Secretary Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security announced $94 million in federal grants to over 500 Jewish-based organizations across the United States.

I recently sat down with Rabbi Sanford Akselrad from Congregation Ner Tamid, who told me the temple spends hundreds of thousands of dollars on security.

"The fight against hate against the Jews would morph yet again, um, so when someone says that they are, they, they love Jews but they, but they hate Israel and you get a little deeper, what do they mean by that… and usually when they go into the territory not of being critical of Israel which is fair game. But they say Israel has no right to exist at all now… we get into the area of antisemitism," Akselrad said.

More grants are expected in the coming months.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    previously part of the Ottoman Empire, and long prior to that the Kingdom of Israel (around 1047-930 BCE)

    Yeah, if you look far enough back in history, nobody had autonomy or freedom, and amost everyone was subject to imperial tyranny of some kind. So what?

    One thing that’s very clear is that things said in the Bible don’t entitle anyone to take someone else’s home. It’s a holy book, not a title document.

    They’re a people who have lived in the area for thousands of years

    A small number did. Vastly more were part of the diaspora.

    I’m part of the Anglo-Saxon diaspora. That doesn’t mean I can go to Dresden and kick some family out of their house because my ancestors lived in that area over a millennium ago. Such a claim would be seen as manifestly idiotic. And if it were two millennia, such a claim would be even more absurd.

    All our ancestors originated in Africa, shall we use that as an excuse to displace some modern African people?

    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 days ago

      A small number did. Vastly more were part of the diaspora.

      That’s not true. Only 26% (and shrinking) of Israeli Jews have European ancestry. A plurality, 44% (and the fastest growing) have native Israeli ancestry. The remainder come from North Africa and Asian ancestry but all groups besides Israeli background are shrinking.

      • anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        13 hours ago

        The study you’re referencing is looking at paternal lineage of Israelis born in Israel, not the ancestral lineage of all Israelis.

        A second-generation Israeli would be considered 'From Israel by paternal country of origin" in this census, because their paternal country of origin would be Israel.

        The bulk of immigration happened in the 1950’s-1970’s. The number of Israeli’s who’s ancestors lived in Israel before the establishment of the Israeli state isn’t a known or studied figure a definitively answered question, but it’s reasonable to assume that it’s a minority given the large migrations that happened during and after the Nakba.

        The only real information we have regarding the make-up of Palestine before its partitioning are a couple of censuses done during the British occupation, but it was during a period of time when zionist jews were already beginning to migrate. Here’s the topline:

        The census found a total population of 1,035,821 (1,033,314 excluding the numbers of H.M. Forces),[2] an increase of 36.8% since 1922, of which the Jewish population increased by 108.4%.[1]

        The population was divided by religion as follows: 759,717 Muslims, 174,610 Jews, 91,398 Christians, 9,148 Druzes, 350 Bahais, 182 Samaritans, and 421 reporting no religion.[3] A special problem was posed by the nomadic Bedouin of the south, who were reluctant to co-operate. Estimates of each tribe were made by officers of the district administration according to local observation. The total of 759,717 Muslims included 66,553 persons enumerated by that method.[4] The number of foreign British forces stationed in Palestine in 1931 totalled 2,500.[5]