The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict #9: Hi Muslims, Meet your Cousins — the Jews
The Background for the Longest Soap Opera in History - Part 8
Hi Muslims, Meet your Cousins - the Jews
Jews or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation who originate from the ancient Hebrews and whose traditional religion is Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly interrelated, as Judaism is an ethnic religion, although not all ethnic Jews practice it.?
The Jews trace their origins to the Israelites, a people that emerged from within the Canaanite population to establish the Iron Age kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Judaism emerged from Yahwism, the religion of the Israelites, by the late 6th century BCE, with a theology considered by religious Jews to be the expression of a covenant with God established with the Israelites, their ancestors. The Babylonian captivity of Judahites following their kingdom's destruction, the movement of Jewish groups around the Mediterranean in the Hellenistic period, and subsequent periods of conflict and violent dispersion, such as the Jewish–Roman wars, gave rise to the Jewish diaspora. The Jewish diaspora is a wide dispersion of Jewish communities across the world that have maintained their sense of Jewish history, identity, and culture.
Since the Babylonian exile and in diaspora, Jews were subject to persecution, riots, pogroms, and abuse by various regimes, and Jews have suffered from anti-Semitic acts daily since no nation or regime considered them equal, regardless of their contribution to the economy, culture or political dynamic.
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Throughout history, millions of Jews have been murdered and massacred without any ability to resist since they were always a minority. The timeline of antisemitism is long, and some of the key events that have shaped and strengthened the Jewish culture and religion are directly related to times when Jews were on the verge of extinction. Since the Babylonia exile, the main events that Jews have been subject to riots include the violent clashes between Jews and Greeks in Alexandria, Egypt (38 CE and 115-117 CE). The destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (66-73 CE) and The Bar Kokhba Revolt, which led to the expulsion of Jews from Jerusalem (132-136 CE), both by the Roman Empire. The persecutions of Jews (7th century) by the Byzantine Empire. In Strasbourg, Germany, Jews were accused of causing the Black Death and faced widespread violence (1349), and in Prague, Czech Republic, there were persecutions against Jews during the reign of Wenceslaus IV (1389). Jews were expelled from Spain (1492) as part of the Spanish Inquisition sanctions. In Portugal (1496-1497), Jews were given a choice between forced conversion or expulsion. During the Cossack rebellion, Jews were massacred in Eastern Europe (1648-1654). The Russian Empire carried out pogroms against Jews following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II (1881-1884), and in Kishinev, Moldova, pogroms resulted in the deaths of many Jews (1903).