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Oh, Israel doesn’t want the Igbos?
Now they know how Nigerians feel.
Rocking back and forth, Shlomo Ben Yaakov reads from a Torah scroll at a synagogue on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja.
Intermittently his soft mellow voice rises in Hebrew and he is joined by the dozens who recite after him.
Most do not fully understand the language, but this small Nigerian community claims Jewish ancestry dating back hundreds of years – and they are left frustrated by a lack of recognition by Israel.
“I consider myself a Jew,” says Mr Yaakov.
Outside the Gihon Hebrew Synagogue in the suburb of Jikwoyi a table is laid inside a tent built from palm leaves to celebrate Sukkot, a festival that commemorates the years Jews spent in the desert on their way to the Promised Land.
“Just as we are doing this now, they are doing same in Israel,” says Mr Yaakov, as people share traditional cholla bread (baked at the synagogue) and wine from small cups being passed around.
He is an Igbo – one of Nigeria’s three dominant ethnic groups which originates in the south-east of the country. His given Igbo name is Nnaemezuo Maduako.
But seriously – Israel is a racial state. It’s not a religious state.
There are millions of atheist Jews in Israel. There are no fanatically religious black non-Jews.
The explanation for why they won’t let these Igbos in is that there is no racial connection to Jews. They literally failed the DNA test.
But Chidi Ugwu, an Igbo who is an anthropologist at the University of Nigeria in Enugu, says this identification with Judaism emerged only after the Biafran civil war.
The Igbos had been fighting for secession from Nigeria, but lost what was a brutal conflict between 1967-1970.
Some people “were looking for some psychological boost to hang on to” so began to make the Jewish connection, he says.
They saw themselves as persecuted people, much as Jewish people have been through history, especially during the Holocaust.
“It is insulting to call the Igbos the lost tribe of anybody, there is no historical or archaeological evidence to back that up,” he told the BBC.
He argues that as evidence suggests the Igbos were among those who migrated out of Egypt several thousand years ago, it may be that Jews picked up Igbo customs when they went there.
Several years ago controversial efforts were made to prove a genetic lineage, but a DNA test found no Jewish connection.
Judaism is not really a religion. It pretends to be a religion. What it is, most accurately, is a tribe. Religion is part of the tribe, but because tribal membership is based on blood, you don’t get rejected from the tribe just because you reject the religion.
Israel has DNA citizenship tests. They don’t have any religion citizenship tests.
Yes, if you marry a Jew woman, you might be able to apply for citizenship based on the claim you converted to the religion. But without the marriage – i.e., the blood – you can’t just say “I practice the Jewish religion, let me in.”
The Jews just openly lie about this, like they lie about everything.
Ben Shapiro has consistently been caught out lying about this, claiming that “Judaism is a creed” and that Israeli citizenship is based on the religious belief.
So, for those out there who actually care, Jews are not automatically citizens of Israel. They can apply for such citizenship. I haven’t because America is my country. That’s the whole story. https://t.co/moXSBquCIc
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) July 17, 2019
It is simply not true, at all.
If Judaism was a religion, “atheist Jew” would be an oxymoron. It’s an ethnicity. They are a tribe.
