When I was first began to understand the ultra-racist, supremacist ideology of Judaism and Zionism, I came into contact with the theory that present-day Jews are genetically unrelated to the historical Jewish community.<\/h5>\nThe allegation, known as the \u201c\u201dKhazar theory\u201d, claims that the Ashkenazim Jews of today are actually the descendants of the Khazar people, a Central Asiatic tribe who allegedly converted to Judaism in the 9th Century AD. It is claimed that these newly-minted Jews then migrated into what is now Russia, Eastern Europe and later Western and Northern Europe.<\/h5>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Koestler-Sand.jpg\" "\\"LITTERATURE-ARTHUR")
<\/a>Interestingly enough, the Khazar theory was launched, and is still to this day, driven primarily by Communist Jews. It is ironic that the three most prominent exponents of the theory that \u201cthe Jews are not a race\u201d all have almost exaggerated caricatures of features people ascribe as Jewish. Above, left to right: Zionist extremist and Communist Party member Arthur Koestler (author of the \u201cThe Thirteenth Tribe\u201d); Jewish geneticist Eran Elhaik; and Shlomo Sand, an Israeli academic and former member of the Union of Israeli Communist Youth (Banki). All three maintain that large numbers of present-day Jews are completely genetically unrelated to the Middle Eastern-origin Jews who wrote the Babylonian Talmud.<\/p><\/div>\n
For years I accepted the Khazar theory as true. After it, all it was repeated by some writers who also recognized the leading Jewish role in Communism and their leadership in many other subversive movements.<\/h5>\nIt was only later, when I considered the question logically and scientifically, were my doubts about the Khazar theory aroused.<\/h5>\nThere are three fundamental issues which need to addressed: the scientific evidence; the historical-logical evidence; and the reasons why the Khazar theory came about.<\/h5>\nPart I: The Scientific Evidence\u2014Twelve DNA Studies Which Disprove the \u201cKhazar Theory\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n1. A 1999 study titled \u201cJewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes\u201d (<\/span>M.F. Hammer et.al, Proceedings <\/span>of the US National Academy of Sciences 6769\u20136774,\u00a0doi: 10.1073\/pnas.100115997<\/span><\/a>) found that:<\/h5>\n\u201c[D]espite their long-term residence in different countries and isolation from one another, most\u00a0Jewish\u00a0populations were not significantly different from one another at the genetic level.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u201cAdmixture estimates suggested low levels of European Y-chromosome gene flow into Ashkenazi and Roman\u00a0Jewish\u00a0communities . . . \u00a0Jewish\u00a0and Middle Eastern non-Jewish\u00a0populations were not statistically different. The results support the hypothesis that the paternal gene pools of\u00a0Jewish\u00a0communities from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East descended from a common Middle Eastern ancestral population, and suggest that most\u00a0Jewish communities have remained relatively isolated from neighboring non-Jewish\u00a0communities during and after the Diaspora.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n2. A November 2001 study titled \u201cThe Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East\u201d\u00a0(Almut Nebel et. al., American Journal of Human<\/span> Genetics, Nov 2001;\u00a0 69(5): 1095\u20131112<\/span><\/a>) found that in most Jewish populations, male line ancestors appear to have been mainly Middle Eastern.<\/h5>\nThe study found that Ashkenazi Jews in particular\u00a0\u201cshare more common paternal lineages with other Jewish and Middle Eastern groups than with non-Jewish populations in areas where Jews lived in\u00a0Eastern Europe, Germany and the French Rhine Valley. This is consistent with Jewish traditions in placing most Jewish paternal origins in the region of the\u00a0Middle East.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n3. A September 2006 study titled \u201cEuropean Population Substructure: Clustering of Northern and Southern Populations\u201d (Michael F Seldin\u00a0et.al., PLOS Genetics, DOI: <\/span>0.1371\/journal.pgen.0020143<\/span><\/a>) found that both Ashkenazi Jews as well as Sephardic Jews showed more than 85% membership in the \u2018southern\u2019 European group which made their results\u00a0\u201cconsistent with a later Mediterranean origin of these ethnic groups.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n4. An April 2008 study titled \u201cCounting the Founders: The Matrilineal Genetic Ancestry of the Jewish Diaspora\u201d (Doron M. Behar et.al., PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(4): e2062. <\/span>doi:\u00a0 10.1371\/journal.pone.0002062<\/span><\/a>) found that \u00a0about 40% of Ashkenazi Jews originate maternally from just four female founders, who were of Middle Eastern origin.<\/h5>\n5. A January 2009 study titled \u201cA genome-wide genetic signature of Jewish ancestry perfectly separates individuals with and without full Jewish ancestry in a large random sample of European Americans\u201d (Anna C Need et.al., Genome Biology, 2009;\u00a010(1): R7.<\/span> doi:\u00a0\u00a010.1186\/gb-2009-10-1-r7<\/span><\/a><\/span>) found that\u00a0\u201cindividuals with full Jewish ancestry formed a clearly distinct cluster from those individuals with no Jewish ancestry.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\nThis study showed that in DNA terms, Jews, both Sephardic and Ashkenazim, cluster as a distinct group\u2014something that, if the Khazar theory was true, would be impossible.<\/h5>\n6. A December 2009 study titled \u201cGenomic microsatellites identify shared Jewish ancestry intermediate between Middle Eastern and European populations\u201d (Naama M <\/span>Kopelman et.al., BMC Genetics. 2009; 10: 80. doi:\u00a0 10.1186\/1471-2156-10-80<\/span><\/a>) found that :<\/h5>\n\u201cJewish populations show a high level of genetic similarity to each other, clustering together in several types of analysis of population structure. These results support the view that the Jewish populations largely share a common Middle Eastern ancestry and that over their history they have undergone varying degrees of admixture with non-Jewish populations of European descent.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n7. A December 2009 study titled \u201cThe genome-wide structure of the Jewish people\u201d (Doron M. Behar, et. al., Nature 466, 238\u2013242 (08 July 2010) <\/span>doi:10.1038\/nature09103<\/span><\/a>) analyzed individuals from 14 Jewish Diaspora communities and compare these patterns of genome-wide diversity with those from 69 Old World non-Jewish populations in order to\u00a0\u201cprovide comprehensive comparisons between Jewish and non-Jewish populations in the Diaspora, as well as with non-Jewish populations from the Middle East and north Africa.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\nThe results identified a \u201cpreviously unrecognized genetic substructure within the Middle East\u201d and that \u201cMost Jewish samples form a remarkably tight subcluster,\u201d and that \u201ctrace[s] the origins of most Jewish Diaspora communities to the Levant.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n8. A June 2010 study titled \u201cAbraham\u2019s children in the genome era: major Jewish diaspora populations comprise distinct genetic clusters with shared Middle Eastern ancestry\u201d (Atzmon et al.,\u00a0American Journal of Human Genetics,\u00a02010;86:850<\/span>-859<\/span><\/a>) refuted the idea of large-scale genetic contributions of Central and Eastern European and Slavic populations to the formation of Ashkenazi Jewry.<\/h5>\nThis study found used genome-wide analysis of seven Jewish groups (Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, Italian, Turkish, Greek, and Ashkenazi) and\u00a0\u201cdemonstrated distinctive Jewish population clusters, each with shared Middle Eastern ancestry, proximity to contemporary Middle Eastern populations, and variable degrees of European and North African admixture.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\nThis paper specifically excluded the \u201cKhazar theory\u201d as an origin for present-day Jews, saying\u00a0\u201cthe genetic proximity . . . is incompatible with theories that Ashkenazi Jews are for the most part the direct lineal descendants of converted Khazars or Slavs.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n9. A March 2012 study by Steven M. Bray et. al.,\u00a0 titled \u201cSignatures of founder effects, admixture, and selection in the Ashkenazi Jewish population\u201d (Proceedings of the <\/span>US National Academy of Sciences, 16222\u201316227,\u00a0doi: 10.1073\/pnas.1004381107<\/span><\/a>)\u00a0 found that the\u00a0\u201cAshkenazi Jewish (AJ) population . . .\u00a0 has a common Middle Eastern origin with other Jewish Diaspora populations\u201d<\/strong> while concluding that the Ashkenazi Jewish population has had the most European admixture.<\/h5>\n10. A March 2012 study by Christopher L. Campbell et. al., titled \u201cNorth African Jewish and non-Jewish populations form distinctive, orthogonal clusters\u201d (Proceedings <\/span>of the US National Academy of Sciences,\u00a0\u00a0 doi: 10.1073\/pnas.1204840109<\/span><\/a>) found that genome-wide analysis of five North African Jewish groups (Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Djerban, and Libyan)\u00a0\u201cdemonstrated distinctive North African Jewish population clusters with proximity to other Jewish populations.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\nFurthermore, the study showed, the Sephardic Jewish genome is \u201ccompatible with the history of North African Jews\u2014founding during Classical Antiquity with proselytism of local populations, followed by genetic isolation with the rise of Christianity and then Islam, and admixture following the emigration of Sephardic Jews during the Inquisition.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\nFinally, this study added\u00a0\u201cThese populations showed a high degree of endogamy and were part of a larger Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish group.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n(*Endogamy: the practice of\u00a0marrying\u00a0within a specific\u00a0ethnic group,\u00a0rejecting others on such a basis as being unsuitable for marriage or for other close personal relationships.)<\/h5>\n11. In his book, \u201cLegacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People\u201d \u00a0(Oxford University Press, USA; May 2012), Harry Ostrer, a professor of Pathology and Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Director of Genetic and Genomic Testing at Montefiore Medical Center, Medicine, concluded that \u201cJews exhibit a distinctive genetic signature.\u201d<\/strong> (Jews Are a \u2018Race,\u2019 Genes Reveal\u2013Author Uncovers DNA Links Between Members of Tribe,\u00a0The Jewish Daily Forward, May 04, <\/span>2012<\/span><\/a>).<\/h5>\nOstrer, who is also director of genetic and genomic testing at Montefiore Medical Center, said in his conclusion that \u201cJews are a homogeneous group with all the scientific trappings of what we used to call a race.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\nOstrer also deals specifically with the Khazar theory. He pointed out that the findings from the Jewish HapMap Project (see below) completely refute \u201cthe theories that Ashkenazi Jews are the descendants of converted Khazars or Slavs.\u201d<\/strong> (Jews: A religious group, people or race?,\u00a0Jerusalem Post,\u00a08\/26<\/span>\/2012<\/span><\/a>)<\/h5>\n12.\u00a0The Jewish HapMap<\/span> Project<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0a joint project of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and New York University School of Medicine, was created to \u201cunderstand the structure of the genomes in Jewish populations\u201d and is an outgrowth of the Human HapMap Project.<\/h5>\nAccording to this project,\u00a0\u201cJewish populations are remarkable for maintaining continuous genetic, cultural, and religious traditions over 4000 years, despite residence all over the world.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\nIts findings, based on first hand DNA studies amongst Jewish populations around the globe, found no evidence to support a Central Asian DNA origin for Jewry.<\/h5>\nAccording to the Jerusalem Post,<\/em> the\u00a0\u201cJewish HapMap Project in New York City has so far shown \u201cin exquisite detail what had been conjectured for a century. Jewish populations from the major Jewish Diaspora groups \u2013 Ashkenazi, Sephardic and Mizrahi \u2013 form a distinctive population cluster that is closely related to Semitic and European populations. Within this larger Jewish cluster, each of the Jewish populations formed its own subcluster.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u201cA high degree of mixing of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Italian and Syrian Jews caused them to become more closely related to each other than they were to Middle Eastern, Iraqi and Iranian Jews. This genetic split seemed to have occurred about 2,500 years ago.\u201d<\/strong> (Jews: A religious group, people or race?,\u00a0Jerusalem Post, <\/span>8\/26\/2012<\/span><\/a>)<\/h5>\nDNA Studies Find that Ashkenazim Jews have 30% European Admixture<\/strong><\/h2>\nBoth the Behar study (section 7 above) and the Atzmon study (section 8 above) were commented upon by the British former deputy editor of the journal Nature<\/em>, and currently the scientific correspondent for the New York Times<\/em>, Nicholas Wade, in an article in that newspaper as follows:<\/h5>\n\u201cJewish communities in Europe and the Middle East share many genes inherited from the ancestral Jewish population that lived in the Middle East some 3,000 years ago, even though each community also carries genes from other sources \u2014 usually the country in which it lives,\u201d adding that a \u201cmajor surprise from both surveys is the genetic closeness of the two Jewish communities of Europe, the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\nWade pointed out that the two studies\u00a0\u201crefute the suggestion made by the historian Shlomo Sand in his book\u00a0\u2018The Invention of the Jewish People\u2019\u00a0that Jews have no common origin but are a miscellany of people in Europe and Central Asia who converted to Judaism at various times.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u201cJewish communities from Europe, the Middle East and the Caucasus all have substantial genetic ancestry that traces back to the Levant; Ethiopian Jews and two Judaic communities in India are genetically much closer to their host populations,\u201d<\/strong> Wade wrote.<\/h5>\n\u201cThe shared genetic elements suggest that members of any Jewish community are related to one another as closely as are fourth or fifth cousins in a large population, which is about 10 times higher than the relationship between two people chosen at random off the streets of New York City.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u201cAshkenazic and Sephardic Jews have roughly 30 percent European ancestry, with most of the rest from the Middle East, the two surveys find. The two communities seem very similar to each other genetically, which is unexpected because they have been separated for so long.\u201d<\/strong> (Studies Show Jews\u2019 Genetic Similarity, Nicholas <\/span>Wade,\u00a0New York Times,\u00a0June 9, 2010<\/span><\/a>).<\/h5>\nEran Elhaik\u2019s Single Study Attempts to Refute the Mass of Earlier DNA Evidence<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe mass of DNA and genetic evidence is, therefore, overwhelmingly indicative that, despite a certain amount of European admixture among Ashkenazim Jewry, there is still a clearly definable Middle Eastern genetic component to both Ashkenazim and Sephardic Jewry.<\/h5>\nDespite all of these studies\u2014and many more, too numerous to list individually here\u2014in December 2012, a single individual by the name of Eran Elhaik, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, attempted to refute all of the above mentioned evidence.<\/h5>\nHis paper, titled \u201cThe Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses\u201d was published in the journal\u00a0Genome Biological Evolution\u00a0((2013)\u00a05\u00a0(1):61-74.doi:\u00a010.1093\/gbe\/ev<\/span>s119<\/span><\/a>).<\/h5>\nIn a nutshell, Elhaik\u2014whose rather obviously Jewish physical appearance should by itself indicate that there is indeed a common Jewish \u201ctype\u201d (how else can many Jews be physically \u201crecognized\u201d as Jews?)\u2014argues that his method of doing comparative studies between present-day Central Asian populations, Ashkenazim Jews and non-Jewish test groups, \u201cproves\u201d that Ashkenazim Jews are a hotchpotch of genetic origins, with a strong link to what he identifies as the \u201cKhazar\u201d tribe.<\/h5>\nEven though Elhaik\u2019s work is the only single paper (as opposed to literally dozens of opposing DNA studies), written by a single Jewish individual (as opposed to the other papers which were written by dozens and dozens of scientists from around the globe, Jewish and non-Jewish alike), it has quickly become the most-quoted \u201cproof\u201d of the \u201cKhazar Theory.\u201d<\/h5>\nCritical Errors in Elhaik\u2019s Paper<\/strong><\/h2>\nElhaik\u2019s paper has a number of errors, some small and a number of major ones. But they are all serious, because even the \u201csmall\u201d errors cast doubt on his academic ability and motivation.<\/h5>\nFor example, his paper discusses in detail what he sees as the geographic origin of the Khazars\u2014yet he completely misidentifies the geographic location of one of his test sample groups, the Mbuti and Biaka Pygmies.<\/h5>\nThese two groups, Elhaik asserts at least twice, are to be found in \u201cSouth Africa.\u201d<\/h5>\nActually, the Mbuti and Biaka Pygmies are nowhere near South Africa, and are only to be found literally half a continent away, in the Congo.<\/h5>\nWhile this may seem a \u201csmall\u201d error, it does indicate sloppiness in research which certainly does not bode well for the rest of the paper.<\/h5>\nThis sloppiness is again repeated when Elhaik asserts that \u201cEastern and Central European Jews account for approximately 90% of over 13 million worldwide Jews.\u201d<\/h5>\nIn reality, the figure is far less. Of the estimated 13 million Jews worldwide, 8 million are Ashkenazim and 5 million are Sephardic, a division of 61% \u201cEuropean Jews\u201d to 39% \u201cnon-European Jews.\u201d And it should be pointed out that the Zionist State of Israel actually has a Sephardic and Mizrahi (non-Ashkenazi) Jewish majority among Jews.<\/h5>\nThese actual facts on Jewish ethnicity are readily available, and Elhaik\u2019s motivation for making this clearly false claim could only be ascribed to a desire to underscore his general assertion, namely that most Jews are not Middle Eastern in origin and that Jews are not race, or a genetically similar people.<\/h5>\nThe most important error in Elhaik\u2019s paper, however, is actually openly admitted: namely that there is actually no \u201cKhazar DNA\u201d in existence, against which any sort of measurement can be taken.<\/h5>\nElhaik himself admits this in his paper: the \u201cKhazars have been vanquished and their remains have yet to be sequenced. . .\u201d<\/strong>\u2014in other words there is no record of what exactly Khazar DNA might have been.<\/h5>\nAs there is no record of what Khazar DNA is\u2014it is, ipso facto, physically impossible to determine who is descended from it and who is not.<\/h5>\nElhaik attempts to circumvent this major problem by selecting what he calls \u201csurrogate populations\u201d\u2014in this case, \u201ccontemporary Middle Eastern and Caucasus populations.\u201d<\/h5>\nAnyone with a basic understanding of historical events in the Caucasus in particular will immediately see that Elhaik\u2019s assertion that current populations in that region can be taken to reflect those of 1,500 years ago, is highly problematic and quite simply, unsustainable.<\/h5>\nThe Caucasus, a region at the border of\u00a0Europe\u00a0and\u00a0Asia, situated between the\u00a0Black\u00a0and the\u00a0Caspian\u00a0seas, has been crisscrossed by numerous peoples and races over the last 2000 years, ranging from Indo-Europeans, Semites, Mongols and others\u2014and is today highly genetically diverse. A claim that DNA samples from this region can be taken as any sort of DNA yardstick, is dubious to say the very least.<\/h5>\nFinally, Elhaik\u2019s methodology in comparing the DNA samples is, to make an understatement, unique to him. As Marcus Feldman, director of Stanford University\u2019s Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, said, \u201cHe [Elhaik] appears to be applying the statistics in a way that gives him different results from what everybody else has obtained from essentially similar data.\u201d (\u2018Jews a Race\u2019 Genetic Theory Comes Under Fierce Attack by DNA Expert.\u00a0The Jewish Daily Forward,\u00a0May 07,<\/span> 2013<\/span><\/a>)<\/h5>\nInterestingly, the study which was cited in the New York Times of the \u201cJews as a race\u201d is exactly the same conclusion that was reached by German National Socialist anthropologists and other experts who studied race science in the United States and elsewhere. \u00a0Also, many of the present-day extensive studies have been carried out by both Gentile and Jewish geneticists alike, obviating any claims of racial bias.<\/h5>\nElhaik\u2019s theory is completely refuted\u00a0 by the new, most massive and most complete study ever done of the Jewish Genome<\/strong><\/h2>\nOne of Elhaik\u2019s arguments was that the previous studies (referenced above) \u201cwere done in the pregenome-wide era using uniparental markers and including different reference populations\u201d\u2014implying that their results are not in line with the most modern DNA sequencing methodology.<\/h5>\nIn fact, at least one study\u2014which appeared after<\/strong> Elhaik\u2019s work was first published\u2014has confirmed the accuracy of the original studies, and also completely refuted Elhaik\u2019s hypothesis.<\/h5>\nTitled \u201cNo Evidence from Genome-Wide Data of a Khazar Origin for the Ashkenazi Jews,\u201d this study was published by the journal Human Biology in August 2013 (Behar,<\/span> Doron M. et.al.; Human Biology,\u00a0Access Pre-Prints. Paper 41<\/span><\/a>), this paper\u00a0emphasized the serious error with Elhaik\u2019s work:<\/h5>\n\u201cBecause the Khazar population has left no obvious modern descendants that could enable a clear test for a contribution to Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry, the Khazar hypothesis has been difficult to examine using genetics.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u201cFurthermore, because only limited genetic data have been available from the Caucasus region, and because these data have been concentrated in populations that are genetically close to populations from the Middle East, the attribution of any signal of Ashkenazi-Caucasus genetic similarity to Khazar ancestry rather than shared ancestral Middle Eastern ancestry has been problematic.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\nThis latest, most massive study of the Jewish genome was a worldwide effort of geneticists, both Gentile and Jewish, to analyze Jewish genetics. Researchers from laboratories around the globe, including Estonia, Russia, Italy, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Armenia, the US, and Israel, gathered together the largest Jewish DNA data set ever yet assembled. The paper explained as follows:<\/h5>\n\u201cHere, through integration of genotypes on newly collected samples with data from several of our past studies, we have assembled the largest data set available to date for assessment of Ashkenazi Jewish genetic origins.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u201cEmploying a variety of standard techniques for the analysis of population genetic structure, we find 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.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\u201cNo particular similarity of Ashkenazi Jews with populations from the Caucasus is evident, particularly with the 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.\u201d<\/strong><\/h5>\nThe latest, most up-to-date and modern DNA analysis has, therefore, completely refuted the \u201cKhazar Theory.\u201d<\/h5>\nIt is important to understand that this refutation has come from non-Jewish and Jewish scientists from dozens of different universities and geneticists all over the world, and cannot be ascribed to a \u201cconspiracy.\u201d<\/h5>\nPart II: The Historical-Logical Evidence<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe Historical Record Shows Jewish Physical Consistency<\/strong><\/h3>\nOne of the most obvious indicators of genetic commonality is physical appearance. European people broadly resemble each other; African people broadly resemble each other; Chinese people broadly resemble each other; Australian Aborigines broadly resemble each other and so on.<\/h5>\nIt is a characteristic of genetically similar people to physically resemble each other.<\/h5>\nJews are no different in this regard to any other people. They too show a resemblance to each other\u2014this is why it is possible to often \u201crecognize\u201d a Jewish person by his physical appearance.<\/h5>\nA good example in point is the already mentioned Jewish geneticist Eran Elhaik, who, despite physically embodying a Jewish sterrotype recognized around the world, tries to claim that there is no genetic commonality amongst Jews.<\/h5>\nThe \u201cKhazar theory\u201d holds that most Ashkenazim Jews are not Semitic, but are \u201cCentral Asian\u201d converts to Judaism.<\/h5>\nProponents of the \u201cKhazar theory\u201d fail to understand the logical consequence of their belief\u2014namely that a supposed Central Asian origin of \u201cmost\u201d Ashkenazim Jews means that they will not physically resemble other Jews.<\/h5>\nAs anyone can see, this is not the case. Sephardic Jews are, on average, slightly darker than Ashkenazim Jews, but there is no doubt that there is a physical similarity which allows them still to be recognized as such<\/h5>\n
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<\/a>Interestingly enough, the Khazar theory was launched, and is still to this day, driven primarily by Communist Jews. It is ironic that the three most prominent exponents of the theory that \u201cthe Jews are not a race\u201d all have almost exaggerated caricatures of features people ascribe as Jewish. Above, left to right: Zionist extremist and Communist Party member Arthur Koestler (author of the \u201cThe Thirteenth Tribe\u201d); Jewish geneticist Eran Elhaik; and Shlomo Sand, an Israeli academic and former member of the Union of Israeli Communist Youth (Banki). All three maintain that large numbers of present-day Jews are completely genetically unrelated to the Middle Eastern-origin Jews who wrote the Babylonian Talmud.<\/p><\/div>\n