Showing posts with label jews. Show all posts
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02 September 2024

Was the Turkic Khazarian empire the only non-Semitic Jewish nation?

Khazaria was NOT a Jewish nation! Given that fact, Turkic Khazaria couldn't have been a non-Semitic Jewish nation.

The idea first got widespread attention from Arthur Koestler's book, "The Thirteenth Tribe" in 1970-something, it has persisted. 

Many current proponents find such an explanation for Jewish ancestry to be a politically expedient justification for redrawing territorial boundaries in the Levant. Others, including some Jews, find the Khazar-origins idea to be interesting and compelling because, well, it is!

The Jews-as-Khazars idea has been thoroughly debunked by modern genetics:

Plausible at the time, the Khazar-origin premise has crumbled under the onslaught of modern molecular genetics. The latest volley: a study published this week in Nature Communications. The study’s senior author...[uses] high-resolution techniques that have highlighted the historical hopscotch of other migratory peoples... The authors analyzed the Y chromosome – a piece of the human genome invariably handed down father-to-son – of a set of Ashkenazi men ...

If Ashkenazi Jews were the progeny of Khazar royals, their DNA would show it.


The same Y chromosomal signature was found in every one of a large sample of Ashkenazi Jews, and quite a few non-Ashkenazi Jews. However, it was not present in the Y chromosomes of modern European non-Jewish men, nor in male inhabitants of what was once Khazaria.

27 September 2015

Is the present European Refugee Crisis comparable to flight from the Axis during WWII?

How does the present response to the European Refugee Crisis compare to the response to those fleeing Axis regimes in WWII? The comparison is of two very different situations. Think in terms of who was fleeing what.
 

Axis regimes during World War 2

Who: Well-educated, poor, middle and upper class Europeans who were fluent in one or more western languages; many were highly skilled professionals, academics or tradesmen. Many were wealthy.[1] Most were Jewish or Roman Catholic. Demographically, they were men, women, children and the elderly. 

What: Flight from the most highly developed nation in the world, Germany, then radiating outward to include flight from Italy, France, The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Poland and Eastern Europe to anywhere that would take them. Refugees gladly adopted the customs and social norms of those few countries that gave safe harbor.