AFRO ISRAEL: The African Diaspora In Israel

This week we're in Israel taking a looking at the Beta Israel community! Beta Israel are a community of Jews of Ethiopian descent who have practised Judaism since at least the 4th century - that's over 1,600 years!
Following famine, political unrest and religious persecution, in the late 1970s the Israeli government permitted the Beta Israeli community to be expatriated to Israel. Over a period of thirty years and several ambitious operations by the Israeli security services, tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews were rescued and expatriated to Israel.
Although a whole generation of Ethiopian-Israeli's have now been born and raised in Israel, the Beta Israel community continues to face discriminatory treatment in certain areas of life in Israel, some of which we will explore in today's video. Keep watching to find out more!
Music: Use To by 30 Hertz Beats
Illustration by: Jimena Isabel Merchán & Ana Ferreras. Find them on Instagram at: @jimenaimm and @annilustra
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  • @hr3474
    @hr34744 жыл бұрын

    Really enjoyed this x

  • @FreedomIsMineOfficial

    @FreedomIsMineOfficial

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much! For watching and for commenting 💜

  • @masp809
    @masp8094 жыл бұрын

    I never understood why they would rescue them from Ethiopia just to discriminate against them.

  • @FreedomIsMineOfficial

    @FreedomIsMineOfficial

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for taking the time to watch the video, I appreciate it 🙏🏽

  • @jb411000

    @jb411000

    2 жыл бұрын

    The whites felt guilty knowing they were not the true Israelites. So they thought if they had some real black Israelites they would be more approved of in the region. It didn't work. They also knew they were making a claim of being white Yehudis, a far fetched idea to people of the region. This is why the Egyptian Leader in the 50s stated, 'How can they leave black and come back white'?

  • @MottoMotto

    @MottoMotto

    2 жыл бұрын

    1. They didn't rescue nothing, that's part of Aliya of Jews diaspora, israel as a state is obligated to bring Jews from diaspora. Israel brought Jews from Morocco, Yemen, Russia & more. All these Jews been suffering from racism, Ethiopians suffered lil bit more cuz they had darker skin. 2. There is no such thing as "Afro Israeli" just like there is no such thing as "Euro Israeli", we are all Israelis with different skin colors. Our African identity is the last thing important, most important is our identity Faith in God. 3. Afro-whatever... are all facing racism. Black skin Indians, Arabs, Brazilians are suffer from racism just like African Americans. So no need to be hypocrite & act like racism exists only in Israel, besides that the level of racism in Israel against Blacks is way less worse than in Arab-Muslim countries, Arabs still treat them like slaves & call them Abeed.

  • @user-vl1dy2fc6g

    @user-vl1dy2fc6g

    2 жыл бұрын

    in ethopian we were discriminated by the non jews mosly christians and moslims about 2000years. but this is not the reason why we choose to go to israel, we choose so bc the land of israel is our homeland' and we had tried many times to go back but it wasnt easy and secceful abt couple families made it to israel. we perfer to live in the land of our ancestors and not in the dispora

  • @salahali2710

    @salahali2710

    Жыл бұрын

    So they could serve in the army and die 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @user-pw6pu8po9z
    @user-pw6pu8po9z3 жыл бұрын

    thank you 💖

  • @faithafflick4939
    @faithafflick49397 ай бұрын

    Also the Suez canal was constructed in approximately 1869, which is relatively recent times.

  • @jamesthomas5109
    @jamesthomas51094 жыл бұрын

    The artwork of the lady in the Jewish outfit is very nice.♥️

  • @FreedomIsMineOfficial

    @FreedomIsMineOfficial

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you! The artist is Jimena Merchan, there is a link to her instagram in the bio if you want to see more of her work!

  • @jamesthomas5109

    @jamesthomas5109

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@FreedomIsMineOfficial Thanks.👍

  • @hortenseclarke2589
    @hortenseclarke25893 жыл бұрын

    It's very sad since Ethiopians lived in Israel for thousands of years. It was an Ethiopian who saved the Prophet Jeremiah from dying in a pit.

  • @babafemiaduroja2221
    @babafemiaduroja22213 жыл бұрын

    What about the African Hebrew Israelites of Dimona, Israel?

  • @awareyah6146

    @awareyah6146

    3 жыл бұрын

    Igbos, AFRO Americans, AFRO Latinos and EVERY other AFRO person throughout the diaspora represents ISAIAH 11:12 Shalom

  • @babafemiaduroja2221

    @babafemiaduroja2221

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@awareyah6146 True.

  • @PabloRodriguez-715

    @PabloRodriguez-715

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@awareyah6146 they don’t want us in Israel but God will take every son of Israel back no matter what that’s God’s promise and his promises are Eternal like his Holy Name

  • @anonymousanonymous870

    @anonymousanonymous870

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@PabloRodriguez-715 Ameen

  • @juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988

    @juniorchavesopicassodeyahu988

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@PabloRodriguez-715 Prophetic Scriptures will to be fulfilled, Yahu will take every son of Israel back no matter where they are located

  • @stacyjpoliticscommunityfai359
    @stacyjpoliticscommunityfai3593 жыл бұрын

    All of this hate against the African or Black Israelites or Jews and Moses wife, Zipporah, was African. As was Moses children and his Father in law that aided him in establishing the newly freed Jewish people.

  • @wahyuwinantiyo2051
    @wahyuwinantiyo20513 жыл бұрын

    Good news to the world

  • @tudormiller8898
    @tudormiller88983 жыл бұрын

    If things are so bad for Black Israelis. How are they able to serve in the IDF ? How are they able to the Miss Israel beauty pageant ? Also if things are so bad for black Israelis, just imagine life as a black Palestinian in Gaza. Check out the video, Racism In The Arab World. Watching from London UK. 🇬🇧

  • @hortenseclarke2589
    @hortenseclarke25892 жыл бұрын

    I recently realized that Israel is in Africa 🌍. Geographically, Israel sits on the African Continental Plate. And according to the Bible, it's part of the territory that God gave to Ham's son Canaan, but because Canaanites were wicked, God gave the land Abraham and his descendants as an everlasting possession.

  • @sylph8005

    @sylph8005

    Жыл бұрын

    I think Israel is in Asia. Other parts of the Middle East are in Africa though

  • @mastermace7770

    @mastermace7770

    7 ай бұрын

    Actually, Canaan stole the land from Shem

  • @mastermace7770

    @mastermace7770

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@sylph8005 No Israel is a part of the "Africa". The Israelites are black

  • @Shofargirl1
    @Shofargirl16 ай бұрын

    I just saw this and I am terribly saddened. JESUS said...FORGIVE them for they know not what they do !

  • @marcosreed6414
    @marcosreed64143 жыл бұрын

    "Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite (Kush; Ethiopian) woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife." b'Midbar, "Numbers" 12:1. Miriam, Moses' Sister, received a heavy punishment for this. "As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow." b'Midbar "Numbers" 12:10. Why was this woman sooo importan for JaH? Exodus 4:24-25 answers, "Now at a lodging place along the way, the LORD met Moses and was about to kill him. 25 But Zipporah (the Ethiopian) took a flint knife, CUT HER SON'S FORESKIN, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said." This is the reason why I have fulfilled the longing search of my enslaved ancestors, the hebrew Igbos, brought to my island Kis'kei'-JaH "Dominican Republic" during the mid 500's. Keep pushing Ethiopia, you have a lil'Island holding it down for you. b'geburah shel Shalom JaH.

  • @abrahamisaacmuciusiii691
    @abrahamisaacmuciusiii6914 жыл бұрын

    Someone show this Phillip Scott from the African Diaspora News Channel

  • @betelehemt

    @betelehemt

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why?

  • @abrahamisaacmuciusiii691

    @abrahamisaacmuciusiii691

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@betelehemt Because he's an educated brother.

  • @betelehemt

    @betelehemt

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@abrahamisaacmuciusiii691 yes, he is. Thanks for explaining and replying, brother!

  • @faithafflick4939
    @faithafflick49397 ай бұрын

    Drain the Suez canal and you'll recall that Egypt and Israel are on the continent, only Europeans call it middle east based on the direction of that area of "Africa" in relation to where Europe is located on the globe.

  • @Elias_Truth
    @Elias_Truth3 жыл бұрын

    Can you do a video on Afro Bedouins? Or Afro-Palestinians.

  • @FreedomIsMineOfficial

    @FreedomIsMineOfficial

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hi there! I am in process of making a video on Afro-Palestinians. I just need to source copyright free images for it 🤗

  • @mahdiahmedi5082
    @mahdiahmedi50823 жыл бұрын

    The land was land was taken from them.

  • @cesareborgia3557
    @cesareborgia35574 ай бұрын

    Say what?? 😂😂😂

  • @virgolove4ever701
    @virgolove4ever7012 жыл бұрын

    I'm not surprised they're being treated so horribly.. Black people are treated like nothing everywhere in this world even though every human being came from black people respect your parents... My precious Ethiopian people please return to Ethiopia....

  • @sylph8005

    @sylph8005

    Жыл бұрын

    They faced anti-semitism in Ethiopia and they identify with Israel as their Jewish homeland. That should be a Jewish homeland without anti-Blackness, and we can pray and work for that to come about

  • @ashtesera6949
    @ashtesera6949Ай бұрын

    We Ethiopian are not African/black. We are catagoricaly different from BLACK/AFRICA. we Ethiopian are Sematic. We associate with ARAB/JEW... Not AFRICA or BLACK. We Ethiopian don't have racial issues like you guys. We Ethiopian don't colonised or slaved, hence we don't have the same issues like you.

  • @faithafflick4939
    @faithafflick49397 ай бұрын

    Israel is in Africa fka Alkebulan.

  • @hefwxo2866
    @hefwxo28663 жыл бұрын

    Palestinians: I will turn this like into a dislike

  • @Spyros_SP

    @Spyros_SP

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh no... Anyways.