# Who Are Ashkenazi Jews and How Are They Linked to Israel - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120432371283468603 - Source account: [@hanueloryd](https://x.com/hanueloryd) - Source language: Russian - Target language: English - Duration: 2:50 - Published: 2026-11-11 - Machine translated. 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[0:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=4) Hi, my name is Ezra Mor, and this is a typical example of liberal propaganda, specifically, the claim that Israel has no right to exist, because Israeli Jews are, in fact, not really Jewish, but are all supposedly some kind of mysterious Ashkenazim, [0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=19) merely pretending to be Jews and, on that basis, stealing land from poor Palestinians. [0:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=24) But who are these Ashkenazim, pretending to be Jews and, on that basis, colonizing Palestine? [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=30) Let's figure it out. And for the first time, the word “Ashkenaz”— you won't believe it— appears in the Holy Scriptures of both Jews and Christians. [0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=37) There, Ashkenaz is the name of one of Japheth's descendants, the son of Noah, mentioned in the “Table of Nations.” [0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=43) But I don’t much like turning to religious sources, so let’s move on to historical sources, from which we learn that, for example, Josephus, as well as other ancient authors, identified Ashkenaz with the Scythians, a nomadic people of the Middle Black Sea and Sea of Azov regions, [0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=58) that is, the territory of modern-day Ukraine. [1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=60) But since Ashkenazi Jews is, first and foremost, a self- designation, that is, a name European Jews gave themselves in the Middle Ages, we should probably figure out what the Jews themselves meant by this word. [1:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=72) And with that goal in mind, we can easily find out, without much effort, that, as it turns out, in the Middle Ages, rabbis and Jewish geographers associated the land of Ashkenaz with Germany and the surrounding regions. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=84) That is, Ashkenazi Jews aren't some special breed of Jew called an Ashkenaz, but simply Jews who lived in a particular region of Europe. [1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=91) But why did European Ashkenazi Jews suddenly become a symbol of anti- Israel propaganda? [1:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=97) It's very simple. It fits perfectly into the narrative of liberal sluts, who claim that Israel is a colonial project, and that the colonizers are, accordingly, white European Jews— Ashkenazim. [1:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=107) And that's why Ashkenazim have taken the honored leading position in this mindless anti-Israel propaganda. [1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=113) But what doesn't fit this narrative is that Ashkenazim make up only about forty percent of Israel's population. [2:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=120) Another twenty percent are, surprisingly enough, Arab Muslims, of whom about two million live in Israel. [2:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=126) And the remaining forty percent are, for example, Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews, that is, Jews who returned to the Land of Israel not from Europe, but from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Turkey, or Syria. [2:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=139) And, of course, anti- Israel propagandists don't like to mention Sephardic Jews, whose share in Israel is equal to that of Ashkenazi Jews, After all, people like these simply don't fit into the narrative about white European colonizers, [2:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=151) which underpins the lion's share of Western anti- Israel propaganda. [2:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=155) And I haven't even gotten to Bukharan Jews yet, people from Central Asia and the Caucasus, or, for example, Ethiopian Jews, who might even punch you in the face if anyone got the idea to call them white colonizers. [2:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/6ziRuSzfSdoR/en/who-are-ashkenazi-jews-and-how-are-they-linked-to-israel?t=167) Yeah, take care.