for fuck's sake ancient israelites were from the tribe of eber aka "hebrews." there were 12 tribes of israel, only 2 or 3 really stuck around. the levites (who were the priests and not supposed to have land) and jews (from judah son of israel -- who was a man). the jews had the big kingdom. then jesus happened and the jews had a shit fit. then a few decades later the jews other self-proclaimed messiah, bar kokhba (this is what revelations was talking about) lead a bloody revolt against rome that incited retalation where basically all jews were killed. there were some jews floating around in carthage (rip), western turkey, and even rome. this is all canaanite phoenician (read: possibly jew related) stuff too but these offshoots largely predate jesus or even most of the old testament. so there's jews here and there established mostly as maritime merchants. but with the violent revolt they basically all died. someone, don't know who, picked up the jewish mantle though around 500 ad i think and that's when you get the talmud which really really resents jesus. it's safe to assume that nobody walking around can claim any actual lineage from the kingdom of judah. the people saying these so-called jews are eastern europeans are probably right but that's like saying black people are slightly less intelligent due to genetics or something - forbidden
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