slowly realizing the reason I thought I hated falafel is because nobody in my "Israeli" family knows how to cook it

So by this logic, a Brit can move to India - cook Indian food - but call it British … this defies logic

The fact they outlawed the foragaing of zatar is crazy, becasue it is a common pattern in many settler colonies. Americans for isnstance outlawed foragaing of herbs, berries, plants, mushrooms etc for black and indigenous people.

In that Israeli logic, if a Jewish person lived in Turkey and then moved to Israel, they can cook Turkish food and call it Israeli 😢😅

So glad you showed the real stuff. Not only do Israelis do a bad version of Palestinian food, but some people also don't want to try Palestinian food because they had the Israeli version. It's a double whammy.

Damn, stole their land, stole their homes, stole their trees... and now their food!

I always correct them: “you mean Palestinian?” Brings me much joy every single time I say this as I walk out of the restaurant.

They didnt 'steal' it, they are just 'occupying' it

And this colonizer restaurant has a sister restaurant a few doors down called Miriam Street Food- just as disgusting. Excellent video.

I once tried Sabra hummus, I wanted to vomit after it andvtold my friend how can you eat this shit. The hummus I eat in Jordan is top notch, my favorite hummus is beiruti hummus.

I would have liked to see you interview the Israeli chefs. I am curious how American chefs justify the apartheid.

I had Israeli food in Palma de Mallorca, it was falafel wrap, the worst in my entier life. Israelis are not a nation but a collection of people from all countries.

As a Pakistani this is makes me think about how Chicken Tikka Masala is a the national dish of Britain, when we all know that they would simply faint from the smell of spice.

Here in Turkey we know a thing about cuisine. We know because the Ottoman cuisines incorporated the foods of the region and their spices. This included Sham or what is today Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon. Also the Maghrib or North Africa. These foods were immersed into Turkish foods and you can today see these foods in the Caucuses and Balkans in Europe. It is certainly not Israeli because Israel is as old as 1948 and was never a part of our history. The Muslim world is 1500 years old. It can never be erased by Israeli nationalists who want to distort reality and history. Peace to Palestine. Turkey stands with you!

✨✨✨Settler-Colonial Mukbang✨✨✨✨

Eye opener, I did not know so many dishes they have stolen to their name.

A great combination of historical insight and humor. Love it!

Wow the real Palestinian food at the end of the video looked in a league of its own compared to the first restaurant.

They have no shame.

you can even tell the quality of the Palestinian food is much better than the Israeli knock-off the Israeli one did not look appetising at all - you are brave for trying that

one day 🇵🇸 will be free

Great work brother! I love this episode!! These are the stories that matters!!

There is a weird trend in the United States where chefs are calling their restaurants Israeli but are creating some new fusion cuisine.

Great video, glad i saw the youtube short which bought me here. Not surprised at how the food is marketed, but you definitely made me want to stop in New York for some authentic Palestinian food 😊

Well now there’s a restaurant called “AYAT” that completely is taking steam in NYC as “Palestinian restaurant “

As a North African who grew up eating chakchouka, I was shocked to hear that Israelis claimed this typical North African dish as theirs! Same with berkoukes, renamed Israeli couscous 😡 Stealing land and cultures!

Falafel is Egyptian, it comes from ancient Egypt. The word falafel is Coptic for "many beans".

Thanks! Love your work. Keep it going

Really enjoyed this episode hope you continue with this. I have never gone to an Israeli restaurant and after seeing this I don't want to, but there are a couple of Palestinian Cafes in Sydney I will have to try. Thanks for the upload.

I very much enjoyed the episode Salem! Keep up the amazing work. And I loved the rating symbols 😂

Isreali food is Perogis, saurkrout and borscht. They 'Israeled' Palestinian, Levant, and North African cuisine. The 'falafel' and 'hummous' (although they can't pronounce it properly - usually khomos) is the most egregious to me.

Dreaming about Knafeh. Haven't had it in ages since I left Jordan. Nothing compares to it.

Low key this is the best eduatainment food journalism I’ve seen in a very long while

That thing masquerading as Kunafah is an abomination to the dish and an insult to food altogether !!! I mean how is that passing as anything edible !!!

FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 ❤

not the settler-colonial mukbang lmaoooo

I grew up Jewish in the Chicago suburbs, eating Palestinian foods made by Palestinians, and very occasionally, similar foods made in "Israeli" restaurants. This past June, I temporarily moved to West Jerusalem for a master's degree. I have to say, most of these dishes do taste better to me when made by Palestinians, but not always. It really isn't literally because of the ethnicity of the chef. It's skills that can be learned. I think the real issue is the issue of respect--naming the origin of the foods properly.

Appreciate the content you’re putting out!keep going

You are aware that alot of the Israeli food here was introduced by Mizrahi Jews fleeing Arab Muslim countries for safety in Israel?That, and add Israels large Arab community.

I have been to 2 Israeli restaurants in the US both served Moroccan food as their own too..

Jazakum Allah Khairun! Bilafia! 🎉

I only had Knafeh once. A pretty popular spot in the Muslim Quarter of Al-Quds. Delicious. I still think of it years later. Regret not being able to travel to Nablus to try the very best. Hope to visit again one day, but not until 🍉is free.

Bruh not every midle eastern food is palestinian.Things like falafel and humus are universal in the midle east.Also not all the levant region is palestine.

love these! keep up the great work

As a syrian this makes me sick

I live in the Bay Area and you can find whatever cuisine around the world you want. After watching this I looked up where I can find authentic knafeh near me and made sure it looked exactly like the kind from the second restaurant you went to. 😂

Your work is so so good man, well done

I'm Puerto Rican, we have a large Palestinian diaspora here concentrated in a few places. There's an arab restaurant that I've been going to since I was little. The head chef since forever has been a Palestinian man. So everything is basically authentic. Let me tell you, the moment I saw that falafel I felt like throwing up. I'm not even Arab or a huge expert but even I could tell from eating falafel since I was 13 that this was an abomination 😂

Impressive production! Well done👌

I can't get over how pale that knafeh looked

This is just heartbreaking 💔

South African here, I absolutely love your content.

I love the way Shatha's eyes light up at the Pali restaurant, she's beautiful!

Added Tanoreen to my list of spots to visit next time I'm in NYC, and I can look out for places to avoid.

I mean, what do Israhellis have that really belongs to them? lmao.

Jews who come from Arab countries ate these same dishes, though

bro unironically claims falafel is palestinian and then cries about israel stealing it💀💀💀

Israeli Salad - Adopted by Jewish immigrants under the Ottoman Empire, it used locally grown cucumbers and they were actually Jewish farmers primarily. It is originally an Arab salad, but 50% of Jews in Israel are Arab... Still is a national dish of Israel, and in Israel it has always used Jewish grown cucumbers. In 1940 a Jewish Kibbutz created (pioneered) a new variety of cucumber which is still the cucumber used today in Israel for it. But yes originally this pretty basic salad comes from the Arab population living in Turkey. Different Jewish populations around the world have been eating it different ways. North African Jews added lemon peels & cayenne, Bukharan Jews add vinegar and chop smaller, Indian/Hindi Jews add ginger, Ashkenazi Jews ocasionally added lime and bell pepper, some Persian Jews added sumac or mint or even onions (Shirazi). Knafeh - No one knows when/where it exactly originated. But it's well traced to under the Egyptian empires. It's been eaten all across the Middle East, Levant, and Balkans for nearly 1000 years. There are many different versions of it. There is Nablus style knafeh which is Palestinian, there is also Gaza Knafeh (using bulgar & cinnamon), and so on. In general though it is just as Greek or Egyptian or Turkish or Jewish or Indian or Labanese or etc as it is Palestinian, unless your specifically talking about the Nablus/Gaza styles of preparing it. Traditionally speaking including pistachios would actually make it more of the Greek, Turkish, or Syrian version of it.

Isreailed the stolen land and now they isrealed the Palestinians foods!

Can't we just all get along? neighboring countries all over the world have been sharing dishes back and forth since the beginning of time.. it's one of the ways cultures can connect and agree on something.. videos like this create an even bigger distance between these cultures as opposed to uniting them

Let’s not forget, about 2/3 of Israeli Jews come from Arabic countries. This is as much their food, as Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, or any other country in that region. They’re going to have their own twist on it, but it is a legitimate part of their culture.

bro the rating system! hahahaha genius

Your videos are very high quality. Thank you for soreading our culture 🇵🇸.

This is what Colonialism did with the ancient civilization's cultural heritage and history around the globe and now the people are seeing the truth

People should honestly just go on Google Maps en masse, find Israeli restaurants that are serving stolen food from Palestine or other regions, leave a 1 star review with their views on cultural appropriation. ESPECIALLY if the restaurant purports anything 'green', 'sustainable', 'ethos' centricity.

I want everything they took. My food. My right. My land.

Arabs come to Judea in the 8th century and claim to be indigenous to the land is as hilarious as saying the Spanish who came to the America’s are the native people of Mexico.

The problem with all of this is that 75 years isn’t a long time. There’s no way they lost all their European cuisine and culture. We aren’t talking thousands of years. This kind of appropriation is inexcusable.

was that a rock that hit her shoulder at 2:58?

as a greek i'm always amazed of the similarities with our cuisine, we call "meze" the small plates of food we share! keep safe, free Palestine 🇵🇸

You must try Israeli food in Israel, not the United States. Many Jewish Israelis will gladly tell you that Israeli food in the United States is usually horrible and pales to the food in Israel.

From the river to the sea Palestine will be free 🇵🇸

Would love to see a video investigation of Za'atar with farmers in Palestine and the Israeli farmers & New York restaurant owners. To visually see and to understand for viewers that colonization is very present in agriculture, farm to table throughout the world.

You forget that most of these foods are middle eastern and don't belong just to the palastinians, so the palastinians can't claim them as their own.

This is eye opening, thank you for sharing

But did you CONDEMN the hummus!?

Next time, could you please invite your ally to taste it with you ? ❤ Unless you did and he was busy, but it's so kind of him ... Thanks for sharing your memories, your knowledge and your commitment

OMG that Knafeh looked amaaaaazing!

Did the Palestinians steal Lebanese food? In October 2008, the Association of Lebanese Industrialists petitioned to the Lebanese Ministry of Economy and Trade to request protected status from the European Commission for hummus as a uniquely Lebanese food, similar to the Protected Geographical Status rights held over regional food items by various European Union countries. Source: Wikipedia

If there are so many Palestinians living outside the homeland, why are they not opening Palestinian restaurants in the United States that serve the general public?

Israeli can't cook better (according to the Middle Eastern standard) because they are isolated from the Middle East for 2000 years and adapted the Northern European style of cooking instead with the spice not to be infused to the food of course. 2000 years is not a short time. When you cook Middle Eastern food without a balanced and even bad spicing, of course it will be bland. It is the same for South Asian cuisine, without spice, it is not that cuisine.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian cuisine. Its called Meze and comes from Lebanon. And when it became what it is today it was a French colony. While Palestine was British. If you check out the food in all former French colonies you will find that what they all have in common is that its excellent. Its a French legacy. French ppl know food.

I am 600 miles from Chicago, the closest location for a Palestinian restaurant. There might be a Palestinian restaurant 100 miles away but these restaurants call themselves Arabic, Middle Eastern, Lebanese, or even Mediterranean. If Palestinians are opening restaurants, they seldom call them Palestinian.

Just remember...McDonald's is the most popular restaurant in the world.

In germany the same story!

I understand the criticism if the Israeli restaurant just puts Israeli before every dish like the Israeli salad. but half of the Israelis are from Muslim countries like Lebanon Egypt, Lydia, morocco etc. so most Israelis grew up with the food of their parents, which is Arab cuisine labneh is everyday sandwich for a lot of Israelis to. for example this kind of hybrid of food and culture made the Sabich that originate from Iraqi Jews. falafel and Knafeh are originating from Egypt.

As an Asian, I think you overrated israeli salad. The name itself deserves "-3".

They are doing the same thing with the Couscous, calling it Israeli Couscous.

So the whole premise of this show is anger towards people from a certain part of the world who cook food from the area of which they left?

All the points you’re trying to get across could have been so much better if this video wasn’t so obviously one sided… Went to one resteraunt and got to-go and kept saying to yourself how terrible and unappetizing the food looks and tastes and then going to eat at a resteraunt fresh. The Israeli cuisine has very good food and nobody says Knafeh and other food is only Israeli, it is a melting pot of foods that make an overall Israeli cuisine. There foods have been touched up throughout Israeli history transforming into a cuisine. The “fact” about za’atar is very misleading. Very disappointing and biased video…

OMG this is my new favorite KZfaq Channel

I’m gradually realizing that “Israeli salad” and “Israeli couscous” existed long before the creation of the state of Israel.

they have zero culture on their own (or rather it's imported from poland, hungary etc) so you can't _really_ blame them 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂

None of these foods are Palestinian. They originated in other parts of the Middle East including Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.

Lol loved that you didn't pay for the food or even enter the "restaurant". I'm Asian living in Asia, recently went into a restaurant and was APPALLED and DISGUSTED when I saw HUMMUS, FRKING HUMMUS as "israeli breakfast". Will never step a foot there again. Regret not confronting them about it cuz I feel like it has been done on purpose.

They just steal everything off these poor people...

"settler-colonial mukbang" 💀

What's puzzling about this video is that, although "nothing here is really Israeli," it's equally true that nothing there is really Palestinian. All of the foods you reviewed are eaten broadly across the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. If you order falafel in a Lebanese restaurant or if you order it in a Turkish restaurant you wouldn't call it an exclusively Palestinian cuisine would you? Plus, Israel's largest demographic group is Arab, so I imagine they kept their cooking traditions. How it tastes is up to you, but I don't really get the rest.

It is a travesty that this video only got 14k views.

50٪ of israeli Jews come from the middle east, Mizrahi. They brought their food with them.