Turkey's president Recep Erdogan declared today to be a national day of mourning in Turkey for the leader of a murderous, raping terrorist organization. memorial services for one of the architects of the October 7 pogrom were held in every one of Turkey's mosques.
His threats and slanders are being reflected in Turkish media, where they now have carte blanche to spread the most absurd conspiracy theories and antisemitism. There is a combination of insane paranoia and Jew-hatred as Turkey is inciting the people to support a war against Israel.
It is only a matter of time before America and Western countries declare war on us as a result of the war spreading to Turkey. Turkey is the target of a great world game. Unfortunately, even the countries we consider Muslim and brotherly are in this game. If there is a war in Turkey, will they enslave us or will they commit genocide like they did in Palestine and Gaza? Turkey is a strong country but how long can it withstand traitors?
When we accept immigrants with pity, I wonder with what intention did they come and settle among us?
Our president gave the message that we can enter Israel in his statement.
Where are these countries we consider Muslim?
Is the world preparing for a new World War?
We know that Israel is America's puppet and pawn. We are content with just watching everything. The wealth of the Jews is shifting to China every moment, and after this process is over, China will be the new superpower of the world. When Jews do business, they will now hide behind China. There will be two superpowers in the world. There will be two superpowers, the Jews and the Muslims. The Jewish headquarters will be China. The Muslims' headquarters will be Turkey.
A lawyer writes about another deranged theory that Israel has territorial designs on Turkey. He says since the Torah says the Israelites would inherit the land of the Hittites, and the Hittite Empire reached today's Turkey, that southeastern Turkey are in the Jews' crosshairs. And Ismail Haniyeh was defending Turkey from Israel.
Here's how another site described Israel's attack on Fuad Shukr in Beirut and a US airstrike on terrorists in Iraq:
Christians and Jews are killing Muslims in the Middle East
Following the Jewish religious state of Israel's attack on Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, the Evangelical radical religious state of the United States has now launched an airstrike on the headquarters of the Shiite militia force Hashd al-Shaabi in the Babil province of Iraq.
Yet another newspaper writer, Hüseyin Besli, said that the Holocaust was a myth, and the Jews are the worst people in history:
All the evidence presented for the existence of the Holocaust is a lie and a fabrication.
It is a lie that Jews were burned in ovens.
It is a lie that Jews were massacred with poisonous gas.
It is a lie that Jews were massacred and thrown into pits...
Apparently, we see from today's practices that all of these are things invented by the Jewish mind.
...In other words, throughout human history, there has never been another nation as brutal, liar, genocidal, and disruptive as the Jews; no one has committed cruelty and genocide equal to what they did.
In yet another example of incitement, this columnist repeats Israel's supposed goal of conquering parts of Turkey and curses the Jews.
We will never and never forget and will not let it be forgotten: Murderer and terrorist Israel, this savage nation of Jews; with the same justification, also claim rights on the lands of the Republic of Turkey and will do so.
This determination is not a fairy tale, paranoia or delusion.
Zionist Jews have distorted the holy texts and fabricated laws, and they claim that our country's lands were promised to them...
Israel and the Zionist Jews are cursed all over the world because of the terrible genocide they have committed, and will continue to be cursed until the end of time. In order to cover up the heinous crime of genocide they have committed, they are attacking everyone who opposes them… President Erdoğan has always been a great obstacle to the ambitions of the imperialist cannibals and the perverse dreams of the genocidal/murderer Israeli government. For this reason, the person they attack the most is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The tongues of the genocidal, murderous, and enemies of the Republic of Turkey, President/President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, will be cut off and their hands will be broken, and they will be held accountable for the genocide. We will see this with the permission of GOD.
One liberal politician, Cem Toker, went on TV and said that Haniyeh was a terrorist and deserved to die. The responses were withering as the media went after Toker.
And at least one of them gave him the biggest insult that is possible in Turkey today: They called him a Jew. And, for good measure, they asked and answered what patriotic Turks should do to those "Kemalist Jews amongst us.": "Gaza also serves as a litmus test by exposing these Jews. Explode thoroughly so that Muslim Anatolia does not hesitate to crush you!"
This is mass hysteria, directed by Turkey's leader, inciting violence against Jews and war against Israel. It is not a fringe phenomenon - on the contrary, the liberals who are against antisemitism are (at least in the media) the fringe.
Europe has not woken up to the problem in their midst. So far, there has been only silence in response to Erdogan's threats of war. They do not realize that the vitriol against "Christians" is almost as crazed as against Jews.
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Arabic and even English Arab media are up in arms over the potential slaughter and burning of a purely red cow. As Egypt's Shorouk News reports:
Extremist Temple groups are counting on the fact that holding a ritual of purification by slaughtering and burning the five red cows could open the way for hundreds of thousands of religious Jews to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, who abstain from doing so on this day in compliance with the official rabbinic prohibition.
According to the allegations, once that cow appeared; The time of the “Savior’s” descent will come, and the Third Temple will be built on the ruins of Al-Aqsa Mosque after its demolition, and then it will be slaughtered as the first sacrifice inside the Temple. So that the Jewish people will be prepared to enter it.
Last February, during the war, the Temple Institute published an announcement requesting volunteer priests to train them in the ritual of purification with the Red Cow, and set special conditions for the volunteers. This process is supposed to take place on a plot of land that these groups had previously seized for the purpose of slaughter on the Mount of Olives in exchange for Al-Aqsa.
Another site notes that Hamas leaders are talking about the red cow as well:
The Red Cow and its Relationship to the Flood of Al-Aqsa.
In one of his speeches, Abu Ubaydah, the spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, mentioned that Israel's red cows were ready, referring to a news report last July about the most extremist Israeli government importing 5 cows from Texas; USA, signaling the start of building the third temple on the ruins of the Al-Aqsa Mosque; according to Torah teachings.
Khaled Meshaal, the leader of Hamas, also stated that there was a plan to demolish Al-Aqsa Mosque and build the alleged temple by importing five red cows from the United States in order to carry out the Zionist plan and destroy AI-Aqsa as quickly as possible.
A photo illustrating several articles and tweets make a red cow look as sinister as possible:
I think we can do one better:
A Yemeni site adds quite a bit of antisemitism in its Red Cow reporting:
Some of the articles accurately say that many religious Jews refuse to ascend to the Temple Mount without this purification procedure, but chances seem quite low that they would ascend even with it, since they would follow their own rabbis and not the religious Zionist rabbis who are considering slaughtering the red cows next week.
The only difference I can imagine is that the religious Zionists who ascend today to the Temple Mount would be allowed to visit the area of the Dome of the Rock; right now they stay on the perimeter of the Mount when they visit. That is the only practical effect I can see happening.
As far as destroying the Al Aqsa Mosque, I have bad news for the Muslim doomsday prophets: No one cares about the Al Aqsa Mosque. There is no reason to destroy it. Jews could visit there without the ashes of the red heifer because it is on one of the Herodian extensions of the Temple Mount; it is not where the Temple was. That would be the vicinity of the Dome of the Rock.
But no one is going to destroy Al Aqsa or the Dome of the Rock. The Israeli government would not allow it, the police stop Jews from bringing prayer books to the Temple Mount let alone sledgehammers.
For over 100 years Muslims have been warning that Jews are about to destroy the mosques on the Temple Mount. And it is just as much a fiction today as it was when the Mufti made up that libel.
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You are probably familiar with the Islamic hadith, quoted in the Hamas charter:
The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharqad tree would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews.
The Muhtawayat website is meant to be a reference site for Arabic readers where questions can be answered authoritatively. As there has been a lot of interest in Jews in Arabic media for the past couple of weeks, the site tackled the question, "Why does the Gharqad tree protect the Jews?"
Note how the question pre-supposes the magical properties of the gharqad tree as fact.
It is a purely Islamic legend, but that doesn't stop Muslims from assuming its truth. The article even says,
The Gharqad tree has cultural and religious importance for Jews, as in Jewish culture it is believed that the Gharqad tree represents a symbol of protection and shelter, and therefore they respect and preserve it as part of their cultural and religious heritage....
This article, and plenty of others, as well as videos, state as fact that Israeli Jews have planted thousands of gharqad trees because we believe they protect us.
It says that Yediot Aharonot reported in 2014 that Israel was planting gharqads as a temporary measure to protect a rail line that was exposed to rocket fire. (Israel did indeed plant trees, but no one said they were gharqads. )
In fact, no one quite knows what kind of tree it is (most people think it is the boxthorn.)
The thing is, this absurd legend is accepted as truth in the Muslim world. Even though the "proof" that Jews plant gharqads is not from Jewish sources but from Islamic sources, not one Muslim bothers to ask a Jew to verify the story about what Jews believe. (Just as Muslims believe that Jews worshipped Ezra the Scribe as the son of god, something against every tenet of Judaism, because the Quran says so.)
And these kinds of lies are the backbone of Arab and Muslim beliefs about Israel and Jews. Palestinians swear today that an Israeli airstrike hit the Al Ahli hospital, killing 500. They are 100% certain that Israel is waging genocide - even though, according to their own fictional numbers, fewer people have died than bombs dropped, a pretty inefficient genocide. They are absolutely convinced that the Temples never existed and Jews have never found any proof for them. They have written books "proving" that.
Any evidence that disprove the lies are themselves automatically assumed to be manufactured and forged by Jews. The world is one big conspiracy theory. The side that actually cares about accuracy is accused of being the liars; the side that actually is the victim of a campaign of attempted genocide is accused of genocide when defending themselves.
It's easy to laugh about the gharqad tree myth. But it is not so easy to laugh when you realize that myths like that are considered absolute truth by tens of millions, or hundreds of millions, of people. Fighting lies with truth sounds good in theory, but when you are dealing with people who are emotionally invested in the lies, one cannot win.
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"Battle Scene," Folio from a Zafarnama (Book of Victories) of Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi
Jews aren’t really Jews, according to PA President Mahmoud
Abbas, but Khazars, a nomadic Turkic people. These “Khazar Jews” Abbas claims,
have no connection to the Land of Israel, just an invented history and a false
narrative of religious rights to the Land of Israel. This, of course, is an
inversion of the truth. In reality, it is the “Palestinians” who are an
invented people with an invented history, and an invented religious right to Jewish
territory. By now there is a large body of definitive proof that the Jews are
not descended from the Khazars, but those who hate Israel are not interested in
either proof or truth.
The purpose of the Khazar myth is to delegitimize all Jewish
claims to Israeli territory while spreading the lie that the land in question
belongs to others. It’s an if/then proposition. If Jews are Khazars, they have
no legitimate claims to Jewish land, which makes them thieves. Except that the Jews
are not Khazars. They are Jews. And for thousands of years, Jews have been overwhelmingly
endogamous—they marry each other. Abbas says otherwise, because it serves his
interests, the main interest being taking land away from the Jews.
Abbas stands truth on its head. The land, he asserts, doesn’t
belong to those Khazar Jews, but to his constituents—if you can call them that,
when there hasn’t been an election since Abbas assumed office in 2005. Muwaffaq Matar, Fatah Revolutionary
Council member and regular columnist for official PA daily Al-Hayat
Al-Jadida, reported on remarks made by Abbas to “various Palestinian intellectuals,”
in a 2021 meeting (emphasis added):
[At the meeting he held, PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas] debunked the Zionist fairy tale, which some call the Jewish Israeli narrative…
The president spoke about the 9th century pagan Tatar-Khazar kingdom, which was established in the Caspian Sea area. It underwent attacks and suffered from wars, and therefore its king sought advice to be saved from this situation. His friend, a Jewish man, advised him to convert. The kingdom followed in his footsteps, and it also converted. It remained like this until the 11th century when the kingdom finally collapsed, and [its residents] scattered in neighboring states. These are the Ashkenazis, who were not originally Jews but rather converted.
But this is a lie, as borne out by science. Jews are endogamous:
they marry each other (or did until modern times). A study on Ashkenazi hereditary diseases published in
2022, speaks of historically endogamous marriage practices in Judaism in
general, and how marrying within the tribe impacted Ashkenazi Jewry in
particular:
Judaism is a shared religious and cultural identity, with
endogamous marriage practices and distinctive diasporic histories of
communities worldwide, particularly a Levantine origin and complex history of
migrations over the last ∼2.5 millennia. Present-day
Ashkenazim are descendants of medieval Jewish populations with histories
primarily in northern and eastern Europe. As a result, they carry distinctive
ancestries, and Jewish and non-Jewish medieval individuals living in the same
regions would likely show characteristic patterns of genetic variation.
Hereditary disorders in Ashkenazi Jewish populations have
been the focus of considerable medical research, with genetic screening
now commonplace to mitigate risks. Their prevalence is generally attributed to
strong genetic drift during Ashkenazi population bottlenecks, coupled with
high endogamy, although other processes such as heterozygote advantage
have been proposed.
Candidate population bottlenecks include the phase of
dispersion following the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, the
formation of Ashkenazi communities in northern Europe during the medieval
period, antisemitic persecution arising from the Crusades, unfounded reprisals
for the Black Death, and the movement from western and central Europe to
eastern Europe that preceded rapid population growth from the 15th to 18th
centuries.
Representation of a massacre of the Jews in 1349 Antiquitates Flandriae (Royal Library of Belgium manuscript, 1376/77)
As we see, the Jews are no Khazars, they married within; but
no matter, because Abbas has a useful idiot Jew to lend him credibility. More
from the Muwaffaq Matar report:
As proof, the president brought the book ‘The Thirteenth
Tribe: The Khazar Empire [and its Heritage]’ by Jewish-Hungarian author and
historian Arthur Koestler.
The Jews never were a people and they never will be. The
Zionist organization will continue to invent its own history and transpose
it into the books of human knowledge, and even into the holy books, in all
languages. This is in order to achieve the goal of mobilizing and gathering
enough human ammunition [i.e., immigrants] to carry out missions of
occupation and settlement, which the colonialist world powers and empires
imposed on it.
What of this so-called proof Abbas brings from “Jewish-Hungarian” author and historian Arthur Koestler? According to Yiddish scholar and expert on Ashkenazi surnames Alexander Beider, there is none. Beider describes the evolution of the unfounded Khazar theory in Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Khazars. Here’s The Proof (emphasis added):
Since the late 19th century, the so-called “Khazarian theory” has promoted the idea that a bulk of Ashkenazic Jews living in Eastern Europe descended from medieval Khazars, a semi-nomadic Turkic people who founded a powerful polyethnic state in the Caucasus and north to the Caspian, Azov and Black seas. The theory received a recent boost with the 1976 publication of “The Thirteenth Tribe,” a book by Arthur Koestler. Most recently, the Khazarian hypothesis has been promoted by authors like the Tel Aviv University professor of history Shlomo Sand and Tel Aviv University professor of linguistics Paul Wexler, as well the geneticist Eran Elhaik.
Despite this institutional backing, the theory is absolutely without evidence. As any historian will tell you, generations of Jews, like generations of any people, leave historical traces behind them. These traces come in multiple forms. For starters, people leave behind them historical documents and archaeological data. Predictably, archaeologic evidence about the widespread existence of Jews in Khazaria is almost nonexistent. While a series of independent sources does testify to the existence in the 10th century of Jews in the Kingdom of Khazaria, and while some of these sources also indicate that the ruling elite of Khazaria embraced Judaism, the Khazarian state was destroyed by Russians during the 960s. In other words, we can be confident that Judaism was not particularly widespread in that kingdom.
A later report by Matar on the meeting between Abbas and the so-called “Palestinian intellectuals” details the PA president’s sickening assertions of a connection between Nazism and Zionism. Hitler’s “Jewish question,” according to Abbas, arose from the failure of the “Khazar Jews” to properly integrate into European society:
We must focus on what the president said regarding the [Jewish] question or ‘the Jewish problem,’ because its cause is that the Jews of the Khazar kingdom did not integrate in the European societies.
A separate report on the same meeting, this time written by Muhammad Al-Masri, appeared in Ma’an, an independent Palestinian news agency, on Dec. 25, 2021:
[PA] President Mahmoud Abbas presented those present
with a concise historical survey, such that dealt intensively with the
injustice caused to the Palestinians when the world powers – and foremost among
them the US and Britain – agreed to the theft of the homeland and land and to
granting them as a gift to the Zionist movement, which is an inseparable part
of the international colonialist movement.
President Mahmoud Abbas was clear
when he said that inflaming the dreams of the Jews and realizing these dreams
within a political entity was not the fruit of the efforts of the Jews
themselves, but rather colonialist-theological plans and visions of colonialist
world powers, as the modern-day Jews are mostly of Tatar origin.They
are descendants of dynasties that established a kingdom in the 9th century
called ‘the Khazar kingdom.’ In this statement, it appears that President
Mahmoud Abbas sought to say that the colonialist world powers used the Jews in
order to execute the great colonialist plan – dismantling the Ottoman Empire
and afterwards dismantling the Arab nation.
According to Ehud
Yaari, this too is a lot of hooey (emphasis added):
It should be noted that Abbas has his facts about the Khazar
empire wrong: the Khazars were not Tatars—rather they were a Turkic
people—and [the conversion of the royal dynasty and aristocracy as reported by
medieval sources] took place, according to most historians, sometime
between 740 and 865 CE. His Prime Minister, Muhammad Shtayeh, also had his
dates wrong when declaring on June 26, 2021: “Present day Jews are Khazar Jews,
who converted to Judaism in the 6th century.” Regardless of the historical
inaccuracies about the Khazar dynasty itself, both statements are instead the
product of a more recent and dangerous historical trend, reviving the case
offered by the late Syrian president, Hafez al-Assad, against the justification
of a Jewish homeland. These assertions follow in the vein of numerous Arab
writers who have produced a number of volumes over the past five decades
identifying the Ashkenazi communities as refugees from the destruction of the
Khazar Qaganate by Prince Svyatoslav of Kiev c.965 CE.
Promoting this narrative has not just been the effort of
Palestinian and Syrian politicians; many Egyptian, Saudi, and Lebanese
intellectuals have also been drawn to a narrative that deprives contemporary
Jews of pre-medieval Jewish lineage and history connecting them back to the
land. Books dealing with the subject are still on sale all over the region and
these theories are widely available across the internet.
This approach is deeply rooted in a widely popular theme of
Soviet anti-Semitism, prevalent in many of the institutions where a number of
Arab intellectuals studied. In a state where history became subservient to the
reigning ideology, Soviet historians depicted the conversion of the Khazars
as a humiliation of the Russians, poisoning their values and beliefs and sowing
corruption in society. In a famous article published in Pravda (1951) under the
pseudonym “Ivanov”—posited to be Stalin himself—an argument was put forth that
it would be “shameful” to accept that a Jewish empire governed the vast area between
the Caspian and the Black Seas before the appearance of the early Russian
princes. This became the official interpretation of the Khazars, mixing
dangerously with contemporary accusations of a “Jewish nationalistic plot.”
Abbas would have acquainted himself with these concepts while writing his
Holocaust-denying Ph.D in Moscow twenty years later.
Abbas was indeed well acquainted with these concepts. In May 2018, Abbas gave a speech to the
Palestinian National Council, the legislative body of the PA, in which he claimed
that the nonsensical Khazar theory is backed by Jewish sources:
The sons of Jacob were 12. Where did you bring 13 from? They invented
it. Where? In the Khazar Kingdom. When? In the 9th century. It was an
irreligious kingdom. Afterwards it became a Jewish kingdom. The emperor
converted to Judaism and therefore [the kingdom] converted to Judaism.
Afterwards it broke apart, and all its residents migrated to Europe, and these
are the Ashkenazi Jews.The Ashkenazi
Jews are not Semites, and they have no connection to Semitism or Abraham,
Jacob, or others. It was a Tatar-Turkic state...
...Now we are talking about the Jewish homeland. They are talking
about longing for Zion and that's why they are going [there] and so forth. I
say - not me, rather history says that these words are baseless.
Employing a variety of standard techniques for the analysis
of population-genetic structure, we found that Ashkenazi Jews share the
greatest genetic ancestry with other Jewish populations and, among non-Jewish
populations, with groups from Europe and the Middle East. No particular
similarity of Ashkenazi Jews to populations from the Caucasus is evident,
particularly populations that most closely represent the Khazar region.
Thus, analysis of Ashkenazi Jews together with a large sample from the region
of the Khazar Khaganate corroborates the earlier results that Ashkenazi Jews
derive their ancestry primarily from populations of the Middle East and Europe,
that they possess considerable shared ancestry with other Jewish populations,
and that there is no indication of a significant genetic contribution either
from within or from north of the Caucasus region.
And still, as late as August
24, 2023, Abbas was still spouting his wildly embroidered Khazar lies. MEMRI
shared these excerpts:
The truth that we should clarify to the
world is that European Jews are not Semites. They have nothing to do with
Semitism. . .The story began in 900 CE, in the Khazar Kingdom on the
Caspian Sea. It was a Tatar kingdom that converted to Judaism. . . [In the 11th century], this empire collapsed, and all its
population left to the north and to the west. They left for Russia and Western
and Eastern Europe. They spread there, and they are the forefathers of
Ashkenazi Jews. So when we hear them talk about Semitism and antisemitism – the
Ashkenazi Jews, at least, are not Semites.
Everybody knows that during World War I, Hitler was a
sergeant. He said he fought the Jews because they were dealing with usury and
money. In his view, they were engaged in sabotage, and this is why he hated
them. We just want to make this point clear. This was not about Semitism and
antisemitism.
As for the eastern Jews, they are Semites, because all of
them originated in the Arabian Peninsula and they traveled to Al-Andalus, and
then came back. We are familiar with this history.
Actually, they are familiar not with history but with lies. Since
2006, the world has known that two fifths of
Ashkenazi Jews are descended from four women. Judy Siegel-Itzkovich reported
on the discovery by a team of Israeli geneticists:
The team, which studied mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) passed on solely by mothers
to their children, found evidence of shared maternal ancestry of Ashkenazi and
non–Ashkenazi Jews, a finding showing a shared ancestral pool that is
consistent with previous studies that were based on the Y chromosome. This
evidence pointed to a similar pattern of shared paternal ancestry of Jewish
populations around the world originating in the Middle East. They concluded
that the four founding types of mtDNA—likely to be of Middle Eastern
origin—underwent a major overall expansion in Europe over the last thousand
years.
The “four founding mothers,” [Professor Skorecki] added,
“are from lineages that originate long before the launching of the Jewish
people some 3400 years ago. They probably came from a large Middle Eastern gene
pool.
“As consistent with the Bible, in which the founding Jews
were Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and his sons, and the matriarchs were ‘imported’
from non–Jewish peoples and then converted, the haplotypes of contemporary
Jewish men are much less varied.”
Is there any truth to the idea that the Khazars converted to
Judaism? According to Prof. Shaul
Stampfer, no. The research simply does not support this idea:
Did the Khazars convert to Judaism? The view that some or all
Khazars, a central Asian people, became Jews during the ninth or tenth century
is widely accepted. But following an exhaustive analysis of the evidence,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher Prof. Shaul Stampfer has concluded
that such a conversion, “while a splendid story,” never took place. . .
From roughly the seventh to tenth centuries, the Khazars ruled an
empire spanning the steppes between the Caspian and Black Seas. Not much is
known about Khazar culture and society: they did not leave a literary heritage
and the archaeological finds have been meager. The Khazar Empire was overrun by
Svyatoslav of Kiev around the year 969, and little was heard from the Khazars
after. Yet a widely held belief that the Khazars or their leaders at some point
converted to Judaism persists.
Reports about the Jewishness of the Khazars first appeared in
Muslim works in the late ninth century and in two Hebrew accounts in the tenth
century. The story reached a wider audience when the Jewish thinker and poet Yehudah
Halevi used it as a frame for his book The Kuzari. Little attention was given
to the issue in subsequent centuries, but a key collection of Hebrew sources on
the Khazars appeared in 1932 followed by a little-known six-volume history of
the Khazars written by the Ukrainian scholar Ahatanhel Krymskyi. Henri Gregoire
published skeptical critiques of the sources, but in 1954 Douglas Morton Dunlop
brought the topic into the mainstream of accepted historical scholarship with
The History of the Jewish Khazars. Arthur Koestler’s best-selling The
Thirteenth Tribe (1976) brought the tale to the attention of wider Western
audiences, arguing that East European Ashkenazi Jewry was largely of Khazar
origin. Many studies have followed, and the story has also garnered
considerable non-academic attention; for example, Shlomo Sand’s 2009
bestseller, The Invention of the Jewish People, advanced the thesis that the
Khazars became Jews and much of East European Jewry was descended from the
Khazars. But despite all the interest, there was no systematic critique of
the evidence for the conversion claim other than a stimulating but very brief
and limited paper by Moshe Gil of Tel Aviv University.
Professor Shaul Stampfer
Stampfer notes that scholars who have contributed to the subject
based their arguments on a limited corpus of textual and numismatic evidence.
Physical evidence is lacking: archaeologists excavating in Khazar lands have
found almost no artifacts or grave stones displaying distinctly Jewish symbols.
He
also reviews various key pieces of evidence that have been cited in relation to
the conversion story, including historical and geographical accounts, as well
as documentary evidence. Among the key artifacts are an apparent exchange of
letters between the Spanish Jewish leader Hasdai ibn Shaprut and Joseph, king
of the Khazars; an apparent historical account of the Khazars, often called the
Cambridge Document or the Schechter Document; various descriptions by
historians writing in Arabic; and many others.
Taken together, Stampfer says, these sources offer a cacophony of
distortions, contradictions, vested interests, and anomalies in some areas, and
nothing but silence in others. A careful examination of the sources shows
that some are falsely attributed to their alleged authors, and others are of
questionable reliability and not convincing.Many of the most reliable
contemporary texts, such as the detailed report of Sallam the Interpreter, who
was sent by Caliph al-Wathiq in 842 to search for the mythical Alexander’s
wall; and a letter of the patriarch of Constantinople, Nicholas, written around
914 that mentions the Khazars, say nothing about their conversion.
Citing the lack of any reliable source for the conversion story,
and the lack of credible explanations for sources that suggest otherwise or are
inexplicably silent, Stampfer concludes that the simplest and most
convincing answer is that the Khazar conversion is a legend with no factual
basis. There never was a conversion of a Khazar king or of the Khazar elite, he
says.
Years of research went into this paper, and Stampfer ruefully
noted that "Most of my research until now has been to discover and clarify
what happened in the past. I had no idea how difficult and challenging it
would be to prove that something did not happen."
In terms of its historical implications, Stampfer says the lack of
a credible basis for the conversion story means that many pages of Jewish,
Russian and Khazar history have to be rewritten. If there never was a
conversion, issues such as Jewish influence on early Russia and ethnic contact
must be reconsidered.
Stampfer describes the persistence of the Khazar conversion legend
as a fascinating application of Thomas Kuhn’s thesis on scientific revolution
to historical research. Kuhn points out the reluctance of researchers to
abandon familiar paradigms even in the face of anomalies, instead coming up
with explanations that, though contrived, do not require abandoning familiar
thought structures. It is only when “too many” anomalies accumulate that it is
possible to develop a totally different paradigm—such as a claim that the
Khazar conversion never took place.
Stampfer concludes, "We must admit that sober studies by
historians do not always make for great reading, and that the story of a Khazar
king who became a pious and believing Jew was a splendid story.” However, in his opinion, "There are
many reasons why it is useful and necessary to distinguish between fact and
fiction – and this is one more such case."
Mahmoud Abbas lies like a rug and he repeats the same lies over
and over again as if they were fact. His constituents and Jew-haters at large already
know the drill. Abbas says it, and the Jew-hating echo chamber will happily repeat
the false narrative until it takes on a life of its own. Mark Twain said that “A
lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its
shoes.”
Lies spread like wildfire; they have power. We see it with Mahmoud
Abbas and the Khazar origin story. The more Abbas repeats his lies about Jewish
lineage, the less anyone cares to hear the truth. The truth simply no longer
matters; it has been rendered irrelevant.
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Admirers credit Netanyahu with “changing the paradigm” around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Boaz Bismuth, a Likud lawmaker, told me. Netanyahu did so by effectively bypassing the Palestinians and signing normalization agreements with other Arab countries in the region. But those agreements, known as the Abraham Accords, are the diplomatic end result of an arms deal in which Israel would provide nearly all signatories with licenses to its powerful cybersurveillance technology Pegasus, as an investigation in this magazine revealed last year. “He made use of knowledge and technologies to get closer to dictators,” a former senior defense official told me.
According to this article, the Abraham Accords are just a cover for a cyber-arms deal that enriched a private Israeli firm.
This is an insane perspective. Even though written by a Tel Aviv based Jewish writer, it plays into classic antisemitic tropes. After all, she is saying that the most consequential peace deal in the region in four decades is really about Jewish greed and disregard for human rights.
The Abraham Accords deal resulted in the US selling $23 billion of arms to the UAE. Can you imagine the New York Times claiming that the US only brokered the deal our of greed to enrich US defense contractors?
Every negotiation involves give and take in an attempt to find results that benefit both parties. The Obama-brokered Iran nuclear deal gave Iran the ability to refine uranium after a time period in exchange for short-term pause (that they ignored anyway) If there is a Saudi peace agreement, the US would be giving the Saudis access to nuclear technology which is just as dual-use as spyware is, but on a quite larger scale. The downsides in both cases are merely nuclear weapons in the hands of Islamic fundamentalists facilitated by the US.
And every Western, democratic country makes compromises to their own human rights standards in order to maintain relationships with countries whose own human rights records are less than stellar.
But only for Israel are negotiations viewed through such a bizarre lens of how Israeli greed and disregard for human rights is what drives its desire to reach peace agreements with other Middle Eastern countries - countries that all happen to be repressive Muslim and Arab dictatorships to begin with.
And there are more articles in the media against Israel for allowing cyberweapons to be sold than against the regimes that abuse them.
Pegasus is a tool, like a hammer. It has legitimate uses but it also can be abused to attack dissidents, just like bullets or surveillance drones. The New York Times, though, seems to regard spyware as an exclusively Israeli, magical tool. As I noted earlier this week, when similar spyware tools to Pegasus were misused by Greece and Egypt, the New York Times didn't mention that newly blacklisted spyware developers came out of Greece, Hungary, Ireland and North Macedonia - but highlighted that two of them were headed by a former Israeli general.
The hypocrisy doesn't end there. When Israel does put restrictions on dual-use items to be transferred - meaning, when it stops items at the Gaza border that could be used to build missiles and other weapons aimed at Israeli civilians - Israel is blamed by the NYT for unfairly hurting Palestinians for no good reason.
There are no limits to the double standards Israel is subjected to by the New York Times.
(h/t Yisrael Medad)
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Today, Felesteen and other Palestinian sites reported:
Moaz Agbariya, a researcher specializing in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque affairs, reported that there are 45 tunnels connected to each other that threaten the foundations of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the homes of Jerusalemites in the occupied city of Jerusalem .
Agbariya stated in a statement to the Felesteen newspaper that the majority of the tunnels are based on the foundations of Al-Aqsa Mosque from the western side, and there is a section of them on the southern side, and a tunnel on the northern side.
He pointed out that there is a tunnel that only Jews are allowed to enter, and it is located under Al-Aqsa Mosque, in addition to four tunnels that were established in the Roman era and restored during the era of the Ayyubid state, and they are designated for the exit of rainwater from the Blessed Mosque, and no one is allowed to enter them except cleaning workers after obtaining a permit from the occupation police.
Wow! A tunnel under the Temple Mount that only Jews re allowed to enter? And only one of 45? Sign me up!
Especially since no one has dug a tunnel under the Temple Mount (except the Waqf) for well over a hundred years!
He explained that the occupation's attempts to falsify the history of the city of Jerusalem and prove its alleged right to it do not stop, by digging tunnels, seizing and hiding everything that indicates authentic Islamic history.
Palestinians have claimed for at least 12 years that Israel is building "Biblical gardens" on top of the Bab al-Rahma cemetery adjacent to the Temple Mount. Somehow, nothing has happened.
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The head of Hezbollah’s Sharia Committee, Sheikh Muhammad Yazbek, came up with a convoluted logic to explain how Palestinians fighting other Palestinians in the Ein al-Hilweh camp in Lebanon is really Israel's fault.
Al-Ahed News reports that "He said the only beneficiary of the Palestinian fighting, in the Ain al-Hilweh camp, is the Zionist enemy, which is working in various ways to end the Palestinian issue and eliminate the right of the Palestinians to return to their lands and Islamic and Christian sanctities, pointing out that what is happening inside the camp and in Syria in terms of fighting, siege, security threats and displacement is an American-Israeli decision, implemented with local tools aimed at weakening the axis of resistance and confusing it security-wise and economically to discourage it from confronting the American-Zionist project."
I think he is saying that the Fatah faction in Lebanon is a tool of Israel and the US.
But the Association of Muslim Scholars had a much better conspiracy theory blaming Israel for the infighting - one that they don't even realize shows how little they care about Palestinians.
VDLNews reports this insanity that the group issued a statement saying that what the Zionists want for the Ein al-Hilweh camp "is to destroy this camp as a prelude to displacing its people and then settling them either in Lebanon or in a country to which they emigrate, through enticement and intimidation, which leads to the complete cancellation of the right of return, which necessarily means an end to the Palestinian issue."
What this Islamic group is saying is that the worst thing for Palestinians is to become normal citizens of Arab countries. The best thing for them is to remain stuck in an overcrowded, dangerous tinderbox surrounded by a huge wall where they are not allowed to build, not allowed many jobs, not allowed to own land and at the mercy of terrorists who are trying to take over the camp.
And while the "right of return" is fiction, Palestinians in Jordan are citizens and still claim that right. Why can't Lebanese Palestinians?
No one hates Palestinians more than the Lebanese. Not the Israelis, not the Saudis...no one. And no one treats them as badly as the Lebanese do. But where the Lebanese really outdo themselves is in insisting that their maltreatment of Palestinians is for their own good. And the Palestinians themselves cannot publicly complain about their being treated like dirt, because they are at the mercy of those same Lebanese.
This is why about two thirds of all of Lebanon's "registered Palestine refugees" have left Lebanon and gone anywhere else they could.
Yet the media and human rights organizations remain largely silent. Funny how that works.
It's almost like they don't really care about Palestinians.
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