A Turkish researcher emphasized that these are not Kurds. They are Kurdish Jews, a whole different category of human being.
Researcher and Author Müfid Yüksel reacted to those who tried to portray Kurds and Israel as close on social mediaYüksel responded to the claim that "There is a Kurdish female pilot in the Israeli air force who hit Iran. There is a team of 800 Kurdish pilots in Israel and they are all IDF commandos and they hit Iran."Yüksel said, "These are not Kurds. They are Kurdish Jews who immigrated to Israel since the 1950s. Jews who have lived in the Kurdistan region for centuries and immigrated to Israel. Jews from Bosnia, Thessaloniki, Istanbul-Izmir, Manisa, Ankara-Ulucanlar Jewish Neighborhood, Urfa, Başkale, Semdinan-Nehri, Azerbaijan, Isfahan, Mashhad, Bukhara, etc."
Then, to emphasize the point, he said that there are real Kurds in Gaza and elsewhere - people now called Palestinians.
Reminding us that there are more than 30 thousand Muslim Kurds in Palestine, Yüksel wrote, "Palestinian Kurds, whose population exceeds 30,000, still say 'we are Kurds' and use Kurdish/Kurdi surnames and still have 'El-Kurdi' written on their gravestones. There are even associations of Palestinian Kurds in Hebron. There is also a Kurdish Neighborhood in Gaza."
So if 30,000 Palestinians still identify as Kurds, doesn't that mean they aren't indigenous to Palestine?
We can say the same for Palestinians from Egypt, Syria, and especially the Gulf where the ones who came from Arabia are jealously protective of maintaining their heritage as original Muslims.
My latest list of popular Palestinian surnames and their origins can be found here.
