Re: authentic & fake #Jews: the tragic #Gaza war has predictably led to bad #history going viral:. European Jews are descendants of medieval #Turkic converts--#Khazars-- thus have no #historical & #genetic connection to the land of #Israel
A myth, promoted by a combination of the cynical or stupid, sadly embraced by the naive & uninformed
Sadly relevant, as I will give a virtual talk about this at Indiana Uni this week.
So, how did the #Arabs pick up the #Khazar myth? They already had plenty of practical & legitimate reasons to oppose #Zionism if they wanted to.
Scholars generally agree, Arab #antisemitism in the strict sense (though there are of course anti-Judaic elements in the Quran and Hadith) was imported from the Christian West in C19. & now, we realize, #Nazism played a crucial role:
The 1948 Arab war against Israel: An aftershock of World War II?