Alex Kessel

A proud father of girls. A Jew. A filmmaker🎗️
Bring them home!

[Alex Kessel @AlexanderK59492]

@hadda76656 @IsraMum @shangtsung_exe @DanBilzerian «You don’t have to believe every bullshit you read on the internet”. - Leonardo Da Vinci

“Insane ideas spread with insane books or as a word of mouth can produce truly insane people”. - Yahya Sinwar.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

It’s the Jooz, Hakol Sababa.

Some lil cameos that you might recognise in this one 👀

[Roadside rant @roadsiderant]

Bringing Dalal mughrabi to a concentration camp

[Mia Talias @miatalias]

always 100% successful at being ungrateful and entitled tho

[Mish @Mish_K_]

Never forget. Never forgive.
https://t.co/QlvKtveuyW

[facts about @destinationXIX]

Jews Are Not White. Jews Are Not Colonizers.
Jews Are ... Jews.

And decades of DNA research confirm what history, archaeology, language, religion, and memory already told us.

The entire anti-Zionist framework rests on one central lie: that Jews are “white European colonizers” who stole someone else’s land.

Without this lie, the framework collapses.

So let’s collapse it.

*The Cohen Gene - A 3,000-Year-Old Receipt*

In 1997, geneticists studying Jewish men who identify as Cohanim - the hereditary priestly class - found a distinctive Y-chromosome pattern shared across widely separated Jewish communities.

Cohanim from Europe. Cohanim from North Africa. Cohanim from the Middle East.

Communities separated for centuries, living under different empires, speaking different languages, often with little or no contact - yet preserving the same priestly tradition and related paternal markers pointing back to ancient Middle Eastern ancestry.

Later studies refined this into what became known as the Cohen Modal Haplotype and related J1/J2 paternal lineages.

You do not get that from random converts in Poland.
You do not get that from “white Europeans” inventing a fake past.

You get that from continuity.
A people in exile.
A family that refused to disappear.

*Every Jewish Community on Earth Clusters Together*

In 2010, Dr. Behar and colleagues published a major genome-wide study in Nature: “The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people”.

They compared Jewish diaspora communities against non-Jewish populations from across the world.

The result was exactly what Jewish history predicts: Jews from Iraq cluster with Jews from Europe. Jews from North Africa cluster with Jews from the Middle East. Jewish populations across the diaspora are genetically closer to one another than to the non-Jewish populations among whom they lived.

Ashkenazi Jews are not simply “Polish”.
Mizrahi Jews are not simply “Iraqi".
Sephardi Jews are not simply “Spanish”.
Yemenite Jews are not simply “Yemeni”.
They are Jews.
A distinct people, dispersed across the world, but still genetically connected to one another and to the Middle East.
Ashkenazi Jews, in particular, consistently show Middle Eastern ancestry mixed with later European admixture - exactly what you would expect from an ancient Levantine people that spent centuries in Europe while remaining largely endogamous.

Jews are from Judea.
It is in the name.
It always was.

*The Disease Profile - A Fingerprint That Cannot Be Forged*

If Ashkenazi Jews were simply Europeans, they would look genetically like the European populations around them.

They do not.

Ashkenazi Jews carry certain inherited diseases at rates radically different from surrounding European populations: Tay-Sachs, Gaucher disease, Canavan disease, familial dysautonomia, Niemann-Pick, and others.
That is not what happens when a population simply blends into Europe.

It is what happens when a small exiled people survives for centuries while marrying mostly within itself.

Geneticists have estimated that the Ashkenazi population passed through an extreme founder event - a very small ancestral population that later expanded dramatically.

Not hundreds of thousands of random Europeans.
A small, endogamous Jewish population.
A tribe.
A nation in exile that refused to dissolve.

*“But Ashkenazi Jews Look White!”*

Skin color is not ancestry.
Appearance is not origin.

A small number of genes influence pigmentation. Those traits can shift over generations through climate, geography, and selection. They are the paint job, not the engine.

Ashkenazi Jews spent centuries in Europe. Many became lighter-skinned.
That did not make them European in origin.

The same way the Romani did not stop having South Asian origins because they lived in Europe.
The same way Armenians did not become French because some lived in France.
The same way Jews did not stop being Middle Eastern because they survived in Europe.

*The Khazar Lie*

The claim that Ashkenazi Jews are “really Khazar converts” has been used for decades to sever Jews from Judea.

It is politically useful.
It is not serious science.

In 2013, Behar and colleagues published a direct response: “No Evidence from Genome-Wide Data of a Khazar Origin for the Ashkenazi Jews”.

The title says almost everything.

The Khazar theory survives online because it gives antisemites what they need: a way to say the Jews are fake, Jewish history is fake, and the Jewish connection to Israel is fake.

But the genome-wide data does not say that.

*Now Let’s Talk About Palestinian DNA*

The claim is usually framed like this:

“Palestinians are the indigenous people. Jews are foreign”.

But the DNA tells a much more complicated story - and a much less convenient one.

Serious studies do not show a pure, unchanged Palestinian people existing in the land from antiquity until today.

They too show what history shows: a mixed regional population shaped by conquest, migration, Arabization, conversion, intermarriage, Egyptian and North African input, Arabian tribal input, and broader Levantine ancestry.

That is the history of the region.

The Levant has always been a crossroads. Empires passed through it. Armies settled in it. Tribes migrated into it. Populations converted, mixed, changed language, changed religion, and changed identity.

*Arabs Are From Arabia. It Is in the Name.*

The Arab conquest of the Levant began in the 7th century.

Before that, the population of the region was not “Palestinian Arab”. It included Jews, Samaritans, Aramaic-speaking peoples, Greek-speaking Christians, local pagans, and others.

After the Arab conquest came Arabization.

Local populations gradually adopted Arabic language, Arab identity, and Islam. Some intermarried with Arabian tribes and conquerors. Some converted. Some changed identity over time.

Palestinian Y-chromosome studies (Nebel et al. 2000, 2001) show 30-40% haplogroup J1 - with specific sub-clades (J1-L858) directly linked to Arabian tribal expansion after the 7th century. That's not "ancient Levantine." That's Arabia. Literally.

Jews are from Judea. The "Palestinian" Arabs are from Arabia.

*“Levantine DNA” Does Not Mean “From Israel”*

This is the sleight of hand almost nobody notices.

When geneticists say Palestinians have “Levantine ancestry,” activists translate that into: “'Palestinians' are indigenous to 'Palestine'".

But that is not what “Levantine” means.

The Levant is a broad region. It includes modern Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, parts of Turkey, and surrounding areas.

Having Levantine ancestry does not automatically mean your ancestors came specifically from Jerusalem, Hebron, Jericho, the Galilee, or Judea.

*Palestinians Are Not One Unchanged Ancient People - They Are a Crossroads Population*

Palestinian genetics reflects the history of the land itself: layers of conquest, migration, settlement, conversion, and intermarriage.

Different Palestinian communities show different patterns.

Bedouin populations often show stronger Arabian affinities.

Gaza has historical Egyptian, North African, and sub-Saharan African input.

Northern populations may show stronger links to Syrian and Lebanese populations.

Coastal populations reflect broader Mediterranean history.

That is not what a single pure, unchanged indigenous population looks like.

It is what a crossroads population looks like.

It is history.

And it destroys the simplistic propaganda line that Jews are foreign Europeans while Palestinians are the sole native people of the land.

*“Palestinians Are the Real Jews” - The Most Cynical Lie*

Some activists now claim that Palestinians are actually the descendants of ancient Israelites who never left.

This argument collapses on contact.

The Samaritans make the point clear. They are a tiny surviving Israelite-related community that preserved continuous identity, practice, and connection to the land for thousands of years.

They are not interchangeable with modern Palestinian Arabs.

*The Bottom Line*

For 2,000 years, the world told Jews they did not belong in Europe.
“Go back where you came from.”
So they did.

And now the same world says they do not belong there either.

But they do - because Jews are from Judea.

The DNA says what history says.
What archaeology says.
What language says.
What Jewish prayer says.
What Jewish memory says.
What the name itself says.

A Middle Eastern people with an ancient, continuous, documented connection to the Land of Israel.
The DNA confirms what history already showed.

- Special thanks to Dr. @lhilitte who contributed this scientific review.

[Yisrael official 🕎 @YisraelOfficial]

💕💕💕

Thank you❣️

[Jewish Jess @jessisajew]

The 'religious minority' shit doesn't work with me.

[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

Every day, for years now, someone asks me the same question: "How much are the Israelis paying you?" As if the only explanation for defending Jews and Israel is a paycheck. The idea that I might simply see this conflict differently doesn't compute for them. What I do is, to me, entirely normal. It only looks strange in a world where hating Jews has become the default setting of the crowd, and staying silent, or joining in, is what passes for sanity.

Many are familiar with this photograph from the Lviv pogrom, 1941. Locals — including a child and an adolescent — chase a woman stripped of her clothes, bleeding, terrified, humiliated. The Nazis had spent years demonizing the Jews before this moment. They didn't need to pull the trigger themselves. They just needed to make the target "legitimate," and ordinary people did the rest, voluntarily. Something otherwise suppressed in them came out, and they let it.

On October 7, I woke up to the videos. One of them was of Naama Levy, arms zip-tied behind her back, dragged by her dusty hair out of a black jeep. As she was moved to the front of the car, she looked straight into the camera of the man filming her. The back of her trousers was soaked in blood. I saw the cuts on her arms, her bare feet, and I watched a crowd film her while cursing her, spitting on her, hitting her. I wished I did not have an imagination. I wished I could delete what I'd seen before her mother saw it.

Weeks later, I flew to Israel for the first time, burning every bridge to a world that was celebrating what I'd watched. I went to Ra'anana and met Naama's mother, Ayelet. We made the first post from Israel asking the world to listen, asking the universe to bring her back alive. I promised her that what Hamas did would haunt them in their graves.

Arendt called it the banality of evil, and people needed mental gymnastics to accept what she meant. It's easier to believe monsters do monstrous things than to believe your neighbor might. But human beings are built for both good and evil. What we become is a choice, shaped by the moral compass we build or fail to build.

Just like an ordinary person joins a mob to taunt a scapegoat, an ordinary person is capable of standing against it. For some of us, peer pressure is minuscule in comparison with a nagging conscience.

That's why the photo above matters, still, 85 years later. The Nazis were defeated in Europe but their legacy is rampant in large parts of the Arab world, especially in Palestinian culture. Fused with a dash of communism and a splash of Jihadism, that legacy morphed into global Antizionism.

#October7

[Dana Weinstein @justdanaw]

Die Bemühungen in Großbritannien, Boy George und seinen Song „We will dance again“ zum Schweigen zu bringen.

Schaffen wir es, das Video einmal in die Welt hinauszutragen?

[AP @Average_NY_Guy]

One of the things that makes many people uneasy about Israelis is the very thing that makes them so effective.

Around the world, many people find Israelis loud, overly informal, and sometimes even disrespectful. They question authority, interrupt meetings, argue with their superiors, and rarely care much for ceremony.

But that culture is one of Israel’s greatest strengths.

In many countries, the lower you are in the chain of command, the less chance you have of speaking with the people making the important decisions. That creates a serious problem. The people actually using the equipment, carrying out the missions, and dealing with reality on the ground usually have the best ideas for improving weapons, tactics, and technology. Yet those ideas never make it to the top.

Israel is different.

For some of Israel’s most sensitive targeted operations, the commanders seeking approval from the prime minister would bring along the young operatives who would actually carry out the mission so they could explain it from their own perspective and answer questions directly. In some of those meetings, many of the people presenting the operation were under 30 years old. That’s almost unimaginable in many countries.

You see the same mindset throughout Israel’s defense industry. Many people think military innovations happen in massive glass towers with executive offices on the top floor. In reality, some of Israel’s most important breakthroughs have come from modest offices, trailers, and temporary buildings. The culture is built around solving problems, not appearances.

Even the language reflects it. In Israel, people call one another by their first names, nicknames, and slang, regardless of rank. It reduces the distance between people and makes it much easier for ideas to move upward instead of getting trapped within a hierarchy.

So yes, many people around the world are bothered by Israeli loudness and informality.

That very informality is one of the reasons a country of roughly 10 million people consistently punches far above its weight.

[Kosher @koshercockney]

She is absolutely incredible.

A must watch.

Ariel Or: "I don’t care about the Oscars.

I care about honest representation of who we are. I care that the world will learn about Sephardic Jews, about Israeli women in combat”

[Alex Kessel @AlexanderK59492]

@piersmorgan "zionists who say appalling things about Palestinians"?
On your show? Give an example.

[Jonathan Sacerdoti @jonsac]

More than six weeks after the Oxford Union promised to publish my June debate speech, the full video is still being withheld — while extracts of their own footage of the debate have appeared elsewhere, heavily edited.

I filmed my own speech with the Union’s knowledge and agreement as an insurance policy and backup. So I’m publishing it myself. They must release the entire debate.

Should the West be suspicious of Islam?