jews in response to the section below if there were no arab jewish tribes there are certainly arab jews despite the fact that many jews in the middle east left or were encouraged to leave during the s and s to non arabic speaking countries many still keep their identity as both arabs and jews continued pressure within the jewish community to act more like the eastern european descendant jews only means that it is all the more important to recognize jewish people of arab descent and whose first language was often arabic then hebrew on this page it would make sense to do so however with the caveat that some arabic speaking jews identify both as jews and as arabs while some do notjust as it's done for christians from the arab world on this page arab