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HenryMakow.com – March 16, 2026

“Many Palestinians (Muslim and Christian) are, according to Sand, the genetic and cultural descendants of the Jews who stayed in the land after the Roman period and later adopted new religions. This undermines claims that modern Jews have a unique ethnic-historical right to the territory.”

Book Summary by GROK 4 — (henrymakow.com)

Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People (2008, English translation 2009) is a controversial work by an Israeli historian that challenges the traditional Zionist narrative of Jewish history and identity.

Core Thesis

Sand argues that the idea of a unified, continuous “Jewish people” — understood as a single ethnic-national group with shared biological origins in ancient Israel, forcibly exiled by the Romans, and later returning to their ancestral homeland — is a modern invention rather than a historical fact.

This concept, he claims, was largely constructed in the 19th century under the influence of European nationalist ideas (especially German concepts of the “Volk”) and solidified by Zionist historiography to provide ideological justification for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine/Israel.

Key Arguments

 

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