The Bar Kochba Revolt (132-136) 

I'm reading it and laughing... and picturing Hadrian spamming legions like it's not even a campaign but a level editor : )

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@@benjolicious I'm guessing he'll cover the Holocaust at some point then

@@vampiregamingyt8754 yes that is likely

Not only had there been many armed Jewish-Roman skirmishes before the Great Revolt that broke out in AD66, but the BK Revolt was not the final Jewish rebellion. If J. Flavius were alive by 132, he would be 95 years of age and therefore unfit to write adequately, on top of the flaw that he could not travel with the Romans to Israel for this purpose even if they agreed to take him along.

How many Germanics were wiped out at the same time?

@@anatolymayburd5205 A lot. But what does that have to do with what happened in Judea...its not a goddamned contest.

@Whatever You're a fool Yikes man

@Michael Anthony bro what?

@Michael Anthony kinda shocked to be honest

It seems likely that most of the Jewish Christians were wiped out by the Romans in this conflict too, or died of the subsequent famine or disease, and their movement never recovered. Only Hellenised/Romanised Christianity remained.

@to be deleted the western wall still stands and everyone knows that passage was written post temple lol

He said in another video that Esther wasn't historical

Yeah, he said Esther was made up to justify some kinds of changes, I can't remember, something about what lines are allowed to be priests or kings, and also that foreigners can marry Jews???. He mentioned it in two videos.

I think it was a regular occurrence to the point it didn't need to be specifically pointed out during those times. If anything, it has become more understood the Chanukah Maccabean "Revolt" was more of a civil war vs the Jewish Hellenists who called on their Seleucid government allies.

I think it was after. A lot of doubt has been cast by historians on the idea that it was prohibited before.

@@SamAronow Jeez this video was so bad. Portraying Hadrian as an evil liar. Discrediting historians you don't like. Making it seem like Hadrian replaced all of the Jewish monuments with Roman monuments and this was one of the causes for Bar Kokhba causing the revolt (meaning this all happened before the revolt, not after). Making it seem like Bar Kokhba was fighting a just war against the Roman war machine. Why was it not mentioned that Hadrian reacted strongly to not only the attacks on Roman garrisons and outposts, Bar Kokhba and his fellow rioters targeting Roman and Greek civilians? Why was it not mentioned that Hadrian placed the vast majority of Roman monuments after the revolt, as a way to punish the jewish rioters that committed so many atrocities against normal Roman and Greek citizens? This is literally the most biased version of this incident that i have ever heard.

@@SamAronow Bar Kokhba and his fellow rioters essentially commit a genocide against the Roman and Greek population in the area. You decide to mention this as "Bar Kokhba and his fellow rioters attacked the Roman army stationed in this area". Sure what you say is true, they did attack the Roman army. But why did you not even make any mentions whatsoever about the genocide committed by jewish people in this area? Absolutely disgusting propaganda is exactly what you are pushing in this channel. i now have to question literally everything you told me that i took as fact. Its probably not fact, you will gloss over the details you don't like and paint an alternative version of events. Sure you aren't lying about any one lines in this video, but the way you frame this entire event as a whole and the way you get the timeline of events wrong is a lie.

@@Hello-ig1px these "roman citizens" are the Roman legions, they are military targets

@@Hello-ig1px the Jews didn't committe a genocide because the only Romans in the area are the legions

He named it officially Palestine But the name existed before Herodotus refer to the region as Palestine

@@miracleyang3048 And it was known as Judea and Shomron before him. So there's that. The philistines were wiped out NOT by the Israelites, but rather by the Assyrians. So this claim that the Phillistines/Palestine existed at the time of the Second Commonwealth is a lie and a device by Romans and later "historians" to separate the Jews from the land and to have erase the historical link to the land, despite the many landlords over it after the Jews were driven off the land and into exile. However, there are quite a few Jewish families that never left and can prove so. The point is, that the term "Palestine" is a misnomer and code as a mean to destroy Jewish connection to the Land.

@@creativewriter3887 I don't know why you guys are so sensitive about the name, the Zionist themselves called it Palestine in their literature yet claimed as a homeland of the Jews,

@@miracleyang3048 It's never referred to a "Palestine" in any of the JEWISH literature .. it's always referred to as Zion or HaAretz. And a name DOES carry with it connotations. I can see it's waste talking to you so.. let it be ended.

@@creativewriter3887 yes, jewish literature, very trusted.

I'm more wondering about how he got there and knew about a place like India

Why did he want to flee so far away? Is there some cult in Kerala dedicated to Bar Kokhba nowadays?

Im watching this video before i watch it, as his videos are funny, but i want to be educated in the truth before i here satire and anecdotal history.

@@og8263 the point of his videos are supposed to be historically inaccurate. They’re supposed to present the history of rome from the extremely biased view of rome

@@SWNerd the best view

Why ain’t you proud? Dudes funny

It's very well-known in the Jewish community- unlike quite a lot of the other things I cover. The holiday of Lag BaOmer has even been retrofitted to commemorate the war (though it probably began later as a memorial for Simon Bar Yochai). By comparison, I didn't find *any* edutainment videos besides my own on the Kitos War. As to the whitewashing of Hadrian's legacy, I'll have more to say about that in the Corrections/Fun Facts video next month.

Anyone heard of Andrei Youschinsky and his friend Manaheim Mendel Bellis? What about Simon of Trent?

Western education doesn't traditionally cover Jewish history. If it did, and did so honestly, it would face tenfold the backlash of CRT

@@scharb What is CRT? What I find most amazing about Jewish history is the learned Rabbinic civilization that flourished during the so-called "Dark Ages" in Europe and the Mediterranean - we were taught nothing of that at school or uni. I think most western academic historians know nothing of it.

@@dianastevenson131 it’s more of a belief now more than ever. CRT is a curriculum that’s taught in school today where in the 1960s when segregation was huge-laws were put into place to equally treat everyone and critical race theory is outdated but people now a days still believe in said curriculum when in fact segregation like in reference to the 60s doesn’t exist today and Blacks, Mexicans, Asians etc are believing whites are still racist to the bone, oppression is among everyone excluding whites, supremacy in the white race, etc when all of the races mentioned and more can literally start a business, get free government incentives at the cost of a persons actual free mind are just a really small amount of free will things you can do in the land of the USA.

I don't know, but synagogues from the later Roman period are full of anthropomorphic art. One in the Jezreel Valley even has an intact mosaic floor showing the zodiac. As with most things, I suspect it depended on your rabbi.

@@SamAronow yeah that's true! Dura Europos was another example I thought of as well. I was curious to see if the Islamic attitudes towards images (and many other beliefs) derived from Second Temple Judaism.

Mate didnt fucking Claudius try to END the persecutions

According to the Talmud, this was a reference to Micah 3:12. It implies to me at least that he was extrapolating from the description of Jerusalem as like a high place in a forest.

I think you'll find that Bar Kochba looks more like Billy Lee. ;)

He looks like shanks from One Piece

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The genocide against Jews in the Holy Land during the First Crusade had so few survivors that it's difficult to get anything more than a rough estimate (50,000 based on those estimated to live in Palestine before and after the war, but even that necessarily includes those who fled to Egypt). The expulsion from Spain actually had very few deaths but is considered an act of cultural genocide as it effectively erased 1/5 of the world's Jewish population at that time and spurred a massive refugee crisis across the region (200,000 converted, with the other 200,000 fleeing).

@@SamAronow Thanks for the answer, love your work :)

You & I have cause for frustration: there's no Rabbinic/Scholarly consensus regarding Foundation-Stone's/Holy-of-Holies' exact location yet the common assumption is Dome of The Rock. My best bet is that tradition of religious Jews venerating the Western wall comes from the now forgotten understanding that directly behind it is where the Holy of Holies was, El Kas fountain. Naked archeologist episodes have me convinced. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_Stone

The Philistines were closer related to Egyptians

@@mysteryjunkie9808 Philistines are a result of Aegean Refugees / Sea Peoples mixing w/those that were there before. Many of these Sea Peoples who settled on Gaza coast did so only after getting their asses kicked hard by the Egyptians as a result of a botched invasion of the Nile Delta. So... not Egyptians, just got slaughtered & permanently repelled by the Egyptians.

no they became jewish your worng they didnt become palastinans

is that so, how do you deduce that ?

And America wasn't part of the Anglo sphere. So ?

Proof "Palastine" wasn't Islamic before Islam? Uh, sure. Proof Arab speaking (pre-Arab writing, Aramaic & Greek script) pagans lived adjacent to & w/in eastern + southern edge of Eretz Israel (&, later, Christian Arabs, 1st being Ghassanids, maybe)? NOPE: the Nabataeans [be it the periods as tribe/buffer kingdom/Trajan province(s)] is proof the outskirts were, indeed, Arab (speaking, not writing).

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@@ee99858 Yes, the name "Palestine" was Hadrian's spiteful middle finger waved in the face of Judaism (&, by extension, all Abrahamic faiths to come) but is immaterial to your 1st comment. The present day territories of the southern Negev, Jordan, perhaps Decapolis (?) & perhaps portions of today's West Bank (?) were DEFINITELY Arab during the time period Sam reviewed in this particular video. Along w/Persia, there are moments in which we must acknowledge that Nabatea exists, bra.

I hope u are joking bro

You would get that idea by watching this incredibly biased video. What this video fails to mention is Bar Kokhba and his fellow radicals started everything by going on a mass genocide against all non-jews in the region. After the genocide that radical and barbaric people of Judea and Jersulaem committed, the radical people than went on to kick out all non-jews from the area. They also began attacking slaughtering all garrisons and outposts in the area. After Hadrian learned of this, he went on to Judea with 14 legions and gave the extremists of Judea and Jersulaem a taste of their own medicine. Hadrian and his legions went on their own rose Roman monuments all throughout modern day israel (this RU-vidr tried to make it seem like this happened before the revolts, which is a lie, it happened after and in response to the genocide commited by Bar Khokba. The Hadrian plundered the land, and then barred all jewish from Jersaleum.

@@Hello-ig1px lmao killing roman legionaries are a genocide now

@@Hello-ig1px Wasn’t Rome the occupier? Why not let them be independent then?

@@moisuomi same reason why Israel just doesn't let Palestine be.

@@prs_81 Well in that case what the Romans did the the Jewish rebels is equal to what the Israelis are doing to Palestinians. I suppose both are based

KJV bible lmao 🤣