Native American Jew Thinks

As indigenous people who reclaimed our ancestral homeland, we must be sensitive to others undergoing that same process.

Don't erase our history: The Jewish people are indigenous to the land of Israel - MinnPost

The truth is that the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is the agonizing struggle between not one, but two indigenous peoples fight

Arabization - Wikipedia

Arabization - Wikipedia

Early Muslim conquests - Wikipedia

Early Muslim conquests - Wikipedia

[that-rad-jewish-girl-deactivate]

I try to truly believe “a Jew is a Jew is a Jew”, but some of these converts are making it difficult post-Oct. 7th.

[farmfreshboys]

A Jew is a Jew is a Jew, and every Jew convert or not, religious or secular, has a responsibility to deconstruct any all existing internalized antisemitism within them in order to lovingly and conducively contribute to the community and their own cultural and spiritual growth

[everythingfox]

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[spacelazarwolf]

one thing i need you all to realize is that you have to fight like hell for the marginalized people you don’t like. you have to fight for the cringey discourse queer and the misogynistic man of color and the transphobic cis woman and the politically conservative jew and the racist disabled person. you don’t have to like them or agree with them. but if you see them experiencing bigotry and you are a person who claims to be against bigotry, you are obligated to fight for them. you have to fight against bigotry, even if you don’t like the target of that bigotry, because as soon as you let yourself slip, as soon as you allow bigotry on your watch, even if it is directed at the shittiest person you’ve ever met, you’ve now established that in your personal ethos bigotry isn’t wrong, it’s a weapon. and as soon as you’re okay with bigotry being used as a weapon, you have already lost.

[spacelazarwolf]

[vettir]

Leftist antisemites stepping into the point like a rake to the face.

[lilykai1]

Hating zionists for being colonizers and doing a genocide is a valid opinion to have.

Allowing nazis and such to hate zionists cause they're jewish is NOT good.

[spacelazarwolf]

[pagecommando]

"No No. My hatred of Jews is pure and just. That's why I've divided the Jews up into Good Jews who perform for me and Bad Jews who have not accepted the gospel. It's not going to take me very long to decide that most Jews are the Bad Jews because I will endlessly purity test them and when they don't converting to my mode of belief I will throw them to the wolves, spread conspiracy theories and encourage their murder. I will under no circumstances include all Jews in my activism or protection because of (((Zionism))). As a Principled Antizionist I gain nothing from protecting Jews wherever they are and proving that life in a diaspora can be safe and protected by allies who sincerely care about them. I'm not a nazi. I just make room for nazi talking points and nazis in my movement because it's too hard to kick them out." hey guess what you're just doing more trad christian Jew hate shit. You're not new, you're not clever, and you're not even helping Palestinians or seeing them as people. You're JUST singling out Jews again. In his early works, Luther discouraged mistreatment of the Jews and advocated their conversion by proving that the Old Testament could be shown to speak of Jesus Christ. As the Reformation continued, Luther lost hope in large-scale Jewish conversion to Christianity and grew more and more hostile toward the Jews.

Martin Luther and Antisemitism

A panel examines Martin Luther’s changing opinion on Jews as well as the impact of the Reformation on Christian-Jewish relations in the 16th

[jewish-privilege]

“No human being is illegal” was first spoken by Elie Wiesel, Z’’L, a Jewish Holocaust survivor. “Illegal immigrant” was first used to label Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust and being denied entry to then Mandatory Palestine. There is nothing wrong with universalizing the quote and its message, Wiesel himself did, but if you use it and also erase its Jewish, antisemitic, and anti-antisemitic origins? You’re doing it wrong.

Also if you’re pumped up about Nazis being punched, but still think Jews are privileged and behind all the world’s evils? You’re also doing it wrong.

[diamondsandphoenixfire]

Just checked and it’s true!

“The phrase “illegal immigrant” was not popularly used until World War II when it was used to describe Jewish refugees who fled to Palestine without authorization.[5] Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor, once said, “know that no human being is illegal. That is a contradiction in terms. Human beings can be beautiful or more beautiful, they can be fat or skinny, they can be right or wrong, but illegal? How can a human being be illegal?””

According to Reuters, it’s from his 1986 Nobel lecture.

[nimrochan]

Arab-Israeli questioning why Israel is accused of being apartheid when his personal experiences show him otherwise.

[david-goldrock]

Arab Israeli... This is Yousef Hadad. He's a christian Arab, born in Haifa, and lives in Nazareth. He enlisted in the army in a combat division and served under the legendary Roei Klein. He was injured in combat, but recovered well, and went on to establish the non-profit "together, vouch for each other", which works towards the integration between Israeli Arabs and Jews. He has been doing Hasbarah for years, and he has been doing it even stronger ever since the war. He says he thinks about creating a party to continue the work he does in together vouch for each other through the Knesset, but only after the war, cause he wants to stay in the consensus for the time being to be better at Hasbarah

He is, in my honest opinion, one of the finest men Israel has ever had.

[fdelopera]

Here's a transcript in English. Bless Yoseph Haddad. He has the patience of a saint to try to get through to these ignorant, brain-rotted Hamasnik morons who have been twisted by white saviorism and Jew-hate.

.

Yoseph Haddad: … Can I like, get a little bit of knowledge about it? Can I get a bit more things about it?

Ignorant Hamasnik: I'm not the best to ask, because I'm not super knowledgable. Yeah…

Yoseph Haddad: Aren't you…? Sorry, I'm really confused, because this is really important. This apartheid is not okay.

Ignorant Hamasnik: Yeah…

Yoseph Haddad: And I tried to go online and search about it, and I saw a lot of talks. Like, oh there isn't apartheid, there is apartheid. And I said, I'm gonna come here and just gonna hear it from you guys.

Ignorant Hamasnik: Yeah…

Yoseph Haddad: But can I be honest? I'm really disappointed, because I thought you represent the Palestinian club, and you would know about it.

Ignorant Hamasnik: Yeah, no, I mean…

Yoseph Haddad: So, wait, is there apartheid in there?

Ignorant Hamasnik: If you're asking for a personal opinion, yes.

Yoseph Haddad: What do you mean "personal opinion"?

Ignorant Hamasnik: As in, that's just my opinion, yeah.

Yoseph Haddad: I'm a bit confused, sorry. Because like, the personal opinion does not matter. The fact does matter, like if there is an apartheid or no.

Ignorant Hamasnik: Yeah, I mean…

Yoseph Haddad: What's the apartheid? It's like, what do you do in that?

Ignorant Hamasnik: Like, the definition of … apartheid…?

Yoseph Haddad: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Ignorant Hamasnik: (laughs) I mean, again, like, I don't have the definition with me. Um, I think from what I believe, I mean, you've got checkpoints? So uh…

Yoseph Haddad: Well, you have checkpoints also like in between countries, no? If someone from Argentina wants to go to Brazil, doesn't he go to a checkpoint? So, this is not exactly the definition of apartheid. Look, Amnesty said that they [Israeli Arabs] are part of the Apartheid as well, that they live under apartheid as well. They do? They do live under apartheid, the Arabs who live in Israel, as well?

Ignorant Hamasnik: To that extent, I wouldn't know. I've never been to Israel.

Yoseph Haddad: Oh okay. And the Palestinians?

Ignorant Hamasnik: I've never been to that side either, no.

Yoseph Haddad: So, they live under apartheid, or they don't live under apartheid?

Ignorant Hamasnik: Yes…

Yoseph Haddad: How is it like, implemented? How is it on the ground? The facts on the ground?

Ignorant Hamasnik: I mean … so like I said, so, checkpoints can be in an area. You've got things like uh, separate, like what is it, license plates?

Yoseph Haddad: The license of the car?

Ignorant Hamasnik: Yeah, it's like a different colour.

Yoseph Haddad: Why it should be the same? If like, a person from New Zealand has a license plate of New Zealand, and a person from Australia has a license plate from Australia. So, New Zealand is an apartheid to Australia? Or Australia is an apartheid to New Zealand?

Ignorant Hamasnik: I mean, that's different, because we're two separate…

Yoseph Haddad: Can I be straight honest with you? I'm not really "an Arab who lives in Israel."

Ignorant Hamasnik: Yeah…

Yoseph Haddad: And I don't know what people are telling you or not telling you. I don't know if any of those people who are in that club even speak Arabic like me as an Arab. There are problems. I will never say that there isn't a problem.

Ignorant Hamasnik: Yeah…

Yoseph Haddad: But I have to be honest with you, this is a branwash. It's a brainwash. I can vote. I can get elected. I can become the president of Israel, if I want right now to nominate myself. Whether I win or not, that's no difference. I don't have a different bus system. I don't have different judges. In fact, and Arab judge, an Arab judge in Israel, a Supreme Court judge, sent the Jewish Prime Minister and the Jewish President [to jail]. I don't want you to believe me. I want you to check the name. Salim Joubran. In an apartheid, that cannot happen. I have freedom of movement. I came to New Zealand with my Israeli passport, as an Arab. No one can stop me. And by the way, it doesn't mean that racism doesn't exist or discrimination. But you want to tell me that also in New Zealand racism and discrimination does not exist?? Unfortunately, it exists everywhere. And what about Hamas?

Ignorant Hamasnik: Yeah, no, I mean, it's rough…

Yoseph Haddad: It's rough?? Look, Hamas controls Gaza. Israel does not control Gaza.

Ignorant Hamasnik: Yeah, I'm aware.

Yoseph Haddad: So, Israel does not have even one inch. Hamas has a border with Egypt. And Egypt closed that border as well. So, why an Arab state closed the border with Arab Gaza?

Ignorant Hamasnik: …

Yoseph Haddad: Because of terrorism. Helping us is not lying nor about deaths or promoting the brainwash of this. I don't live under an apartheid regime. The Palestinians have problems, which we need to resolve. But the obstacle is not actually Israel. The obstacle right now is the terrorist organization from Gaza and the corrupted Palestinian Authority. I hope, I hope I managed to bear something, and also, maybe I did not change your mind, but maybe I made you ask more tough questions to the poeple who made you join this club.

[the-library-alcove]

A rather irritating observation I've made over the last few days is that there is a considerable overlap between the group of people who make statements to the effect of:

"Luigi is being charged with terrorism? Talk about overdefining and overusing the term!"

and the group who make statements to the effect of,

"Israel is committing genocide! Look, Amnesty International, Ireland, and several other countries all think so!"

Ignoring the fact that all of the groups trying to make that claim are saying that they have to change the definition of genocide to make it fit.

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

When I say I’m a Zionist, all I mean is that I want a country that already exists, that has existed for 75 years, to continue to exist. Not the current government, just the country itself. That shouldn’t be a controversial stance.

It’s not normal to need an entire movement around wanting an existing country to keep existing. It’s not normal that there’s an entire movement dedicated to the complete destruction of one singular country and no other.

Even if you insist on comparing Israel to the most evil regimes; Nazi Germany, apartheid South Africa - which you shouldn’t because it’s false and antisemitic, but even if you did - the Nazis were defeated, the Nazi occupation of other countries was defeated, but Germany is still a country. Apartheid ended, but South Africa is still a country. British colonies have fought for and won independence one by one, but Britain is still a country. In the US, slavery ended, segregation was struck down, but the US is still a country. It’s only Israel where people pose the ridiculous question of whether a country should still be a country.

And to everyone who says “I don’t think the US should exist either,” bullshit. You’re not doing anything about that. There is no movement to abolish the United States, and last time there was, that movement was comprised of the racist slave owners.

The fact that the argument over Israel’s existence has been normalized when there is no such argument about any other country in the world, is ridiculous. It’s insane that non-Jews can’t talk about Israel the way they talk about every other country, that they can’t criticize its government, military, or policies without jumping right to “and therefore Israel should be destroyed.” They say this about the one Jewish country and no others, and they really pretend they don’t see anything wrong with that.

Not to mention that abolishing a country is completely impractical in ways that have never occurred to them. Like there’s a sign on a border gate that says “Israel” that they can just paint over to say “Palestine” and that will be that.

Step 1: replace all the flags

Step 2: ???????

Step 3: utopia

[terulakimban]

I mean. We all know what step 2 is.

Step 1. Replace all the flags

Step 2. Get rid of all the Jews

Step 3. Utopia.

It's literally in Hamas' charter.

[anshelsgendercrisis]

this post has over 5000 notes. and y’all wonder why jews don’t feel safe around you. if you think platforming someone who rants abt “zionist animals” and “zio dogs” is activism you are a fool. this is bold faced antisemitism and the fact you can’t see it is on you.

[anshelsgendercrisis]

@awnowimsad yep! it’s this guy:

who is also this guy:

[awnowimsad-deactivated20260306]

Ohhh, that's the one. I remember them from this post.

Can't forget the communist color theory!

[lee-the-goat]

"Israeli Jews are foreigners, not indigenous peoples"

Like, not really but, can we just talk about stupid it is when reading between the lines?

Because when Israel gets labeled as colonialist almost no one actually thinks specifically about the west bank settlements or something, it's about Zionism as a whole, aka the "let Jews move here" movement, as implied by throwing in the word white for seemingly no reason.

And here's the kicker, you do realize you picked quite possibly the dumbest strip of land on the entire planet to say that about, right? It's not some pristine isolated culture like the damn Greenlandics or aboriginal Australians, it's one of the single most diverse places in the world prior to the age of European exploration. Everyone has been here, Persians Greeks Assyrians Egyptians Romans Arabs Ottomans yada yada sure, but going way beyond actual imperialism being the famous holy land™ it has attracted inhabitants and visitors from all quarters of the known world, and it shows in the ancestry of Palestinians themselves and the demographic makeup of the cities. To have the audacity to say certain groups of people "don't belong here" (let alone the fucking JEWS) has got to be one of the dumbest things one can even dream of doing when concerning themselves with actual society-collapsing colonialism.

[thebrightestwitchofherage]

Jews 👏were👏not👏welcomed👏in 👏Middle Eastern 👏countries!!👏

Stop with the revisionism jfc!! They were exiled/killed/forced converted/faced discriminatory laws

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

[pagecommando]

I get that western leftism is heavily driven by white guilt, failure to reckon with evangelical/christian upbringing and a hangover of post-9/11 remorse for anti muslim (and sikh etc) bigotry but you can like, be a good person and try to do better and learn history without telling us 'life in the Arab World as a Dhimmi was good for you. Why don't you want to go back to that?" Which is a fucking lie. Like, no. The fact that your European ancestors were frequently WORSE to Jews does not give you a 'get out of nuance free card' where you make something else sunshine and roses when discussing the history of a region you just found out existed yesterday.

[lordadmiralfarsight]

It's part of it, but not just white guilt, there has been an INTENSE drive to idealize and glorify Islam in Western Leftist circles, going on since decolonization basically. A lot of the Leftism we see right now is built on the writings of decolonization-era French writers, and their direct heirs in the 60s and 70s, people such as Foucault, a gay intellectual who, for some fucking reason, was a ravening simp for ayatohla Khomeini. Yes, that one. In the name of decolonization (an absolutely needed thing, let's be clear), they gave wholehearted, fullchested support to Islamist movements and Islamic nationalists and translated that support into their work. And since those works are the theory used as reference by a lot of modern leftists, that unquestionning, drooling simping for Islamist rethoric and Islamic nationalism is also a reference. And in that narrative, Jews are an inconvenience when they speak up and bring nuance. "What do you mean, there were pogroms in SWANA too ? No, you must be lying, Sagan and Fanon told me they are ontologically good because decolonialist !" Those tales, those testimonies, bring an unwanted nuance of grey into their black and white, orientalist, simplistic view. So they hate it.

[tockthewatchdog]

ok call me when new york city is keeping tens of thousands of people in hellish underground prisons for decades with no trial and zero access to the outside world so when they’re freed they ask if they got liberated by notorious dead person of 18 years saddam hussein

i don’t think if you let people out of rikers they would ask if they had been pardoned by ronald reagan

[eye-in-hand-deactivated20250117]

American leftists really be like "America is the most evil, horrible country to exist and I am so brave for living through it, no other country could ever understand what it's like to live under fascism"

And then deny the horrors faced by other people in other countries, have the audacity to compare shit like this - we have problems here don't get me wrong, but most Americans have not and never will ever know what it's like to live under regimes like that experienced by people in places like Syria. Oh you went to jail over night for driving drunk? Acab but let's glorify the likes of Stalin, Assad, Mao, etc lmfao

I've been homeless, I have been in severe poverty most of my life, and I still know what I've gone through isn't much compared to people living under dictatorships ya'll are so fucking stupid

[prismatic-bell]

I have said and will continue to say that American leftists do not view non-Americans as people, especially if they're non-Americans in any shade but lily-white.

[kalessinsdaughter]

We talk a lot about the dominant group victimhood phenomenon complex of the white Christian far right.

But the there's an equally narcissistic victimhood complex at play among American left-wing authoritarians, which allows them to unironically make claims like the bizarre tweet in the original post*.

It takes a special kind of disconnect from reality to so flippantly trivialise the atrocities of the Syrian regime, and erase the suffering of its victims, by claiming that living in NYC is in any way comparable to persecution by al-Assad's regime.

* part of me wants to think they're pulling Poe's law on us – it's that atrocious – but I can't honestly hold out any hope for that

[spacelazarwolf]

i’m glad that syria is free, that prisoners are being freed, that families are being reunited, and that refugees finally have the opportunity to return home. and at the same time, i’m also thinking about the fact that the syrian jews who were forced to flee syria will not be among those refugees. i’m thinking about the fact that assad demanded that syrian jews fleeing to the us be called tourists and buy round trip tickets, which meant they could not be considered refugees and therefore did not have that path to citizenship, only temporary permits and political asylum which were extremely restrictive. syrian jews in the us fought hard for their rights and it was only in 2000 that a bill was passed granting them citizenship. i’m thinking about the two elderly jewish women, two of the last three jews in syria, who live in qamishli, the same town where 57 jews were murdered in a pogrom after the 6 day war. i’m thinking about the four syrian jewish girls who were raped, murdered, and mutilated for trying to flee to israel. i’m thinking about the fact that while i am glad that syria is finally free from assad, syrian jews will likely never be able to experience that freedom for themselves.

[historicity-was-already-taken]

There’s a lot of very blatant horrifying Fascist Shit going down and coming out every day. There’s stuff I would normally be screaming about as loudly as possible. Like this:

Texas is offering land for Trump mass deportation facilities

The state's land commissioner bought a 1,402-acre plot on the Rio Grande and has offered it to the incoming Trump administration for immigra

Because in my day, we called them “transit camps pending deportation to the East for labor.”

I’m burnt out from the book writing process, and I’m struggling to grapple with all the very fucking Holocaust-Esque shit which is/going to be coming out of the Trump Administration, and all the incitement to violence historians will face from his supporters when we speak out.

This is going to be/already is very bad, and I need to build my strength and resilience.

[spot-the-antisemitism]

I fucking warned y’all a vote for trump is a vote for internment camps

[the-library-alcove]

At this point, it's pretty clear that the MAGA movement and the Hamasnik movement (not going to call it "Pro-Palestine", because they're not) are both pretty much the same. One is Christofascist and White Supremacist, and the other is Islamofascist and Arab Supremacist, but other than those differences, they're more alike each other than they're different.

So I put this together out of some bitter humor.

[deadseashennanigans]

ok. Just because I vote Trump doesn't insta-make me do/believe in all of the above. a few key points:

"rape is acceptable" Fuck no it isn't. You obviously are scared of Trump voters and have never talked to one.

"violence against minorities" so I look very Arab and have never experienced any kind of hate from someone with a MAGA hat. Verbal or physical.

"tell people you hate to go back to where they came from" I'm guessing you're referring to the deportation of illegal immigrants. They may be seeking asylum and other type shit, but they have to do so legally.

"thinks the American president can order countries around" He doesn't order them, he negotiates. And is skilled so that it sort of looks like he's forcing them, but in reality the other leaders can literally just say no.

"religious ethnostates" Bestie, there might be a gender pay gap, and we may not want children to chop their dicks off, but that is a very, very, very long shot of being an "ethnostate".

"fetishizes violence and hopes all enemies are murdered" this is just a fucking hallucination.

[the-library-alcove]

You voted for a convicted rapist. Ergo, you think that rape is acceptable. The rest of it, you're just an idiot. No point in talking to someone stupider than Trump. Blocked.

[frustratedasatruar]

Can we talk about the points he didn't dispute?

[the-library-alcove]

I didn't even go through them--once you deny that Trump is a rapist and that that ISN'T a deal breaker, there's no point in discussing. So go ahead, I'd say. Any of them leap out at you?

[frustratedasatruar]

Most of them, really.

"Calling us bigots is worse than us being bigots," he nodded along with that.

"We want to rewrite history in our favor," "Happily accepting propaganda that is obviously false but makes us feel good," "Lauding and cheering for absolutely monstrous human beings who would gleefully get us killed for their own profit." He agrees with all of that, I guess.

They dispute telling people you hate to go back where they came from, which is obviously absurd, but more significant to me is that they immediately after implicitly agree to holding up a few minority members as "the good ones" to say that we're not bigoted.

Their response to the ones about throwing tantrums and death-threats/bomb-threats/terrorism is evidently "Yeah, its a fair cop."

"Demands that other people respect them while insulting those other people? Yep, that's my side alright!" - deadseashennanigans, apparently.

I dunno, it just seems like there's a fascinating discussion to be had regarding what this guy thinks his movement entails. They dispute a few points, but ultimately they pass on disputing a number of things which are probably worse, y'know?

[the-catboy-minyan]

I'd like to point out that just because someone didn't bother to write a counterargument on a tumblr post doesn't mean it's because they didn't have anything to say about it, but it is interesting to see what the things that mostly bothered them is.

they replied to either those that are easy to say "I dont think that" or those that were exaggerated for comedic effect by saying "this is exaggerated, nobody thinks that".

they dont think rape is ok because at face value its easy to say that, its a very bad crime. but they have no problem letting a convicted rapist run their entire country instead of going to jail, so...

they deny violence against minority because "Im a minority and I didn't experience violence".

and Im ignoring the rest of the points because I just dont feel like microanalyzing a tumblr post at 12am so imma just jump to the part that is interesting.

"Im not against immigration, Im against illegal immigration". hey, @deadseashennanigans, buddy. a lot, and I mean a LOT, of jewing immigration to Israel during ww2 was illegal. people who were trying to survive a GENOCIDE were denied an escape, and them immigrating anyway made them ILLEGAL. the people who immigrate to america "illegally" are not doing it to be criminals, they're doing it to have a normal life.

[belalugosisdeadname]

I recently learned about Yuval Roth, an Israeli man whose brother was kidnapped and killed by Hamas in 1993. In 2006, to cope with this tragedy, he founded Road To Recovery, a charity that has since transported over 50,000 sick and injured Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank to Israeli hospitals for treatment.

It's hard for me to think of a person who's more clearly and objectively good.

But this is where things get ugly: I'm in a predominantly queer, leftist Discord server, and we were talking about people who've helped Palestinians, so I brought up Roth, expecting people to be encouraged or uplifted by the work he's doing. That was... not the response.

Anyway, now I'm in an argument with people I who thought were reasonable, because they're calling him a Zionist colonizer for the crime of being an Israeli Jew living in Israel. And like, what the fuck do they want from him? What could he possibly do that would be more useful? Do they want him to single-handedly overthrow Netanyahu? What the fuck is the fantasy here?

[ace-hell]

Ok so i am late by like a month, i have been busy and STILL didn't finish my native jewish miku but fuck it here's indigenous, native israeli miku with a little of my touch and a small analysis:

The clothes:

The dress is double layered and based on biblical description i saw of the clothes ancient jews wore i added yellow hoops at the end of the dress to represent the color of our oppression- yellow belts under the muslim rule and yellow stars in the holocaust

The embroidery:

The Rikma(embroidery) is a personal project i am working on for the past 3 months. The embroidery that WAS practiced on the land eventually was allowed only to muslims and arabs, jews in ottoman syria/palestine were so oppressed and poor they didn't have access to threads and around 1800's some rabbis discoraged jews being involved in arab activity, not only that the jews has completely disconnected themselves from most of the arab culture after the spread of zionism to the land as a form of building their own identity. And if there were jews involved in embroidery it is unknown bc all the photos i see are labeled as "palestinian woman" with no explanation if it is a christian, muslim or jewish.

My project consists of making patterns and motifs based on jewish history, symbols, traditions, land etc and i try to make it original, unique and as diverse from the tatreez as possible to avoid conflict. If any of you want i can explain in a different analysis on what each pattern represents.

The jewelry:

I genuinely suck at drawing gold and jewelry and tried my best to adorn her with as much jewelry as i can. The side piece(that can barely be seen) is also a pattern i came up with, i call it "amulet"

(ps. I forgot to make her a normal necklace, wanted to make it with a hamsa)

Henna:

Henna is still practiced by jews, mainly sefardic and mizrahi jews + ashkenazi jews who grow up and participate in mizrahi culture. The henna on the hands is based on patterns i saw some jewish artists made (on google unfortunately it didn't have names) which has the star of david on it and on the legs i made a mix of bukharan and yemeni jewish henna.

So here it is. A native, indigenous jewish/judean/israeli(te) miku. I tried my best✨