OK

Majority of Igbos are CATHOLICAN by religion.

Someone out there would question the viability of such a consideration.

It would be challenging for the Israeli to consider them jews.

Ethiopians and Eritreans have been fighting for similar recognization but without success.

I do not see the Israeli considering them as that would be adding more troubles to their already problematic encounter with the palestinian and other angry arabs in the middle east.

PrinceOfLagos:

I've always shown my love for the igbos but I will never support the separation of any tribe from Nigeria

I say No to Biafra

There will be no Biafra

Your support is inconsequential

Maxymilliano:


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58917825?at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom4=6BB24E24-3001-11EC-A396-8814BECD475E&at_campaign=64&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=facebook_page&at_custom3=BBC+News+Africa

All these IPOB jokers and this terrorist MNK have brought soo much ridicule to great Igbo race

I am an Igbo not a Jew

I dont have any problem with Jews though

Igbo history and culture dated back before the discovery of Jews


The black man though , so stupod

Maxymilliano:


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58917825?at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom4=6BB24E24-3001-11EC-A396-8814BECD475E&at_campaign=64&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=facebook_page&at_custom3=BBC+News+Africa

So they accepted to be stinky Jews, only men wey strong go understand

Maxymilliano:

Case Closed

now you have become a billionaire with that. I pity you

Maxymilliano:


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58917825?at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&at_custom4=6BB24E24-3001-11EC-A396-8814BECD475E&at_campaign=64&at_medium=custom7&at_custom2=facebook_page&at_custom3=BBC+News+Africa

I can't say much here, cos I barely know anything about this connection. But can BBC explain why over 300 Igbo words manage to connect to the Jewish language. As in...a whole 300. Not just the words, the names too.

LadyExcellency:
BBC should stop fabricating lies by hiding them in their so-called useless articles.

How is Igbo population 35,000,000 worldwide? They should have just said 5 million people. Evil media empire.

The British media always errs on the side of fact-based and provable statistics. They are not like IPOBians whose whole existence is predicated on making outlandish claims no one can prove.

Like "Igbos own 105% of the properties in Lagos" or "Igbos are 80% of the population of Lagos" and "Nnewi has more dollar billionaire than California". "Obi Cubana is worth 30 billion dollars".

Hope you get it now? Not many behave like you IPOBians because not many are insecure enough to be obsessed 24/7 with making wild claims just to measure up.

Arda1000:
dumbo it's from British broadcasting commission not from any Isreal report infact most Isreali accept Igbo Jews Rabbis and they teach without abuse in different synagogues in Tel Aviv and other Isreal cities

In the eyes of Britain being British-Nigerian is just ordinary paper. When it comes to real deal your British-Nigerianness is inconsequential.
I am not surprised when it comes to BBC and UK. They are the most evil people of the white race. Racist and terrorists

Big time embarrassment..

SlyDev:
The igbos have 0.0000% Jew DNA - Isreal Jewish association

Fulani and Yoruba have more Jewish DNA than the tribe shouting yeshua upadan

True!

Arda1000:
bro am not Jew am Igbo,the Igbo who are Jewish I can't deny them their origin same to any black Jew

Stop wasting your time answering this illiterates that just won't research before talking.
Their thoughts are inconsequential

od501:


I can't say much here, cos I barely know anything about this connection. But can BBC explain why over 300 Igbo words manage to connect to the Jewish language. As in...a whole 300. Not just the words, the names too.

Guy are you blind? Anything surpasses DNA evidence? Even Deontay Wilder knows he is originally from the area of Nigeria that is now Edo State. Next minute you lot will claim you are intelligent.

Abeg case closed. Just accept this is another case of Igbos trying to attach by force to something they are not part of simply to deny and reject what they are.

Several years ago controversial efforts were made to prove a genetic lineage, but a DNA test found no Jewish connection.

Rabbi Eliezer Simcha Weisz, chairman of the foreign affairs department of the Rabbinate Council of Israel - the body that determines claims of Jewish ancestry, is also in no doubt.

"They claim to be one of the descendants of Gad, one of the sons of our forefather Jacob - but they can't prove their grandparents were Jewish," he told the BBC.

Interesting. Most of the Jews living in Israel today from Europe are converts to Judaism from Khazaria (The 13th Tribe) near Turkey centuries ago and not the Middle East.
Igbo Jews should just practice their religion as best they can and be good with self and God. Forget this acceptance stuff from an 1948 created aparthied country.

The Nigerian civil war caused a lot of inferiority complex for Igbos. From a proud, successful tribes, the Igbos started doing attaché by force to the extent of claiming to be Jews, something that even a dullard should know is total nonsense.

This is so embarrassing.
A look at the headline alone is downgrading.....damn!!

1Sharon:


Being Jewish is a religion AND an ethnicty.
These people are not just practising Judaism which anyone can do, but are claiming to have Jewish ancestry. That's the problem.

You cannot convert to an ethnicity.

This is purely based on sentimental affinity. Igbos are just embarrassingly dripping with emotions. And it is a form of self-debasement.

An educated group who cant lean on any archeological or biological link to Jews want to hang their claims solely on culture but the people who speak their language in port Harcourt, delta and have their culture are fake Igbos.

No one is stopping the Igbos from having their own country but the present map of Biafra can never happen.
Take the few Core Igbo state and start your own country but not the Niger Delta and Benin.

BigSarah:
It's a huge blunder to claim all Igbos are Jews, only a miniscule population from the Nri/Eri hamlet claims so..

This article is filled with so much vile, coming from the British no surprise here

Did you actually read the article? I'm asking sincerely.

Because if you did, you'll see that it was specific and did not generalise like you're claiming. They even gave specific figures which are obviously a minuscule population like you said.

Ok good for them but I stand my ground till forever that despite that I'm from the East originally but sorry I'm not Jew and will never key in to that claim unless any of the misguided brainwash people can show me in the Bible or any Jews book where Nigeria as country or Orlu, Abraka, Owerri, Onitsha etc were mentioned then fine by me but if not to hell with that shit. If Ethiopia, Sudan, Eritrea can be mentioned in bible or Jewish book boldly and clearly so how come no SE village or town mentioned, who omitted it, we offended God

Young man carry on in your quest may God help you.

Jews my a s s!!!

Only one tribe in Nigeria I mean just one tribe has been the one forcefully want to be Jews by fire by force even Fulani refusd Fouja Jalon claimed but only my own people keep vomiting the Jewish thrash.

I repeat Jew my A S S!!!

Grayoso:


Guy are you blind? Anything surpasses DNA evidence? Even Deontay Wilder knows he is originally from the area of Nigeria that is now Edo State. Next minute you lot will claim you are intelligent.

Abeg case closed. Just accept this is another case of Igbos trying to attach by force to something they are not part of simply to deny and reject what they are.

I for call you dumb, but I have better things to do this morning. And if have noticed, you are yet to answer my question: "how come over 300 words in Igbo means 'exactly' same thing in Jewish language?" And not just the words, the names too. If you don't have answers to these, please don't quote me.

I'm blind and you are woke abi? Illusion of wisdom.

Igbos are an embarrassment and they are shameless about it.

FakeUnity:
Just like Christianity, if anyone Igbo, yoruba, fulani, Ibibio decides to practice Judaism, why is that a problem for anyone?

DNA or no DNA, religious freedom is recognised nationally countrywide and internationally. Did yoruba muslims share the same DNA with mohammadu pbuh before they became muslims? Why all the fuse by BBC?

Another dumbo airhead....the conversation is not about the religion (Judaism) it's about Jewish heritage you this bloody attache by force illiterate. Lol.

daddytime:
It is well...

Laslas "we" are almost all Middle Easterners by religion. Isn't that amazing?

Where is our African traditional religion?

IDOL WORSHIPING?

einsteine:
The Nigerian civil war caused a lot of inferiority complex for Igbos. From a proud, successful tribes, the Igbos started doing attaché by force to the extent of claiming to be Jews, something that even a dullard should know is total nonsense.

100% correct. Tragic to witness really. DNA denying Igbos is really a disgrace. Begging to be accepted by others who then prove exhaustively that you have no familial connection with them.

Imagine going as far as claiming to be descendants of Gad a grandson of the revered Jewish forefather Jacob. Na real wa for Igbos . Real shame.

"They claim to be one of the descendants of Gad, one of the sons of our forefather Jacob - but they can't prove their grandparents were Jewish," he told the BBC.

Igbos are a disgrace to africa

AlexBells:
I'm not surprised at whatever happening in Nigeria, we are all victims of religious imperialism, Alas it is already late, mostly nothing can be done to free the continent of this spiritual slavery, the North would kill and destroy in the name of Islam, The East has it's own fanaticism in Christianity and now Jewish maniac, the west is confused in their parallel of Christianity, Islam and dangerous diabolicals,

I don't know what's happening yet a return to our traditional religion is always marred with inhuman practices, nothing can be done, let the jewish be loaned to Isreal, let the Islamic fundamentalist be loaned to Saudi Arabia, let the Yoruba Muslms be loaned to Saudi and their Christian to Italy, let the remaining Igbo Christians be loaned to Vatican let's know how many of us that is leaving for North Korea or China.

Arizona talking

SlyDev:


Is he from Congo Republic?

Would it shock you if I told you that most Congolese have a higher standard of living than the average Nigerians. And that you can find Nigerians in Congo but never Congolese in Nigeria?

daddytime:
It is well...

Laslas "we" are almost all Middle Easterners by religion. Isn't that amazing?

Where is our African traditional religion?

Do you know ,that in the 80s and 90s,if you are owed money,it will cost you only one kolanut at our deity,and your debtor will look for you all over the world to pay you? But these days,if anyone sees you near the shrine,its now an abomination.All because of Churches.

EILTD:
Jews should practice their religion in peace just like the Christians, Muslims and Animist. But the fact remains

Igbos are not Jews. Rather, the Jews are the offspring of Igbos

Totally agree with you. Igbos were here before Adam