Riddick3001@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAfter decades of struggle in Israel, dozens of African Hebrew Israelites face deportationapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up164arrow-down1external-linkAfter decades of struggle in Israel, dozens of African Hebrew Israelites face deportationapnews.comRiddick3001@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square13fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareBernie EcclestonedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoAre these the same Israelites as in the Desmond Dekker song?
minus-squareRiddick3001@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year ago the same Israelites as in the Desmond Dekker song? Needed to checkout the song, I suppose you mean " Israelites "? I saw it was by Rastafarian singers. So there’s definitely a connection. Whether they are the same people is an important question; they seem to consider themselves part of the 12 tribes it seems.
minus-squareBernie EcclestonedlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThat’s the one, people mishear it as ‘my ears are alight’ :)
minus-squareRiddick3001@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago my ears are alight’. Haha… my ears could be better though. I always need to check the lyrics, or I end up making stuff up.
Are these the same Israelites as in the Desmond Dekker song?
Needed to checkout the song, I suppose you mean " Israelites "?
I saw it was by Rastafarian singers. So there’s definitely a connection.
Whether they are the same people is an important question; they seem to consider themselves part of the 12 tribes it seems.
That’s the one, people mishear it as ‘my ears are alight’ :)