Eating Stolen Palestinian Food in New York
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- In episode 1 of our series on cultural appropriation, @Salem.Barahmeh goes to New York City to explore how Israel and Israeli restaurants are appropriating Palestinian food and presenting it as their own. Salem is joined by knafeh snob and comedian Shatha Yas as they taste these knock offs and end their journey at Tanoreen, the famous Palestinian restaurant in Brooklyn.
Producer: Munir Atalla
DOP: Sanjna Selva
Editors: Hana Elias and Tala Kaddoura
Graphics: Celine Hong
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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.
No they didn’t
I heard they did because it helps with fertility and they wanted to make their whole existence hard
@@eveali3177 Of course. It’s only illegal for Palestinians to forage zaatar so it tells you the reason behind why it’s even illegal in the first place. Besides they want them to buy it from the store so the occupied puts money into occupiers economy.
They went THAT far?? Damn, it's like it's not 2024 but 1824
Yeah, “American” colonizers slaughtered THOUSANDS of bison/buffalo to try to starve indigenous peoples. And enslaved people were constantly “underfed” and “under-clothed” (cuz they raised the food and repaired if not made the clothes) as a means of control. Just like Israel’s blocking food and supplies to Gazans, whose labor they have also previously largely exploited.
slowly realizing the reason I thought I hated falafel is because nobody in my "Israeli" family knows how to cook it
Most based reply, respect 🫡
Hahahaha oh god, I’m a Palestinian and don’t get me wrong I hate you but you can come to Amman and I’ll feed you proper Flafil,
Everybody deserves to eat proper flafil
Urgh, as a Palestinian it infuriates me to see that they steal food and don’t even know how to cook it. You should try going to an authentic and popular arab restaurant. You’ll love it inshallah!
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@@Gibmeprimogemss I tried Palestinian and Levantine foods inclusively, all are good and suit our Kashmiri palate. Greeting from Kashmir.
So by this logic, a Brit can move to India - cook Indian food - but call it British … this defies logic
Jamie Oliver would love that!
the uk's national dish is literally chicken tikka masala!
@@zt_1d45 yes, but that actually _is_ a British recipe, it was obviously inspired by Indian cuisine but it was first created by chefs in Britain, and it’s geared towards British tastes.
@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated Except the man who created it was from Pakistan... talk about colonisation! But you have a point there as it was created in Britain.
@@zt_1d45 originally from Pakistan, sure, but he moved to the UK as a small child, so he was culturally British. And like I said, it was specifically geared towards British tastes.
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 😢😅
No , jewish food is israeli because it is cooked only by jews , falafel is jewish and arab food both , falafel was eaten by syrian, egyptian , lebanease and iraqi and local jews , it became a tradition in israel , the fact it is of arab orgin doesn't make it stolen food, it is egyptian by the way not palestinian lol and there is almost no difference
@ultimatedark5969 As an Egyptian, I'm telling you there's a huge difference! We don't even call it falafel in Egypt, and we don't use chickpeas to make it 😉
@Manar12343 doesn't matter, chickpeas are used for falafel in syria lebanone jordan palestine and iraq , I wonder who stole from who, and I wonder if you want to call jews who remained in the middle east food stealers cause they aint claiming it to be their own dish but just to be a dish of their cuisine , and European jews are the same jews , jews from israel know what knafeh is its palestinian dish , jews from israel make israeli salad and they know it's originally arab but they make it differently using different herbs and adding nuts white greek or israeli safed cheese and adding garlic or just adding different vegetables, it is not jewish invention but it is what it is , israel isn't claiming to be " middle eastern arab like state " but a country for jews who came back home and brought their own foods like hamin and tbit and tzimes kugel and jahnoon and locals can also enjoy it , by the way did you know that palestinians are selling European jewish pastry called " rugalach " which Is common in israel ? Did you know that it's a tradition to make " abbas kun aruz " or rice with tomato and beans and meat but it's a jewish local recipe ?
No… its called a different recipe prepared and cooked differently. People who are not ignorant and clueless understand this as do food manufacturers
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I would like to try jewish original food . All of these food in the video are (arabs /arab jews / ottoman )food .
Arabs food still my favorites and Italian too .
Damn, stole their land, stole their homes, stole their trees... and now their food!
And song also.. did you heard about the famous Palestinian song "ana damı falestini " well they managed to copy it by replacing falestini by yahudi or israheli 🤬🤬
they had nothing thats why and they polish guys not real jews
now they’re also colonizing clothing.
I wonder who tought them how to do it
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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 don’t know how Israelis managed to destroy hummus, but I tried that “Sabra” garbage once and it tasted fizzy, or like it had baking powder in it !! So weird … Hummus should be creamy
@@kamifaye /its more insulting when you learn about the Sabra massacre
@@samnabawy2731 Its even more disgusting that’s it’s literally an !sraeli company
@@samnabawy2731 It's actually called Tsabar צבר, Sabra is the English version as the Hebrew word is difficult to pronounce. The British came up with that as they simply took and adapted the Arabic version. Chill your beans, Saladin....
You do realise that Tsabar/Sabra is industrially made? It's basically like saying Cadbury Cake is worst than cake you get at your local bakery. Of course it is. I get my hummus from the fresh counter at the kibbutz supermarket in Yagur. And of course it's much better.
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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.
It is not Palestinian food and there is not even such a thing as Palestinian they are just regular arabs who lived in the Ottoman Empire the entire region not even 100 years ago was Turk for 1000+ years this is basic history how can people not know this
@@nwbw217 it shows that Israelis can't cook food well. Most of their palates are more suitable to the Northern European palate than the Middle Eastern palate. It's the reality. Even if you go to the moon, Mars, other galaxies and come back again to the earth, still it wouldn't change the reality.
who even told you palestinians are 100% arab dna, except the arabs living in the arabic penincela , other arab countries are not arab by dna but a mixture between arab and the natives as the when the arab expanded they didnt chase out the native population but lived amongst them. and it is palestinian whether you beleive they were there or not. israel didnt exist untill 75 years ago and most of those jew in 1948 were europitan immigrants and i dont reccal them making these dishes in europe. while the history of this dishes goes centuries for the palestinians.@@nwbw217
@@nwbw217 my grandpa is older than israel stfu 😂
looooool stay mad bro. Palestine is here to stay, we've been here for centuries and will always be god willing@@nwbw217
And this colonizer restaurant has a sister restaurant a few doors down called Miriam Street Food- just as disgusting. Excellent video.
Israel has existed uninterrupted for 5000 years until muslims invaded Israel and dozens of other countries only 1000 years ago. So who is the colonizer? Arabs are from the arabian peninsula how did they get in Africa or Israel. It seems you have no clue about history and have inverted reality because Arabs are the colonizers of North Africa and most of the middle east were they did not exist before.
I don’t respect any culture. It’s all appropriated. Where did the Palestinians get their food from? Egypt & Jordan?
Ridiculous!
@@timmusician5060 did they use egypt and jordan's food to erase their cultures too?
But some foods are cultural heritages and have proven track records of beings from certain places - hence cuisine.@@timmusician5060
@@timmusician5060name one polish guy in Poland who ate hummus in 1930
I always correct them: “you mean Palestinian?” Brings me much joy every single time I say this as I walk out of the restaurant.
You just gave them your money...
What you should do is say nothing, but walk out without paying.
@@alhabtoormotors4221 you say this with so much confidence like you know what people are doing! I walk out without ordering, no one’s giving them money!
Lol exactly @@alhabtoormotors4221
This is pure fiction not based in any reality
They didnt 'steal' it, they are just 'occupying' it
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The thing is: Something like shawarma is originally Turkish but Arabs have embraced it and make it the best (and Turks seem to be focused on Doner) so it is more about embracing it rather than being the originator and Israelis can't even do that, they can only make cheap copies.
Eye opener, I did not know so many dishes they have stolen to their name.
Pretty much everything. They steal everything
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Wow the real Palestinian food at the end of the video looked in a league of its own compared to the first restaurant.
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!
oof too bad judaism and israel is over 4,000 years old 🤣🤣🤣
@princessglitterbutt5984 Good point. It's gone from 2000, to 3000 to 4000, but why stop there? Every human race goes back in time. Conundrum is blatantly obvious
lol shows how much you know. 2,000 years ago was when Jews were forced out of the land after living there for thousands of years
Ottoman stands no moral ground in appropriation, therefore turkey either.
where is there a map of ottoman that say the name palastine?? it was not a thing until the late 60s
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.
Exactly. Their culture is the culture of whatever country they came from.
Yea a occupation
one day 🇵🇸 will be free
I would have liked to see you interview the Israeli chefs. I am curious how American chefs justify the apartheid.
denial mostly
@@anarcho-yorpism oh I don't doubt they would but it's important to extend that offer so as to help the viewer formulate their own opinion.
What Apartheid? If you mean the Arab countries who literally ban Jews and Christians from living in their countries or having zero rights for the half dozen that do I would agree with you.
I have family who are Jews from Beirut. I’m willing to admit Palestinian food is better than Israeli but you guys are just straight up haters.
@@isaacperess8852 haters....no just not fans of occupiers.
They have no shame.
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.
At least they were made by desi immigrants. Imagine white dudes just 'claiming' they came up with biryani lmao
The whities can't handle the spices brother.
@@AyazHamidMy grandma made it every Eid. It would be on sight for any of those white guys
As a Pakistani you should know this specific dish was not from Pakistan right?
The constituent parts yes, but not together, that's from Scotland; a diner complained the chicken was dry so the chef made a sauce for it. For this to be equivalent of Israel's culinary theft, we'd have to be claiming ALL Indian food was invented in Britain by British people.
And as for it being the 'national dish' it's not like an official thing, it's just very popular.
Don't take this as me defending colonialism, the Indian food you get here is a pretty bastardised version (although more authentic restaurants exist), but you're getting your facts mixed up and assuming stuff.
You can get curry literally anywhere in the country and we spend like £4bn a year on it, I don't think we're worried about the spices.x
@@somebody700 I know hence the use of the word 'imagine'. I just wanted to highlight how hilarious and petty it is to steal someone's entire culture like the Zionists are doing.
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
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Well now there’s a restaurant called “AYAT” that completely is taking steam in NYC as “Palestinian restaurant “
A great combination of historical insight and humor. Love it!
Dreaming about Knafeh. Haven't had it in ages since I left Jordan. Nothing compares to it.
@wwegames77 I think I might have eaten there! My favourite place was Al-Najmah in my neighbourhood in Bayader. Always loved the knafeh from there.
Is knafeh made in Jordan really Palestinian? Is it theft for Jordanians to call it Jordanian? After all, the video states that knafeh comes from Nablus which is Palestinian?
@@stephenfisher3721 Jordan is full of Palestinians whose families came over as refugees. Literally half the country are Palestinian originally. Almost every knafeh restaurant is owned by Palestinians. Also, Jordanians recognize it as Palestinian in origin unlike Israelis who attempt to claim it as their own.
@@stephenfisher3721 the commenter said he ate it in jordan, therefore the one he ate wasn't palestinian lol . the dish itself still originates in nablus, palestine. this video is pointing out the fact that these are palestinian dishes being relabeled as "israeli", which further erases them as the same thing is happening to the ppl & their land. in the video, the host said the menu labelled knafeh as "syrian"; it's a blatant attempt to credit another arab country rather than the known originator solely to ignore palestine & it's creations.
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!
No, it is more complicated than you think. Modern Israel is a new country developing its cuisine. Many Jews from North Africa came to Israel. Other Israelis saw what these North African Jews were eating and learned from them. Even today, Tunisian Jews in Israel continue to eat couscous as part of their traditional Shabbat meal Friday evenings.
Israelis, especially of North African descent, may eat couscous as you know it. Another product often labeled Israeli couscous outside of Israel is sold which is not couscous at all. "Israeli couscous (ptitim in Hebrew)is toasted pasta in tiny balls, developed in Israel in the 1950s when rice was scarce due to austerity in Israel. Despite its name in English, it is not a type of couscous." (Wikipedia)
Ptitim are also similar to the Berber berkoukes (aka abazine) and the Sardinian fregula, but these, too, unlike ptitim, are rolled and coated products. Source: Wikipedia
Bino Gebso (born in 1952 ) is an Israeli restaurateur known to the public as "Doctor Shakshuka" and the owner of the chain of restaurants by that name. Gebso was born in Jaffa to parents from Tripoli in Libya who immigrated to Israel in the early 1950s , as the third child among six brothers and sisters. When he was a child, his father opened a restaurant in Jaffa called "Tripoli", and in 1963 at the age of 11 he stopped attending school and started working.....he managed his father's restaurant himself, who traveled the world on business trips. ...he established his first restaurant on Beit Eshel Street in Jaffa , specializing in Tripolitan food, and called it "Doctor Shakshuka", after the main dish he specialized in. Within a few years, the place became a favorite of celebrities, and journalists and restaurant critics such as Shaul Ebron and Israel Aharoni told of long lines of diners waiting for a shakshuka dish. The publicity of Gebso and his restaurant gained momentum after he appeared on Dan Shilon 's dinner show on television...
Source: Hebrew Wikipedia
@@stephenfisher3721 no such country as Israhell, it is a colony, colonial project by foreigners from Europe.
Falafel is Egyptian, it comes from ancient Egypt. The word falafel is Coptic for "many beans".
And it spread through out due to the Ottoman Empire. Falafel is now many peoples food. Israel is not apart of that history .
@@rai2423 Real falafel is made from Fava beans like in Egypt. The rest of the middle east uses chickpeas. While both are Egyptian in origin, the Fava bean falafel can only be found in Egypt and taste superior.
@@montu94 I know.
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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.
Pierogies, sauerkraut and borscht is Eastern European food, not Israeli food.
The majority of the Israeli population originated from North Africa and brought their culture with them. Very few even know what saukrat and borscht is.
@@Israkiwi99 lie most of them are european and rest are black and moroocan
Exactly! @@IslenoGutierrez
Approx 45% of Israelies are ashkenazi - they certaily do know what German, Polish and Russian cuisine is as they brought it with them. The Mizrahi's learnt from their Arab Muslim and Christian neighbours, as they didn't live in ghettos in MENA (as the Europeans Jews were regulated to) but as an intrinsic part of the community.@@Israkiwi99
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.
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 😊
There is a weird trend in the United States where chefs are calling their restaurants Israeli but are creating some new fusion cuisine.
Many of the people who eat it now would’ve never ate it a few years ago at an authentic Middle Eastern restaurant. The Israeli label makes it appropriate for them to go there.
wow its almost like isralei food is actually a fusion cuisine inspired by many different cultures and people calling it "appropreated" are idiots. Who knew?
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.
We are talking about Israelis, not Jews. Big difference.
and when they got there were forced to assimilate and erase every component of their identity as Arab Jews to placate the European Jews
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.
You can find falafel everywhere in the middle east but we know where it came from originally. Kabseh is from Saudi Arabia you can find it all over the middle east as well but we know it came from Saudi and the gulf region in general!
From the river to the sea Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
Great work brother! I love this episode!! These are the stories that matters!!
FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸 ❤
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 !!!
Had he not said the name I would’ve thought it was burnt mashed potato over beef 😬 the falafel was soooo dark too 😩 poor 🍅🍅 had zero color too like how does that restaurant keep afloat?!
Mayo knafeh
I have been to 2 Israeli restaurants in the US both served Moroccan food as their own too..
I mean, what do Israhellis have that really belongs to them? lmao.
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Nothing. All is copycat. Fake. No originality.
Jews who come from Arab countries ate these same dishes, though
We aren't talking about Jews but Israel.
@sueszamin over half of Israeli jews come from Arab countries. Yemen, Algeria, Libya, Iran, etc. won't take them back so what do you propose be done with them?
@@DovidM-s4c I am not the one who kicked them out. What do you mean take them back? Tell that to the people who kicked them out. And of course, I want them to live in my country again, I'm from Yemen myself.
Again we aren't against Judaism. We are all Ahl-Al Kitab. We should be friends and live together peacefully like in Palestine before Israel, but I am against Zionism. Unless you think Judaism and Zionism are the same.
No such thing as Israeli cuisine....
not the settler-colonial mukbang lmaoooo
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 😂
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.
First of all arabic cuisines are highly influenced by Persian and Mediterranean cooking or you can say stolen and modified
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. 😂
Which restaurant?
Not to negate you for no real reason, it’s just a personal gripe with the Bay, but the South American and Caribbean representation is dismal. The few restaurants that are there, by and large, are terrible representations of the real thing.
Everything else is solid, though.
@@northwest1760 Caribbean food yes I agree with you on that one. South American food is rare to find although there is a great Peruvian restaurant in Lafayette.
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I want everything they took. My food. My right. My land.
Thanks for your hard work brother. You do something i cant keep going and never give up ALLAHU AKBAR FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
I very much enjoyed the episode Salem! Keep up the amazing work. And I loved the rating symbols 😂
No one is safe they stole pizza, empanadas, couscous and the list is getting long 😂😂😂
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.
I think in this case it is more of Israeli nationalists trying to erase Palestinian identity and right to their country
are u planning to settle in isreal or are u leaving after u get ur master's degree?
@@its_firas. I refuse to take citizenship until there's a joint right of return. So I'm going back to Chicago at the end of May.
@jordanfriedman2739 thanks i appreciate someone who still has a Conscience in todays politics
@@jordanfriedman2739respect 🇵🇸 ❤️ 🕎
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.
lmao do you actually have a disability or are you just rlly supseptable to propaganda. 1. 50% of jews come from the middle east. 2. Israel is located in the middle east and therefore eats the same kinds of foods found in egypt, north affrica, iraq, iran, syria, lebanon, etc. If you honestly believe only one country in the entire middle east doesnt eat middle eastern foods how did you graduate school? 3. The same way jews from europe ate food inspired by europeans and brought it to israel, jews from countries like morrocco and tunisia and yemen brought food from their countries. 4. the sharing of food is not called appropriation its called just called food
Isreailed the stolen land and now they isrealed the Palestinians foods!
As an Asian, I think you overrated israeli salad. The name itself deserves "-3".
Added Tanoreen to my list of spots to visit next time I'm in NYC, and I can look out for places to avoid.
Thanks! Love your work. Keep it going
I can't get over how pale that knafeh looked
how can it be stolen where israel is now used to be all palestine it is the same place just inhabited by your distant relatives through isaaq so its not really stolen because its the same culture plus jordan has falafel does that mean its stolen
As a syrian this makes me sick
Syrians and Palestinians are the exact same thing. The bloodline is the same. Arabs of the Rashidun Caliphate.
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr except in syria we are being slaughtered by bashar al ASSface for saying the word HURREYA
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& ASSad kills his own people but does not dare fire a single bullet at the Israeli occupation
@@CoolhandLukeSkywalkr Europeans and Israelis are the exact same thing. The bloodline comes from the caucuses.
Jewish version style taste much better just like turkish dessert.
This is just heartbreaking 💔
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
no, it’s shared cuisines.
bro the rating system! hahahaha genius
You are just haters keep crying harder😂😂
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.
I am Turkish and let me tell you there is no such thing as “Isreali” food they didn’t live there (if we believe there words) for at least 2000 years most known food of the the Middle East are from the Ottoman era. When Palestinians ruled their OWN land there where Jews but it was PALESTINE!
Yes, many Israelis originally were Arab, but they would never call themselves that and have had that part of their identity erased. They are “mizrahi” now and are some of the most hard right Zionists in Israel.
Definitely not Indian.. and I’m Indian.
@@viys3261 jews were never arab they were jews living in countries that arabs colonized they have always been called mizrahi wich is hebrew for eastern
@@princessglitterbutt5984 No they weren’t called mizrahi lmao. Mizarhim is a word invented by Israel to strip Arab Jews from their history. It’s a recent phenomenon. And Arab just refers to language and culture, they spoke Arabic and were assimilated so they very much were Arab.
You guys need help. The mental kind.
Your work is so so good man, well done
Lmao, "appropriating food". Jewish food comes from every land jews lived in. Since more than half of jews in Israel came from Arab lands, and with 20% of Israel being Arab, naturally there will be Arab influences on the restaurants serving "Israeli food", that is, food common in Israel.
You know how Israelis call what is known as Israeli salad in the west? Arab salad. Coffee with the grinds inside? Turkish coffee. Israelis are not "appropriating" Arab culture, as much as Israeli jews simply are much more similar to Arabs than most seem to realize- and this will only continue the more Europeans jews mix (family wise) with Arab jews inside Israel, and the more Arabs (Christian and Muslim) integrate into Israeli society (Which they already do, most of the popular Israeli Hummus places are in fact Arab owned). Enough with the propaganda and divisiveness.
Mizrahi are Arabs 🥴
was that a rock that hit her shoulder at 2:58?
Isahelli food awouili 😂😂😂 .
Jazakum Allah Khairun! Bilafia! 🎉
Lol. You guys are obsessed. Relax
Appreciate the content you’re putting out!keep going
They just steal everything off these poor people...
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.
Why not let food be a common ground for peace?
Low key this is the best eduatainment food journalism I’ve seen in a very long while
Jelousy has truley no ends and bounds
love these! keep up the great work
I'm sure soon they will claim Chinese food. Say goodbye to Szechuan beef or Hunan chicken.
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.
free palestine!
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.
😂😂😂😂 first they steal the land..
I love the way Shatha's eyes light up at the Pali restaurant, she's beautiful!
It looks like you went to Miriam in NY. They refer to themselves as a globally inspired Middle Eastern restaurant. Nowhere does it say Israeli. Even if it did who cares? Do the Palestinians own falafel or do you take issue with the fact that the chef was born in Israel where over 2 million Arabs call home?
Impressive production! Well done👌
In Berlin same thing
In germany the same story!
They are doing the same thing with the Couscous, calling it Israeli Couscous.
israeli couscous is not couscous it is a pasta dish that was invented in 1950. You have google, next time use it before making such an idiotic comment
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.
Let me make this clear, the Palestinians are those who have been "isolated from the middle east for 2000 years", there is no connection between these americans/europeans zionist you see today and the Jews that was there. Because those Jews looked like Palestinians....Because they were
More than 70 percent of israelis are from arab countries
American jews are mostly from european descent
Do your homework
@@miragalit Around 20% are from Arab countries, and they get treates worse in Isreal. Like when Isreal Euthanized black women, they are known racists
50% od jews have liveing in the middl eeast for the past 2,000 years. Google is free, educate yourself before making idiotic comments.
@@miragalitbut, look at the ground reality. They cook the bad version of Middle Eastern food. The question, why can't they calculate the spice balancedly?
Pizza was mostly unknown in the United States until after WWII except for immigrant communities in such places as New York. Pizza did not reach many places in the United States until the 1960's. How can pizza today be an American food?
Pizza was unknown in parts of Italy until the 60s. And yes, there are distinctly American styles of pizza that you won't get in Italy.
there is pizza in japan too. it is completely unlike any american pizza or italian pizza you've ever had. have you ever even had italian pizza? it is nothing like american pizza. there is a reason why they put the place in front of the name of the food because different places will have different styles obviously. california pizza is different from new york pizza, which is different from chicago pizza. i'm from near buffalo ny home of the buffalo wing, but we also invented chicken wings too. up here we just call them buffalo wings. but now places all over the world serve chicken wings in all sorts of styles, spicy hot, sweet and sour, bbq, jamaican jerk, you name it. the point is by replicating a pizza america and japan weren't trying to systematically erase italian culture.
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.
Perhaps this is why people from neighbouring Arab countries love the Palestinian resistance but aren't too keen on Palestinian people themselves
Middle East is a term invented by Westerners. Palestinians absolutely can claim these foods as their own, as do Lebanese, Syrians, Saudis etc. There are different variations of similar foods. The ridiculous thing is Israelis marketed these foods in Western countries as their own, and a bad copy at that. Israel can’t do this shit in Arab countries because they will be called out. But in the West? Nobody knows and the West loves Israel anyways.
@@TheAlbinoskunk because they hate Israel more than they love the palastinians
@@TheAlbinoskunkI grew up with many middle easterners including Palestinians and no one has ever disliked a Palestinian for being Palestinian. In fact half of Jordan is filled with children of Palestinian refugees. No Egyptian would dislike someone simply for being Palestinian either.
Sickening
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
this video isn't an attack at jewish culture, it's an attack at zionist nationalist settler colonialism. jewish culture has plenty of its own rich culture and history that has nothing to do with the fake historical revisionist propaganda narrative that zionists try to peddle. and also conflating the monotheistic religion of judaism with the nationalist idolism that is zionism is not only logically incoherent but it is also antisemitic and disrespectful to the true followers of the jewish faith.
Blame the certain people then, why you getting mad at the one calling out the food appropriation?
Oh sure the certain “isreali culture” that’s just stolen Palestinian culture?? And then how they are committing genocide and trying to wipe out the Palestinians from their own home land???
Theres was already a distance when they started raping and killing and detaining Palestinians, you comment is very ignorant.
this isn't the same as "neighboring countries sharing dishes back and forth"... israel is on stolen palestinian land & as such it is a settler colonial nation. same reason why "american" foods like tacos & burgers are actually mexican & german respectively. both america & israel don't entirely have 1 national identity as they're mainly comprised of settlers from around the world. this video showed that none of these are truly "israeli" foods with explanations behind it.
Why do we not find Palestinian humous on the shelves of American grocery stores?
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.
what? 😭
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The Italian dessert, Connafi (often called Kunafeh by Arabs), was created by a Chinese-Italian named Li Wei in the city of Rome in 1892. Palestinians stole this dish to help Hitler in WW2 feed his troops in the Middle East. They henceforth created 'Kunafeh' as a version of Connafi with anti-Semetic characteristics. For example, it includes pork.
Pass the hash man
@@konstantinosdragasespalaio4178 I just wanted to defend an Italian dish from cultural appropriation.
wow wtf did i just read 😂😂😂
@@mikkza Exactly. I am tired of Palestinians appropriating a dish of the Chinese-Italian community.
@mikkza Also why do Muslims eat pork?
they have zero culture on their own (or rather it's imported from poland, hungary etc) so you can't _really_ blame them 🤷♂🤷♂
But did you CONDEMN the hummus!?