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The resumption of the infanticidal massacre in Gaza leads us to believe that Netanyahu will succeed in carrying out Zionism’s historic goal of making the Islamic and Christian presences in the former British Palestine residual. It is therefore timely to publicize the history of the population that is being wiped out of that land. To do so, we will use information available in The Invention of the Jewish People, by historian Shlomo Sand. He is Israeli, served in the army and lives in France. The book was published in 2008, when the temperature was not so high.

Levantines speak Arabic, but they are not from Arabia

First of all, Arabs and Levantines are peoples with different histories. The Arabs have their origin in the Arabian Peninsula and have spoken Arabic since time immemorial. Levantines have been in the Levant region since prehistoric times and have changed languages ​​throughout history. Jesus, who lived in the Levant, did not speak Hebrew or Arabic, but Aramaic, one of the dead languages ​​of the region.

Having followed the archaeology of his native country, Sand reports the discovery of a grain of historical truth in the Bible: the population of Canaan, at a certain point, received nomadic shepherds who distinguished themselves from the local population by not having pig remains in their settlements. However, instead of conquest followed by massacre, archaeology points to a mixture of the previous Canaanite population with the new population of shepherds, a mixture that would make up the kingdoms of Israel and Judah between the 12th and 10th centuries BC.

If we are to believe the official historiography of Zionism, however, these nomads who settled in Canaan (present-day Israel) are the ancestors of today’s Jews, while today’s Palestinians are Arabs and descend from populations that originated in the Arabian Peninsula. In reality, conversions confuse everything. Religions migrated more than populations.

Replacements of the peasant population were very rare in the Roman Empire and also in the history of the Levant. When one kingdom fell and another took over, what happened was the expulsion of the rebellious elites. The exodus was not for the entire population of Judea, which was made up of peasants, but rather for its educated class. Thus, the peasantry of Judea did not emigrate and instead converted to Christianity. Later, when the Arabs took over the area and imposed Islam, the bulk of the population of ancient Judea – then called Palestine – converted to Islam. The Muslims charged a tax on religious minorities (in this case, Jews and Christians). In liberal parlance, one could say that Islam provided an “economic incentive” for conversion. Therefore, it was not a migration from the Arabs, but rather another linguistic and religious change in the region. The Levantines could be said to be Arabs in the same sense that an Iberian was said to be Latin: their government and language originated from the Latins, a tribe from the Italian peninsula.

Jewish proselytism

Meanwhile, the Jews who were actually expelled converted groups or tribes. For three centuries (2nd BC, 1st BC and 1st AD, from the Hasmoneans to Flavius ​​Josephus), Judaism saw conversion as a good thing. During this period, part of Judaism became Hellenized and began to proselytize fiercely, seeking to convert people from North Africa in particular. This was not because of a special predilection for North Africans, but because Alexandria, in Egypt, was the center of Hellenistic culture. It is possible that the Septuagint was written for proselytism. Zionists, however, say that the Septuagint was written for Jews who no longer knew Hebrew because Greek was their first language. One explanation does not exclude the other, and there may be two reasons.

On the other hand, the branch of Judaism that migrated to Babylon, that of the Pharisees, initiated Rabbinic Judaism, which since 4th AD has considered conversion to be a psoriasis on the body of Israel. The Jews of the universalist tradition of Alexandria took advantage of the Roman Empire to proselytize more, and this reached its peak in the 3rd century. However, the universalist branch of Judaism lost out to Christianity, and today’s Judaism is the heir of Babylon.

Sand deals with the origin of at least three current Jewish ethnic groups: the Sephardim and North Africans, the Yemenites, and the Ashkenazim and Russians. The first group probably descends from the Phoenicians and Berbers who were converted by Jewish proselytes in ancient times. There is evidence of a significant conversion of Phoenicians to Judaism after the destruction of Carthage in 2 BC. Thus, this converted population would have migrated from North Africa to the Iberian Peninsula along with other Berbers. Once again, the same ethnic group split into different religions and languages: the majority of those who remained in the land submitted first to the Christians and then to the Arabs, becoming Muslims. Some Jews migrated from North Africa to the Iberian Peninsula with the Umayyad Caliphate and remained there during the Reconquista. This is where the Sephardim, the Iberian Jews, emerged.

Conversions of Kingdoms

As for the Yemenite Jews, their history dates back to an independent kingdom from the 2nd century BC: the kingdom formed by an Arab tribe called the “Himyarites”, in the south of the Arabian Peninsula. The kingdom would last until the 6th century, when it would be conquered by Muslims and Islamized. The rival kingdom of the Himyarites was the Christian kingdom of the Ethiopians, which was under the sphere of influence of the Byzantine Empire, also Christian. The Christian rulers acted together to try to control access from the Red Sea to the rest of the known world. The Himyarites wanted to take control for themselves (as the Houthis do today).

Possibly because they opposed the Christian arrangement, the Himyarites, upon abandoning paganism, adopted the only rival monotheistic religion existing at the time: Judaism. They did so at the end of the 4th century. The bulk of the population converted to Islam, but some remained in Judaism, and these are the ancestors of the Yemenite Jews. These are, therefore, the true Arab Jews. (The Jews of the Levant must descend either from the ancient Hebrews or from the forced conversions of other Levantine tribes by the Hasmoneans.)

A similar story is that of the Ashkenazim: they also come from a kingdom that chose an antagonistic monotheistic creed, but they were very late in coming and did so when Islam already existed. Khazaria, made up of a myriad of Eastern European, Turkish and Hunnic tribes that began to come together in the second century, was a rival to the Byzantine Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate. Khazaria was squeezed between the two; its heartland was in present-day Ukraine, on the banks of the Volga. Between the eighth and ninth centuries, the Khazars converted to Judaism, most likely rabbinical.

There is no shortage of historical accounts of Khazaria. The most abundant sources are in Arabic, but even in China there are records of this commercial empire that sold slaves and collected taxes. The main cause of its decline was the war with the first Russians, the Kievan Rus.

After the conversion to Christianity, based in Byzantium, the Kievan Rus and the Byzantine army worked together to destroy the Khazars, and struck their most powerful blows in the 11th century. The Khazars dispersed and by the 13th century there was no more news of them. It is perhaps worth mentioning that it was among the Khazars that the custom of using feast days (e.g. Pessach) as personal names first appeared. This custom was maintained by Jews from Germany, Poland, etc. Another custom inherited from the Khazars is the use of the Hebrew alphabet to write in another language, such as Yiddish. Russian Jews, like the Jews of Central Europe, are also descendants of Khazars who maintained their faith.

The Zionists and the Truth

Well, at the end of the day, Zionism represents the return of those who never departed, accompanied by the expulsion of those who had always stayed there. The ancestors of the Sephardim, Yemenis, and Ashkenazim never lived in the Levant. The descendants of the ancient Chosen People, who inherited the Promised Land, are right there: in the Promised Land located in the Levant.

The two most relevant historical facts for Zionism – the Jewish origin of the Palestinians and the pagan origin of the white Jews – were reasonably well known to Zionists in the first half of the 20th century. In Russia, Jewish scholars enjoyed studying the history of Khazaria and understood that their origins lay there. This taste continued in the Soviet Union until it became taboo under Stalin. He intended to forge a single, Russian identity for the entire Soviet Union; and including the history of the former rival kingdom in the national bosom was not appropriate.

The Western side of the story, on the other hand, is more tortuous. The Zionist militants directly involved in the creation of the State of Israel were generally Ashkenazim (Yiddish speakers) or Russians; therefore, some were fully aware of their Khazar origins and, therefore, non-Semitic. However, Zionists like Arthur Ruppin (German) had great confidence in the theory of evolution and were certain that the Ashkenazim were racially highly evolved because they had survived the persecutions of the Christians – more evolved than any other current descendants of the ancient Hebrews. Therefore, they would willingly extend their hands to the Arabic-speaking Jews who were in Israel, with the expectation that, by secularizing themselves, they would be exposed to the evolved culture of the Ashkenazim and be improved. But Ruppin was against the marriage of Ashkenazim with non-Ashkenazim, whether Jewish or not, so that the purity of their race could be preserved. For this reason, he was against the immigration of other Jews to Israel.

It is true that the founder of the Zionist movement, Theodor Herzl, always aimed to leave the Ashkenazim alone on a clean slate. However, there was an earlier movement of Jewish migration to Palestine led by a certain Israel Belkind, back in the 19th century. He was a Russian Jew who studied the Palestinian peasants and concluded that they were not Arabs, since they were descendants of the ancient Hebrews. Therefore, they should integrate with the Jewish immigrants from Europe. None other than Ben Gurion adopted this idea. In New York in 1918, Ben Gurion joined forces with Ben Zvi (an ethnologist who would later become the second president of Israel) to write the work Eretz Israel in the Past and Present, and he wrote two-thirds of it. Following the lead of Belkind and others, Ben Gurion set out to prove that the Palestinian peasants were the purest descendants of the Hebrews, and therefore should integrate with Israel. Ben Gurion found their age-old attachment to the land commendable. Furthermore, Ben Gurion and Ben Zvi believed that Islam was a religion compatible with democracy, unlike Christianity. However, the Hebron massacre and the Arab uprisings of 1938 made them change their minds. They then began to say that the Palestinians were Arabs and not indigenous. And Ben Gurion was the main planner and executor of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which for the first time in millennia removed those people from their land.

In this way, the mass conversions were erased from Jewish history. The claim that Ashkenazi and Russian Jews descended from the Khazars, not from the ancient Hebrews, came to be considered anti-Semitic. Zionism has permanently decided to base itself on race and needs to falsify history in order to remain standing.