Let us call this what it is: a complete lie, a myth, a political weapon dressed in fabricated ancient religious stories to serve a racist political and colonial ideology. Thousands of people from a remote corner of India are being told they belong to a “lost biblical tribe” and their ancestors were exiled from Palestine over 2700 years ago. And now, “Israel” is bringing them to the occupied Palestinian land as if they are finally “returning home." That’s what happened last month when Israel brought another group of 250 Indian Jews of the so-called “Bnei Menashe” community to Israel, celebrating them as homecoming, while planning to bring all of the community by 2030.
This is not a "homecoming." It is colonialism, dressed in religious costume. There is no evidence, no DNA proof, no historical records, no common language, nothing. Just a controversial belief that is based on a fictional myth. And on this basis, the Israeli government is moving thousands of people to a land that is not theirs, while the real indigenous people, the Palestinians, are being pushed out, killed and erased.
Bringing Jews from India is not the first case. Israel previously did it with a Jewish community in Ethiopia and with others from different parts of the world, who were also brought under the same claim to illegally settle on occupied Palestine, with which they have nothing in common, except for a myth that they are returning after 3,000 years in exile.
