Philip Weiss - Israeli Historian: Palestinians Are Biological Descendants of Bible’s Jews

Jeremy Corbyn has been told to counter antisemitism  in the Labour Party, but left socialists are not racists. This is a blatant attack on free speech and any criticism of Israel's policies in the ME. They are now saying that anti-Zionism is antisemitism, as if being anti Nazi is to be anti German, or anti the British National Front is to be anti British. The Western world is entirely corrupt and evil. Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman who have tortured family members to death gets to dine with the Queen, while Putin is considered a murderous assassin even though there is no evidence of this at all. 

Edited, 08/04/2018.  I don't know enough about this topic to verify any of it, so I put it up only for discussion. KV

 Two new articles deal with political/genetic controversies over the origins of “the Jewish people” (of whom I consider myself a part for one tribal reason or another). Here is Israeli historian Schlomo Sand in Le Monde Diplomatique, writing, “Israel Deliberately Forgets Its History.” Sand says that the Jewish exile of 70 AD is a myth, and “the Jews” of Europe were created by conversion.

 Then there is the question of the exile of 70 AD. There has been no real research into this turning point in Jewish history, the cause of the diaspora. And for a simple reason: the Romans never exiled any nation from anywhere on the eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean… 

But if there was no exile after 70 AD, where did all the Jews who have populated the Mediterranean  since antiquity come from? The smokescreen of national historiography hides an astonishing reality. From the Maccabean revolt of the mid-2nd century BC to the Bar Kokhba revolt of the 2nd century AD, Judaism was the most actively proselytising religion… 

The most significant mass conversion occurred in the 8th century, in the massive Khazar kingdom between the Black and Caspian seas. The expansion of Judaism from the Caucasus into modern Ukraine created a multiplicity of communities, many of which retreated from the 13th century Mongol invasions into eastern Europe. There, with Jews from the Slavic lands to the south and from what is now modern  Germany, they formed the basis of Yiddish culture… 

Until about 1960 the complex origins of the Jewish people were more or less reluctantly acknowledged by Zionist historiography. But thereafter they were marginalised and finally erased from Israeli public memory. The Israeli forces who seized Jerusalem in 1967 believed themselves to be the direct descendents of the mythic kingdom of David rather than – God forbid – of Berber warriors or Khazar horsemen. The Jews claimed to constitute a specific ethnic group that had returned to Jerusalem, its capital, from 2,000 years of exile and wandering.

Israeli Historian: Palestinians Are Biological Descendants of Bible’s Jews