Shar Yaqataz Banyamyan-Black Hebrew Israelite

[WINative]

After reviewing the full-length video of the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington D.C. 2019, and the national fallout afterwards with the Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky and Omaha elder Nathan Phillips there's more to it then we know.

The full length video shows a groups of Black Hebrew Islarelites led by Shar Yaqataz Banyamyan insulting Indigenous peoples attending the March and giving his religious rhetoric and arguing with Marchers. What is their agenda concerning Indigenous People?

He later turns his attention on the high school students and incites a confrontation which you see Nathan Phillips enter in what he says an attempt to diffuse. It's a difficult decision and tense situaiton but I think this group and this video deserves a second look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQyBHTTqb38&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0ALfkFXAROsFUJB5jlaE5Y1_XdXISWUus6gDh_UisOgaDjR6UaoJPW-7A

https://www.facebook.com/Warrior4the12Shields

[WINative]

Here's his original source video

https://vimeo.com/312344885

[educatedindian]

Black Israelites largely claim they are the true Israelites, not Jews. This is the first I've heard of them being anti NDN butt it could be they follow the lead of others we've seen.

Quite a few outlets are claiming this "vindicates" the all white MAGA wearing students. Not true at all. Some are even blaming Nathan Phillips. The students still mocked, harassed, shoved him, yelled "Build that wall!"

[WINative]

From watching the video, the Black Hebrew Israelites who belong to the House of Israel in Washington D.C., believe that Native Americans are one of the Lost Tribes of Israel and descendants of Gad. Which if anyone does a casual Google search arer really the Goths, and other Europeans. So they were at the protest to "convert/save" the Native people and have them join their consortium to fit their narrative.

[educatedindian]

From watching the video, the Black Hebrew Israelites who belong to the House of Israel in Washington D.C., believe that Native Americans are one of the Lost Tribes of Israel and descendants of Gad. Which if anyone does a casual Google search arer really the Goths, and other Europeans.

That claim is as bizarre as BHI's. Quite a few historians regard the lost tribes as a myth. The claim that they became Europeans was sometimes the justification for conquest. "We are the chosen ones. America is the City on the Hill."

There are BHI churches in both DC and Baltimore. What's strange is they did not wear their usual outfits that look like extras in a Hollywood Biblical or sword and sandal epic. Haven't fond anything so far on SYB beyond that confrontation. Could be he's not high up in the group at all. They'e had demonstrations in DC before, one notorious one in Chinatown. Usually they show up by the dozens and have elaborate displays like "lynching" a figure of the Virgin Mary. My guess is this was a few of them deciding at the last moment to show up.

[WINative]

I agree with you, and it seems most of their beliefs on Native people are built on fantasy and poor information, such as early books written by American Jews who saw America as a New Promised Land and sought to stake a claim here by associating and imagining the Indigenous people as one of the Lost Tribes of Israel. I am attaching a chart they use from SYB FB page and a informative articles by the Washington Post and SPLC on the group. I still don't know what their overall agenda is with Indigenous people is though?


https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/01/22/who-are-black-israelites-center-viral-standoff-lincoln-memorial/?fbclid=IwAR08Xv0mMvc40-r2Jg7huGSvWawc_jFKKv3IkuaGhxIOsJijER66iwxyY9w&utm_term=.463b8575cb83


https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2008/racist-black-hebrew-israelites-becoming-more-militant?fbclid=IwAR0A37zX-2LfHTZ-YwVN607PYOVrFnUKdLGu3MSpMvN-KvuTEMFYcBBw-z0

[Sparks]

For historical background, this 2016 article looks good to me:

https://forward.com/news/347996/who-are-the-hebrew-israelites/

(Shar Yaqataz Banyamyan is not mentioned here, though.)

[wolfhawaii]

Long time since I have been on here; is this the group that hit the news recently regarding the Covington High School kids and Nathan Standard/Phillips?

[WINative]

Yes, and the one's mentioned in DC are from the 1 West Camp originally, but now called the House of Israel NY and DC, and they have hundreds of videos on YouTube of them confronting passerby's on streets corners.

[wolfhawaii]

Thank you Win; it seems the Black Hebrew Israelites were shouting some racial and other verbal abuse at the Covington kids as they waited at the Lincoln Memorial for their bus. Some were wearing MAGA hats and using their school spirit song to try to not have to hear the abuse, then Nathan Stanard/Phillips and associates walked up to the kids and started singing the AIM song in one boy's face, which was then spun by the media as a bunch of racist kids surrounding a Native elder Vietnam war hero. As it turns out, Nathan Phillips never served in Vietnam, as documented by Don Shipley, a retired Navy Seal who obtained Phillips' record of service (DD 214.) It is sad that racism is being inflamed by the weaponized media.

[WINative]

Sorry Wolfhawaii, this post was Not made to question a Native elders background, experience, or motives. You won't get much support for that here. This post was to question the motives and agenda of the Black Hebrew Israelites concerning Indigenous people and Native Americans. Are they friend or foe?

[Defend the Sacred]

The racist white kids blocked the marchers. Uncle Nate was trying to diffuse the escalating confrontation between two extremist groups who were going at one another, and both of which were harassing Natives. Earlier the white boys were harassing women, as well. For his peacemaking attempts Nate got ganged up on by both sides. We will not put up with him being denigrated here.

[wolfhawaii]

Fact checking media spin is not denigrating a Native Elder. Falsely claiming combat service does not help the image of Native Americans. Racist blacks who claim they are Israelites are not good allies for indigenous Americans.

[Defend the Sacred]

No one said the Black Israelites were allies. They were shouting appalling stuff, and we've been outing their agenda here for years now. It's not Nate's fault that the reporting has been sloppy.

[educatedindian]

Thank you Win; it seems the Black Hebrew Israelites were shouting some racial and other verbal abuse at the Covington kids as they waited at the Lincoln Memorial for their bus. Some were wearing MAGA hats and using their school spirit song to try to not have to hear the abuse, then Nathan Stanard/Phillips and associates walked up to the kids and started singing the AIM song in one boy's face, which was then spun by the media as a bunch of racist kids surrounding a Native elder Vietnam war hero. As it turns out, Nathan Phillips never served in Vietnam, as documented by Don Shipley, a retired Navy Seal who obtained Phillips' record of service (DD 214.) It is sad that racism is being inflamed by the weaponized media.

This thread is in danger of being derailed. Any more and we'll split it off, leaving it solely about the BHI.

It's a shame you've fallen for the massive spin campaign put out by an expensive PR firm working for an elite racist school. The mob of racist teens mocked him, shoved him, blocked his path and threatened him, drowned out his honor song with racist taunts of "Build that wall!" They confronted the BHI at the direction of their chaperones and had been taunting and threatening people all day, including sexually harassing women and girls.

The school has a long tradition of students wearing blackface. There's nothing innocent about them or the teens, who learned their hatred well. And Philiips always said he was Vietnam era. He never lied or had to be fact checked. Others were sloppy. Phillips has a noble history going back 40 years.