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'chosen' yes, but by themselves

The problem with this narrative is that the people it claims actually were chosen were still just as big of assholes and behave just like jews. Abraham was told his line would rule other nations, Jacob vs Esau determined that they would rule through trickery rather than strength, and Joseph took over Egypt through trickery, then Moses genocided Egypt and Canaan and told his people that they'd fulfill the promise of Abraham again just like Joseph by taking over other nations through debt slavery.

The videographer claims the jews are exploiting semantics to claim biblical rights that aren’t theirs. But I think the videographer is also playing semantic games. Jews became a byword for all people following a certain religion and not just Judahites. For one thing, the land of the Judahites and the Kingdom of Judah and the roman province of Judea did not have the same borders. Other descendents of the Israelites who were not Judahites may be jews.

But theres a bigger problem than that. The truth is that the bible is not an historically accurate document. The various stories of groups being decendents of biblical characters (Shem, Abraham, Eber, Canaan, Judah) are false. Canaan was settled by many different groups including mesopotamians, syrians, arabians, greeks, hittites. They formed many different tribes called goyim.

Semites are an ethnic category which include mesopotamians and arabians and levantines and assyrians. Its a category that is no longer based on biblical geneology. Persians are not semites.

The people of Canaan worshipped many different gods. They all carried out human sacrifice. They were conquered by somebody who called themselves an israelite or a hebrew and who worshipped Yahweh. None of these people were monotheists, not even the Yahweh worshippers.

Eventually all the groups that were conquered began also to identify themselves as hebrews/israelites. This is a common phenomenon thats happened to Britons and French and Germans. People lose their old ethnic identities. Canaanites (all people who lived in Canaan, not descendents of Canaan) began to call themselves Hebrews or Israelites. They adopted stories which said they were all descended from the same guy. That story is false.

The entire ethnogenesis of the Hebrew/Israelite people described in the bible is false. The exodus never happened. We know it didn’t happen because at the time it was supposed to have happened, Egypt ruled Canaan. You can’t escape the Egyptians by going to Canaan in that period. There was no goyim genocide by Joshua evidenced in the archeological record.

The people who came to worship yahweh descended from many conquered goyim tribes who adopted the state religion. This has been proven through genetic analysis. So the entire conversation about who descended from who is moot. The 13 tribes of israel were probably unrelated tribes which were civilly united.

Furthermore modern Jews are not heavily descended from Judahites. The jewish “diaspora” of the ancient world mixed with many other groups to such an extent that they are no longer native to canaan or the land of Judah. Palestinians are the people most heavily descended from iron age israelites/hebrews. Not modern jews like ashkenazi.

Do jews believe they are only descended from Judahites? I don’t think so. Some of them claim to be Levites for one.

I believe child sacrifice was practiced by all of the Canaanites, including Yahweh worshippers and when it began to fall out of favor as a practice various groups accused their enemies of doing it. These accusations would have persisted long after the practice died out.