What race are the Palestinian people ?

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Beautiful Sunset

The Palestinians have Greek Blood (Herodotus) mixed with Arab blood over the years.
They are a real ancient race that one day they will lead the Arabs in every critical decision they have to take.
Just wait and see.
bye bye

PS. Crystal,
I wish I could do that, but my jew friends here never let me keep an account live for more than a week.
Also all of my settings are pre-loaded on a script tool that creates my fresh account in 3 seconds. I am afraid to touch that because I am afraid I'll screw this up.
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That's how these people here interpret democracy, but I forgive them

(o) (o)

Palestinians are mostly Arab and Jews are Jews.

Anonymous

us Palestinians, are Arabs.

harajuku lover

palestinians are considered middle eastern and jewish isn't a race, it's a religion. you can be any race and be a jew, but most jews are eastern european but if you are from israel and you are jewish then you are middle eastern. if you are an eastern european jew then you can be considered an ashkenazic jew.

mark

The palestinian are proud Arabs: Muslims, Christians and Jews. They believe in one God.

Death's SSkull

the palestinian people are arabs the jews are of no specific race

9 (S&SU) (PSM)

The Palestinian people are Arabs who inhabited and continue to inhabit Palestine.

The Jews could be any race.

dandyl

Being Jewish is not a race, its a religion, because Jews do not share one common ancestry or biological distinction. People of many different races have become Jewish people over the years.

on the other hand the palestinians are part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time.They are connected by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic and geographical bonds.

PaliSupporter91 الفلسطيني مؤيد

Palestinians are Arab, while Jews come from all over the world. Mostly Europe and the Americas

ifartedonyourpillow

Palestinian

younis q

palestinians people are the land owners of the historical palestine, while jews are the jewish religioused people

Local Machine

Noble Greek Race, some Roman ingenuity and some free spirited Arab blood too.
The Machine

King George

Both are semetic people. Palestinians are mostly Arabs (Muslims, Christians and Jews). Jews are mixed some are Europeans, Turks, Arabs, Khazar because Judiasm is not an ethinc group but a religion just like Islam and Christianity. Have you ever asked a person what is your race and they answered Christian or Moslem, I don't think so same with Jews even though they claim to be a seperate race but they ain't.

Noor

Palestinians are Arabs, theres Muslims Palestinians, Christians Palestinian and Jews Palestinians.

Jews are not race, jews are the followers of Judaism.
you can find them every where just like christians.

but when the Zionism movement was established, they decided to steel Palestine and make it the home for all Jews from every where.
so Jews started to come from Europe, the USA and even from arabic countries to live in Palestine and have the Israeli's citizen ship.

read what those Orthodox Jews wrote:

The Zionist movement created the Israeli state. The latter is a persuasion less than one hundred years old. Its essential goal was and is to change the nature of the Jewish people from that of a religious entity to a political movement. From Zionism's inception the spiritual leaders of the Jewish people stood in staunch opposition to it.

and

The Creator has commanded every Jew to follow the ways of peace and to be loyal to the country where he lives.

and

We seek the return of all Palestinian refugees to their rightful land.

We seek to live in the land of Palestine as anti Zionist Jews. To reside as loyal and peaceful Palestinian citizens, in peace and harmony with our Muslim Brethren. Just as our ancestors lived in Palestine for centuries before the usurpations of this tragic century.

http://www.nkusa.org/aboutus/whatzionism...
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLE...
http://www.rense.com/general54/thank.h

Shadi

Palestinian people are Arabs.

Jews are people who follow Judaism. In today's illegal Israel state, the Jews come from different ethnic groups:

1)The Ashkenazi Jews, who now compromise 80% of the Jews in the world, had a rather strange beginning. According to historians, many of them Jewish, the Ashkenazi Jews came into existence about 1,200 years ago. It happened this way:
At the eastern edge of Europe, there lived a tribe of people know as the Khazars. About the year 740 A.D., the Khazar king and his court decided they should adopt a religion for their people. So, representatives of the three major religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism, were invited to present their religious doctrines. The Khazars chose Judaism, but it wasn't for religious reasons. If the Khazars had chosen Islam, they would have angered the strong Christian world. If they had chosen Christianity, they would have angered the strong Islamic world. So, they played it safe — they chose Judaism. It wasn't for religious reasons the Khazars chose Judaism; it was for political reasons.
Sometime during the 13th century, the Khazars were driven from their land and they migrated westward with most of them settling in Poland and Russia. These Khazars are now known as Ashkenazi Jews. Because these Khazar Ashkenazi Jews merely chose Judaism, they are not really Jews — at least not blood Jews.
Throughout their history, these Polish and Russian Ashkenazi Jews practiced communism/socialism and worked to have their ideas implemented in these countries.
By the late 1800s significant numbers of these communist/socialist Jews were found in Germany, the Balkans and eventually all over Europe. Because of their interference in the social and governmental affairs of Russia, they became the target of persecution by the Czars. Because of this, migration of these communist/socialist oriented Jews began. Some went to Palestine; some to Central and South America; and a large number of them came to the U.S.
http://198.62.75.1/www2/koestler/

2)Sephardic Jews from the Middle East and North Africa.
The Sephardic is the oldest group. They are blood relatives to the Arabs. The only difference between them is the religion.

smeagolpoet

The Palestinian people are arabs, the same as their neighbors. Once Israel and Jordan were almost joined together, back before Israel became a state again, and the arabs throughout that area were the same race. (By the way, Jordan was part of the British pact to Jewish people, as part of an extension to Israel, but the British went back on their word). So basically the name Palestinians was applied to ANYONE living in the states of Palestine before it became Israel, including jews(In fact, the arabs preferred to be called arabs, NOT Palestinians). Only after the creation of the Jewish state, the name Palestinian came to refer to the Arabs living in Israel.
The jews are decendants of Jacob, Isaac's son, who was Abraham's son.

Palestinian isnt a race, rather an identity. Most look White like Europeans and Lebanese. Others look like Beduins. A small amount are Black(descendents of slaves that fled Saudi and Egypt when the British took over the area)

DNA wise they are mixed with many races.

PaperbackWriter JPA

Last time I checked, both Jews and Palestinian Arabs were part of the Human race.

Jews are Semitic.
Palestinians are Arabs, thus they too are Semitic.

The term 'palestinian' originally referred to JEWS and Arabs; Palestinian Jews lived in what is now Israel for the past 3000 years, non stop.

82% of what was Palestine is now JORDAN.

kismet

Both Philistines and Jews are Semitic people, although Judaism is a religion. It correct to say that the first Jews (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the 12 tribes, etc) were Semitic people.
The term antisemitic is the prejudice against or hostility toward Jews as a group. The prejudice or hostility is usually characterized by a combination of religious, racial, cultural and ethnic biases. While the term's etymology might suggest that antisemitism is directed against all Semitic peoples, since its creation it has been used exclusively to refer to hostility towards Jews.
The term Semite refers broadly to speakers of a language group which includes both Arabs and Jews. However, the term antisemitism is specifically used in reference to attitudes held towards Jews. The word antisemitic (antisemitisch in German) was probably first used in 1860 by the Austrian Jewish scholar Moritz Steinschneider in the phrase "antisemitic prejudices" (German: "antisemitische Vorurteile").[7] Steinschneider used this phrase to characterize Ernest Renan's ideas about how "Semitic races" were inferior to "Aryan races." These pseudo-scientific theories concerning race, civilization, and "progress" had become quite widespread in Europe in the second half of the 19th century, especially as Prussian nationalistic historian Heinrich von Treitschke did much to promote this form of racism. In Treitschke's writings Semitic was synonymous with Jewish, in contrast to its usage by Renan and others.

In 1873 German journalist Wilhelm Marr published a pamphlet "The Victory of the Jewish Spirit over the Germanic Spirit. Observed from a non-religious perspective." ("Der Sieg des Judenthums über das Germanenthum. Vom nicht confessionellen Standpunkt aus betrachtet.") in which he used the word "Semitismus" interchangeably with the word "Judentum" to denote both "Jewry" (the Jews as a collective) and "jewishness" (the quality of being Jewish,or the Jewish spirit). Although he did not use the word "Antisemitismus" in the panphlet, the coining of the latter word followed naturally from the word "Semitismus", and indicated either opposition to the Jews as a people, or else oppositon to jewishness or the Jewish spirit, which he saw as infiltrating German culture.[8] In his next pamphlet, "The Way to Victory of the Germanic Spirit over the Jewish Spirit", published in 1880, Marr developed his ideas further and coined the related German word Antisemitismus - antisemitism, derived from the word "Semitismus" that he had earlier used.

The pamphlet became very popular, and in the same year he founded the "League of Antisemites" ("Antisemiten-Liga"), the first German organization committed specifically to combatting the alleged threat to Germany and German culture posed by the Jews and their influence, and advocating their forced removal from the country.

So far as can be ascertained, the word was first widely printed in 1881, when Marr published "Zwanglose Antisemitische Hefte," and Wilhelm Scherer used the term "Antisemiten" in the January issue of "Neue Freie Presse". The related word semitism was coined around 1885. See also the coinage of the term "Palestinian" by Germans to refer to ethnic Jews, as distinct from the religion of Judaism.

Despite the use of the prefix "anti," the terms Semitic and anti-Semitic are not directly opposed to each other (unlike similar-seeming terms such as anti-American or anti-Hellenic). To avoid the confusion of the misnomer, many scholars on the subject (such as Emil Fackenheim) now favor the unhyphenated antisemitism[9] in order to emphasize that the word should be read as a single unified term, not as a meaningful root word-prefix combination.

The term antisemitism has historically referred to prejudice against Jews alone, and this was the only use of the word for more than a century. It does not traditionally refer to prejudice against other people who speak Semitic languages (e.g. Arabs or Assyrians). Bernard Lewis, Professor of Near Eastern Studies Emeritus at Princeton University, says that "Antisemitism has never anywhere been concerned with anyone but Jews."[1] Yehuda Bauer also articulated this view in his writings and lectures: (the term) "Antisemitism, especially in its hyphenated spelling, is inane nonsense, because there is no Semitism that you can be anti to."[10][11] A similar point is made by Professor Shmuel Almog, of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who writes "So the hyphen, or rather its omission, conveys a message; if you hyphenate your 'anti-Semitism', you attach some credence to the very foundation on which the whole thing rests."[12]

In recent decades, some groups have argued that the term should be extended to include prejudice against Arabs or Anti-Arabism[citation needed], in the context of answering accusations of Arab antisemitism; further, some, including the Islamic Association of Palestine, have argued that this implies that Arabs cannot, by definition, be antisemitic.[citation needed] The argument runs that since the Semitic language family includes Arabic, Hebrew and Aram

larry_lime

Palestinians are essentially Arabs which means "mixed," but there are also Syrians and Egyptians which have become mixed and are no longer distinguishable. Jews such as myself are Sephardi (having once lived in Spain-Portugal) who took on an Ashkenazi culture once they were expelled. Jews are Semites, whereas Egyptians and Syrians aren't. What kept the Jews united over all the time they were in exile was their religious faith.

Hatikvah JPA

A Semite is anyone whose 1st language is Semitic -- Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, etc. A person of any *race* can be a Semite. If your 1st language is a Semitic language, you are a Semite.

According to Professor S. D. Goitein, "the word 'Semitic' was coined by an l8th-century German scholar, concerned with linguistics. The idea of a Semitic race was invented and cultivated in particular in order to emphasize the inalterable otherness and alien character of the Jews living in Europe."

Another eminent Arabist, Bernard Lewis, dates the invention of the term "anti-Semitism" to 1862, although "the racial ideology that gave rise to it was already well established in the early 19th century. Instead of -- or as well as -- an unbeliever ... the Jew was now labeled as a member of an alien and inferior race... "
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The name derived from the patriarch Judah, at first given to one belonging to the tribe of Judah or to the separate kingdom of Judah (2Ki 16:6; 2Ki 25:25; Jer 32:12; Jer 38:19; Jer 40:11; Jer 41:3), in contradistinction from those belonging to the kingdom of the ten tribes, who were called Israelites.

During the Captivity, and after the Restoration, the name, however, was extended to all the Hebrew nation without distinction (Esth 3:6, 10; Dan 3:8, 12; Ezra 4:12; Ezra 5:1, 5).

Originally this people were called Hebrews (Gen 39:14; Gen 40:15; Ex 2:7; Ex 3:18; Ex 5:3; 1Sa 4:6, 9), but after the Exile this name fell into disuse. But Paul was styled a Hebrew (2Co 11:22; Php 3:5).

The history of the Jewish nation is interwoven with the history of Palestine and with the narratives of the lives of their rulers and chief men. They are now (1897) dispersed over all lands, and to this day remain a separate people, "without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image (R.V. 'pillar,' marg. 'obelisk'), and without an ephod, and without teraphim" (Hos 3:4). Till about the beginning of the present century (1800) they were everywhere greatly oppressed, and often cruelly persecuted; but now their condition is greatly improved, and they are admitted in most European countries to all the rights of free citizens. In 1860 the "Jewish disabilities" were removed, and they were admitted to a seat in the British Parliament. Their number in all is estimated at about six millions, about four millions being in Europe.

There are three names used in the New Testament to designate this people,

(1.) Jews, as regards their nationality, to distinguish them from Gentiles. (2.) Hebrews, with regard to their language and education, to distinguish them from Hellenists, i.e., Jews who spoke the Greek language. (3.) Israelites, as respects their sacred privileges as the chosen people of God. "To other races we owe the splendid inheritance of modern civilization and secular culture; but the religious education of mankind has been the gift of the Jew alone."
—Easton's Illustrated Dictionary

Arabians Ara'bians the nomadic tribes inhabiting the country to the east and south of Palestine, who in the early times of Hebrew history were known as Ishmaelites and descendants of Keturah.
—Smith's Bible Dictionary

Warren S

"A Jew (Hebrew: יְהוּדִי, Yehudi (sl.); יְהוּדִים, Yehudim (pl.); Ladino: ג׳ודיו, Djudio (sl.); ג׳ודיוס, Djudios (pl.); Yiddish: ייִד, Yid (sl.); ייִדן, Yidn (pl.))[9] is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites or Hebrews of the ancient Middle East, or one whose religion is Judaism. The Jewish ethnicity and the religion of Judaism are strongly interrelated, and converts to Judaism are both included and have been absorbed within the Jewish community throughout the millennia"

"The first widespread use of "Palestinian" as an endonym to refer to the nationalist concept of a Palestinian people by the local Arabic-speaking population of Palestine began prior to the outbreak of World War I,[7] and the first demand for national independence was issued by the Syrian-Palestinian Congress on 21 September 1921".

Shay p

Philistines: the Philistines were not Semitic peoples, and unlike the Canaanites, they were not autochthonous but a confederation of invaders from the Aegean Sea and the Anatolian areas. They are known in history also as "Sea Peoples". The Philistines are extinct and claims to alleged links with them are utterly false as they are historically impossible to establish. In any case, claiming a Philistine heritage is idle because it cannot legitimate any land in which they were foreign occupants and not native dwellers. Philistines were not Arabs, and the only feature in common between both peoples is that in Israel they should be regarded as invaders, Philistines from the sea and Arabs from the wilderness.
Palestinians = Arabs from the wilderness.

After the time of King Solomon (David's son) the nation of Israel split into 2 kingdoms: the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah. The Kingdom of Judah's capital was Jerusalem, on the border between the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, and included those 2 tribes, and the tribe of Levi (who were very connected to the Temple in Jerusalem). The Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah were both defeated and forced into exile. As with most exiled kingdoms, the exiles from the Kingdom of Israel did not maintain any national or religious identity. The Kingdom of Judah, on the other hand, maintained many attributes of a nation, including a connection to a land and a set of beliefs (which of course includes many variations). Many of them returned to the Land of Israel after approximately 70 years in exile, and re-established their kingdom in Israel for roughly 400 years before being defeated by the Romans.

Jews the 12 tribes of Israel.

Aaron

palestinians are just arabs, nothing new, nothing original, just same old arabs like all the others just with a different "name". Jews however have no specific race because it is a religion. DER!! And this is the Israel section so if by Jews you mean Israelis then they too have no specific ethnicity because Jews in Israeli are mixed with many different cultural backgrounds, through-out all of Europe, South America and the middle east, thats why they are so beautiful and intelligent they don't inbreed with the same people.

Jim E

Judaism is a religion.
Palestinians are basically a group of arabs who decided to give themselves a name.

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