The most important takeaway I tried to express in this video is that this Jewish community in Djerba is Tunisian first. They are Tunisians who practice Judaism.
@20CamelsEmily so Was that your goal? Why not showing Jerba muslims first? Why not showing the amazigh people of guellela and sediouekech for example? Why not showing the people of houmt souk ? Westeners think that we are stupid.... but you're getting good at gathering Intel 😉
@@AdamH-jb6li Hi Adam, there are other videos coming about the non-Jewish parts of Djerba, but since this is a minority community that a lot of people from around the world don't know about, I decided to make a video specifically about them. If you want to read into my decision, it's your choice. You know what they say about the intelligence level of people who believe in conspiracy theories... 😉
I've made videos all throughout Tunisia about Muslims: During Ramadan in Bizerte and Tunis, during Mouled on Instagram, about the Islamic Empire history in Spain, the Amazigh population in Douiret & Chenini on Instagram, but you choose to pick out the one video I make about a Jewish community of Tunisians and draw all kinds of conclusions... Haram alik
@@AdamH-jb6li لا يوجد امازيغ في تونس ابدًا كما تقول ! انت أكيد من دول الجوار انت لست تونسي. نحن التونسيين قبصيين قرطاجيين عرب و هناك اقليّة صغيرة جدًا من اليهود...
I really appreciate that your showing how much Tunisia 🇹🇳 is culturally Rich and how people living together peacefully despite the religion differences ❤
@@BennyWithB we created civilisations.. in order to create that u need to embrace all religions and create harmony & bridge of understanding. Theirs differences between a tribe - country - civilisation which not lots of people knows about
It's a very small minority of 800 people , in Jerba there are 200 000 people living, only 800 are Jewish, so yeah they are like non existent and stay in a that neighborhood and don't have contact with other Tunisians, also most of them go to France and israel at a certain age.....
Hello! I am from Zarzis(an hour away from Djerba) and we also have a Jewish community in our city. We live peacefully together and here as we also see in your video they are proud to speak Arabic as well as Hebrew. My grandfather who was a merchant had Jewish friends who even came at his funeral. Hope we keep living peacefully inshaAllah by God's will.🇹🇳🇹🇳 Btw your Arabic is awesome!😊😊😊
@@JaydenAlmeida-h4o Israel is a colonial project created by europeans to steal land by using judaism as a front to do so. Jews exist everywhere doesn't mean they are zio israelis. Notice how these jews live in there own country unlike the colonisers who actively go to palestine to steal and unalive the entire population.
Tunisia has one of the oldest synagogues in the world.the jewish community is an integral part of the tunisian citizens,just as the Christian and orthodox communities.
They were once hundreds of thousands of Jews, Indonesia, and throughout the Middle East, where are they now? They were persecuted, killed and forced to flee, leaving all their possessions. Which are now being sold as tourist souvenirs. The synagogues may be there, but there are barely any Jews.
they were never kicked honey .. they choose to leave for what others told them is the promised land ... why do a lot of jewish people still live in orth africa morocco tunisia and even in other arabic places like in yemen syria ect ? .. dont just say rondom.things to victimize your selfe the who oicked and kiiled you are the one who pretend like they are defending you now .. germany UK france and europ .. muslim and arabic people welcomed you when your were kicked ...
Hi Emily greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 please keep making tunisa videos , love them , ur doing great with the language, I’ve been many times to few different places in tunisa 🇹🇳
*I agree with you 💯 I feel like Tunisia is the most westernized country among the countries of MENA region besides that Tunisia became a secular country in 2022*
I'm from Tunisia , I did DNA test last year and these are my results : 51% North Africa 22% Italian 14% Iberian 8% Ashkenazi Jews 3% Scandinavian 2% Balkan
Myheritage is an is*ah*lli company and it's so politicised like the other "DNA test" companies . You can read about it on the iternet. It's a bullshit !
This was lovely to see. Thank you for covering this Jewish community in Tunisia and especially showing that, as it has been for thousands of years, Jews and Muslims co-existed peacefully side by side. ❤🙏
There were many movement to resettle the jewish community in their ancestral homeland, Zionism is just the first which really succeeded in a larger scale. But there were many before.
@@denisovic4049 It's not their ancestral homeland. Jews have been present in the Levant and North Africa for millennial. The fact that some Polish or Brooklyn folks happened to be also Jewish do not make their dna from the Levant, you indoctrinated European.
We need more humans like Emily much love and respect for you I’m a Palestinian American and I wish we would focus on the similarities that Jews and Arabs have in common 🙏🏼🇵🇸 Just like you have you’re amazing I’m subscribing ‼️
Correct. It's a commandment to place one on the doorpost of your home and nothing about kissing or cleansing but as sign of respect it's common practice to kiss it upon passing one. The inside should be parchment of a kosher animal with chapter of the Bible handwritten by a scribe.
@@tomerhuss we are indigenous tunisians still carrying with us the engraved traditions,language and heritage of our carthaginian,capsian and numedian ancestors displayed everywhere on ancient ruines.If you are an arab immigrant wanting to belong to your ancestors land who migrated to tunisia 1353 years ago then it sounds like a YOU problem
@@tomerhuss im not surprised that youre from these origins given the false info that youre trying to spread about tunisians not being indeginous amazigh just because our ancestors converted to islam lol but look at yourself having the idenitity of a typical european not an eastern or indign jew...telling from your name you are a mixed jew carrying european blood.Real israelite jews remained in Jerusalem untill today even though they were a minority they survived well with their fellow israelites who converted to chrisianity and then to islam later and also mixed with foreign non canaanite tribes such as romans,arabs etc other than that those who are occupying the holly land of jewws ,christians and muslims today are of scattered races claiming to be indeginous but in reality their identity was lost along the way.At least honor your religion which calls for advocating honesty and peace bruhhh
@@tomerhuss the tunisians who lived in tunisia before jews and throughout all of history, are the ones who converted to islam and adopted arabic. so what are you talking about dummy? european jews dont belong in the land of palestine
I think Emily is not praised enough for making all this content about our country tunisia. As a Tunisian Muslim i appreciate your efforts Emily, i enjoyed all your videos, this one included. Don’t bother justify yourself do whatever content you want, it’s your channel, your time. I didn’t had the chance to go to djerba and i always was curious about the jews community there this is why i enjoyed this vlog so much i wished it was a bit longer lol. Also you keep surprising me with your tunisian accent good job 👏🏽
I cried so much while watching this video. As an algerian jew who had to flee his country (in 2021) because there are no jewish communities left and the remaining individuals went into hiding or died.
@@mullahosk585 what a question there is no one left you need a community if your want to extend your jewishness there. He or She cant marry an non jew easily.
C'est facile de refaire l'Histoire et de la tourner à ton avantage...Tu n'as 'fuis' rien du tout. Tu as LIBREMENT choisi d'être français et à l'indépendance en 1962 de l'Algérie du joug colonial génocidaire, vous avez LIBREMENT choisi de suivre les pieds noirs et de quitter l'Algérie. Ceux qui sont restés, ne disent pas qu'on les a obligé à rester, ils sont resté parce que l'Algérie est leur pays.Et n'essaie même pas de faire passer les Algériens pour des raciste antijuifs, Roger Hanin comme il en avait émis le vœu est enterré CHEZ-LUI, à Alger.
You didn't flee, you or your family betrayed your country and sided with the French colonials and after the independence you were not welcome anymore, as all traitors are. So please don't try to depict yourself as the victim here, you aren't
The fish, the hand of Fatima "Khomsa" and the gazelle's horn are usually Carthaginian carvings on the Carthaginian monuments in the Bardo Museum. Because the Carthaginians were pagans and then monotheists, they converted to Christianity and then to Islam. More than 90% of the population of North Africa is of Carthaginian origin, and everything was Arabized with the arrival of Islam.
Don’t worry, I was not scammed. I willingly paid a lot to thank them for allowing me to film inside the synagogue. It’s something I usually do on my travels. Sometimes it’s behind the scenes sometimes it gets caught on camera like in this case.
@@amir1780 First, Tunisian means Carthaginian. Second, there are no Berbers in Tunisia. Third, the word Berber was given by the Romans to the Carthaginians and it is an insult. Finally, the Carthaginian antiquities are in the Bardo Museum. Go and see for yourself.
We aren’t Arab! Would you also call an Assyrian an Arab because many of them in Iraq can also speak Arabic? I saw your pinned comment and it’s clearly has underlying motives, you act as if we’re just a little religious community but you obviously have issues with referring to us an ethnic group. We both know why, as that would open the door to other questions…..
I've been following your page for a while now, and I Love your content but as a local from Djerba, I truly appreciate the effort you put into sharing information about different places. That said, I wanted to address something regarding your This video about Djerba. The incident you referred to as a recent "terrorist attack" was actually not that-it was an internal conflict between officers at the location. Unfortunately, one of them acted out, leading to civilian casualties. Djerba is a special place, rich in history and culture. While it’s known for its Jewish heritage and the famous synagogue, there's so much more to explore here. The island is a melting pot of cultures, with influences from Arab, Amazigh, African, and Mediterranean traditions, making it one of the most fascinating places in Tunisia. It’s also home to 380 mosques and countless other points of interest that showcase its diversity and vibrant history. I understand that topics like this can attract views, but I urge you to double-check such details before sharing them. Your platform has a significant influence, especially on those outside Tunisia, and it's important to represent the place accurately and in its full richness. Big respect and much love!
That's a complete falsehood. The 2002 terrorist attack in front of the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba was committed by a Muslim suicide bomber using a natural gas truck bomb under orders of Al-Qaeda. Nineteen people were killed. It "is" important that people know the facts, and they can easily find them via news sources if they are too young to remember. You can't simply distort history to your liking.
I am tunisian from Sousse, we have also a small jewish community in Sousse and I am very proud of the peace mindset of tunisians muslims or jewish which differs a lot of zionist in israel
@@lvi25 As the Sephardic scholar, David Ramirez has said, Zionism is a copycat version of European imperialism. It has only caused division between two cousin branches that could have lived and worked together for a better world. Zionists call North African Jews, with contempt, 'Arabs'.
@@AzizAmri-r6w "Israel" is a travesty, and Ashkenazis sneeringly call Sephardim and North African Jews 'Arabs' and don't consider them to be real Jews.
@@20CamelsEmily There is catholic church "Cathedral of St Vincent de Paul and St Olivia of Palermo " in Tunis, tunisians there are less because tunisian catholics we are small minority. There are more tunisian protestants,
I understand there are about 30000 christians in Tunisia, 80 percent catholic. There are only aproximately 1500 Jews who live peacefully but are still attacked as in 2023. Why? If it isn't about Jews and only about Israel, why do they want to kill the remaining tiny number of Jews still living there?
As North African native Berber. I would rather go to our ancient Pagan believes then christianity. Thanks Arabs we are Muslims for over 1400 years now and proud North African native.
Emily, I am a big fan of your approach. I remember watching your videos of Lebanon and now these videos of Tunisia are very enlightening and spread a very good message. I like your approach so much that I just subscribed to your channel.
tunisian muslims of jerba are also berbers who speak tamazight not arab but they learned the language ,however there are actual arab jews in yemen after all jews and arabs are both semitic,technically cousins
Thanks for this beautiful video and interview. I'm so glad the Jews & Muslims get along well there. I don't know if they all consider themselves Tunisian first. That may just be the person you met. Some may consider themselves Jews first. Because if they move to another country, they'll still be Tunisian for a generation or two, but Jewish always.
Don't worry hon, they all consider themselves Tunisians and will always remain Tunisian first. There is no Muslim first Tunisian second either, religious beliefs may be different but everyone lives the same way, same traditions same food same schools same language and share ethnic and racial heritage (these are not your imported European Sky*s playing semites), Zionism has no place in Tunisia and that's our recipe for peace. You should try it then you might think everyone can be the same too. ^^
🙏🙏👍👍🪷💐🪴😘Thanks Émilie for this beatifull vidéo. The jews in Tunisia are tunisians before any consideration. They represent one of the most old community in Tunisia , they are in their contry .
It's our education to pray for the country where we reside and it's leaders. We obey the laws of the land in which we live, but having been murdered, tortured and expelled from many countries around the world, we remain one large connected soul scattered around the world doing our best to bring light where ever we may live.
@@denisepaul99 because of what happened to Palestinians many muslims didn't want jews anymore in their countries. Before that there were no problems. So say thanks to the UK
Je trouve qu’ils sont touchants ces juifs qui restent dans leur pays quand d’autres leur tendent les bras avec sans doute de bien meilleures conditions de vie. Ils semblent tunisiens avant tout autre chose même s’ils sont très attachés à leur judéité. Et c’est d’autant plus méritant que leur communauté n’a pas toujours été bien traitée. Beaucoup de respect.
And the Islamists were so kind to them, so why on earth are there only 1500 Jews still there? It's so strange that they didn't appreciate the "hospitality" offered to them. And of course, it was only natural for them to attack the little community of only 1500 Jews (some in Djerba) because look what's happening in Israel. Good thing they are not Zionist and Tunisian first. (for those who don't understand sarcasm, this is an example of it). I wonder if these Jews feel safer outside of their community with the generous hospitality of the Islamists all around to show them their abundant hospitality.
Jews were not persecuted in independant Tunisia and were protected by the secular government of Bourguiba. The growing tensions created by Israel/Arab wars from 1956 to 1973 created some distrust between the Arab nationalist masses and the Arab Jews. But geopolitical tensions were not the only factor of emigration. The majority of Tunisian Jews decided to go to live in France, only a minority settled in Israel. Most choose to emigrate to France because they spoke the language, were familiar with the culture and had economic opportunities in France.
In the same way, almost all Ethiopian Jews emigrated out of Ethiopia, not because Ethiopians would be antisemitic,, but mainly because of economic reasons. People who live in poor countries seek a better future for their family and emigrate if given a chance. Regardless of their religion.
Le mec est connu. J’ai conduit 45 minutes pour trouver sa brique … quand je suis allle à Djerba tout le monde m’a dit va manger une brique dans le quartier juif apparement le resto est la depuis 5 générations un truc du style … tout le pays fait des brique et tout le monde pense que ce mec est le meilleur en brique
You always say it has Tunisian influence for the buildings, but you forgot that it’s Tunisia so for sure it does, and plus, the Jews there are Tunisians themselves, just to correct ✅
@@20CamelsEmily Yes, we know you're learning and your intentions are good, but those remarks of distinction might naturally come across as offensive to us because we're not talking about a diaspora of foreigners here, we're talking about Tunisians who just happen to practice another faith. most of the symbols except for strictly religious jewish symbols can be found everywhere in Tunisia, including the hexagram.
This is really good work, documentary level almost :). I would advise to maybe invest in some quality microphones that you can pin on your tshirts if you intend to do more of these format, it can come in handy for scenes like in the synagog where you can talk quietly but still be clearey heard
@@bena.1037I am watching this video and scrolling through the comments also from Tampa FL. Safe travels - I grew up in Tunis and I love Djerba. Enjoy your trip and Emily great job. 👏🏽
According to the comments. I'm glad that most viewers liked the video and they understood your message about peaceful coexistence in Tunisia. Good job! (and oppotune moment😄)🥰👍🥇
Tunisia 🇹🇳 and the Arab world in general is the main symbol of coexistence in the world . Who hosted the Jews after the holocaust and the Spanish crusades ?? Who protected the Jews and invited them back after taking back jurasalem in Salaheddine era ! We know the difference between Jews as a religion and between zionist occupiers of Palestine
Literally the best channel name ever. Inshallah you amass even more camels! Btw the world's largest camel farm is in Kazakhstan I hope you consider visiting 👌
Arab World? Are you for real? It's equivalent to claiming that Black or Mexican Americans are of English descent. Tunisia is an African nation that has hardly any Arab ancestry. The same applies to Egypt, Libya, Algeria, or Morocco. People also confuse Arabs with 'Arroba,' such as the Desert Gypsies of the southern and eastern parts of Libya. The Jews of N. Africa have more in common with the original inhabitants of the cursed Al-Hijaz (Step Brothers) than any other Arabic speakers outside of that hellhole called Arabia.
do you even knows what does "Arroba" means? and how Tunisian people have no Arab ancestry? you basically deleted a large part of Tunisian cultural identity. Tunisia ,like every other northern African country , has undergone several cultural changes under the rule of the Muslim caliphate which created our culture this day. the only problem here is the French colonization , which affected and changed many aspects of culture but it didn't change our identity as an Arab Muslim , you can look for Tunis 100 years ago which you can see the Arabic features and even the Bedouin Characteristics.
@@pxrkn2054 Yes I do! Arroba (عروبة) is another 'polite' word same as Bedouin for Desert Gypsies. They have no specific origin or race, They came out of India and mixed with anything along the way to where they went. Fact! The family that has been entrusted to look after and guard the (الكعبة) is originally from India. Not one drop of Jewish or Arabic blood. Full bloodied Indian Gypsies. Fact! Very few so-called Arabs along the Gulf to Oman and Masqut are Arabs. That also includes most of Iraq. and most differently almost all Syrians. Where did all the Egyptians go? You and the likes of such would call them Arabic. Don't forget that even Mohmed is doubtfully an Arab when considering how smart he was and how stupid Arabs have proven to be.
I am a Jew and an ex Tunisian. First we are NOT Arab Jews. Arabs never treated us as their own, but as aliens although we were living in Tunisia long before they conquered it. We are Jews and only Jews, Arab is not our ethnicity, but it might be our cultural background. Arab is not our language either, we talked Judeo Arabic that is to colloquial Arab what Yiddish is for German. Second saying that we were and are living together peacefully is a joke. My family is coming from the ghetto of Tunis, so I know about the pogroms we suffered each time the populace was upset. I know about the squalor we were forced to live in till the French established the Protectorate. We remember Batou Sfez who was executed under false charges of blasphemy against their "prophet". My family was forced to leave Tunisia as 99% of its Jews and lost all their belongings. One million Jews were expelled or were forced to leave Islamic countries. They were never considered as refugees by the UN and never received any compensation. Maybe that's why we are not beggars like UNRWA 's flock but members of the middle class in the countries of exile. The Jews from Djerba don't want to leave because they are afraid that the Ghriba (their sanctuary) could be turned into a Mosq. Tunisia became an Islamic dictatorship a few years ago, so whatever they say is not their real feeling, they are afraid. Several terrorist attacks have been thrown against this community. Very soon there will be nobody left. Yet they were some Tunisians who were Righteous Among the Nations who tried to protect us when Nazi Germany occupied Tunisia. Who were the dear friends of my parents, who encouraged us to leave despite their sorrow to never see us again because there was no future for us in the country.
I remember clips of a Tunisian synagogue burning after 7th of October… The comments here praising Tunisia for its tolerance have to overlook a lot, including antisemitic. comments right under this video.
@@llamasontheeastsidein 64. My father was a member of an underground network that tried to help Jews to emigrate. To avoid our escape the power had put a ban on the currency market, so Jews were trapped if they wanted to leave they had to abandon all their belongings. My father who was a jeweller helped to convert some of their assets into gold. But members of the network began to disappear, so he decided to flee alone and we joined him a few months later. His shop with all its contents was seized. He died 2 years later of cancer. And it was under Bourguiba governance, the most benevolent of our dictators.
Tunisia aint Arab. And its jews are genetically berbers like the rest of Tunisia. Just coz they speak darja dont mean they are Arabs(Google dna of Tunisia). I am in cabo verde right now they doeak Portuguese but they aint Portuguese.
I really appreciate your efforts for traveling all the way to the south to document about tunis and our rich and variant culture, glad to have you in tunis especially in la marsa 😅
I just would like to comment about the expression "Arab world": that's not accurate, if not completely false. Historically, Tunisia was part of what was known as the Barbary land, and was inhabited by its indigenous people the Berbers or the Amazigh as they call themselves, and in a certain time in history it was occupied by many nations like the phoenicians and the Romans. Nowadays, the Tunisian people are for the most part of amazigh origin, although they speak the Tunisian dialect, which is a sort of a creole between Arabic and amazigh languages, although there is still a minority of amazigh speaking Tunisians.
There is no colonization, says the quran ! It is written in the Holy Quran that Allah gave the Land of Israel to the Children of Israel and commanded them to dwell in it” (Quran, Surah 5:21) and Arabs have no right to this earth . “And that before the end times He will bring back the Children of Israel to reclaim their Land, gathering them from all the different countries and nations” (Quran, Surah 17:104) Finally, if you are a good Muslim and you follow the Quran, you are forced to admit that the Jewish people have been legally on their land for over 3000 years.
are you seriously trying to interpret the Quran with your tiny brain and narrow knowledge? these verses talk about events that took place 3000 years ago, not about ethiopians, khazars, and all those fake-semites such as yourself the "descendants of israel" as a people of God is a story that ended with the verses [4:155 ..]
There used to be so many Jewish communities in almost all Arab countries but they made sure to make their lives (just like my family´s in Fez, Morocco) miserable. The Jews lived unsafe, under permanent danger and in 1948 they were kicked out of many of those countries. Now they´re complaining that they are in Israel.
NO ;Tunisia was exceptional as it was always safe for jews they wre even protected by muslims from nozzis in the second WW campaign of Tunisia. Many Tunisian jews were blinded by the money and the delusional life that they promised them to have ,only to be in the middlle of a war with people culturally different from them (mostly europeans with nuffin in common) A lot of them chose to settle in france later on as they regretted .One of the them is the famous singer Raoul Journo through his song *Sellemt Ana Fik Ya Bledi* in which he conveys his regrets of fleeing
Liar. the cause of Jewish migration out of Arab homeland was Zionist terrorism and sadly treason by some Jewish communities who joined the criminal Zionists from Europe. and stabbed their homeland in the back.
You know why there aren’t many Jews left in Tunisia? Because they were persecuted, killed and forced into exile, having to leave their homes, their wealth and all their possessions. Just like in the rest of the Muslim world, now tourist buy the possessions, menorah, Torah, Jewish art as souvenirs one visiting the country. Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱🇮🇱
Exactly. So many people love to act like being a Jew in the Arab world was such a wonderful experience. Then they cry and whine about the only Jewish state being established. No more Jizya, no more second class citizenship. Over 2 million Arab Israelis yet only around 27k Jews in the 22 Arab nations. Chew on that
@@slightlyopinionated8107 Um, after Israel’s successful birth as a modern nation-state, Arab countries *punished* Jews in their countries *harshly* with new laws forbidding them from owning property, bank accounts, etc. Many - I believe it was Millions of Jews - fled their countries with only what they could carry. Israel 🇮🇱 launched several rescue missions for Jewish populations trapped in hostile territories that wouldn’t even permit their Jews to leave.
You admit that Jews and Muslims coexisted for centuries, yet you cant identify the event that disrupted that? The disruption began with the colonization of European Jews, accompanied by the ethnic cleansing of a certain Arab population, and further exacerbated by false flag operations, including the 1950-1951 Baghdad bombings and the Lavon Affair
I thought it was a decent job for someone learning about us for the first time. If you don't live it, you're not going to get it all the way. I, for one, was very happy to see a video about a frum community in Tunisia that I didn't know anything about, and it was fascinating. I wouldn't make a big deal about details that nobody but us would know the difference anyway.
To not get demonetized (lose ad revenue). RUclips often demonetizes videos that mention terms like that, because it's easier than going through every video that mentions a terrorist organization, for example, and determining the context of the speech (and advertisers don't want their ads to play during a video that supports Al Qaeda or any other extremist group).
I was there last summer. The Jewish community is 1,500 people. There are other synagogues in Sfax and Tunis. "Jewish" is not a nationality in Tunisia. All the caretakers in the GHriba are Muslim. The problem is with Zionism and its supremacist vioence NOT Judaism.
"problem" is for Arabs and Muslims. We Jews do not have and NEVER had a "problem" with our love and attachment to our indigenous homeland the Land of Israel
2:53 what you mean fusion of tunisian and jewish? They are jewish tunisians ofc they will have tunisian traditions. It’s like saying fusion of christian and tunision or muslim and tunision when referring to tunisian muslims and christians.
I don’t usually see menorahs in Tunisian house design so it was interesting to see an internationally Jewish symbol next to Tunisian design elements. It’s not something I usually see, so I pointed it out. The point is that they’re Tunisians who practice a different religion than Islam
Thank you for clarifying. Many confuse Judaism as an ethnicity, but it is a religion present across various Arab countries. Sadly, the creation of Israel negatively impacted Palestinians first and Arab Jews second. So It’s important to highlight that Arab Jews share the same ethnicity and traditions as Arab Christians, Muslims, and others in the Arab world. Appreciate your videos!
Judaism is an ethnoreligion and you can't actually seperate the two. This is just cultural erasure you're doing with that comment. No Jew will ever agree with you.
i am a great fan of you Emily . You are doing a great work in Tunisia our beautiful country . I recommand that you visit the peninsula of good cape or cap bon . There are a lot of things to discover.Also there are a lot of islets here and there in Tunisia
This video only tries to make Jewish Tunisians less Jewish and merely Tunisians who practice Judaism, because somehow them being Jews first and foremost would be threatening to this woman. She then goes about spreading complete misconceptions about Jewish ethnicity. She honestly knows very, very, very little at all about Jews, and she seems happy to do so for her narrative.
I'm a Tunisian and I stand with Israel because that's the land of the Jews for over 5000 years and palestinians have to get back to live in desert in saudi arabia !
Those jewish aren’t arabs most of them are spanish immigrants and some berbers + tunisians aren’t arabs we are berbers (amazigh) yes we speak arabic but we aren’t arabs
Hello, just wanted to tell that when you asked Moshe about how his life is among Muslims, his answer was not it depends on the person but that he don't see other people as a religion, but as tunisians, what he meant is he IS tunisian first like his Muslim brothers are tunisians first.
Jews are always loyal citizens, but their Jewish identity and nationhood is extremely important to them. Please don't speak for them, because they consider themselves Jews, first and foremost, and are ALSO loyal citizens of their country, and will always uphold the laws of their country.
@@20CamelsEmily Being Jewish first is not a threat. I get you come from a culture that has seen Jews as a threat for a very long time, but it is time to let go.
@@sisik3241 Arabs and Tunisia already claimed it from the local north africans of the time, just like with the clash against the eastern romeians and persian sasanids in the east.
@@sisik3241 no, just reminding people of the minorities that predate Arabs and Islam in much of the Middle East. Armenians, Yazidis, Christians also have a rich history that has been nearly erased due to Islamic and Arab imperialism
@@kukuruku4697 no facts because the imazighen/nort Africans werent all Jewish. We also NEVER mixed with Arabs the way you Jews are trying to make it look. AND lets not sprak about the FACT that when they got kicked put of Spain, who brought the Jews to North Africa? Don't try to educate a Moroccan on our own history ungrateful people
Not just any old prayer in the mezzuzah. Its the Shema. The one all Jews learn as children, the one said by Hasmoneans when going into battle, and uttered by our parents and grandparents on the way to the gas chambers. My favorite prayer.
For those who don’t know: Yom Kippur is a fast day, but the tradition is to eat extra on the day before and have festive meals for two reasons: 1. To prepare for the fast 2. To replace the festive meal that we would eat on a regular holiday.
Les poissons,la main de Fatma,la corne de gazelle est une coutume juive berbère. Car les berbères du Maghreb étaient des païens,ils se sont convertis au judaïsme, ensuite au christianisme puis à l'islam. Plus de 90% de la population nord Africaine a des origines berbères,tout a été arabiser avec l'arrivée de l'islam.
The fish, the hand of Fatima "Khomsa" and the gazelle's horn are usually Carthaginian carvings on the Carthaginian monuments in the Bardo Museum. Because the Carthaginians were pagans and then monotheists, they converted to Christianity and then to Islam. More than 90% of the population of North Africa is of Carthaginian origin, and everything was Arabized with the arrival of Islam.
Don't get it wrong we have nothing versus the" jews" in general in fact many of the jews who lived in north Africa were direct descendants from jews who escaped the Spanish inquisition but your wife ain't Tunisian anymore
Nonsense. These were the Arabs who saved those Jews from yoke of European cruelty and prejudice and the origin of those Jews is from Yemen and not a shit hole called Eastern Europe where the Nazi-Zionists originate from. The Arab tribes were living in those areas of N Africa way before any Jew existed there thus the name Maghreb. You better come up with other propaganda since your ridiculous claim is laughable and frankly very silly.
Well done for your efforts; I visited the south but not Djerba, fell asleep during the journey and woke up in Matmata, 😪I wasn't the one driving, how did it go on your side, you and your colleague?😇
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The most important takeaway I tried to express in this video is that this Jewish community in Djerba is Tunisian first. They are Tunisians who practice Judaism.
@20CamelsEmily so Was that your goal? Why not showing Jerba muslims first? Why not showing the amazigh people of guellela and sediouekech for example? Why not showing the people of houmt souk ? Westeners think that we are stupid.... but you're getting good at gathering Intel 😉
@@AdamH-jb6li Hi Adam, there are other videos coming about the non-Jewish parts of Djerba, but since this is a minority community that a lot of people from around the world don't know about, I decided to make a video specifically about them. If you want to read into my decision, it's your choice. You know what they say about the intelligence level of people who believe in conspiracy theories... 😉
I've made videos all throughout Tunisia about Muslims: During Ramadan in Bizerte and Tunis, during Mouled on Instagram, about the Islamic Empire history in Spain, the Amazigh population in Douiret & Chenini on Instagram, but you choose to pick out the one video I make about a Jewish community of Tunisians and draw all kinds of conclusions... Haram alik
@@AdamH-jb6li لا يوجد امازيغ في تونس ابدًا كما تقول ! انت أكيد من دول الجوار انت لست تونسي. نحن التونسيين قبصيين قرطاجيين عرب و هناك اقليّة صغيرة جدًا من اليهود...
Ok we get that ,what's new
I really appreciate that your showing how much Tunisia 🇹🇳 is culturally Rich and how people living together peacefully despite the religion differences ❤
Religion was never an issue in Tunisia throughout the years
@@khaledjlassi5420 Until Zionism realized that there would never be a nation if Jews stayed in their home countries.
@@khaledjlassi5420 religion was never an issue in any muslim land issues only started with zionism movement
@@BennyWithB we created civilisations.. in order to create that u need to embrace all religions and create harmony & bridge of understanding. Theirs differences between a tribe - country - civilisation which not lots of people knows about
It's a very small minority of 800 people , in Jerba there are 200 000 people living, only 800 are Jewish, so yeah they are like non existent and stay in a that neighborhood and don't have contact with other Tunisians, also most of them go to France and israel at a certain age.....
Hello! I am from Zarzis(an hour away from Djerba) and we also have a Jewish community in our city. We live peacefully together and here as we also see in your video they are proud to speak Arabic as well as Hebrew. My grandfather who was a merchant had Jewish friends who even came at his funeral. Hope we keep living peacefully inshaAllah by God's will.🇹🇳🇹🇳 Btw your Arabic is awesome!😊😊😊
israel is working to make living with muslims impossible .
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So why Gazan can't just live in peace with Israel
I'm sorry, but what you're saying downplays and minimizes the antisemitism and hatred Tunisian Jews do experience from Muslims in Tunisia.
@@JaydenAlmeida-h4o Israel is a colonial project created by europeans to steal land by using judaism as a front to do so. Jews exist everywhere doesn't mean they are zio israelis. Notice how these jews live in there own country unlike the colonisers who actively go to palestine to steal and unalive the entire population.
Tunisia has one of the oldest synagogues in the world.the jewish community is an integral part of the tunisian citizens,just as the Christian and orthodox communities.
la plupart c'est des traitres qui soutiennent israel
They were once hundreds of thousands of Jews, Indonesia, and throughout the Middle East, where are they now? They were persecuted, killed and forced to flee, leaving all their possessions. Which are now being sold as tourist souvenirs. The synagogues may be there, but there are barely any Jews.
not anymore sadly, you're not an integral part of a society when you're a thousand people and the rest of society is bigoted towards you
@HowlingWo1f not really my friend.they are still there...and they have never been persecuted nor killed or forced to flee as you said.
Coheno saljuif leave Tunisians alone
My family was from Libya until they were kicked away in 1945-we have very similar foods to what you ate like Brik which we call Bureka
My step-grandmother used to make bureka for the Jewish holidays. They were Sephardic Jews from Turkey and Greece.
they were never kicked honey .. they choose to leave for what others told them is the promised land ... why do a lot of jewish people still live in orth africa morocco tunisia and even in other arabic places like in yemen syria ect ? .. dont just say rondom.things to victimize your selfe the who oicked and kiiled you are the one who pretend like they are defending you now .. germany UK france and europ .. muslim and arabic people welcomed you when your were kicked ...
Non were kicked out! Your family has gone to other land
Free Palestine
@@lvi25 😂😂😂😂😂
Hi Emily greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪 please keep making tunisa videos , love them , ur doing great with the language, I’ve been many times to few different places in tunisa 🇹🇳
Hi, thank you! 😊 I'm glad you're enjoying them! 🇹🇳❤️🙏🏼
@@20CamelsEmily you are introducing my country a perfect way , good job !
Hi
It's a lie, there are no Jews in Arab world, we are not safe in anywhere except Israel, this is Hamas propaganda
Hey leave Tunisians alone stop trying to get them confused about their identity leave them alone
Am English Jew visted this synagogue which is amazing the feeling there is amazing. Recieved a blessing great experience 11:59
Tunisia is not Saudi. In Saudi Arabia there is not a single church or synagogue. 🕎
*I agree with you 💯 I feel like Tunisia is the most westernized country among the countries of MENA region besides that Tunisia became a secular country in 2022*
I'm from Tunisia , I did DNA test last year and these are my results :
51% North Africa
22% Italian
14% Iberian
8% Ashkenazi Jews
3% Scandinavian
2% Balkan
im also 7% jewish lol and tunisian arab muslim
Myheritage is an israhelli company and all the DNA test company are so politicised.
Read about that on the internet . It's a bullshit !
Myheritage is an is*ah*lli company and it's so politicised like the other "DNA test" companies .
You can read about it on the iternet. It's a bullshit !
Belehi win w b9adeh 3maltou❤❤
@@achrefnabil2463 Bot hedheka za3ma za3ma touns kenet jew, zid 50 sné o5rine w ye7tallouna, ama ahawka y7adhrou fi jomhour
Wow, the synagogue dates back before the fall of Carthage! Amzing. Thanks for the video. Subscribed
Free Palestine
@lvi25 how can you free a country that never existed?
@@JIMMY-THE-JEW-FROM-PHILLY it still exists. Colonizers are there. We'll free it from them
@@lvi25how is this relevant to her comment
And you really believe that BS? Oh, right, you're Jewish; that makes sense.
Tunisian Jews are Tunisians, and our loyalty to Palestine is eternal, and our position on Palestine will not change. We love Palestine very much. 🇹🇳🇵🇸
@@RouraZayani facts 🇹🇳❤️🇵🇸
تسلمي يا تونسية يا أصيلة
as a tunisian jew this is 100% correct
@leena-i4 salam, I hope the rest can follow suit
Tunisia has nothing to do with palestine. Be loyal to tunisia instead
The synagogue is 2500 years old. So the Jews were in Tunisia 1000 years before the Muslims.
1200 years before at least.
The berber was there first so shut up
That synagogue is older than Allah.
Yep, Arabs came as conquerors and colonizers.
Allah = God.
It's not a special name.
This was lovely to see. Thank you for covering this Jewish community in Tunisia and especially showing that, as it has been for thousands of years, Jews and Muslims co-existed peacefully side by side. ❤🙏
@@nikiholland5010 maybe when UNRWA schools are shut down and no more children are taught hate things will change.
Saljuif coheno degage
i hope that everyone recognise the difference between Judaism and Zionism. one is religious the other is political.
90% of jews are zionist...
Zionism is ingrained in Judaism and the jewish ethnicity. This is like i would say the hadj has nothing to do with islam.
There were many movement to resettle the jewish community in their ancestral homeland, Zionism is just the first which really succeeded in a larger scale. But there were many before.
@@denisovic4049 It's not their ancestral homeland. Jews have been present in the Levant and North Africa for millennial. The fact that some Polish or Brooklyn folks happened to be also Jewish do not make their dna from the Levant, you indoctrinated European.
@@denisovic4049and they are all wrong! free palestine 🇵🇸
We need more humans like Emily much love and respect for you I’m a Palestinian American and I wish we would focus on the similarities that Jews and Arabs have in common 🙏🏼🇵🇸 Just like you have you’re amazing I’m subscribing ‼️
Thank you for making this video, am tunisian and am learning something new about the culture in my country with you
A point of correction: the sacred scroll holders mounted on the door frames is called a "Mezuzah" (meh-zuz-ah).
Correct. It's a commandment to place one on the doorpost of your home and nothing about kissing or cleansing but as sign of respect it's common practice to kiss it upon passing one. The inside should be parchment of a kosher animal with chapter of the Bible handwritten by a scribe.
Which I proudly display 🕍, as a non Zionist 🕊️🫂
tunisia is not arab , tunisian muslims are not arabs , tunisian jews are not arabs
They are Arabs. They came from Saudi Arabia 1400 years ago, and everyone there is not indigenous to the land of Tunisia
@@tomerhuss we are indigenous tunisians still carrying with us the engraved traditions,language and heritage of our carthaginian,capsian and numedian ancestors displayed everywhere on ancient ruines.If you are an arab immigrant wanting to belong to your ancestors land who migrated to tunisia 1353 years ago then it sounds like a YOU problem
@@berg9946 I'm an Israeli Jew , the LAnd of Israel is ours since 3000 years
@@tomerhuss im not surprised that youre from these origins given the false info that youre trying to spread about tunisians not being indeginous amazigh just because our ancestors converted to islam lol but look at yourself having the idenitity of a typical european not an eastern or indign jew...telling from your name you are a mixed jew carrying european blood.Real israelite jews remained in Jerusalem untill today even though they were a minority they survived well with their fellow israelites who converted to chrisianity and then to islam later and also mixed with foreign non canaanite tribes such as romans,arabs etc other than that those who are occupying the holly land of jewws ,christians and muslims today are of scattered races claiming to be indeginous but in reality their identity was lost along the way.At least honor your religion which calls for advocating honesty and peace bruhhh
@@tomerhuss the tunisians who lived in tunisia before jews and throughout all of history, are the ones who converted to islam and adopted arabic.
so what are you talking about dummy?
european jews dont belong in the land of palestine
Great video. Learned a lot! Very cool. Thank you.
I think Emily is not praised enough for making all this content about our country tunisia.
As a Tunisian Muslim i appreciate your efforts Emily, i enjoyed all your videos, this one included.
Don’t bother justify yourself do whatever content you want, it’s your channel, your time.
I didn’t had the chance to go to djerba and i always was curious about the jews community there this is why i enjoyed this vlog so much i wished it was a bit longer lol.
Also you keep surprising me with your tunisian accent good job 👏🏽
Who’s our? You’re not even Tunisian. You’re arap. Just because your ancestors colonized Tunisia doesn’t make it your land.
I cried so much while watching this video. As an algerian jew who had to flee his country (in 2021) because there are no jewish communities left and the remaining individuals went into hiding or died.
feel so sry for jew wish it wouldnt happend you feel really connected to this area
Would you ever go back and live there if you felt safe?
@@mullahosk585 what a question there is no one left you need a community if your want to extend your jewishness there. He or She cant marry an non jew easily.
C'est facile de refaire l'Histoire et de la tourner à ton avantage...Tu n'as 'fuis' rien du tout. Tu as LIBREMENT choisi d'être français et à l'indépendance en 1962 de l'Algérie du joug colonial génocidaire, vous avez LIBREMENT choisi de suivre les pieds noirs et de quitter l'Algérie. Ceux qui sont restés, ne disent pas qu'on les a obligé à rester, ils sont resté parce que l'Algérie est leur pays.Et n'essaie même pas de faire passer les Algériens pour des raciste antijuifs, Roger Hanin comme il en avait émis le vœu est enterré CHEZ-LUI, à Alger.
You didn't flee, you or your family betrayed your country and sided with the French colonials and after the independence you were not welcome anymore, as all traitors are. So please don't try to depict yourself as the victim here, you aren't
If I ever get rich I'd like to visit the Jewish communities of the world, including this one!
The fish, the hand of Fatima "Khomsa" and the gazelle's horn are usually Carthaginian carvings on the Carthaginian monuments in the Bardo Museum. Because the Carthaginians were pagans and then monotheists, they converted to Christianity and then to Islam. More than 90% of the population of North Africa is of Carthaginian origin, and everything was Arabized with the arrival of Islam.
Don’t worry, I was not scammed. I willingly paid a lot to thank them for allowing me to film inside the synagogue. It’s something I usually do on my travels. Sometimes it’s behind the scenes sometimes it gets caught on camera like in this case.
No they are of Berber Origin not carthaginian
@@amir1780 First, Tunisian means Carthaginian. Second, there are no Berbers in Tunisia. Third, the word Berber was given by the Romans to the Carthaginians and it is an insult. Finally, the Carthaginian antiquities are in the Bardo Museum. Go and see for yourself.
@TheTruth-mr3ml okay you know nothing about tunisia
@@amir1780 If you reversed, you would have been right
We aren’t Arab! Would you also call an Assyrian an Arab because many of them in Iraq can also speak Arabic? I saw your pinned comment and it’s clearly has underlying motives, you act as if we’re just a little religious community but you obviously have issues with referring to us an ethnic group. We both know why, as that would open the door to other questions…..
The Jewish are our cousins forever ❤
I've been following your page for a while now, and I Love your content but as a local from Djerba, I truly appreciate the effort you put into sharing information about different places. That said, I wanted to address something regarding your This video about Djerba.
The incident you referred to as a recent "terrorist attack" was actually not that-it was an internal conflict between officers at the location. Unfortunately, one of them acted out, leading to civilian casualties.
Djerba is a special place, rich in history and culture. While it’s known for its Jewish heritage and the famous synagogue, there's so much more to explore here. The island is a melting pot of cultures, with influences from Arab, Amazigh, African, and Mediterranean traditions, making it one of the most fascinating places in Tunisia. It’s also home to 380 mosques and countless other points of interest that showcase its diversity and vibrant history.
I understand that topics like this can attract views, but I urge you to double-check such details before sharing them. Your platform has a significant influence, especially on those outside Tunisia, and it's important to represent the place accurately and in its full richness.
Big respect and much love!
That's a complete falsehood. The 2002 terrorist attack in front of the El Ghriba synagogue in Djerba was committed by a Muslim suicide bomber using a natural gas truck bomb under orders of Al-Qaeda. Nineteen people were killed. It "is" important that people know the facts, and they can easily find them via news sources if they are too young to remember. You can't simply distort history to your liking.
I am tunisian from Sousse, we have also a small jewish community in Sousse and I am very proud of the peace mindset of tunisians muslims or jewish which differs a lot of zionist in israel
One of my ancestors, Italo Nunes Vaz, painted Tunisian Muslim communities.
Free Palestine
@@lvi25 As the Sephardic scholar, David Ramirez has said, Zionism is a copycat version of European imperialism.
It has only caused division between two cousin branches that could have lived and worked together for a better world.
Zionists call North African Jews, with contempt, 'Arabs'.
As a Tunisian I love and support Israel forever 🇹🇳💖🇮🇱
@@AzizAmri-r6w "Israel" is a travesty, and Ashkenazis sneeringly call Sephardim and North African Jews 'Arabs' and don't consider them to be real Jews.
Tunisians aren't Arabs
Im from zarzis also we still have jews about 150~ jew also we have a jewish synagogue and a jewish neighberhood and a school
150 spy you mean
@@malektahri5590 get a life.
Very nice video. To let you know, there are tunisian christians as well ❤✝️🇹🇳
I’ve been told! I would love to find a group to spend a traditional Christmas with 🎄✝️
@@20CamelsEmily
There is catholic church "Cathedral of St Vincent de Paul and St Olivia of Palermo " in Tunis, tunisians there are less because tunisian catholics we are small minority.
There are more tunisian protestants,
Thank you! I’ll check it out :)
I understand there are about 30000 christians in Tunisia, 80 percent catholic. There are only aproximately 1500 Jews who live peacefully but are still attacked as in 2023. Why? If it isn't about Jews and only about Israel, why do they want to kill the remaining tiny number of Jews still living there?
As North African native Berber. I would rather go to our ancient Pagan believes then christianity. Thanks Arabs we are Muslims for over 1400 years now and proud North African native.
Hi Emily I am from Palestine and i live in Tunisie 🇹🇳 😍
Hi! ❤️🇵🇸
@@20CamelsEmily welcome to Tunisia 🇹🇳❤️
Thank you 🙏🏼❤️
You are Palestinian 🇵🇸 = you are at home in Tunisia 🇹🇳
For as much as Emily tries to blend in, she refuses to put in any word of support for Gaza under the genocide.
Emily, I am a big fan of your approach. I remember watching your videos of Lebanon and now these videos of Tunisia are very enlightening and spread a very good message. I like your approach so much that I just subscribed to your channel.
All of my Jewish grandparents spoke Arabic BUT Jews are not Arabs although they have adopted the language
living in diaspora fir so many years
What type of Arabic?
We are Arabs Muslims u are not welcome here
Next she’s gonna say Chinese are also araps😂
@@John-pk9rw dude why are you so anti arab
tunisian muslims of jerba are also berbers who speak tamazight not arab but they learned the language ,however there are actual arab jews in yemen
after all jews and arabs are both semitic,technically cousins
Thanks for this beautiful video and interview. I'm so glad the Jews & Muslims get along well there. I don't know if they all consider themselves Tunisian first. That may just be the person you met. Some may consider themselves Jews first. Because if they move to another country, they'll still be Tunisian for a generation or two, but Jewish always.
Don't worry hon, they all consider themselves Tunisians and will always remain Tunisian first. There is no Muslim first Tunisian second either, religious beliefs may be different but everyone lives the same way, same traditions same food same schools same language and share ethnic and racial heritage (these are not your imported European Sky*s playing semites), Zionism has no place in Tunisia and that's our recipe for peace. You should try it then you might think everyone can be the same too. ^^
So glad to see the brotherhood❤❤
❤ I love every moment of this video. Thank you 🙏
🙏🙏👍👍🪷💐🪴😘Thanks Émilie for this beatifull vidéo. The jews in Tunisia are tunisians before any consideration. They represent one of the most old community in Tunisia , they are in their contry .
It's our education to pray for the country where we reside and it's leaders. We obey the laws of the land in which we live, but having been murdered, tortured and expelled from many countries around the world, we remain one large connected soul scattered around the world doing our best to bring light where ever we may live.
Why have most jews left Tunisia?
@@denisepaul99 because of what happened to Palestinians many muslims didn't want jews anymore in their countries. Before that there were no problems. So say thanks to the UK
Je trouve qu’ils sont touchants ces juifs qui restent dans leur pays quand d’autres leur tendent les bras avec sans doute de bien meilleures conditions de vie. Ils semblent tunisiens avant tout autre chose même s’ils sont très attachés à leur judéité. Et c’est d’autant plus méritant que leur communauté n’a pas toujours été bien traitée. Beaucoup de respect.
Very Interesting, So according to your video, In the spawn of 84 years 99k Jews just mysteriously disappeared from Tunisia, i wonder what happened ?
Interesting, isn‘t it? Emily seems to not have been curious about that.
And the Islamists were so kind to them, so why on earth are there only 1500 Jews still there? It's so strange that they didn't appreciate the "hospitality" offered to them. And of course, it was only natural for them to attack the little community of only 1500 Jews (some in Djerba) because look what's happening in Israel. Good thing they are not Zionist and Tunisian first. (for those who don't understand sarcasm, this is an example of it). I wonder if these Jews feel safer outside of their community with the generous hospitality of the Islamists all around to show them their abundant hospitality.
Jews were not persecuted in independant Tunisia and were protected by the secular government of Bourguiba. The growing tensions created by Israel/Arab wars from 1956 to 1973 created some distrust between the Arab nationalist masses and the Arab Jews. But geopolitical tensions were not the only factor of emigration. The majority of Tunisian Jews decided to go to live in France, only a minority settled in Israel. Most choose to emigrate to France because they spoke the language, were familiar with the culture and had economic opportunities in France.
In the same way, almost all Ethiopian Jews emigrated out of Ethiopia, not because Ethiopians would be antisemitic,, but mainly because of economic reasons. People who live in poor countries seek a better future for their family and emigrate if given a chance. Regardless of their religion.
@@buceoApulmon And now, how do you think life is for Jews in France? Safe, secure?
I'm an agnostic tunisian berber and i love all the jews and welcome them in my country ❤❤
yes the same jews that send funds to israel from our country ok
مش بسيف تقولي انك ملحدة نحسك ملي تقولاها موضة
و انت اش حرق شعيرك؟
@@sirine9785 وانت اش حرق طحينك
T7iin soŕem bouk ❤
Tunisians United
For ever
No différence regardless of Faith
Keep secularism to yourself, we are muslim
hereeee
Le mec est connu. J’ai conduit 45 minutes pour trouver sa brique … quand je suis allle à Djerba tout le monde m’a dit va manger une brique dans le quartier juif apparement le resto est la depuis 5 générations un truc du style … tout le pays fait des brique et tout le monde pense que ce mec est le meilleur en brique
What an amazing video.... Thank you!
Excellent video.
You always say it has Tunisian influence for the buildings, but you forgot that it’s Tunisia so for sure it does, and plus, the Jews there are Tunisians themselves, just to correct ✅
Yes, that’s the point I was trying to make. Thanks for clarifying
En France aussi sont des français mais ils envoient leurs enfants tuer les enfants,les femmes et les vieillards gazaouis
@@20CamelsEmily Yes, we know you're learning and your intentions are good, but those remarks of distinction might naturally come across as offensive to us because we're not talking about a diaspora of foreigners here, we're talking about Tunisians who just happen to practice another faith. most of the symbols except for strictly religious jewish symbols can be found everywhere in Tunisia, including the hexagram.
This is really good work, documentary level almost :).
I would advise to maybe invest in some quality microphones that you can pin on your tshirts if you intend to do more of these format, it can come in handy for scenes like in the synagog where you can talk quietly but still be clearey heard
I’ve thought about getting a microphone, but it tends to throw people off. Keeping things low budget make people feel more at ease I’ve noticed
And thank you!! 🙏🏼❤️❤️
Emily, welcome to my hometown, Djerba! You captured it so beautifully-I’m in Tampa, FL and you’ve got me ready to hop on a plane tomorrow! :)
Thank you ❤️🙏🏼 I loved Djerba, it's such a beautiful and unique part of Tunisia. Haha, ijja ijja!
@@20CamelsEmily Hani Jey, haha! It’s incredible how you’ve picked up the Tunisian dialect-hats off to you!
@@bena.1037I am watching this video and scrolling through the comments also from Tampa FL. Safe travels - I grew up in Tunis and I love Djerba. Enjoy your trip and Emily great job. 👏🏽
are you jewish?
Beautiful synagogue - and think about its age. Remarkable.
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The Yom Kippur fast is a 25 (and not 24 as you mentioned) hour fast.
very interesting, thanks for making it
You make Tunisia more beautiful thanx emily❤
According to the comments. I'm glad that most viewers liked the video and they understood your message about peaceful coexistence in Tunisia. Good job! (and oppotune moment😄)🥰👍🥇
Im glad, too! I feel like we need more positive messages about coexistence with so much hate and division in the world right now ❤️
Female jealousy, not hatred😂 I'm sure
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Tunisia 🇹🇳 and the Arab world in general is the main symbol of coexistence in the world . Who hosted the Jews after the holocaust and the Spanish crusades ?? Who protected the Jews and invited them back after taking back jurasalem in Salaheddine era ! We know the difference between Jews as a religion and between zionist occupiers of Palestine
Les tunisiens sont pacifistes ce n'est pas le cas chez les sionistes criminels israéliens en Palestine
In Morocco there are still Jewish communities. It was once much larger, but still very active.
But whappend to those communities in morocco in this day's?
Nobody was talking about you
~2000 people.
@@Jonny10101 they became less and less thanks to American and european jews aggression in middle east
Morocco is just a vassal state to Israel, nothing impressive about having Jewish communities.
Literally the best channel name ever. Inshallah you amass even more camels! Btw the world's largest camel farm is in Kazakhstan I hope you consider visiting 👌
Thank you haha 🥰🐪 I was not aware of the camel farm in Kazakhstan -- It's on my list now! 🐫🇰🇿
Beautiful informative report. Thank you
Arab World? Are you for real? It's equivalent to claiming that Black or Mexican Americans are of English descent.
Tunisia is an African nation that has hardly any Arab ancestry. The same applies to Egypt, Libya, Algeria, or Morocco. People also confuse Arabs with 'Arroba,' such as the Desert Gypsies of the southern and eastern parts of Libya. The Jews of N. Africa have more in common with the original inhabitants of the cursed Al-Hijaz (Step Brothers) than any other Arabic speakers outside of that hellhole called Arabia.
do you even knows what does "Arroba" means? and how Tunisian people have no Arab ancestry?
you basically deleted a large part of Tunisian cultural identity.
Tunisia ,like every other northern African country , has undergone several cultural changes under the rule of the Muslim caliphate which created our culture this day. the only problem here is the French colonization , which affected and changed many aspects of culture but it didn't change our identity as an Arab Muslim , you can look for Tunis 100 years ago which you can see the Arabic features and even the Bedouin Characteristics.
@@pxrkn2054 Yes I do!
Arroba (عروبة) is another 'polite' word same as Bedouin for Desert Gypsies. They have no specific origin or race, They came out of India and mixed with anything along the way to where they went. Fact! The family that has been entrusted to look after and guard the (الكعبة) is originally from India. Not one drop of Jewish or Arabic blood. Full bloodied Indian Gypsies. Fact! Very few so-called Arabs along the Gulf to Oman and Masqut are Arabs. That also includes most of Iraq. and most differently almost all Syrians. Where did all the Egyptians go? You and the likes of such would call them Arabic. Don't forget that even Mohmed is doubtfully an Arab when considering how smart he was and how stupid Arabs have proven to be.
@@pxrkn2054there are no araps in Jerba not is Jerba located in “ar*p world”. It’s in Africa. Stop embarrassing yourself.
I am a Jew and an ex Tunisian.
First we are NOT Arab Jews. Arabs never treated us as their own, but as aliens although we were living in Tunisia long before they conquered it. We are Jews and only Jews, Arab is not our ethnicity, but it might be our cultural background.
Arab is not our language either, we talked Judeo Arabic that is to colloquial Arab what Yiddish is for German.
Second saying that we were and are living together peacefully is a joke. My family is coming from the ghetto of Tunis, so I know about the pogroms we suffered each time the populace was upset. I know about the squalor we were forced to live in till the French established the Protectorate. We remember Batou Sfez who was executed under false charges of blasphemy against their "prophet".
My family was forced to leave Tunisia as 99% of its Jews and lost all their belongings. One million Jews were expelled or were forced to leave Islamic countries. They were never considered as refugees by the UN and never received any compensation. Maybe that's why we are not beggars like UNRWA 's flock but members of the middle class in the countries of exile.
The Jews from Djerba don't want to leave because they are afraid that the Ghriba (their sanctuary) could be turned into a Mosq. Tunisia became an Islamic dictatorship a few years ago, so whatever they say is not their real feeling, they are afraid. Several terrorist attacks have been thrown against this community. Very soon there will be nobody left.
Yet they were some Tunisians who were Righteous Among the Nations who tried to protect us when Nazi Germany occupied Tunisia. Who were the dear friends of my parents, who encouraged us to leave despite their sorrow to never see us again because there was no future for us in the country.
Arrête de chialer le génocidaire ! Le monde vous connaît mtn
I remember clips of a Tunisian synagogue burning after 7th of October…
The comments here praising Tunisia for its tolerance have to overlook a lot, including antisemitic. comments right under this video.
@@Iditsl Thank you for sharing.
@@Iditsl What year did your family leave Tunisia?
@@llamasontheeastsidein 64. My father was a member of an underground network that tried to help Jews to emigrate. To avoid our escape the power had put a ban on the currency market, so Jews were trapped if they wanted to leave they had to abandon all their belongings. My father who was a jeweller helped to convert some of their assets into gold. But members of the network began to disappear, so he decided to flee alone and we joined him a few months later.
His shop with all its contents was seized. He died 2 years later of cancer.
And it was under Bourguiba governance, the most benevolent of our dictators.
very informative & interesting. I was hungry aster your tempting dishes. Thank you
WAW. What a beautiful channel. Love it.
Thank you so much! ❤️🙏🏼
Tunisia aint Arab. And its jews are genetically berbers like the rest of Tunisia. Just coz they speak darja dont mean they are Arabs(Google dna of Tunisia). I am in cabo verde right now they doeak Portuguese but they aint Portuguese.
no, tunisian jews are not genetically tunisian, they have jewish dna from middle east
I really appreciate your efforts for traveling all the way to the south to document about tunis and our rich and variant culture, glad to have you in tunis especially in la marsa 😅
I just would like to comment about the expression "Arab world": that's not accurate, if not completely false. Historically, Tunisia was part of what was known as the Barbary land, and was inhabited by its indigenous people the Berbers or the Amazigh as they call themselves, and in a certain time in history it was occupied by many nations like the phoenicians and the Romans. Nowadays, the Tunisian people are for the most part of amazigh origin, although they speak the Tunisian dialect, which is a sort of a creole between Arabic and amazigh languages, although there is still a minority of amazigh speaking Tunisians.
There is no colonization, says the quran !
It is written in the Holy Quran that Allah gave the Land of Israel to the Children of Israel and commanded them to dwell in it” (Quran, Surah 5:21) and Arabs have no right to this earth .
“And that before the end times He will bring back the Children of Israel to reclaim their Land, gathering them from all the different countries and nations” (Quran, Surah 17:104)
Finally, if you are a good Muslim and you follow the Quran, you are forced to admit that the Jewish people have been legally on their land for over 3000 years.
It's called Palestine 🇵🇸
@ you can’t read, Little boy
Who called it Palestine? The Romans.
are you seriously trying to interpret the Quran with your tiny brain and narrow knowledge?
these verses talk about events that took place 3000 years ago, not about ethiopians, khazars, and all those fake-semites such as yourself
the "descendants of israel" as a people of God is a story that ended with the verses [4:155 ..]
You zionist not jew
There used to be so many Jewish communities in almost all Arab countries but they made sure to make their lives (just like my family´s in Fez, Morocco) miserable. The Jews lived unsafe, under permanent danger and in 1948 they were kicked out of many of those countries. Now they´re complaining that they are in Israel.
NO ;Tunisia was exceptional as it was always safe for jews they wre even protected by muslims from nozzis in the second WW campaign of Tunisia. Many Tunisian jews were blinded by the money and the delusional life that they promised them to have ,only to be in the middlle of a war with people culturally different from them (mostly europeans with nuffin in common) A lot of them chose to settle in france later on as they regretted .One of the them is the famous singer Raoul Journo through his song *Sellemt Ana Fik Ya Bledi* in which he conveys his regrets of fleeing
Then why are there only 1500 Jewish people left out of 100.00 in 1940?
Liar. the cause of Jewish migration out of Arab homeland was Zionist terrorism and sadly treason by some Jewish communities who joined the criminal Zionists from Europe. and stabbed their homeland in the back.
@@medusa4944 the answer above you. Although yeah many arab countries were stupid enough to give away their citizens to Israel.
Arabs didn't kick out js for no reason.
Hi I'm Jew from Israel, amazing, i wouldn't recognize it as a synagogue, not by appearance nor by custom
You know why there aren’t many Jews left in Tunisia? Because they were persecuted, killed and forced into exile, having to leave their homes, their wealth and all their possessions. Just like in the rest of the Muslim world, now tourist buy the possessions, menorah, Torah, Jewish art as souvenirs one visiting the country. Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱🇮🇱
Exactly. So many people love to act like being a Jew in the Arab world was such a wonderful experience. Then they cry and whine about the only Jewish state being established. No more Jizya, no more second class citizenship.
Over 2 million Arab Israelis yet only around 27k Jews in the 22 Arab nations. Chew on that
They were there for thousands of years under Islamic rule and only left in 1948. I wonder what changed in 1948 hmmmm
Palestine 🇵🇸 4 ever
@@slightlyopinionated8107 Um, after Israel’s successful birth as a modern nation-state, Arab countries *punished* Jews in their countries *harshly* with new laws forbidding them from owning property, bank accounts, etc. Many - I believe it was Millions of Jews - fled their countries with only what they could carry. Israel 🇮🇱 launched several rescue missions for Jewish populations trapped in hostile territories that wouldn’t even permit their Jews to leave.
You admit that Jews and Muslims coexisted for centuries, yet you cant identify the event that disrupted that?
The disruption began with the colonization of European Jews, accompanied by the ethnic cleansing of a certain Arab population, and further exacerbated by false flag operations, including the 1950-1951 Baghdad bombings and the Lavon Affair
Greetings from Dublin , I like your content ❤ !
Leave Tunisia alone go get some scotch
No, you light the candle to connect to the soul of one in the upper realms
I loved this. Thank you.
Emily, your information isn’t accurate. You need to do more research before doing a video such as this.
I thought it was a decent job for someone learning about us for the first time. If you don't live it, you're not going to get it all the way. I, for one, was very happy to see a video about a frum community in Tunisia that I didn't know anything about, and it was fascinating. I wouldn't make a big deal about details that nobody but us would know the difference anyway.
Wow Fantastic !! Peace And Love For All Jews And Arabs 🌸🥰👍
Loved this video, thank you!
Why was the name Al Queda bleeped out?
To not get demonetized (lose ad revenue). RUclips often demonetizes videos that mention terms like that, because it's easier than going through every video that mentions a terrorist organization, for example, and determining the context of the speech (and advertisers don't want their ads to play during a video that supports Al Qaeda or any other extremist group).
Shokran great video
I was there last summer. The Jewish community is 1,500 people. There are other synagogues in Sfax and Tunis. "Jewish" is not a nationality in Tunisia. All the caretakers in the GHriba are Muslim. The problem is with Zionism and its supremacist vioence NOT Judaism.
"problem" is for Arabs and Muslims. We Jews do not have and NEVER had a "problem" with our love and attachment to our indigenous homeland the Land of Israel
@philliparieff7862
As a Jews, I am in madness seeing those Jews living in Muslim countries !
@@tomerhuss No wonder why you are excpelled from every country
@@barittos5585it’s a + reason to be in our ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
@@khubza8999 nice try.
The population went from 100,000 to 1500.
So don't blame zionism, because those are not the supremacists.
Congratulation Emily. Your arabic is good.
Thank you for youe videos
2:53 what you mean fusion of tunisian and jewish? They are jewish tunisians ofc they will have tunisian traditions. It’s like saying fusion of christian and tunision or muslim and tunision when referring to tunisian muslims and christians.
I don’t usually see menorahs in Tunisian house design so it was interesting to see an internationally Jewish symbol next to Tunisian design elements. It’s not something I usually see, so I pointed it out. The point is that they’re Tunisians who practice a different religion than Islam
Thank you for clarifying. Many confuse Judaism as an ethnicity, but it is a religion present across various Arab countries.
Sadly, the creation of Israel negatively impacted Palestinians first and Arab Jews second.
So It’s important to highlight that Arab Jews share the same ethnicity and traditions as Arab Christians, Muslims, and others in the Arab world. Appreciate your videos!
100% agree!
@@eliana.s. and yet...there are only 1500 Jews left in Tunisia since 1940....
Judaism is an ethnoreligion and you can't actually seperate the two. This is just cultural erasure you're doing with that comment. No Jew will ever agree with you.
i am a great fan of you Emily . You are doing a great work in Tunisia our beautiful country . I recommand that you visit the peninsula of good cape or cap bon . There are a lot of things to discover.Also there are a lot of islets here and there in Tunisia
This video only tries to make Jewish Tunisians less Jewish and merely Tunisians who practice Judaism, because somehow them being Jews first and foremost would be threatening to this woman. She then goes about spreading complete misconceptions about Jewish ethnicity. She honestly knows very, very, very little at all about Jews, and she seems happy to do so for her narrative.
The joke is that the Arabs still don't love her for doing it.
Ethnicity? Isn't it about following the faith of Judaism, then? People can convert to Judaism, so it can't be heritable.
why are you so quick to get offended lol calm down
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Jews are an Ethnoreligious group, whether you pro Palis like it or not
I'm a Tunisian and I stand with Israel because that's the land of the Jews for over 5000 years and palestinians have to get back to live in desert in saudi arabia !
😂very interesting and beautiful Jewish-Tunisian culture!
Those jewish aren’t arabs most of them are spanish immigrants and some berbers + tunisians aren’t arabs we are berbers (amazigh) yes we speak arabic but we aren’t arabs
Spanish immigrants? They have been there for over 2000 years lol what are you talking about?
Hello, just wanted to tell that when you asked Moshe about how his life is among Muslims, his answer was not it depends on the person but that he don't see other people as a religion, but as tunisians, what he meant is he IS tunisian first like his Muslim brothers are tunisians first.
Yes. He and others in his community are Tunisian first and that’s the most important takeaway
Jews are always loyal citizens, but their Jewish identity and nationhood is extremely important to them.
Please don't speak for them, because they consider themselves Jews, first and foremost, and are ALSO loyal citizens of their country, and will always uphold the laws of their country.
@@20CamelsEmily
Being Jewish first is not a threat. I get you come from a culture that has seen Jews as a threat for a very long time, but it is time to let go.
Jews actually predate Arabs in Tunisian. The land became Arab due to Islamic imperialism and colonialism.
Trying to claim Tunisia next?
@@sisik3241 Arabs and Tunisia already claimed it from the local north africans of the time, just like with the clash against the eastern romeians and persian sasanids in the east.
@sisik3241 just facts
@@sisik3241 no, just reminding people of the minorities that predate Arabs and Islam in much of the Middle East. Armenians, Yazidis, Christians also have a rich history that has been nearly erased due to Islamic and Arab imperialism
@@kukuruku4697 no facts because the imazighen/nort Africans werent all Jewish. We also NEVER mixed with Arabs the way you Jews are trying to make it look. AND lets not sprak about the FACT that when they got kicked put of Spain, who brought the Jews to North Africa? Don't try to educate a Moroccan on our own history ungrateful people
@5:46 Emily Why would you need Candles when you already have Big lights on?
Not just any old prayer in the mezzuzah. Its the Shema. The one all Jews learn as children, the one said by Hasmoneans when going into battle, and uttered by our parents and grandparents on the way to the gas chambers. My favorite prayer.
Yea, I know the Shema, Surah Ikhlas has a lot of similarities to it.
For those who don’t know:
Yom Kippur is a fast day, but the tradition is to eat extra on the day before and have festive meals for two reasons:
1. To prepare for the fast
2. To replace the festive meal that we would eat on a regular holiday.
Peace ✡️☪️✝️
There’s a genocide in Palestine that has been ongoing for 77 years
Every Tunisian, regardless of his religion, knows that:🇹🇳🫶🇵🇸.
Les poissons,la main de Fatma,la corne de gazelle est une coutume juive berbère. Car les berbères du Maghreb étaient des païens,ils se sont convertis au judaïsme, ensuite au christianisme puis à l'islam. Plus de 90% de la population nord Africaine a des origines berbères,tout a été arabiser avec l'arrivée de l'islam.
Tunisians arabized them self, because today they still see them selfs as part of the Arab world.
The fish, the hand of Fatima "Khomsa" and the gazelle's horn are usually Carthaginian carvings on the Carthaginian monuments in the Bardo Museum. Because the Carthaginians were pagans and then monotheists, they converted to Christianity and then to Islam. More than 90% of the population of North Africa is of Carthaginian origin, and everything was Arabized with the arrival of Islam.
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كل واحد عاملي روحو خبير سوسيولوجي ؟
Day of cleansing? I thought they were all selling icecream, jk. Thanks Emily, always enjoy your videos.
You're doing a great Job !!!!
Thank you! 🙏🏼❤️
There was "Emily in Paris" and now "Emily in Tunis" !!! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😅😅
Greetings from Israel, I am married to a Tunisian Jewish woman, very loyal and warm people, the food is outstanding too :D
Lots of love to Israel 🇮🇱 ❤ 🇮🇱 ❤ 🇮🇱
Don't get it wrong we have nothing versus the" jews" in general in fact many of the jews who lived in north Africa were direct descendants from jews who escaped the Spanish inquisition but your wife ain't Tunisian anymore
@@hemafalcon629 Yeah well what i meant is that her roots are from Tunisia
@@MelancholyRhyme Her roots aren’t from Tunisia…her roots are in Judea. Her families diaspora was in Tunisia. Big difference.
@@Channel-ml4qv fair enough
What happened to the Ghazi chap was he in a bar fight ?
The Jewish lived in Tunisia before the Arab Muslim invasion of the 7th century.
Tunisia 🇹🇳is their home 💪
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Israel/Judea is Actually their indigenous Homeland.
اسكت يا britsh berber
@@SinaiJudaismobviously they don’t agree with you. Who do you think you are telling people where they belong.
Nonsense. These were the Arabs who saved those Jews from yoke of European cruelty and prejudice and the origin of those Jews is from Yemen and not a shit hole called Eastern Europe where the Nazi-Zionists originate from. The Arab tribes were living in those areas of N Africa way before any Jew existed there thus the name Maghreb. You better come up with other propaganda since your ridiculous claim is laughable and frankly very silly.
and the tunisians who lived in tunisia before jews, are the ones who converted to islam and adopted arabic.
Love from India😅😂😅😂😅🎉🎉🎉
Mezuzah
Living in peace. Amazing.
Good job❤, I enjoyed this vlog 🇹🇳🌹
Thank you! 😊
Well done for your efforts; I visited the south but not Djerba, fell asleep during the journey and woke up in Matmata, 😪I wasn't the one driving, how did it go on your side, you and your colleague?😇