Mount Gerizim but there is also Mount Ebal. In Arabic we call the mountains Jaba el-Nar means Mountain of Fire. The meaning behind Jabal el-Nar because its inhabitants played leading roles in fighting invaders through history since the periods of the Egyptian pharaohs.

The original and biblical name of "Nablus" is *Shechem.* The term Nablus is an European colonial add on from the Romans who wanted to erase the Jewish connection to the land. (It didn't work for them :) The Romans also called *Jerusalem,* our eternal capital - "Aelia Capitolina". And they renamed our ancestral homeland - *Judea* to "Syria Palaestina".

@@patriotsforisrael3610 much of Nablus does not fall within the original borders of Shechem, with the exception of Tel Balata that started off as a refugee camp in 1948 when the Zionists kicked native Palestinians from Jaffa, Akka, Haifa, and many countless villages that are under the current Israeli borders. Besides, multiple genetic studies have shown that most of the people of Nablus descend from the Samaritans of Mount Gerizim, so they originate from Shechem as well. Its just a name that stuck across history to that place, much like most of the places in modern times :)

@@rayyanaghaalnimer5742 you can’t kick people out if they already left before you got there

@@rayyanaghaalnimer5742 many Palestinians are probably Israelites.

They're Palestinians too. They are in just as much danger now.... even Bethlehem was being bombed last week.

@@user-gi7vs2rp2q They are *culturally* Arabized, not Arab in each and every sense or aspect. Don't mix this up with full-fledged Arabs.

As to the new comment from 9+ hours ago (now deleted) by "MsJMan84": "Their religion and DNA is very similar to Ashkenazi Jews, according to studies" -- not really. 1.- In terms of both uniparental haplogroups and autosomal DNA, the Samaritans maintained all their Levantine ancestry and have no admixture from outside of western Asia (except for the Ukranian wives and those born of them). 2.- Samaritanism is closer to Judaism than any other religion, but it's actually closest to the Qaraite form of Judaism, whereas the AJs practice various forms of Rabbinical Judaism.

Lol

This also proves that the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not about religion, which is how the state of Israel likes to market the conflict for obvious reasons of course. Israel wants to brainwash the world that this coflict is about antisemitism and has nothing to do with colonization, occupation, ethnic cleansing, dehumanization of Palestinians, denying their history and existence, and the biggest land theft ever that is still ongoing.

Actually lots of palestininan christian and muslims palestinian who live in nablus are actually descendants of these people. I read somewhere a palestinian muslim refugee has 96% gene of samaritan.

Modern day Muslim Palestinians are also descendants of these guys they converted to Islam in 625-635 due to a negotiation that they had agreed upon with Omar the rashidun caliph at that time.

@@danial3600that’s very interesting. Where can I read about this

@@Yoo-yooYeshua Jandora, John W. (1986). "Developments in Islamic Warfare: The Early Conquests". Studia Islamica (64): 101-113. doi:10.2307/1596048. JSTOR 1596048. Gil, Moshe (1997). A History of Palestine, 634-1099. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521599849. Broshi, Magen (1979). "The Population of Western Palestine in the Roman-Byzantine Period". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. 236 (236): 1-10. doi:10.2307/1356664. ISSN 0003-097X. JSTOR 1356664. S2CID 24341643. Ehrlich, Michael (2022). The Islamization of the Holy Land, 634-1800. Arc Humanity Press. ISBN 978-1-64189-222-3. OCLC 1310046222. Levy-Rubin, Milka (2000). "New Evidence Relating to the Process of Islamization in Palestine in the Early Muslim Period: The Case of Samaria". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 43 (3): 257-276. doi:10.1163/156852000511303. ISSN 0022-4995. JSTOR 3632444.

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Samaritans are palestinians

The Palestinians are invaders

@darshansingh4375 : I agree totally (from Belfast, Northern Ireland) 🌿🕊

Yes, go back & visit 👏

Many Palestinians have Samaritian and Jewish roots. Hopefully this can lay the ground work for peace.

@Arif what anti-semitic garbage are you spewing

@Arif It's wrong... it's a fake propaganda. I am a Nort African Jew, and I am for sure a mix of Levantine and local Amazigh. But I can still trace a important part of my DNA from the Levant. More than 60% of the Israeli Jewish people have family connections to North Africa and the Middle East... Even those who come from Europe still have part of their DNA from the middle east. Everyone is mixed now, but as you know Palestinian people are also very mixed. They have Levantine, Turc, Greeks, Armenian, French, British, Arabs and other different ancestors... So at the end, the culture and heritage remains the most important thing

@Arif true, but they claim that they have ancestry roots from there. For some reason they don’t like the truth. There so stubborn when you bring them facts with history and DNA.

Inevitable adaptive behavior for a minority that dwindled down to 140 people by the end of the Ottoman empire.

@@ef2718 There is so adaptive behavior. Humans are messed up be it 10 or 1 billion. You racial eugenics are idiotic. He happens to be an understanding and calm person. I'm sure many aren't. I'm sure you don't qualify either. But if the World had his attitude we would coexist much better. People think if aliens come Earth would bind together to resist but I don't think so. There will always be the group that works with the aliens just to keep their place above other humans. That's not adaptive behavior that's human nature.

@@ef2718 what?

Thank you for watching! That's lovely to hear :)

It's great & very informative 👍🏾

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Shalom from Conroe, Texas!

Maybe it’s a blessing to be in the MIDDLE

Well imagine someone came less than a century ago and started kicking you out of your House and killing civilians and the government still Projects illegal settlements.

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@@freepalestine7687 That's exactly what happened to us Jews in Israel -- the Palis began migrating to our ancestral land to kick us out of our homes that were on soil we had just purchased from absentee landlords, while murdering Jews and the Israeli gov't agencies nevertheless .tolerates illegal PaliNazi squatting.

Hi Stevie, thanks for your question! There's a lot of different sources (some documentaries we make in-house; others are submitted by external producers and directors) but your feedback can also determine what we create. So please do let us know if you have any ideas! 👍

@@artetvdocumentary It is obvious this one was made by an external source with certain agenda.

Thanks for watching and asking. I travelled in the region a few years ago and made a Photo report on the community for two European magazines. Later, I proposed ARTE to make the documentary. Luckily they gave a green light. I used to work on the Isareli wall of separation and had to spend quite a lot of time in the West bank and Palestinian cities. I had no idea whi the Samaritans were. I discovered the fascinating community almost by chance and met this wonderful guy Abood (Abdallah Cohen who is the main character in the movie).

Thanks!

I will be visiting Mount Gerizim for the first time in 2023. I hope I will meet Abood then.

To be fair, all credible historians acknowledge that there's also been a continuous demographic Jewish presence in the LOI since AD135.

@@zeeveijonezevijaione9289 The Samaritans are not Jooz, they’re the real Israelites

@@michaelalek6490 In your neo-Nazi movement what do you call the children already born to Samaritan men and gals from the Ukraine? "The real Israelites"? Go masturbate on a high-res image of your spiritual mentor, Adolf Hitler.

They are the Palestinian Jews even before the creation of the state of Israel. When Christ was around which was more than 2000 years ago, the Holy land was called Palestine, up until 1948. You cannot erase more than 2000 years of its inhabitants who identified as Palestinians, regardless of what their religion was.

The US is not even 250 years old, yet you recognize those hillbillies as "American", yet Palestine existed for more than 2000 years, yet you scream "no such thing as Palestine"! Just wow, the level of hypocrisy and denial just like the holocaust deniers scum of the earth, no difference whatsoever!!

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Thank you for being more accurate and not just blindly citing the Philistine etymology

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Samaritans lived in harmony with Palestinians for centuries, my God you people are so brainwashed. Matter of fact thd music and dancing in the video is Palestinian. Samaritans consider themselves Palestinian just like Jews in Germany were German. This is not rocket science.

​@@JupiterMoon7 Jews in Germany were not ethnicially Germans nor Slavic people. It's called diaspora for a reason. Karl Marx was called "the moor" by his fellow students at the University of Bonn, because of his swarthy complexion. His nationality and that of other Jews might have been German... until they were stripped of it. In imperial Russia there were three nationalities. 1.All-Rus (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarussian) 2.European (Poles, German Baltic) 3.Non-Europeans, the "Inorodtsy", like Uszbek, Kazakh, Tartar and on the bottom of them the Jews, the only group not able to gain citizenship. Jews are from the middle east habibi, always have been. Again, it's called diaspora for a reason. An Arab living in the diaspora in the USA, Europe or Australia is still an Arab and so are his children. Not so hard to grasp. The Palestinian identity on the other hand was adopted by Arabs only in the 1960s and there has never been a Palestinian nation. Before that the ones who were referred to as Palestinians were the Jews. Saramaritans have been around for thousands of years long before Arabs conquered the land. Palestinians are Arabized Jews and Samaritans (the indigenous people of the land) at best or Arabs and other Muslims from all over the Ottoman Empire. That's why it's called Jewish-Roman wars - not Palestinian-Roman wars. The Arch of Titus in Rome (which you can still visit today) depicts Jewish captives/slaves and booty such as the Menorah from the Jewish Temple. On the shields/standards of the Romans is written in Latin: "Legis Judaeorum" (the law of the Jews - the Torah), "Candelabrorem Judaeorum" (the Menorah of the Jews) and "Sacra Judaeorum" (the Holy of the Jews). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_wars en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Titus The coins the Romans minted also show a Jewish prisoner and have the inscription "Judaea Capta", not "Palaestina Capta". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaea_Capta_coinage Not a word about the "Palestinians" - Romans under emperor Hadrian renamed the land of Israel and Judea Province to (Syria-) Palaestina as a punishment for the Jews after the Jewish-Roman wars. You can't change history or falsify it. No matter how hard you try with your historic revisionism. Who are the Palestinians by a Hamas leader kzfaq.info/get/bejne/otdjicdmlbm-foE.html “There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented.” - Awni Abd al-Hadi, Secretary of the Arab Higher Committee to the British Peel Commission, 1937 "The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism." "For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa. While as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan." -PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, in a 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw.

@@Long-Ball-Larry Secondly, my irony meter is off the charts when I see a vile Nazoid miscreant like him pushing the corny lie that Samaritans lived in harmony with "Palestinians" for centuries, only to bemoan that *others* are....brainwashed. We don't need to do more than point to the affair in Shekhem a.k.a Nablus in 1841, where the local Muslims almost massacred the Samaritans, but this was staved off only thanks to Jewish humanitarian intervention. This a$$wipe you've responded to seems to try blaming this affair on the Ottoman occupiers.

⁠@@Long-Ball-Larry a diaspora isn’t always genetically or ancestrally linked in this case it’s more of a religious and somewhat an ethnic/cultural link more then anything. That is other then the fact that Palestinians have a direct link to the ancient people as in the different Jewish tribes …. The reality you are missing is that Palestinians were arabizied they aren’t actual Arab rather the native population who adopted Arabic language and some cultural aspect, but remained distinct of the other arab groups both culturally and in their local dialect that they spoke. And Jordanians like the Palestinian have a similar culture and heritage but again if you look at ancient history you would know why… because the people who lived in Palestine also have families who lived in Jordan, and both countries have in the past aspired to unite under a federation …. So it’s not weird rather kinda fits with the history of the region… (and none of the levant people were ever replaced but ofc Israelis love to believe that is true because they think Arabs are a monolith even though genetic evidence shows they are pretty much a distinct group and are native to the area…)

There are insane conflicts in the USA, too!

Lol, you should thank satan that you were born in USA 😈 nothing but greed

@@bethgriesauer3825 ACTUALLY all over the world.. we are humans... However, after i have traveled to more than 30 countries, I'M GLAD I WAS BORN AND RAISED HERE..

Yes good luck with stray bullets

​@@orlandohernandez0908 These conflicts are conflicts DIRECTLY because of American politics and Western interventions. American specialty: Regime change. You are thankful but people who are victims of these conflicts and regime changes are most definitely NOT thankful. But it is your tax dollars at work here.

Thank you!

We’re Palestinians not related to your murderous state.

Most israeli Jews are not indigenous to historic Palestine 🇵🇸 (river to sea). Samaritans are closest to Palestinians genetically and culturally.

From the Jordan river to the Mediterranean sea, Palestine will be free and liberated. Zionist Colonizers out, Land back to indigenous Palestinians 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@@meenawerda7521 Get over yourself, you speak nonsense.

Youre not jews people your face is like east asian

Israel is on a good path, but the country is generally segregated by choice. Arabs and Jews, secular and religious, they all go to different schools and receive different upbringings

@@Mer1912 Israel is on a good path? How can segregation be by choice? What about the Palestinians are they content? They can't be wished away.

@@Klopp2543 I am talking about Israel proper, not the West Bank or Gaza Strip, only where israeli law applies. There is no legal segregation, but generally speaking, most people live with their own ethnic groups and sects. 73% of the population is Jewish, but the Jewish population is almost equally split between “secular” and “traditional and orthodox.” The secular, traditional, and “modern orthodox” populations intermix all the time, and they do business with and live near by the “Arabs Israelis.” But there are certain neighborhoods that are very religious, and some people from there don’t like outsiders. These are the “ultra-orthodox” Jews. Not all of them, but many reject the secular world. They are the ones pushing for Gender/sex segregation in public. The Arab population is mostly Muslim (85%), and they are all assumed religious. You can’t be “secular” and “Muslim,” you see? At least not everywhere. In Jaffa-Tel-Aviv, the Palestinian-Israelis are very unique from other Palestinian citizens of Israel. They speak Hebrew at home, and live next door to Jews. Almost everywhere else, Arab Palestinians choose to live in Arab neighborhoods, whether Christian or Muslim. There are also the “Druze people,” they were once considered Muslim heretics, but now they are their own separate faith. They are very huge supporters of Israel, and actually fought alongside the Jewish forces during the civil war in 1947. Israel is a democratic state, not a perfect one. I think it’s stupid, it’s far from American republicanism. They have so many elections, and so many prime ministers, you never know who is leading the country. The representation in parliament is proportional to the demographics of the country’s citizenry.

@@Mer1912 its not on a good path, thr extremist right wing are polling in higher numbers than leftists & Palestinian parties, israel even tried to ban a party that called for a democratic state & full real equality few weeks ago

@@asmasm9736 it is a democratic state. The issue is whether or not it should be a “Jewish state.” The same way Iran and Pakistan are “Islamic republics,” but still have non-Muslim citizens, no? Most Jews in Israel want to live in a country that respects Judaism, not recogbize. They want a culturally Jewish country, the same way the Palestinians want an Arab state, where they can speak Arabic and where Islam is respected at the state level.

There were thousands of them before modern "Israel".

@charles2521 Their numbers have been rising since 1948. They were killed and forced to convert by the Islamist colonizers of the area.

@@yanpariztky4646 You're not deceiving anyone. Jews take the Talmud too seriously, thinking that all Goyim are stupid and easily manipulated. There were thousands of true Israelites before Israel, now there are only a few hundred, and they are decreasing every day. And between what Jews say about Palestinians and what true Israelites say, I will always believe the true Israelites every day. Sorry, but anyone who knows you knows that the truth is more likely to be the opposite of what you say. And if you're going to make racist attacks against me, at least pick the right target because I'm not Muslim, Arab, Iranian or anything like that.

@@yanpariztky4646 their people have been massacred by the byzantines actually not by the ottomans as mentioned by the samaritan guy abood in one of the videos in this series. why do you lie?

​@@charles2521 There were less than 150 Samaritans left alive in the beginning of the 20th century because of Muslims(Turks&Arabs) oppression. It was the Jews and then later Israel to save them.

Palestinians? Because of the Arabs the Samaritans almost cease to exist. If not the Jews and then Israel - they would actually cease to exist.

To any extent that the Palis want this, it's only for propaganda purposes, to dupe public opinion into believing that "Palestine" is a peaceful country, respectful and tolerant of all religions and peoples who aren't Muslim.

Hiya, George Orwell

@@davidtrak2679 exactly that's Zionism for you 👍

@@maisobh9390 Nope, Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to their own homeland. Arab Supremacism is where Arabs deserve all the land between Iraq and the Maghreb, all to themselves.

@@davidtrak2679 oh I've never known that Zionism is same as Judaism! Please double check 👍

@@maisobh9390 Wrong again. Judaism is an ethnoreligious religion, preaching worship of God to Jews. Zionism is a societal movement, preaching that Jews should go back where they came from - the Land of Israel.

They lived with Palestinians for centuries like brothers. Palestine was for all religions.

@@JupiterMoon7 You seem to have been brainwashed by some laughable false narrative where "Palestine" was a Muslim state and a pluralistic society. You even claimed in some other comment that it existed for at least a thousand years. This is an example of what yo-yos end up believing. I prefer real history.

@@JupiterMoon7 Tell that to the Jews whose family members died in mobs in Hebron, Tiberias, etc.

No joke I've seen him in two documentaries in the past few years 😭

He's a tour guide. Out of 800, I guess he somewhat stands out (from a well of family, society wise, as well)

Haha not really I never got paid to do this , would be a fun job though ;)

@@AboodCohen They're just hating bro. Keep representing your people

@@AboodCohen No hate. It's just sort of funny. But hey, I do appreciate your passion for introducing your people to the world.

by force.

The individual with the most knowledge of this subject, their scholar Binyamim Sedaqa, has written many times that their demographic climax was 1.5 million.

​@@sammshroo3494 Not necessarily... The Ottomans levied heavy taxes on non-muslims, so for many it was a financial decision. And when did you ever hear of Christianity being forced on anyone? What an ignorant person you are!

@@JupiterMoon7 Sheesh Naziboy, you really do think non-Christians are all naive and dumb. Christinsanity has been forced on many millions, in almost every place that Xtians have reached on earth. And deliberate over taxing of non-Muslims is a form of economic force that many succumbed to under such duress. But none of this matters to some Naziboy a$$wipe who blames only Jews for wronging others -- usualy on false charges.

Lol, uh they were there long ago

Samaritans are indigenous. They're not Jewish settlers. Settlers are a huge problem.

@@elijahcaon8094 They pose a tremendous problem to the PaliNazi and other hostile Arab attempts to make Samaria and Judea Judenrein, much to the dismay of all anti-Zionists,

May God bless the Jews and Samaritans with freedom and peace from the PaliNazi occupiers. Free the Land of Israel a.k.a. Palestine from PaliNazi occupation!

It’s regretful to see so much venom and hatred, lies and cheap political maneuvering , when this video is about an ancient community that predates Islam, and still uses the original Hebrew script in their Torah. Samaritans are very closely related with the Jews . Peace upon those seeking peace. And may the hatred and ignorance vanish with those who are spreading its venom

@@613Ruvis Well it's not the original Hebrew script, but an offshoot of the late paleo-Hebrew of the mid 2nd Temple era (a fact long ago established by the specialists that even the chief Samaritan scholar, Binyamim Sedaqa, conceded already decades ago). The original Hebrew script is known as "proto-Sinaitic" and if you find it on Google you'll realize it's quite different from the Samaritan script. Anyway.... there would scarcely be hate and venom underneath uploads like this one if it weren't for the presence of Arab and non-Arab antisemites.

@@ZviJ1 that’s correct . What I meant to say was it’s the closest we have today to the ancient Hebrew , which is still in use .

It’s not a branch of Judaism

@@asmasm9736 Depending if you accept all Israelite tribes as Jewish or only Judah and Levy, The unquestioned acceptance of Indian and Ethiopian Jews since the 1950's was the a definite answer to that question. Under the realistic inclusive approach, they are definitely a branch of Judaism.

@@yosikama2611 its a known secret that Indian, russian and Ethiopian new olem are mostly not actually jewish but use judaism to run away from their countries

@@asmasm9736 The Russian immigration since the late 1980's is known to include some/many of no Jewish people. The Jews in Ethiopian, as Jews in Europe, have been persecuted for generations there is absolutely no sense in the claim that they are not "real Jews" You might be referring to the community that had converted to Christianity, under coerce: The Falashmura.

@@yosikama2611 You mixed apples and oranges. Unlike the Samaritans, the Indian and Ethiopian Jews never attached sanctity to Mt. Gerizim and have always accepted the sanctity of Jerusalem and the entire Jewish Bible. Both the Orthodox and Qaraite denominations view Samaritanism as outside the bounds of Judaism, and so does Samaritanism, but you know better??

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@Arif Source please? I thought Arabs was originally from Arabia migrated to as far as Ancient Phoenicia , Assyria, Mesopotamia etc..

@@natadodo1564 the bedouin or “original Arabs,” are the Arabs that have been traveling between the Negev and Arabia for almost 7,000 years. The “Palestinian Arabs” are mostly the descendants of the surviving Jewish and Samaritan populations, but they also have Greek/Roman ancestry, and of course arab ancestry. Many bedouin tribes settled down and integrated with non-bedouin villagers.

@@Mer1912 lmao pls sthu. You’re a new invader into the land. Jewish religion is just colonization and same as Romans. Palestinians have been there for over 12,000years, the oldest city in the world is Jericho in the Palestinian West Bank. I would SPlT on your face if a slimey coward like you were in front of me.

Do you live in Nablus?😊

It is said that many Muslim families in Nablus are descended from Samaritans.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the genetic studies have revealed that most of their women trace back to Mesopotamian women, while their priests trace back to native Egyptians.

Yes Palestinians are occupiers and colonizers of Samaria

yeah there are doing fine, just little problems of supplies and school

They don't live in Gaza. Most live in the West Bank. So yes they're safe. They're effectively the South African equivalent of 'Cape Coloureds'.

@@shiningstar7775 Lol what are you talking about.. The Samaritans are art of the Palestinian fabric in Nablus. Palestine is multi-religious, multicultural country where Jews, Muslims and Christians lived peacefully until the israeli zionists arrived from Europe and started with their illegal ethnic cleansing, colonization and occupation. Ask any Palestinian, they'll tell the same exact thing.

​@@khaNab123 Only 150 Samaritans were still alived because of Arabs only 100 years ago. Stfu with your illusions.

@@y.l7455 Samaritans today consider themselves Palestinians. So how about you stfu with your ignorance

We cannot be sure, maybe just the people around Nablus

not if you are a khazarian Ashkenazi jews that came from Europe, most of them has loss their jewish DNA and made up of fake khazarian jews who were Turkic tribes that converted to Judaism. The original Jews all look like Arabs and have same DNA as Arabs and Samaritan and if you go to the Yemeni Jews and Iraqi jews community now you can see how the original jews look like, they are the oldest of the remaining pure blood jews in the world. After the conquest of Jerusalem by Caliph Umar and the Muslim, most of the Jews in Jerusalem has been killed or banished by the Roman Christians and Caliph Umar had to bring several family of Jews from Yemen to repopulated the Jewish community in Jerusalem.

@@wewenang5167 Wrong I am askenazi Jew and my family comes from the Middle East. There was zero Khazar Turkic dna found in European Jews population

@@wewenang5167 You not have the slightest idea what you're talking about. First, there is NO evidence to support the idea that Ashkenazim are Khazarian. There is also NO evidence that a Khazar conversion to Judaism ever happened. The core of what became Ashkenazi Jews first settled on Rhodes (Greece), in Italy, southern France and the Rhine River, it what is now Germany, and there is a mountain of written and physical evidence of those communities. The European ancestry that Ashkenazi Jews do have isn't Turkic, it's Greek and Italian. The rest (70%-90%) is identical to Sephardi Jews, Palestinians, Samaritians and Syrians. The largest genetic study ever done on Ashkenazi Jews was done at Wayne State University in the U.S and it completely debunked the Khazar hypothesis. It has no support among historians. Only delusional pan-Arabist still cling to it. Link to that study: digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol85/iss6/9/ Ever sense Israel became a country there has been an effort to white wash the Ashkenazi. ALL the EVIDENCE suggests that Ashkenazi are overwhelmingly middle eastern. There is no such thing as "original Jews." I know personally Samaritians with red and blonde hair. My mother is a 100% Syrian Jew from Aleppo and she also has blonde hair. My uncles have black hair. The Iraqi and Yemenite communities are no more or less "Jewish" than Ashkenazi. Genetically Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews are identical when compared with non-Jews. Levantine people vary in skin tone and hair color. There are blonde Palestinians and brown Jews and vice versa. And there are many ethnic groups indigenous to the middle east who aren't Arabs: Jews, Samaritians, Maronites, Arameans, Assyrians, Persians, Yazidis, Kurds, etc. Stop with the Arab-centric nonsense, they came to Jerusalem as invaders.

@@PodcastCentral333 really so why do AshkeNazi jews have zero semitic DNA

Samaritans are Israelis. Israelis don't belong here. Now settle that logic.

@Arif Identify as such because they don't have a choice -- it's a means of survival. That's why they're friendly toward you, but as usual, you prefer to believe that this friendliness means love. You're mistaken about it. If the Samaritans were as numerous as the Jews and had their own state, they would hold Palis on a very short leash.

​@@ef2718 You are conflating Israelites with Israelis, the 2 are completely different and not the same thing.

​@@ZviJ1 Samaritans identified as Palestinians for centuries upon centuries and never had any problems with their Palestinian Christian and Muslim brothers.

@@JupiterMoon7 This is totally false, the product of reading PaliNazi propaganda. If you could pull your head out of your posterior and learn history from credible sources, you'd realize that nobody in the Land of Israel identified as "Palestinian" and that both local Muslims and Christians, but mostly the former, caused the Samaritans lots of problems, such as persecution, murder and massacres. I'm not going to bet you'll take a breathing space away from your indoctrination, much less long enough to notice the actual historical facts. And I'm not conflating anything; this is merely your lie emitted here.

Samaritans don't believe in the Oral Torah, Tanakh, Talmud. They are not considered to be Jewish.

Truth

Shechem is only a small part of nablus, and jews ruled the land for only 400 years, it doesn’t mean you can occupy the lands of Palestinians & murder them

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@@asmasm9736 Filastin is only a very young part of the Arab presence in the Land of Israel, and Jews have returned to rule their ancestral land. It doesn't mean you can occupy the lands of Jews and murder them.

​@@zeeveijonezevijaione9289 The US is not even 250 years old, yet you recognize those hillbillies as "American", yet Palestine existed for more than 2000 years, yet you scream "no such thing as Palestine"! Just wow, the level of hypocrisy and denial just like the holocaust deniers scum of the earth, no difference whatsoever!!

Previously Samaritans did not allow any converts but very recently they have allowed outside women to marry Samaritan men if they convert. Are you a woman who wants to marry a Samaritan man?

You can convert to this even if you're a woman who isn't seeking to marry a Samaritan, or a man. But the process takes 3 years during which one must be in a Samaritan community (Holon or Qiryat Luza) and you are constatly under watchful eyes. If you succeed in this, you'll have to live there permanently (one is allowed to visit other countries, but not live in them) and practice their lifestyle for the rest of your life.

Yeah. The conversion process is 3 years and all of it takes place in Israel. If you pull it off, you'll have to live there for your whole life and constantly practice this lifestyle.

Yes, a number of years ago, I had read that Sharon Sullivan (who worked with Benyamin Tsedaka to write the English version of the Samaritan Pentateuch) was joining the Samaritans with her sons and no marriage was involved. However, I never heard anything about this again. What happened to her and her sons? Are they Samaritans? Why hasn't she written anything recently?

There is only one God.

Because you're a doofus, who doesn't know that people who reject the Jewish Bible's sanctity and do not consider Jslm. anything special are not Jews at all.

They are not jews at all. It is a different religion. The documentary said this itself. Dont mix it up.

​@@drfudgecookie5800they are an offshoot of Judaism, descendents of the tribes of Israel. Meaning, yes, they are Jews ethnically.

That's because ancient hebrew and arabic came from aramaic.

No but more close to ancient of Phonecian (extinct language in Lebanon)

@@sammshroo3494 no aramic, Arabic and Hebrew is different languages, but still related

You didn't know? both Semitic

​@@JacobIX99 Antisemites usually don't know this

Actually samaritans were mentioned in both the quran and the bible

@@tarekabdallaelshingeiti196 But not as "Palestinian Samaritans". They're simply Samaritans as the land they're living on is Samaria, which was part of the kingdom of Israel, as the Samaritans, like the Jews are from Israelite tribes (and the Palestinians are basically too - Arabized Jews and Samaritians). A conflict between blood brothers.

@@Long-Ball-Larry the word Palestinian don't exists in quran

@@smileyface7054If you say so habibi. I didn't claim otherwise.... so not sure why you're telling me.

@@Long-Ball-Larry It's more complex than that.... only about 60% of the Palis descend from Arabized Samaritans and Jews. The rest trace back to Johnny-come-laties from various other lands, as far away as the Caucasus and Bosnia, that have no Israaelite ancestry. This is borne out by many of their surnames that betray their places of origin from other lands.

Samaritans are the bridge between the Jewish and the Muslim. The North (Nablus/Shechem) spoke Aramaic/Arabic while the south (Holon) spoke Hebrew. You need to know your history about all these wars to understand our children name. We do have a mixture names but our last and surnames always have connections to the Samaritans. Like my real family surname is Tahan. Tahan comes from Tahanites.

@@A.Musa76 there’s a Palestinian muslim family that’s called tahan aswell

I thought their history with Torah would be the more influential part of their lives.

@@asmasm9736 you have to look at there family history some of these Palestinian are converted. If you know your history on these empire wars you will know the answer. If you want to look at it deeper then I suggest to read up on History on the following: Emperor Zeno of the Eastern Roman from 474-491 Samaritan revolts from 484-573 Ottoman from 1517-1917 Battle of Nablus (Ottoman Empire/British) in 1918

They really do. Abood/Abdallah/Ovadia are all different culture versions of "servant of God (Jah)", same as Jack/Jacob

Palestine is going to the hell 😂

long live the Land of Israel a.k.a. Palestine. Free it of PaliNazi occupation.

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​@@jsac3817Samartian are original indegenoius jeews,not mixed with others

I actually heard Arabic music and they danced middle eastern style LOL

@blitznstitch2 John 4:22

There are less than 1,000 Samaritans living today.