Of course there are bad people, who happen to be Jews - I have no problem pointing a finger at wrong doers and their misdeeds. However, tarring a whole people with invented falsehoods is racism. I have already written about the forged document - The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Let’s turn to the Khazar myth.
Some would have it that Ashkenazi Jewry descends from Khazaria. Currently, the word Khazar is experiencing quite an uptick on social media. There’s nothing new about attempts to rewrite Jewish history, but since 2020, there’s been a new dedication to not only promoting the Khazar myth, but also using it to signify the mafia who run the world. Let’s take a closer look. Who were the Khazars?
The Khazars were a semi-nomadic, Turkic-speaking people who became a major commercial empire in the northern Caucasus during the 7th century. Over the centuries they expanded their power to include eastern Ukraine, Crimea, and Southern Russia, but they were conquered, and disappeared four hundred years later
They were pagan, and like many peoples in the region at that time, were pressured into choosing one of the monotheistic religions of Christianity, Islam or Judaism. While some claim the Khazars converted en masse to Judaism, there is little evidence to support this. Rather, most historians agree there was a limited conversion - a pattern seen within other tribes of the time.
Koestler invented the Khazar myth for the origin of the Jews in his 1976 book The Thirteenth Tribe, writing from his imagination without any historical training about the Caucuses, and primarily with the intention of creating an intellectual provocation about Jewish history.
This myth, though, has political appeal to those seeking to delegitimise the State of Israel. If Jews descend from Khazaria, how could they possibly claim a link to the Middle East and justify a State there? These people assert Ashkenazi Jewry are descendants of the Khazars. Let’s be clear about what proponents of this myth are saying. It’s easy to find on many sites, and I quote from one here:
85 – 90% of Jews are Khazars
You will find that approximately 85 – 90% of people in the world today who call themselves Jews are actually Khazars, or as they like to be known, Ashkenazi Jews.
These people knowingly lie to the world with their claims that the land of Israel is theirs by birthright, when in actual fact their real homeland is over 800 miles away in Georgia. Let’s Pretend We ARE the chosen people!
So, next time you hear an Israeli Prime Minister bleating about the so-called persecution of the Jews, consider this; every Prime Minister of Israel has been an Ashkenazi Jew.
Therefore when all these Prime Ministers have curried favor with the West for their re-establishment of a Jewish homeland, they have knowingly and deliberately lied to you, as they were never from that region, and they well know it, because it is they who call themselves Ashkenazi Jews.”
This demonstrates how the myth is being overlaid with the projection of malice. In the face of these emotive rather than substantiated attacks, fortunately, much is known about European Jewry, and there is nothing that links their origins to Khazaria.
There is no linguistic link. Ashkenazi Jews have Yiddish as a language which originated in Rhineland as a mix of German and Hebrew. They have no link with a Turkic language.
Genetic studies show Ashkenazi Jews have Middle Eastern genes and not Turkic. One study that purports to show otherwise has been thoroughly discredited .
We have strong records showing the migration of Jews from the Rhineland to Eastern Europe.
Jews went from the Middle East to Italy, where the Romans took them as slaves, and then migrated to the Rhineland, and then to Eastern Europe, as seen by the purple arrows below.
Sephardic Jews went from the Middle East to North Africa, and then on to Spain, as shown by the green arrows below.
Jewish migration
From Professor Henry Abramson
There is evidence of Jews in the area we now call Germany from the 4th century, and of their thriving along the banks of the Rhine in the eighth century. From here, Jews migrated eastwards to Poland, Ukraine, and Russia during the 13th and 14th century. From here, 1.75 million Jews went to North America between 1888-1928, escaping the pogroms. This is why Yiddish was taken across the Atlantic. Just look at the wealth of Yiddish culture as music, songs and literature that Jewish immigrants took to the States.
Anyone adhering to the myth that today’s Jews are descendants of Khazars is wedded to wishful thinking, rather than to truth seeking. In any case, over half of Israel’s Jews are from families that have never left the Middle East, which is a significant inconvenience in itself, to those who desire to sever Jewish links to their indigenous homeland.
At times of political change, it is part of the elite’s playbook to put out propaganda about Jews, to act as a smokescreen to their own actions.
Don’t fall for it. Kick it out.
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https://www.science.org/content/article/meeting-ancestors-history-ashkenazi-jews-revealed-medieval-dna?fbclid=IwAR1eRCmlM8fkoeZT8Twng5dR8KY7b-O9b3HlmoiRbGnAuZky4piS_QIazDg