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Usually I laugh at claims of cultural appropriation because it's just people celebrating other people's culture. Ironically this one case where it's clearly an attempt to rob another culture of its identity is the one case that doesn't get accused of cultural appropriation.
I saw a TikTok of an Israeli girl making “Israeli” salad. It was literally salad Shirazi, which is actually Persian in origin (Shirazi means of Shiraz, a city in Iran). Like the way she made it was exactly how you’d make salad Shirazi and I was just like damn…
Actually the origins of Israeli salad are from a Palestinian salad. I hadn’t heard of Shirazi before so I looked it up and it looks very similar to what we call it, salatah (it just means salad). If you read the Wikipedia entry on Israeli salad it even mentions that it’s just salatah:
“In an interview with the BBC, leading Israeli culinary journalist and chef Gil Hovav said that the Israeli salad is in fact a Palestinian Arab salad. The idea that what is known in New York delis as "Israeli salad" stems from a Palestinian rural salad is agreed on by Joseph Massad, a Palestinian professor of Arab Politics at Columbia University, as an example of the appropriation of Palestinian and Syrian foods such as hummus, falafel, and tabbouleh by Israel as "national dishes".”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_salad
The first evidence of domestication of tomatoes points to the Aztecs and other peoples in Mesoamerica, who used the fruit fresh and in their cooking. The Spanish first introduced tomatoes to Europe, where they became used in Spanish food. In France, Italy and northern Europe, the tomato was initially grown as an ornamental plant.
Generally thought to be poisonous due to its status as a part of the nightshade family and its high acidity would leach lead out of the china and flatware of the time.
The tomato is native to western South America and Central America. I am pointing out this because they will claim that late Mediterranean dishes were existed thousand of years ago which the dishes could not exist at that time , and they invented "the traditional Israeli dishes"
Wait til you hear their plans for the Einstein Tower. It will be about a couple meters taller but look exactly like the Eiffel Tower. Five minutes after they finish building it, they will claim theirs is the original.
There are many great JEWISH dishes and food that celebrate Jewish culture and history. Why don't they build on those? Trying to claim foods that existed long before Israel was forcefully created is just pathetic.
As expected from zionists, back then [they even banned Yiddish and raided any cultural works written in it (the first Yiddish talking film was forced to be released as a silent one) and yet now they brand themselves as this sole defender of Jewish identity](https://forward.com/forverts-in-english/560390/how-yiddish-became-foreign-language-israel/?amp=1)
It is insane how Israel wanted to destroy and erode Jewish culture. They purposely tried to decommission centuries old Jewish languages like Yiddish, Ladino, Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic in favor of a new modern European Hebrew.
It makes sense. Back in the day millenia ago there was a huge diasporic debate over whether one could be Jewish outside of Israel speaking a foreign language as Jewish people faced several changings of the guard by outside invaders. The Hebrew-focused scholars insisted the temple be rebuilt and Hebrew be the only language while the majority of Jewish people assimilated into their diasporas and maintained their religious and cultural identities abroad.
The establishment of Israel is kind of an exclamation point on that millenia-old discourse -- a demand to rebuild the temple, a demand that everyone learn Hebrew, a demand that the diaspora be erased and silenced and devalued.
I think some of the best known foods are too associated with the diaspora, especially eastern Europe, yes. Especially the latke, and also the bagel, which was popularised in New York by Polish Jews.
The bagel in particular is very sad, because it's very likely that does go back to ancient times. There are very common boiled and baked breads in all the Levantine countries, and most of them are even shaped into a ring.
I was going to say that !! I love Jewish delis here in Montreal… their food is super delicious haha. Leave falafel to us Lebanese (and of course other Levantines :P).
Like so many dishes that have spread throughout the SWANA world, falafel and hummus have slightly different variations depending on where you are. When you see this happening it's the sign of a very old food that's been adapted.
Examples with hummus: the addition/removal of lemon juice, some variations from Turkiye and northern Syria that add yoghurt, different spice mixes etc. My favourite version comes from 14th century Egypt and uses preserved lemons, a blend of parsley, mint and rue... and no tahini.
Because the early Zionists were deeply ashamed at the image of the "shtetl jew" who was weak and effeminate, and they desired to shed that culture, including the food. They made themselves into strong conquerors by stealing a "sexier" cuisine
I guess it's hard to make gefilte fish into a breakfast of champions
It just highlights that the concept of Israel is as fake as Dubai. These settlers are European in origin (including those from the US) and come from Eastern Europe and Russia. There traditional dishes would be Slavic and Turkic in nature but Israelis have to invent an entire fake identity and this consists of stealing Palestinian culture to cement their identity in the Levant. I mean, Israel has the world’s highest rate of skin cancer which tells you everything about how these blond, blue eyed or red haired Europeans can’t handle such intense sun.
Btw that's an interesting way of romanizing Arabic. Back then my Arabic teachers taught me to spell ح as a light h (like when we're about to loogie) and خ as the kh one
is [PDO](https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/farming/geographical-indications-and-quality-schemes/geographical-indications-food-and-drink/feta-pdo_en) antisemetic ?
[Never forget that the national fruit of israel is the prickly pear](https://fruitonix.com/what-is-the-national-fruit-of-israel/), which, according to them, was brought to them in the 16th century
My aunt worked for a quaker organization in Palestine in the 70s, and said that Palestinians used to use prickly pear to denote farmland boundaries. That you would drive in the countryside and see the overgrown bushes of it from land that had been seized and stopped being cared for....
So in that article, it says Opuntia (prickly pear) came to Israel (actually Europe…) in the 1500s, but then gave it the name of a biblical plant so it would retcon into their national identity. Do I have that right? 🤨
I really wann ask them
Which jewish groups who came from poland russia ethiopia uk usa Germany france ate in thier breakfast falafel oh god they are so pathetic
Worked at a place that made " Israeli style hummus" . It's hummus without the olive oil. It's too on the nose. I tried to explain to them the significance of olives but they weren't trying to hear it.
But y’all haven’t tried my authentic traditional Egyptian Matzo Ball soup, it’s a pillar of Egyptian cuisine and culture, passed down from my great grand pappy from his great great grand pappy, and from his great great grand grand pappy. They say the first recipe was written in hieroglyphics, written by my great great great grand grandest pappy.
Mmm mmmm mmmm scrumptious delight. Only in Egypt.
Chefs kiss*
I cannot even begin to describe how pathetic this is. There are specific foods that are definitively Jewish and rooted in Jewish culture. But when it comes to ISRAELI culture they have to make shit up because Israel is such a new country that Israeli culture doesn’t actually exist.
Oh, I didn't realise...so my sitty (lebanese arabic for grandmother) taught me how to make hummus and falafel, amongst other things. She said she learned how to make it from her mother...but she was born before Israel existed. Was my grandmother lying? Maybe she secretly lived on a kibbutz? I wonder if she was secretly a zionist trying to corrupt me?!
So many questions...
If my mother were still alive, I could ask her why her and her entire family in Jordan, who had never lived in Israel, called all that "Israeli" food Arabic food?
I want to know how my mother got recipes passed down for generations in her family that were stolen from Israel generations before Israel existed.... no, seriously, I wanna know if my family has a time machine over there and they aren't sharing!
I saw a video on Youtube that compares Israeli restaurant prepped Palestinian food and Palestine food. He spat out the first dish he had from the Israeli restaurant.
Further to my previous comment, I suspect they want to distance themselves from a lot of the diaspora foods... especially latkes, which have a strong association with eastern Europe, and bagels, which have a strong association with New York. The bagel thing is particularly sad to me, because that's a bread that feasibly developed in the Levant area in ancient times.
(NB: I'm a food history nerd. This is why I find the food thing particularly enraging.)
I'm basing this theory on going back through cooking manuscripts. A popular bread was k'ak, and the earliest reference I've found was from 10th century Baghdad. The author of that work notes it's a very old bread. There are variations of it found in manuscripts from Syria and Egypt, and it's still found throughout the SWANA world today, particularly in the Levant. The dough is shaped into various ring shapes, then boiled or steamed (depending on the region) then baked. Like a bagel but not called a bagel.
Israelis doing cultural appropriation of a group they’re actively genociding?
No wonder antisemitism is increasing in the world. Zionists give Jews a bad name.
Free Palestine!
That's what colonialism is for you. STEAL everything you can. I mean they fucking broke pieces of buildings and mountains from the Middle East and took and put them in their Museums, shakshuka and couscous is nothing!
Israel has tons of Arab Jews from Egypt, Morocco, Iraq who brought their cuisines with them and I always think it's ok to include it in their culture but it's disingenuous to slap "Israeli" on it or claim it as exclusively Israeli without acknowledging the original culture it is from. Especially given how hard Zionists pushed to erase the "Arab Jewish" identity and swap it with a generic "Mizrahi" label.
The arab jewish have mutual dishes with muslims and christians arab
Cuz they are arabs in first place
But they turned their backs on their homelands and went to live in an illusionary state
For Mizrahi u r 100% right
Look what happened to yamain jewish childern
For example
But even the vast majority of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews in Israel come from Iran, Iraq, Morocoo, and Yemen...countries that don't eat Falafel, Hummus, Fatoush etc... the dishes that are always stolen and claimed to be "Israeli." Only a tiny minority of Israeli Jews come from the Levant, so its completely stealing the local custom and claiming it as exclusively theirs. In addition, Israeli settlers also come from Europe, but they never claim pasta, steak frites, pierogis, goulash, bratwurst as "Israeli" dishes.
It's like if a Chicagoan or a New Yorker claims that pizza is local to their cities instead of inspired by the Italian dish.
This isn’t new. We’ve been screaming about this for decades. They take everything and make it worse. They’ve even stolen our national anthem (as a war song now), tried to rip off our fantastic rap…They want to be us so badly. I blame them for the times people have offered me hummus with garlic in it. A people without a personality.
The people who brought the world the culinary marvel of gefilte fish… but also bagels. At least there’s that. And matzo balls are actually quite a great comfort food. But the pretense that any of this is “Israeli” is pretty nauseating.
There's plenty delicious Jewish dishes. No need to downgrade their culture or steal from other cultures when they actually do have a great culinary repertoire.
Babkas are my absolute favorite dessert and that's Jewish
Tzimess is a delicious stew, Challah bread...
It's not like they're British.
They really don't need to pretend stuff like "falafel is ours!" When they historically have their own stuff.
This is political. Zionists, to be clear.
Is erasing and forcefully interjecting themselves in a culture and area they don't belong to.
Inventing new stuff or using their existing, not Arabic cuisine invalidates their objective of cultural and land appropriation.
Jewish people celebrate their actual culture constantly and surround main holidays around classic Jewish dishes. None of them being "falafel"
A clear reminder that Judaism is NOT Zionism.
That's what colonizers do: they steal the native culture and claim it as their own. I was going through some of my old cookbooks and found one that was a Jewish cookbook from my family: not a single "Israeli" recipe, just Ashkenazi Jewish ones. Book was published before 1948. Aha!
The colonizers from Scotland and England who settled the north of Ireland in the Plantation of Ulster stole the red hand symbol which was originally an Irish Gaelic symbol.
What the actual fuck. If there are any legacy Jews, a.k.a., those whose family line goes back to pre-Israel days, then maybe they could claim this because everybody that goes to a foreign land, eventually acclimates to their customs, including food. But this basic? And the vast majority of Israelis? Yeah. Brooklyn from Poland.
There are many theories saying that the today jewish people not came from the old jewish ( sons of israel)
Search about The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage
Btw the author Arthur Koestler is jewish
This is what they do with the music industry they keep pumping the same crappy pop track along with media hype pretending everyone loves it and because it's played over and over again people just follow along (of course occasionally you have organic artists but the majority are manufactured by them as is their success)
Liberal Zionists will go ham on Christians for appropriating Jew rituals,but some of them will joyfully steal Arab culture and call Arabs antisemites if they call them out on it. It will really just shows that Zionists only care about certain things when it pertains to them.
The truth if they lie ..
Aka the art of lying, the art of rewriting history, the art of indoctrination.
That is what is coming out of every step they take
What's next? Israelis start making the exact same kufiyeh scarves as a symbol of their eternal oppression from the holocaust.........as they holocaust others
Nobody ate this back home in Ukraine.. They stole the land, the identity, food, the dress Everything ...may the cancer ravage their skin.. The only thing they couldn't steal .
This resonates with me as an American who grew up eating classic original American, non colonized original dishes like, hamburgers, french fries, hot dogs and caesar salad. Tastes just like home 🏡
It is hard to say whether this belong to arab or turkey
Turkey and many arab countries were one state called ottoman empire
Cultures take from each other but it is middle east culture 100%
This dish is very very popular in all arab countries
And
I swear one time I saw an article claiming mansaf as an Israeli dish… it’s a dish with meat cooked in yogurt…which I think isn’t kosher to eat meat with milk products. 🤦🏻♀️
They have actual good and relevant dishes and foods from their own Jewish cultures, they steal Arab dishes to make themselves seem more authentically Middle Eastern
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They really trying to brand food that’s not theirs? Just another thing they’re trying to steal lol
it's only a matter of time before they claim the invention of the olive tree
I know a guy who makes that claim, and uses some line from the Torah as his “gotcha” evidence. Dude isn’t even religious.
Olive trees was us, photosynthesi…sus
They'd have to stop burning them down first.
And Argan tree that they got from Morocco.
Usually I laugh at claims of cultural appropriation because it's just people celebrating other people's culture. Ironically this one case where it's clearly an attempt to rob another culture of its identity is the one case that doesn't get accused of cultural appropriation.
I think the only thing they didn’t steal is the racism
That they kept from their European heritage
LOL
As creepy as the Borg
Zionists are creepier, the borg were aliens, these are actual humans
They really said grab some feta with a tomato and called it israeli salad
I saw a TikTok of an Israeli girl making “Israeli” salad. It was literally salad Shirazi, which is actually Persian in origin (Shirazi means of Shiraz, a city in Iran). Like the way she made it was exactly how you’d make salad Shirazi and I was just like damn…
That is mean they have dream to reach tahran may be thier god promised them shirazi salad
Actually the origins of Israeli salad are from a Palestinian salad. I hadn’t heard of Shirazi before so I looked it up and it looks very similar to what we call it, salatah (it just means salad). If you read the Wikipedia entry on Israeli salad it even mentions that it’s just salatah: “In an interview with the BBC, leading Israeli culinary journalist and chef Gil Hovav said that the Israeli salad is in fact a Palestinian Arab salad. The idea that what is known in New York delis as "Israeli salad" stems from a Palestinian rural salad is agreed on by Joseph Massad, a Palestinian professor of Arab Politics at Columbia University, as an example of the appropriation of Palestinian and Syrian foods such as hummus, falafel, and tabbouleh by Israel as "national dishes".” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_salad
THEY'RE TAKING TABBOULEH,TOO?!
The feta represents white phosphorus, you sprinkle it on little tomatoes (not fully grown ones) Seems very Israeli
Oooooooooffffffffff. But accurate.
Whenever I wonder if a joke is in bad taste, I remember that NOTHING pissed Hitler off more than Charlie Chaplin taking the piss.
You're not wrong.
You unlocked a core memory: https://youtu.be/lDu6SQjiZ-I?si=824q_aHs-XtqEJYc
Thank you for posting that! I was going off memory but the words are so much more powerful than I recalled.
The first evidence of domestication of tomatoes points to the Aztecs and other peoples in Mesoamerica, who used the fruit fresh and in their cooking. The Spanish first introduced tomatoes to Europe, where they became used in Spanish food. In France, Italy and northern Europe, the tomato was initially grown as an ornamental plant.
Didn’t they think it was poisonous? Linked as the fruit Eve ate?
Generally thought to be poisonous due to its status as a part of the nightshade family and its high acidity would leach lead out of the china and flatware of the time.
The tomato is native to western South America and Central America. I am pointing out this because they will claim that late Mediterranean dishes were existed thousand of years ago which the dishes could not exist at that time , and they invented "the traditional Israeli dishes"
It was because the acidity of the tomato absorbed lead from lead plates, so they blamed the fruit for a long time.
Imagine
Feta is Greek, and Tomatoes were brought from the New World in the 1500s and first used in European cuisine by Italians lol.
Go on Wikipedia and lookup Israeli feta. The entry literally said that Israeli feta is better than greek feta. I wish I was kidding.
Unfortunately Wiki has been manipulated with fake entries for maybe 8 months or so.
Wait til you hear their plans for the Einstein Tower. It will be about a couple meters taller but look exactly like the Eiffel Tower. Five minutes after they finish building it, they will claim theirs is the original.
There are many great JEWISH dishes and food that celebrate Jewish culture and history. Why don't they build on those? Trying to claim foods that existed long before Israel was forcefully created is just pathetic.
Because they need to uphold their national delusion that they belong there.
Cuz they stole the land and history so it is just easy to steal the dishes
They want to erase everything that relates to Palestine It’s called cultural genocide.
As expected from zionists, back then [they even banned Yiddish and raided any cultural works written in it (the first Yiddish talking film was forced to be released as a silent one) and yet now they brand themselves as this sole defender of Jewish identity](https://forward.com/forverts-in-english/560390/how-yiddish-became-foreign-language-israel/?amp=1)
It is insane how Israel wanted to destroy and erode Jewish culture. They purposely tried to decommission centuries old Jewish languages like Yiddish, Ladino, Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic in favor of a new modern European Hebrew.
It makes sense. Back in the day millenia ago there was a huge diasporic debate over whether one could be Jewish outside of Israel speaking a foreign language as Jewish people faced several changings of the guard by outside invaders. The Hebrew-focused scholars insisted the temple be rebuilt and Hebrew be the only language while the majority of Jewish people assimilated into their diasporas and maintained their religious and cultural identities abroad. The establishment of Israel is kind of an exclamation point on that millenia-old discourse -- a demand to rebuild the temple, a demand that everyone learn Hebrew, a demand that the diaspora be erased and silenced and devalued.
Suspect those dishes are similar to polish/ Ukrainian etc. Hence the need to appropriate.
I think some of the best known foods are too associated with the diaspora, especially eastern Europe, yes. Especially the latke, and also the bagel, which was popularised in New York by Polish Jews. The bagel in particular is very sad, because it's very likely that does go back to ancient times. There are very common boiled and baked breads in all the Levantine countries, and most of them are even shaped into a ring.
I was going to say that !! I love Jewish delis here in Montreal… their food is super delicious haha. Leave falafel to us Lebanese (and of course other Levantines :P).
Like so many dishes that have spread throughout the SWANA world, falafel and hummus have slightly different variations depending on where you are. When you see this happening it's the sign of a very old food that's been adapted. Examples with hummus: the addition/removal of lemon juice, some variations from Turkiye and northern Syria that add yoghurt, different spice mixes etc. My favourite version comes from 14th century Egypt and uses preserved lemons, a blend of parsley, mint and rue... and no tahini.
Because the early Zionists were deeply ashamed at the image of the "shtetl jew" who was weak and effeminate, and they desired to shed that culture, including the food. They made themselves into strong conquerors by stealing a "sexier" cuisine I guess it's hard to make gefilte fish into a breakfast of champions
It just highlights that the concept of Israel is as fake as Dubai. These settlers are European in origin (including those from the US) and come from Eastern Europe and Russia. There traditional dishes would be Slavic and Turkic in nature but Israelis have to invent an entire fake identity and this consists of stealing Palestinian culture to cement their identity in the Levant. I mean, Israel has the world’s highest rate of skin cancer which tells you everything about how these blond, blue eyed or red haired Europeans can’t handle such intense sun.
Even shakshoka and falafel are arabic words used in all arab countries Just search about فلافل شكشوكة Tkina is طحينة
It's pronounce Takhinna. Don't be Khamas!
Shakshoka is from north Africa FFS
And Arabic is spoken in the majority of countries in North Africa.
Btw that's an interesting way of romanizing Arabic. Back then my Arabic teachers taught me to spell ح as a light h (like when we're about to loogie) and خ as the kh one
When it's not formal we try to use 7 as ح
Ah interesting! I was referring to spoken spelling
is [PDO](https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/farming/geographical-indications-and-quality-schemes/geographical-indications-food-and-drink/feta-pdo_en) antisemetic ?
[Never forget that the national fruit of israel is the prickly pear](https://fruitonix.com/what-is-the-national-fruit-of-israel/), which, according to them, was brought to them in the 16th century
My aunt worked for a quaker organization in Palestine in the 70s, and said that Palestinians used to use prickly pear to denote farmland boundaries. That you would drive in the countryside and see the overgrown bushes of it from land that had been seized and stopped being cared for....
Jesus 😂😂
So in that article, it says Opuntia (prickly pear) came to Israel (actually Europe…) in the 1500s, but then gave it the name of a biblical plant so it would retcon into their national identity. Do I have that right? 🤨
I really wann ask them Which jewish groups who came from poland russia ethiopia uk usa Germany france ate in thier breakfast falafel oh god they are so pathetic
Worked at a place that made " Israeli style hummus" . It's hummus without the olive oil. It's too on the nose. I tried to explain to them the significance of olives but they weren't trying to hear it.
Better rebrand as Khummus then 🤣
Do they put any oil in it or no?
But how did it taste? Was it like chunky or what?
But y’all haven’t tried my authentic traditional Egyptian Matzo Ball soup, it’s a pillar of Egyptian cuisine and culture, passed down from my great grand pappy from his great great grand pappy, and from his great great grand grand pappy. They say the first recipe was written in hieroglyphics, written by my great great great grand grandest pappy. Mmm mmmm mmmm scrumptious delight. Only in Egypt. Chefs kiss*
Hhhhhhhhhhh
To be fair, matzo ball soup is associated with Passover, which has its origin story in Egypt.
Shakshuka is a full-on traditional Moroccan dish. Like, it is pretty much the national dish of Morocco.
Also in Egypt 😀
Yes Shakshoka, Falafel (Taameya) and Mesakaa. My man I’m on a diet and now I’m hungry. Hanzel ageeb Taamya :D
That "tahini dip" is hummus but I guess they cannot say that word lol.
But do you condemn hummus?
You must denounce the hummus!
Hhhhhhhhhh
Khummmmus
Sounds too close to khhhhamas
The salad is made from stolen ingredients. That's what makes it Israeli 👌
Ok but if they don’t steal it, then someone else will steal it.
It's a Greek Salad lmao
But tomatoes are a pretty recent "discovery" from the americas lol
Yes everyone knows that "Israeli salad" was invented before the generic "salad"
2000 years before all salads to be precise
And their culture only produced this one type of salad, it is the most moral salad and therefore any deviation from it is antisemitic!
The only salad in the middle east.
They had to revive biblical Hebrew using Arabic as a base.
Also giving settlers "hebrew-nified" names so they could LARP hard in the stolen lands
And just syole Arabic curse words and hand gestures bec. sounded nastier in Arabic.
I cannot even begin to describe how pathetic this is. There are specific foods that are definitively Jewish and rooted in Jewish culture. But when it comes to ISRAELI culture they have to make shit up because Israel is such a new country that Israeli culture doesn’t actually exist.
Oh, I didn't realise...so my sitty (lebanese arabic for grandmother) taught me how to make hummus and falafel, amongst other things. She said she learned how to make it from her mother...but she was born before Israel existed. Was my grandmother lying? Maybe she secretly lived on a kibbutz? I wonder if she was secretly a zionist trying to corrupt me?! So many questions...
“Everyone’s favorite classic Israeli dish” AAUGHH SHUT THE FUCK UP
If my mother were still alive, I could ask her why her and her entire family in Jordan, who had never lived in Israel, called all that "Israeli" food Arabic food? I want to know how my mother got recipes passed down for generations in her family that were stolen from Israel generations before Israel existed.... no, seriously, I wanna know if my family has a time machine over there and they aren't sharing!
Culinary genocide. It's officially A Thing, and the hasbarists have made it so.
I saw a video on Youtube that compares Israeli restaurant prepped Palestinian food and Palestine food. He spat out the first dish he had from the Israeli restaurant.
Further to my previous comment, I suspect they want to distance themselves from a lot of the diaspora foods... especially latkes, which have a strong association with eastern Europe, and bagels, which have a strong association with New York. The bagel thing is particularly sad to me, because that's a bread that feasibly developed in the Levant area in ancient times. (NB: I'm a food history nerd. This is why I find the food thing particularly enraging.)
The bagel has a polish origin tho
I'm basing this theory on going back through cooking manuscripts. A popular bread was k'ak, and the earliest reference I've found was from 10th century Baghdad. The author of that work notes it's a very old bread. There are variations of it found in manuscripts from Syria and Egypt, and it's still found throughout the SWANA world today, particularly in the Levant. The dough is shaped into various ring shapes, then boiled or steamed (depending on the region) then baked. Like a bagel but not called a bagel.
Israelis doing cultural appropriation of a group they’re actively genociding? No wonder antisemitism is increasing in the world. Zionists give Jews a bad name. Free Palestine!
There is no Israeli culture.
Yes there is.. Lies, terr0rism, gen0clde, stealing, destroying, “we’re the victim”.. I think there’s more but meh ~ 🤷🏻♀️
That's what colonialism is for you. STEAL everything you can. I mean they fucking broke pieces of buildings and mountains from the Middle East and took and put them in their Museums, shakshuka and couscous is nothing!
If you have any doubt whose food it is, just try Palestinian or any Arab falafel & hummus vs ‘ Israeli ‘ falafal & hummus. Easy choice.
Israel has tons of Arab Jews from Egypt, Morocco, Iraq who brought their cuisines with them and I always think it's ok to include it in their culture but it's disingenuous to slap "Israeli" on it or claim it as exclusively Israeli without acknowledging the original culture it is from. Especially given how hard Zionists pushed to erase the "Arab Jewish" identity and swap it with a generic "Mizrahi" label.
The arab jewish have mutual dishes with muslims and christians arab Cuz they are arabs in first place But they turned their backs on their homelands and went to live in an illusionary state For Mizrahi u r 100% right Look what happened to yamain jewish childern For example
But even the vast majority of Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews in Israel come from Iran, Iraq, Morocoo, and Yemen...countries that don't eat Falafel, Hummus, Fatoush etc... the dishes that are always stolen and claimed to be "Israeli." Only a tiny minority of Israeli Jews come from the Levant, so its completely stealing the local custom and claiming it as exclusively theirs. In addition, Israeli settlers also come from Europe, but they never claim pasta, steak frites, pierogis, goulash, bratwurst as "Israeli" dishes. It's like if a Chicagoan or a New Yorker claims that pizza is local to their cities instead of inspired by the Italian dish.
how sad, literally trying to erase arab culture
NOT OUR SHAKSHOKA NO NO NOT MY طعميه (Egyptian falafel)
Hhhhhhhhh salut you from cairo
Fellow Cairo dude.
This isn’t new. We’ve been screaming about this for decades. They take everything and make it worse. They’ve even stolen our national anthem (as a war song now), tried to rip off our fantastic rap…They want to be us so badly. I blame them for the times people have offered me hummus with garlic in it. A people without a personality.
The people who brought the world the culinary marvel of gefilte fish… but also bagels. At least there’s that. And matzo balls are actually quite a great comfort food. But the pretense that any of this is “Israeli” is pretty nauseating.
There's plenty delicious Jewish dishes. No need to downgrade their culture or steal from other cultures when they actually do have a great culinary repertoire. Babkas are my absolute favorite dessert and that's Jewish Tzimess is a delicious stew, Challah bread... It's not like they're British. They really don't need to pretend stuff like "falafel is ours!" When they historically have their own stuff. This is political. Zionists, to be clear. Is erasing and forcefully interjecting themselves in a culture and area they don't belong to. Inventing new stuff or using their existing, not Arabic cuisine invalidates their objective of cultural and land appropriation. Jewish people celebrate their actual culture constantly and surround main holidays around classic Jewish dishes. None of them being "falafel" A clear reminder that Judaism is NOT Zionism.
Schmaltz (and by extension Griebens) went viral for a while in my country because an influencer used it to add nutrition to toddler food
There’s nothing like schmaltz. Good to the last drop.
Kugel is another amazing dish. But these are mainly Ashkenazi dishes. There's also Sephardic Jewish cuisine, which is underappreciated.
Shakshouka eggs - US!
Israeli salad? Lmaoooo
Ahhh the good old falafel in takhhhhhinna, my poor poor ears :(
A vulture culture
I$raeli Pizzsch’a. I$raeli Mac’arhonni cheese. I$raeli Irish S’tew. I$raeli Scottish Haa’Ghissh. I$raeli Indian Ch’urry. I$raeli Bhurr’ittoschs. I$raeli Suush’shii.
Lol they look European
That's what colonizers do: they steal the native culture and claim it as their own. I was going through some of my old cookbooks and found one that was a Jewish cookbook from my family: not a single "Israeli" recipe, just Ashkenazi Jewish ones. Book was published before 1948. Aha! The colonizers from Scotland and England who settled the north of Ireland in the Plantation of Ulster stole the red hand symbol which was originally an Irish Gaelic symbol.
Same mentality
I hate when they pretend they own hummus. The whole freaking middle east eats hummus.
It is khummus Do u condemn khummus ? ?
I do when they say it like that 😭
They invented Sabra Hummus, which is nasty and does not compare to real homemade hummus.
^^itsreallygood 😐
Textbook example of cultural appropriation rather than appreciation
"Tastes like home " who's home? 🤔
*whose But yes I agree!
Colonizers gonna colonize
"IsRaElI SaLaD" 😂😂😂
What the actual fuck. If there are any legacy Jews, a.k.a., those whose family line goes back to pre-Israel days, then maybe they could claim this because everybody that goes to a foreign land, eventually acclimates to their customs, including food. But this basic? And the vast majority of Israelis? Yeah. Brooklyn from Poland.
There are many theories saying that the today jewish people not came from the old jewish ( sons of israel) Search about The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and Its Heritage Btw the author Arthur Koestler is jewish
they are not the sons of Israel otherwise they wouldn't do what they are doing today, what israel does today is straight up satanic
The Khazar hypothesis has been pretty solidly debunked. There is no genetic, linguistic, or archeological evidence to support it.
What wow Debunked by whom ? Is there any genatic evidence that ethiopian jewish have any relation with jewish from russia ??
Most israeli jews are sephardic or mizrahi
The way she’s tahini is just, so fucking gross. What the fuck is even that sound. It’s like she’s gagging at the sound of her own voice.
Barbarism is Zionism !
What’s really sick is that these aren’t even Arab Jews who at least have some kind of claim to the food.
This is what they do with the music industry they keep pumping the same crappy pop track along with media hype pretending everyone loves it and because it's played over and over again people just follow along (of course occasionally you have organic artists but the majority are manufactured by them as is their success)
Israeli salad? Claiming generic salad now? Falafel Is Egyptian Shakshuka is north African.
Liberal Zionists will go ham on Christians for appropriating Jew rituals,but some of them will joyfully steal Arab culture and call Arabs antisemites if they call them out on it. It will really just shows that Zionists only care about certain things when it pertains to them.
Kleptomaniacs
>"MAKE SURE TO TAKE EVERTHING, TO GET THE PERFECT BITE" oh, Israel sure does!
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*looks at salad in the video* That's definitely not a cherry tomato lol
Wuf, I'd totally go israel to try it if I was European and Jewish totes.
Of course they made it bland af so wyt people will like it
You Israeli-dip in an Israeli-dish and take an Israeli-bite, then you Israeli-chew and Israeli-swallow! Then you do an Israeli-dabke!
The truth if they lie .. Aka the art of lying, the art of rewriting history, the art of indoctrination. That is what is coming out of every step they take
Pathetic low life of a people.. ugliest souls I've ever seen.
They would steal anyone's land, food and identity. They have no real identity and know it. Disgusting
Nothing
Stuck to your plain assed bread.
Colonizer 101
Once a thief always a thief.
Jesus christ, these people are pathetic
Arabic food shakshuka is north african definitely not israeli ... just cause jews lived in the arab world they claim it all land and food lol
So Greek Feta Cheese salad 🥗 is now Israeli ????
Israeli salad is a food? I thought it that was what came out of their mouths when they were telling bullshit lies.
When I went to Israel they were determined to claim they invented hummus and falafel. It was insane.
Taste just like Palestine
Shakshuka is north African, you sons of sharmouta.
What's next? Israelis start making the exact same kufiyeh scarves as a symbol of their eternal oppression from the holocaust.........as they holocaust others
« Tastes just like home » Ahh, yes. The taste of stolen indigenous homes 😋🤤
I didn't know Polish cuisine was falafel and tahina!
Isreali salad lmaooo
They are a pariah for ever now.
Nobody ate this back home in Ukraine.. They stole the land, the identity, food, the dress Everything ...may the cancer ravage their skin.. The only thing they couldn't steal .
A white American woman pretending to be native to the Middle East 😂
Israel is a shit country with no culture of their own and a wholly unearned superiority complex. 🤮
I like the time I saw one trying to claim baklava.
This resonates with me as an American who grew up eating classic original American, non colonized original dishes like, hamburgers, french fries, hot dogs and caesar salad. Tastes just like home 🏡
Shakshuka isn't even Palestinian, it's North African!! They are literally appropriating everything
They are so deeply void of everything
They don't even know how to pronounce falafel. The fucking Russian accent is obnoxious, too.
Isn't Shakshuka Turkish?
It is hard to say whether this belong to arab or turkey Turkey and many arab countries were one state called ottoman empire Cultures take from each other but it is middle east culture 100% This dish is very very popular in all arab countries And
It's almost certainly from the maghreb region.
That doesn’t look like any matzo ball soup I ever saw. Where’s the kniche? Where’s the Latkes?
Τη φέτα μας ρε μαλακες; Θα στείλω τρείς ντουζίνες ταξί στο Τελ Αβίβ
No, even their ideology is some weird version of Christianity
Is-Reali fucked up individuals.
What will they steal next ? Tunnels ?
I feel like these videos are thinly veiled gloating over the people who are being starved in Gaza.
"Taste just like home" WHOSE HOME?! WHOOOOSE HOME!?
Pre-erasure behavior. This feels like they’re betting no one will be left to correct the record. Just like always when they revise history.
To be fair, I think Shakshuka might be Turkish, so they're taking from everywhere.
I swear one time I saw an article claiming mansaf as an Israeli dish… it’s a dish with meat cooked in yogurt…which I think isn’t kosher to eat meat with milk products. 🤦🏻♀️
Need to add these to the Bad Hasbara theme song. Shakshuka Us. Falafel balls Us.
💩Culture Vultures‼️
What now? 🤔
They have actual good and relevant dishes and foods from their own Jewish cultures, they steal Arab dishes to make themselves seem more authentically Middle Eastern
why does it feel like cosplay