AFRO PALESTINE: The African Diaspora in Palestine

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The Afro-Palestinian community has a remarkable history. Poised at the intersection of their African ancestry and Palestinian nationality, this Afro-Arab community also lives on contested ground, under the authority of Israeli forces occupying Jerusalem and other areas of Palestine. From pilgrims to resistance fighters, we take a look at the history of the African diaspora in Palestine and what life is like for the community today!
Special thanks go to Mousa Qous and the African Community Society in Jerusalem for all the amazing information and images they provided in the making of the video:
www.afropalestinians.org/
Presented by Fayida (Instagram: @freedomismineofficial)
Illustration by: Jimena Isabel Merchán. Find her on Instagram at: @jimenaimm
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@kw1archie 2 жыл бұрын

AfroPalestinian right here 🙏🏽

@FreedomIsMineOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

Hello 👋🏽😊

@Vigoda.D 2 жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as Palestine you are nothing more than just an anti-Semitic and racist!!!

@alphaomarbarry6511 2 жыл бұрын

Free Palestine

@MilaRoseRouge 9 ай бұрын

I hope you're doing well and your family is safe

@yashayaIsrael 9 ай бұрын

@@FreedomIsMineOfficial go to Afro Palestine and take pictures of the land called Afro Palestine... there's no such thing as Afro Palestine, Pakistan, Turkish,latino, Mexican, etc...... people need to stop repeating what they hear n start to call us by our real nationality.. we are the israelites of Israel and nothing else.....

@nwadi6408 8 ай бұрын

Sending love and peace from Black America to my Afro-Palestinian brothers and sisters. I pray you are all safe during this horrific assault of Gaza. May God protect you.

@bluesy666 8 ай бұрын

From a berber tribeman ,Our prayers for you and for the afro community all over the world , may peace and prosperity be granted to you and all people of truth and justice

@julybeeb4614 7 ай бұрын

@@bluesy666iam white Berber from Morocco North. Where you from?

@thecanaanite 11 ай бұрын

As a 100% Palestinian and have black Palestinian family. They are as Palestinian as me

@user-vw6bk4pb4l 9 ай бұрын

What percentage are Afro Palestinians? Do they live in Gaza or West bank. And are they immigrants or from several generations?

@thecanaanite 9 ай бұрын

@@user-vw6bk4pb4l not sure the total percentage but very little. No one knows the total in gaza but I imagine more than west bank. My cousin married an afro Palestinian 25 years ago but she died couple years back. As far as I know some go back 3 or 4 hundred years some couple generations. Use to be a bigger population of them before 1948

@user-vw6bk4pb4l 9 ай бұрын

@@thecanaanite Alright thanks for your response.

@dumdiversaspapalbull1452 9 ай бұрын

@@thecanaanitewho are the Canaanites today?

@dumdiversaspapalbull1452 9 ай бұрын

@@thecanaanitewho or what is that in your profile picture? Why have you chosen that? Who is the child in that profile picture?

@rholdagosain5649 Жыл бұрын

'Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians 🇵🇸' Nelson Mandela

@mosestyson6868 9 ай бұрын

Two different conflicts. South Africa it's about race, but Israel and Palestinians, the conflict is about land

@thepotato3275 9 ай бұрын

@@mosestyson6868 It's racial too. Many Ethiopian Jews have spoken of being forced into using contraceptives or unknowingly given them to avoid having children, and many Yemeni Jews have had their children taken away and handed to White Jews. In fact, Israel has passed legislation declaring that "the right to exercise national self-determination" is "unique to the Jewish people" in Israel. By the Way Self-Determination is a Human right to everyone, no matter race.

@rosa9251 7 ай бұрын

⁠⁠@@mosestyson6868 both conflicts involve indigenous populations being invaded, occupied and brutalized by Europeans. You can focus on the differences but some of us see the similarities.

@kriskhinson443 7 ай бұрын

Nelson Mandela didn't know what he was talking about.

@thepotato3275 7 ай бұрын

@@kriskhinson443 yes he did lmao Palestine supported them since the beginning

@danielrude4673 2 жыл бұрын

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

@RealAnita926 9 ай бұрын

Never

@TravelTourDine_007 7 ай бұрын

From the last time I checked, Palestine is located on the African Tectonic Plate. Palestine is a part of Africa!

@babatundeogunkola3594 7 ай бұрын

2:57 I love my black Palestinian brothers, love from Nigeria.

@user-cv2of4ve4u 9 ай бұрын

Palestine is a protected Historical land not a war zone ..,..Afro Palestine and the Palestinians have history for over 3000 years

@lous.1548 9 ай бұрын

really not a war zone ... dind't you have access to tv for 15 days

@davis2420 8 ай бұрын

That area is ancient canaan brother of kush. It is northeast africa. The original man was already there when the Caucasians invaded from the upper caucus mountains usurping Ur which was Babylon by way of Nimrod which was son of kush. Much of Canaan ran back into kush while others stayed and enduring genocide and other atrocities.

@mosestyson6868 9 ай бұрын

Why aren't you talking about Palestinian Arab racism against black Palestinians? Please stop focusing only on Western racism against black. I lived as a black man with both people. I found Palestinians' racism against blacks is worse than western racism against black people.

@mohamedabdi1376 9 ай бұрын

Israeli propaganda

@madmanx58 8 ай бұрын

That part !

@StreetcarDesire 6 ай бұрын

Post a video on your experiences and the specifics then.

@elsahrawi760 2 ай бұрын

Because it barely exists. You're brainwashed by zionists.

@freepalestinanow 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this bb!

@dorotheamohibi7342 2 жыл бұрын

This so great. I didn’t know we are everywhere.

@bulletproof4986 9 ай бұрын

GOD SAID in the Bible that HE'S going to SPREAD his children to ALL 4 CORNERS OF THE EARTH.

@MlungisiNkosi 2 жыл бұрын

This is amazing,,,, Keep going fellow classmate.

@larry_saytee 2 жыл бұрын

Just found your channel. Very good! We are everywhere in the world!

@FreedomIsMineOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

Indeed we are! Thank you for watching 😊

@richuelsrmassey3969 2 жыл бұрын

A stranger in their own land!

@greenworld1184 7 ай бұрын

Whose Land ? African Jews ?

@devonmunn5728 3 жыл бұрын

Nice to finally see this video pop up in my notifications

@FreedomIsMineOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It was a challenging video to make but hopefully educational and enjoyable too! I have another one on the way soon!

@bisososobiso7189 7 ай бұрын

Nice piece of history. Thank you

@MyCodat 9 ай бұрын

POWERFUL THANKS

@bernardosa6690 23 күн бұрын

Congratulations from West Africa I am happy to know your ancestors came from here in West Africa

@smartmotion.physiotherapy740 2 жыл бұрын

Really interesting video! Loving your earrings btw!

@FreedomIsMineOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

Muchísimas gracias! 🙌🏽😍

@apriljackson5304 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this timely video. It brings more context to the struggles Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are encountering, in terms od ongoing disenfranchisement. Hmmm.....this is a common theme around the world for our people. Bravo! ✊🏽🌟💯

@FreedomIsMineOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much April! I had a lot of requests for a video on Palestine, so I hope this video is informative. I had a lot of help from the African Community Society in Jerusalem, I recommend checking them out! I put the link to their website in the video description. They have so much amazing information on their website! 🤗

@e8thave826 2 жыл бұрын

Best videos!!

@bittertruth2900 5 ай бұрын

This is amazing

@jawanaklouk9807 11 ай бұрын

This amazing

@Rajul_Jamil 9 ай бұрын

In Arabic the Palestinians call the Blacks 'Abed' or slave in English.

@Rajul_Jamil 8 ай бұрын

I'm sure. Are you from Bharat?? I have a friend in Bangalore whose name is Saraj. @@moonsiraj

@StreetcarDesire 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, anti-blackness is a global issue. Look at the way that we’re treated in America still. Look at the way that Africans are treated in Latin and South America. Same story.

@ChicagoAbes Жыл бұрын

Love all my Palestinian brothers and sisters

@whitelabelamericanpodcast 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this great video. I was not surprised to see that Britain used conscripted workers from Nigeria amongst others although we weren't taught about such and as kids thought that those workers (known as Old Soldiers) were making up stories about what and where they did stuff for the British empire. This video is mighty educational on more than one topic and I'm grateful for your channel + work. 🖤🖤🖤

@FreedomIsMineOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your kind words 😊

@Blissfulbondeuphoria 3 жыл бұрын

Nice content 👍

@FreedomIsMineOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 🥰

@elevenfiftynine 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this great report

@birthdaycake1888 2 жыл бұрын

I have discovered so much

@FreedomIsMineOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad!

@michaelsamuel9917 2 жыл бұрын

Under Gen Allenby he had several battalions of soldiers from the Caribbean called the West Indian regiment after capturing Jerusalem they were sent to Italy where they were treated very badly by white South African soldiers they revolted many left the British army and immigrated to Palestine, over time their origins became lost or confused some claimed to be from "America" and didn't want to return to the USA etc, (Afro Saudis also claim to be black "Americans")

@freepalestinanow 2 жыл бұрын

Happy to see you include the true whole map of Palestine 💖

@emarkjacobs 9 ай бұрын

food job. thanks for video. saw one of those guys on another video but the person making it did not know the hostory or who he was

@radioheadlover09 3 жыл бұрын

can you do one on afro-salvadorans?

@GrimmyplaysFortnite 6 ай бұрын

My grandpa and her side of family

@ahsenzafar8037 5 ай бұрын

respect

@tvtalkwithavi 9 ай бұрын

Yeah yeah yeah Same old story, descendants of slaves, from when the Arabs, who are colonizers, colonized the Levant, brought slaves with them. The ottomans had slaves too and brought them again. Also some more recent Nigerians, Chadians and Sundanese moved of their own volition. They actually use the word Abed to describe them in Arabic which means slave. 🤦🏾‍♂️ I used to hate going to levantine arab countries, because they're low-key super-racist. Mostly Lebanon and West bank. This video is nice and everything, but there's a lot of sugar-coating going on here.

@user-tk6lc8zv9c 8 ай бұрын

Being black in the Arab world is synonymous to being a slave.

@StreetcarDesire 6 ай бұрын

Can you share your personal experience in a video?

@Uniquebrand-ug6fq 8 ай бұрын

From east tx in America

@arrabbiatonero Жыл бұрын

I thought Palestinians was black anyway, via the canaanites. Right?

@thepotato3275 9 ай бұрын

Yeah a average Palestine has 35% Canaanite DNA

@amnhmay9432 9 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤

@godwindei1471 2 жыл бұрын

Ghana to the world forever and ever and ever

@freepalestinanow 2 жыл бұрын

#freePalestine I've seen many clips of them in instagram and wearing traditional dress while facing attack from occupation 🥺

@Uniquebrand-ug6fq 8 ай бұрын

I love yall

@oscarkitenge3044 9 ай бұрын

African Palestinian descendants of us the Bantu who were taken as slaves the chosen children of God

@NovestTheGreat 9 ай бұрын

Yup can’t here because of Dr. Umar. ❤️🖤💚

@johnstephanos1128 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, some Africans moved to Palestine recently, but let's not forget that there have been Africans in Israel and Palestine from way back - they were among the first inhabitants.

@lisaaloune 8 ай бұрын

How disgraceful is to cover up the Afro Palestinian saddest atrocities of discrimination against them by the Arabs people…..

@Mortavita 5 ай бұрын

Bro the palestinians are not literally descendants of arabs, they are indigenous to palestine, they speak arabic because of Islam, their arabic is full of aramaic, the language they spoke before it's not the palestinians who did what you are thinking about

@lisaaloune 5 ай бұрын

@@Mortavita They are Greek descendants who converted to Islam and became Arab. There is nothing to connect them with Israel. They never had King, queen, president, parliament, ambassador, army general, currency. Old and New Testament, Quran mentioned Israeli people not Palestinian.

@djibrilyadd4131 7 ай бұрын

Now we are less ignorant. Thanks from west Africa, Senegal

@FreedomIsMineOfficial 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching

@User-pe5qz 2 жыл бұрын

Palestine will be free from the river to the sea

@virgolove4ever701 9 ай бұрын

I'm just learning that there really black people in Palestine surprised to me.....

@drewbulbuloglu9234 8 ай бұрын

Afro Palestinian Townhall Meeting in the African Quarter of Jerusalem

@jeannieves6275 3 жыл бұрын

They’ve been there since Biblical Days

@LionofthetribeofJudah650 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly the Afro Palestinian’s are indigenous to that area the white ones are the ones that don’t belong there.

@bootbredda2724 2 жыл бұрын

@@LionofthetribeofJudah650 Lies!

@LionofthetribeofJudah650 2 жыл бұрын

@@bootbredda2724 “Lies”

@bootbredda2724 2 жыл бұрын

@@LionofthetribeofJudah650 You can literally watch videos of the people themselves telling you how and when they got to Palestine and where their people came from which is Sudan, Chad, Nigeria and Senegal

@LionofthetribeofJudah650 2 жыл бұрын

@@bootbredda2724 “Lies”

@user-jz6uk8rj9r 9 ай бұрын

You are beautiful I like Afropalestinian

@cynoway2162 9 ай бұрын

Africa Land. No Diasporas

@vimbextube7905 Жыл бұрын

Most Afro Palestinians re native to Palestine!

@remyryder6986 9 ай бұрын

No, they are not. These people origin is of sub sahara. There's nothing wrong with that.

@NegroOnlyz 9 ай бұрын

@@remyryder6986 I noticed you're in multiple comment sections spewing the same racist rhetoric !! How much are they paying you ??

@remyryder6986 9 ай бұрын

@NegroOnlyz How much are you getting paid to stalk my comments on this thread? Everyone is allowed to post multiple responses. What is racist about my comments? What is wrong with being from sub sahara region? You must be one of those black in America. Always claiming to be something else. It obvious the people who put the documentary together ask those people where they were from originally. Your own point of view is racist. You want these people to be ashamed of their origin because of your own insecurities. FYI, sahara is a big desert in Africa. Sub means below. Countries below the desert are referred to sub sahara.

@greenworld1184 7 ай бұрын

Are they Muslims ? Or Christians.

@officermac1108 9 ай бұрын

First of all, Palestine is the Land of Ham, Canaan now know as Israel, was black anyway. They r not Afro Palestinians, they are most like indig to that area. Know your history

@drewbulbuloglu9234 8 ай бұрын

marrying local palestinian women

@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr Жыл бұрын

Afro-Palestinians are the first group of Black people to ever have lived in Israel. When I reseach their origin in the encyclopedia, it says they were slaves of Muslims. It doesn't say Black people were from the Middle East or that they came there on a happy Islamic pilgrimage. It says they were forcibly introduced to the Southern Levant by the Muslim Arabs: "By the 9th century, 3 million Blacks had been resettled as enslaved people in the Middle East, working as soldiers and laborers in the riverine plantation economies." - Wikipedia - Afro-Palestinians- History

@99inshallah Жыл бұрын

You read some bullsht anti-Islamic propaganda. Many of the Muslims themselves were of black African origin and Muslim African pilgrims have settled in Palestine and Arabia for over a thousand years. And slavery was never restricted to color, it is only the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade that targeted black skincolor specifically.

@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr Жыл бұрын

@@99inshallah That's the biggest crock of shit I have ever read.

@teliah3922 Жыл бұрын

Which means they were Hebrews?

@badgoy534 Жыл бұрын

Slaves of Muslims?? They were part of Saladin’s army, they settled in Palestine after defeating the Crusades

@badgoy534 Жыл бұрын

@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr we all know that unlike any slavery the Transatlantic slave trade was racially and religiously motivated

@michaelb.3438 3 жыл бұрын

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@MENSA.lady2 9 ай бұрын

Amazing how many people choose to forget the inconvenient truth that Palastine ceased to exist in 1967 when Israel won the Yom Kippur war.

@StreetcarDesire 6 ай бұрын

Palestine always was and always will be. And it’s not a war if you’re the one with all of military equipment and influence from Britain. 🤷🏽

@BRIDGETONBILLYBOYS 5 ай бұрын

@@StreetcarDesireI think it was the US who send billions in aid not the British.

@petracampbell2907 8 ай бұрын

Afro is a hairstyle. It’s African people…or people who are African descent.

@StreetcarDesire 6 ай бұрын

No, it’s not. It’s a way to describe two different identities in one word.

@iamnotpablo 2 жыл бұрын

Where did you disappear to? Did you get married and start a family and abandon the people?

@johnayacko8120 2 жыл бұрын

I did even know what you were saying because I was focusing on your pretty face.

@tchamola7572 7 ай бұрын

No they're Israelites they didn't migrate from Africa to Palestine

@satanshameer690 2 жыл бұрын

Support Palestine. Not Israel

@FreedomIsMineOfficial 2 жыл бұрын

My focus with this channel is above all to highlight the histories of black communities worldwide, so I also have a video on the African diaspora in Israel who have a fascinating history too!

@pimpfajita8888 2 жыл бұрын

@@FreedomIsMineOfficial a settler is a settler weather they are Ethiopian or Egyptian. 🤷‍♂️

@rhona4416 8 ай бұрын

They need food and water, not masks and soap

@extanegautham8950 4 ай бұрын

yup, brought there as slaves, like all the other arab countries! the word for black folk in palestine arabic is the same word for slave. The afro-area in gaza is called the slave quarter. now isnt that respectful

@fk.fatelekukemet7708 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video and the spirit of it but some historical inaccuracies need correcting: -africans r the indigenous people of what u call today Palestine,it was called KanaAn by its inhabitants. THEIR descendants r among today's afro palestinians. -contrary to the impression given here,they have never lived in peace with neither the Israelis or the Arabs,they were conscripted by force in various Arab or ottoman armies to fight their wars,many of the west africans who went for pelgrimage were kidnapped and enslaved,others were brought in as slaves through the Sahara and egypt, one of the neighborhood u mentioned is called "slave quarters " by the Arabs. Again thanks for these series on our people scattered around the world,but let's get the facts and the context of their presence it those countries. 🖤

@donstern4135 4 ай бұрын

Many also came during the British Mandate…foreigners👿

@donstern4135 4 ай бұрын

You should know that most of them are descendants of the enslaved and experienced and continue to suffer widespread discrimination by Arabs…my grandmother a native of Jerusalem whose family has been in the old city personally told me that they were treated even worse than Jews…you conveniently omitted this …you also omit Ethiopian Jews …disgusting revisionism and ignorance…