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Please this thread if for my fellow Igbos.

I copied and pasted the snippet below from one of the justification points of the Jewish Rabbinical Court that ruled that Igbos are Israelites.

I also googled and found out that people having the same or related y-chromosomes means that they are descended from the same male ancestor. In the Igbo case, this male ancestor must be Jacob (whose name was also Israel).
Anyone that understands DNA may want to shed more light on this matter.

The ruling also insinuates that Umu Nri are descendants of Levi, thus their traditional role of providing levitical services to the Igbo race and beyond.


Genetic studies of the y-chromosome of Igbo men demonstrate that they originated in the Levant basin, sharing genetic links with Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews alike. While there is yet an exhaustive academic genetic study of the Igbos, the data of the majority of those who have reported their autosomal and y-chromosome DNA, supports that their ancestors migrated from the Levant Basin into East Africa, and then settled in West Africa.

Moreover, Igbos are organized according to clans. The elders transmit genealogies orally, back to our patriarch Jacob. Indeed, many Igbos descend from Kohanim and Levites. These facts attest to the ancient Israelite origin of the Igbos.


https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a98cbc3b40b9da93f7c5126/t/61f35b8ad59d991291cab3fa/1643338634761/Teshubah-on-Igbo-Israelites.pdf

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a98cbc3b40b9da93f7c5126/t/61f35b8ad59d991291cab3fa/1643338634761/Teshubah-on-Igbo-Israelites.pdf



IGBO ARE DESCENDANTS OF ANCIENT HEBREW.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj27KETQIS0



Jewish Rabbinate rules Igbos are Israelites


Published Feb 16, 2022
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On the 14th day of January 2022 [12 Shebat 5782], the Jewish Rabbinate of the Obadya Alliance [Dayan Jacob de Oliveira, Dayan Eliezer Tabor, Dayan Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota, Rabbi Hananiah Cohen, and Rabbi Haim Ovadia] ruled that the Igbos of Nigeria are descendants of ancient Israelites. According to the Rabbinate, “the presence of Israelites along the Niger River had been known by Jewish authorities in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Lithuania, and Suriname. Rabbinic letters addressed to the Igbos by Chief rabbis: Dr. Solomon Hershel Lewin, David Meldola, and the Gaon of Vilna (Elijan Zalman), support the idea that there was contact between European Jewish communities and Igbo Israelites. All of the correspondence from the aforementioned rabbinic authorities address the Igbos as “brethren of the Children of Israel.” Accordingly, there is no doubt of their origins, nor of their halakhic status as Israelites.”

According to the Rabbinate, while there is yet an exhaustive academic genetic study of the Igbos, the data of the majority of those who have reported their autosomal and y-chromosome DNA, supports that their ancestors migrated from the Levant Basin, sharing genetic links with Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews alike. The Rabbinate noted the fact that rabbinic authorities during the Songhai Empires were aware of Israelites in Igboland, which leads to the logical conclusion that they treated Igbos as Israelites.

The final conclusion of the Obadya Alliance Rabbinate was that “Igbos are to be treated as Israelites, in every sense of the word, and also their priestly and Levite lineages should be upheld as valid.” The Rabbinate advised that upon the return of the Igbos to Omenana (what you do in the Land), they should be circumcised [if they hadn’t performed it already], say the sheheḥeyánu afterwards, and partake in the kola nut ceremony with their brethren, as is customary among Igbos.

https://www.facebook.com/maduewesi/videos/10156803565625909

My personal joy with this ruling is the attention it may draw, which may also trigger more scholars to do more research about Igbos, what the Igbos offered the world in the past, what they are offering the world now, and what they would offer the world in the future. As democracy is under assault, the Igbos are democratic to the core and stand out as the most culturally democratic ethnic entity globally. The world may have a look at the Igbo traditional system of government, which has survived despite many years of British rule and Nigeria’s deliberate marginalization.

It is interesting that the Obadya Rabbinate addressed Igbos as Israelites, not as Jews. They also affirmed Omenana (what you do in the Land) as the authentic original religion of the children of Israel. Dr. James Horton Africanus Beal had, in his 1868 book, West African Countries and Peoples, British and Native: And a Vindication of the African Race, described Igbo religion as Judaism mixed with pagan practices. In another book, The story of the Niger: A record of travel and adventure from the days of Mungo Park to the present time, Published 1888, author Robert Richardson observed, "The religion of the natives is almost pure idolatry; but some slight traces of Judaism may be discovered in it - a circumstance which seems to indicate that some stray wanderers of the Hebrew race must long ago have found their way to these regions, and in the gradual course of time become assimilated to the natives both in appearance and customs, leavening the races around them, however, with a few of their own ideas."

With this validation of Omenana as Israelite religion, Jewish and Igbo scholars should come together to fill in the gaps created by years of exile between Omenana in Africa, and Judaism in Europe. With Omenana poised to go mainstream, this learning process between Jews and Igbos would be invaluable for both groups, as they compare notes, as there could well be traces of Christianity in both modern Judaism and modern Omenana.

The Igbo Osu practice (Nethinim), which is rooted in Omenana has been both obdurate and pertinacious to modern Igbo society. These were temple servitors known from the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles. Scholars are divided as to whether they were actually slaves or property of the Temple. While Ezra 8:20 says that they had been set apart by David “to attend the Levites,” 1Chronicles 9:1-2 describes them simply as servitors like the Levites. To the Igbo, Nethinim or Osu are a "caste" that should not intermarry with free-born Igbo. Unfortunately, despite 200 years of Christianity in Igboland, with the creed “There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28), the Osu still suffer discrimination.

In Talmudic times the Nethinim were put on a level with bastards, and their descendants, male and female, were interdicted from marriage with Israelites for all time (Yeb. ii. 4, viii. 3); this is said to have been established by David (Yeb. 78b) or by Ezra (Num. R. viii.). Nethinim were allowed to marry only proselytes, freedmen, bastards, and foundlings (Ḳid. viii. 3). In tables of precedence they are reckoned very low, coming after bastards in Yer. Hor. iii. 5 and Yer. Yeb., viii. 5. The Igbos may learn how to solve the Osu problem from the Jews. Since Christianity did not solve this problem, maybe Judaism will.

For someone who has worked on this subject for decades, digesting this ruling and its ground-shattering significance would be like peeling the multiple layers of an onion, with tears in your eyes. The most significant, in my opinion, is that the genocide against the Igbos between 1968 and 1970 would now be addressed as genocide against Israelites, highlighting the shared destiny of both Jews and Igbos as descendants of one father, Jacob, whom God renamed Israel.

The Igbos have suffered more genocide, perennial massacres, ethnic cleansing, discrimination, and marginalization in Nigeria. Igbos are perceived as a market-dominant minority, a resented “outsider” ethnic group. In a White House memo dated Tuesday, January 28, 1969, to President Nixon, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger described the Igbos as “the wandering Jews of West Africa, gifted, aggressive, westernized, at best envied and resented, but mostly despised by their neighbors in the federation.” Just as the world was called upon to answer the Jewish Question, the world has neglected to even entertain the Igbo Question. My hope is that this ruling may draw global attention thereto.

The ruling was signed by Dr. Dayan Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota, who has a Master’s degree in Anthropology and Religious Studies from Florida International University, and a PhD in International Law from the University of Amsterdam.

You may find the original copy of the ruling here - Obadyah: Igbos Are Israelites



Yeah I'm pretty much convinced
https://www./jewish-rabbinate-rules-igbos-israelites-eugene-emeka-maduewesi-ll-m-

Jewish Rabbinical court ruled that Igbos are descendants of ancient Israelites.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj27KETQIS0

FAILURE SPEAKING!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb3CUSUf8-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb3CUSUf8-g




NICE TRACK

IF YOU GO TO YOUR VILLAGE, THE NEXT HOUSE IS USUALLY YOUR RELATIVE OR BROTHER.


THAT IS HOW IGBOS AND ALL THE TRIBES IN SS LIVE NEXT TO EACH OTHER FROM EDO TO CROSS RIVER.


I SEE THEM AS FAMILY AND BROTHER BECAUSE THEY WILL ALWAYS BE NEXT DOOR.

garfield1:
1) IJAWS: they number about 5-7 million and are found mainly in bayelsa,rivers, delta and some pockets in Edo,akwa ibom and ondo

2) IBIBIOS: they dominate akwa ibom state and are found in the three senatorial zones of the state.they have a large settler population in cross river and rivers.they number about.2.7 million

3) IGBOS: they are principally present or indigenous to delta and rivers state.to avoid confusion and controversy,I won't count Ikwerre as igbos since majority don't identify as such but I'll count other riverians like etche,omuma,oyigbo,parts of onelga,opobo nkoro,ahoada as Igbo.they number about 2.3 million.

4) URHOBOS: they dominate delta central,parts of warri,parts of sagbama in bayelsa state and number about 2.2.

5) BINIS: they dominate Edo south although some ijaws are found in a few numbers around ovia.they number about 1.5 million

6) ANNANG; they are found in 8 local governments of akwa ibom state and share similar culture with the IBIBIOS,efiks and orons.they number close to 1.4 million

7) OGONI: they are found in four lgas of rivers state and number almost a million.

IkWERRE: they predominate 4 lgas in rivers and number about 800,000.

9) ESAN/ISHAN; they occupy five lgas of Edo central and number about 800,000k

10) EJAGHAM: this tribe is found in Nigeria and cameroun.speaking of Nigeria,they are majorly in cross river south and central numbering close to 700k.


Notable mentions include the orons,itsekiri,isoko,ekoi, etsakor and Efiks


Mynd44
Nplfmod
Fergie001
Casualobserver
Coolambience
Mymouth
Efewestern
Cajal
Helinues
Ekpeitit

THERE IS NO SOUTHSOUTH WITHOUT IGBOS.


THE IDEA OF SOUTHSOUTH CAME FROM SIR ALEX EKWUEME.



THE GLUE HOLDING THE SS TOGETHER IS THE IGBO.

IGBO IS BY FAR THE SINGLE LARGEST GROUP THERE AND ALSO THE RICHEST IN TERM OF LANDED OIL IN RIVERS STATE, DELTA STATE.


THE IGBO SHARE BOUNDARY, BORDER, CULTURE, FOOD, LIFESTYLE AND FAMILY BLOODLINE WITH ALL THE VARIOUS GROUP IN SS.


INDIGENIOUS IGBO IS FOUND IN ALL SS STATES, FROM CROSS RIVER TO EDO STATE.


SS GROUPS ARE OUR KITH AND KIN, ANYBODY TELLING YOU OTHERWISE IS A DUNCE AND LIAR.


SS GROUPS HAVE LIVED BY OUR SIDE AS BROTHERS SINCE THE BEGINING OF TIME AND THEY WILL BE THERE UNTIL THE END OF TIME.


HATE YOUR BROTHER AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE, HE IS STILL YOUR BROTHER.

Efewestern:
If we are to go be the official gazetted groups, then you are a bit correct with your op. But I will argue that the ibibios are more than the Ijaws.

Again, I want you to understand my point of argument. There's a reason people are classified into groups. It isn't to make anyone superior or inferior. I know for a fact that the Akwa Cross region is complex, but these people are from the same stock and speak a language and have a culture that is nearly similar. It is not out of place to group these people as one, same way it's not out of place to group the Urhobos and Isoko as one. When you do that, you are not necessarily exacting the dominance of one over the other, but making it clear to bond that exist between these groups. There's far more what bond the Urhobo/Isoko and Efik/Ibibio/Anang that what actually separates them.

LOL


SPOKEN LIKE A DUNCE.


U LIVE NEXT TO THE IGBOS SINCE TIME IMMEMORIAL, YET MORE BOND U TO EFIK AND IBIBIO ON THE CAMEROON BORDER, WHOM U NEVER KNEW EXISTED OR SHARE CONECTION UNTIL NIGERIA HAPPENED.



U ARE IN DELTA STATE, THEY ARE IN CROSS RIVER, WHAT IS YOUR CONNECTION?


WE STILL HAVE A WHOLE BAYELSA AND RIVERS STATE, PLUS PARTS OF DELTA STATE TO CROSS.

CLAP FOR YOURSELF

IFEANYI UBAH WILL NEVER BE ANAMBRA GOVERNOR.


DR MADUKA IS FAVOURITE AFTER SOLUDO,

BOKO ARMY

saphiere:
We Igbos are not like that o.

Too much Nollywood is affecting her brain or she is just a tribal biggot.

How can u know another man culture more than your own?

NEXT NOLLYWOOD STARS.

FINE BOYZ LIKE THEIR FATHER.

UMUOMA!


ANY MOVIE WITH CHILDREN, THEY MUST SHOW AND GET THAT MONEY.


THEY LOST THEIR BREAD WINNER BUT GOD SI THERE FOR THEM.

NA ALL THIS NONSENSE BELIEF THEM USE START OSU WICKEDNESS PUT FEAR FOR IGBO PEOPLE BODY AND MIND.

THANKFULLY THE YOUNGER GENERATION KNOW SABI THAT NONSENSE.

ALL THOSE DEMON WORSHIPPERS THAT DESTROY BUT CANNOT CREATE.

THEY TOOK JUNIOR POPE TO NATIVE DOCTOR FIRST, WHY HIM NO WAKE AM?


YET THEY ARE THE BASTRAD TELLL US TO BURY BY RIVER AND OSU ETC,


BASTARDS!

THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE ALREADY RUSHED TO BURY THE CORPSE IS VERY SAD.



THE PEOPLE THAT DID SUCH SHOULD ALL BE ARRESTED.


AFRICANS ARE VERY EVIL.


THEY DO DEMONIC THINGS TO DEMONIZE THE AREA AND COUNTRY.


STAND IN LIGHT AND FORSAKE DARKNESS.

LOL


READING COMMENTS HERE, I NOW UNDERSTAND Y TINUBU IS PRESIDENT.


SO, WATER PEOPLE AS U CALL THEM, KILL YOUR FAMILY MEMBER, AS REWARD YOU BURY THE BODY THERE OR PAY 100,000 NAIRA.


IS THAT A REWARD FOR A JOB WELL DONE OR WELFARE PAYMENT FOR LIFE IN THE RIVER?


U PEOPLE ARE MAD.


IBOM GOVERNOR WAS RIGHT.

U CANT GO FORM YOUR OWN COUNTRY, YOUR DEPENDING ON OUR RESOURCES.


BECAUSE OF OIL, ALL OF U WANT TO BE PRESIDENT.



HERDSMAN, PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA.

SS777:
First of all no normal human being out there should have had anything doing whether support or whatever with Ipob ESN.

If I become president of Nigeria,if Ipob and their supporters like to be 10 million, I will crush them cos they don't deserve to live.

BUHARI SAID WORST, WHERE IS HE TODAY?


ARE IGBOS NOT FLOURISHING?


Y WAIT TO BE PRESIDENT?


IGBO ARE NOT PRESIDENT YET DEALING WITH YOU.



U RIFFRAFF THAT FED FAT ON IGBO OIL AND GAS.


HERDSMAN!

Iko5000:
DONALD TRUMP WAS RIGGED OUT OF POWER BY BRITAIN ..... what are you smoking mate

UK MEDIA AND AGENTS INFLUENCE AMERICA.


THEY DO SAME IN NIGERIA

Lord David Cameron has refuted claims he is “interfering” with US politics by visiting Washington DC to urge lawmakers to vote through a package of support for Ukraine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYp4huAB2bA

Krismas:
Basically the Saudi UAE Jordan Israeli alternative trade route to help Israel after the Houthis of Yemen blocked the Red Sea is now ruined and has been blocked by the Islamic Republic of Iran

So now you have the Red Sea blocked by AnsarAllah Houthi Yemen and the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by the Islamic Republic of Iran

Only routes Israel have left to trade with is Air and the Mediterranean Sea

Now if HezbAllah in Lebanon blockade the Mediterranean Sea, Israel will be completely blocked from trading on land and sea COMPLETELY.

THEN EXPECT LEBANON TO RECIEVE THE GAZA TREATMENT.



HAMAS THOUGHT THEY WERE CLEVER TOO.


MIKE TYSON SAID, 'EVERYBODY HAS A GAME PLAN UNTIL THEY GET PUNCHED IN THE FACE.'

WORLD WAR 3 LOADING VERY BADLY.



WHAT CAUSED IT?



DONALD TRUMP WAS RIGGED OUT OF POWER BY BRITAIN AND THE DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR BIDEN.



SIMILAR WAS DONE IN NIGERIA, NAIRA NEARLY REACH 2000 TO 1 DOLLARS.




MUST YOU STEAL THE PEOPLES MANDATE?



YOUR LOSS WAS TO AVERT A DISASTER.



U RIG ENTER AND NOW THE WORLD IS FACING EXTINCTION LEVEL THREAT.



NIGERIANS ALSO FACED EXTINCTION THREAT, WITH EBI KPAMI.

Gentino:
I hope humanity would survive the imminent war between Iran and Israel and their allies.

I TALKED ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY AND THE BASTRAD BELOW STARTED MENTIONING MY FAMILY FOR NO GOOD REASON.



I DONT KNOW IF HE GETS PAID TO QUOTE MY POST.



MUST HE QUOTE MY POST?

ballerman:
na only u and ur family go fight am since u wish for war

ALL LIES!




NOT A SINGLE BODY TO SHOW.




BUT WE ALL SAW OKULOMA INDIGENCE MURDERED BY ARMY.

ALL LIES!

Tellmeastory:
Excellently put.

https://www.mfwa.org/mauritania-continues-crackdown-on-anti-slavery-journalism-and-activism/

NOBODY TALKS ABOUT MAURITANIA?



WHEN WILL THE BLACK AFRICANS BE ALLOWED TO PRODUCE PRESIDENT SINCE THEY MAKE UP 50% OF THE POPULATION?



OH, THEY ARE STILL IN SLAVERY.


YET 1% ARAB IN NIGER REPUBLIC HAVE PRODUCE PRESIDENT IN NIGER REP.


LET ARAB BAZOUM DIE IN PRISON.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FiRQN1xgUY

I LOVE THE HEROES IN NIGER REPUBLIC, MALI AND BURKINA FASO.



THEY HAVE LIBERATED THEIR PEOPLE FROM THEIR OPPRESSORS.


WE CANNOT SAY THE SAME FOR GOWON.



IMAGINE FRANCE BRING RACIST ARAB TO BE PRESIDENT OF NIGER REPBLIC.



IF NOT FOR THE QUICK THINKING OF PRESIDENT TCHIANI, WE MAY NEVER SEE A BLACK PRESIDENT AGAIN IN NIGER REPUBLIC.


BEFOERE YOU KNOW IT, THE ARABS WILL INTRODUCE RACISM AND SLAVERY IN NIGER AS THEY HAVE IN MAURITANIA TILL THIS DAY.




WATCH THOSE WHITES VERY CAREFULLY, WHEREEVER THEY GO RACISM AND SLAVERY FOLLOW AND THEY WILL PLACE THE INDIANS AND ARABS ABOVE YOU AS THEIR PUPPET MASTER.


IT IS ALL ABOUT COLOUR, THE DARKER YOU ARE THE LOWEST DOWN YOU GO.

BYE BYE FRANCE


NIGER IS NOT IVORY COAST.


WE NO GO HEAR GBAGBO TREATMENT AGAIN.



EVERYBODY CANNOT BE GBAGBO.

Librason:
What of Olodumare , Obangiji or Chineke or in
Chinese language...why must it be only YHWH...
What a subjective position.

Emman08

YOUR LANGUAGE IS UNIMPORTANT TO ANCIENT HEBREW.




GOD LANGUAGE

NO PICTURES?



ALL LIES!