African Americans the lost tribe of Judah?

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As for the Samaritans, they were banned from worshipping on Mount Gerizim by Emperor Justinian, who demolished their temple and built a church on the site. The Samaritans kept trying to worship on the mountain so he built a wall around the mountain to keep them out. The Samaritans rebelled and destroyed the church, so Justinian and the Ghassanids crushed the Samaritans and slaughtered them, selling the survivors into slavery.

Today only a few hundred Samaritans remain, the last few hundred Israelites.


Jesus, you weren't kidding. Only 800 or so left in the world.:mindblown:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans

The funny thing is, these are probably the last remaining real jews.
 
Jesus, you weren't kidding. Only 800 or so left in the world.:mindblown:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans

The funny thing is, these are probably the last remaining real jews.

Yeah though it's impressive they're still around in any numbers. Apparently there used to be a lot more still around but lots of them along with many Levantine Jews converted to Islam so ironically a lot of Palestinians are of Samaritan and Jewish ancestry.

History is full of cruel ironies, history is a f*ck.
 

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True, but as you said, it's autosomal DNA that counts. Ashkenazi are basically east/central europeans at this point.

Even autosomally, full Ashkenazis (all 4 grandparents) don't cluster with real Europeans. They cluster with Sicilians, the most Arab/niggest of Europeans. :lol:
 
Yeah though it's impressive they're still around in any numbers. Apparently there used to be a lot more still around but lots of them along with many Levantine Jews converted to Islam so ironically a lot of Palestinians are of Samaritan and Jewish ancestry.

History is full of cruel ironies, history is a f*ck.


What about the falasha and the so-called "Ethiopian Jews"? I heard they are just Judaized Agews.
 
What about the falasha and the so-called "Ethiopian Jews"? I heard they are just Judaized Agews.

Falasha is a name that came about after their defeat at the hands of Emperor Yeshaq, who slaughtered their royal family, took their lands and cities and cast them out into the wilderness. Gonder used to be their capital city. Falasha roughly translates to "hobo" or "drifter". Yeshaq is the same Amhara king who killed the last Sultan of Ifat. He was a real bastard, he killed the first three sultans of Adal in battle though the last battle he fought he also died.

Before their kingdom was destroyed by Yeshaq, they were called Beta Israel which is their proper name, this means "House of Israel". This is after the Emperor Israel who fought his brother Gabra Masqal for the throne of Aksum. Aksum in those days had a mixed population of Jews and Christians, and the two brothers Gabra Masqal was a Christian and Israel was a Jew. This civil war broke out around the year 693 when their father died Israel was next in line for the throne but the Christian church backed Gabra Masqal to overthrow his brother.

Israel withdrew to southern Aksumite lands where Jewish support was strongest with all his supporters and founded the House of Israel (Beta Israel) in Gonder, he took the throne name Phineas. His successors all took the throne name Gidawon. The last Gidawon, Gidawon the 4th died in combat with the Christian king's army and his daughter Yodit took command and defeated the Christian kingdom and ruled Aksum for 40 years. Eventually she died and Beta Israel withdrew from Aksum a few years later. Beta Israel was finally conquered, along with everyone else, by Amde Seyon. They were a vassal kingdom until Yeshaq killed the last of the dynasty and broke the nation.
 
The Beta Israel spent about a hundred years trying to reclaim their lands, they almost succeeded several times. Zara Yaqob slaughered tons of them in 1460 and added "Jew Slayer" to his titles.

The survivors managed to hold out in the Semien mountains for another 100 years and offered to ally with Ahmed Gurey if he would restore their lands they would have fought together against the christian empire, but Ahmed Gurey refused this offer. The last holdout was crushed by Susenyos in the 1600s.

Beta Israel was a huge and powerful political force but a thousand years of military defeats, after each involved forced conversion to Christianity and mass slaughter of those who refused, they declined down to their current numbers.
 
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