Alleged Descendants Of Khazars Not Real Jews But Descendants Of Islamic Conquest Forced Converts Welcome In Muslim-Only Mecca

“The Jews who came from Europe aren’t real Jews because their ancestors weren’t from here. Please ignore that my family name means ‘the Kurd.'”

Jerusalem, May 17 – Activists stressed the important distinction today between the lack of ancestral legitimacy today’s Ashkenazim have in claiming their heritage connects them to their faith’s holiest site – which also functions as the third-holiest site in Islam – in that the legendary adoption of the Hebraic faith by a of Middle-Ages, Caspian-Sea-area tribal kingdom divorced the purported offspring of those tribesmen from any connection to the faith’s claim on land and holy sites in its ancestral heartland from which the natives were forcibly exiled centuries ago and have longed to return, whereas the untold millions who became Muslim as adherents of the nascent religion imposed the new system on them from Spain to Indonesia, and all the ensuing generations of those coerced into Islam, are just as Muslim, and enjoy all the legitimate connection to the claims of Islamic heritage as those whose ancestors formed the prophet’s immediate, voluntary circle of followers.

“I mean, the difference is obvious,” insisted Muhammad El-Kurd. “People who accepted Islam thirteen centuries ago bequeath to their descendants forever the status necessary to access Islam’s holiest sites, a privilege that infidels may not enjoy. But the Jews who came from Europe aren’t real Jews because their ancestors weren’t from here. Please ignore that my family name means ‘the Kurd.'”

Others struggled to articulate why Khazar ancestry for Ashkenazim – which has no genetic evidence – translates into denying non-Ashkenazi Jews, as well, any claim to Jewish heritage in what is now Israel. “Oh, the others are Arab Jews, not a distinct people,” suggested Hanan Ashrawi. “It’s not that they aren’t Jewish, it’s that Jews are just a subset of a larger group and we refuse to recognize anything distinct about them even though Arabs, especially Muslim Arabs, have been treating them differently since the very beginning, almost as if they’re not really part of us Arabs. Not like those European Jews, whom other Europeans never really accepted as European and always told them to go back to where they came from. Some mystery place, obviously. No idea where the Jewish homeland might have been, if it ever existed. If not Khazaria, then my next guess would be Brooklyn. But not in the same way as Native Americans are indigenous to Brooklyn, somehow. You have to trust me on this, just as you trust me on the ancient Palestinian people who were descended from the indigenous Philistines I mean Canaanites I mean Natufians? What’s the latest memo on that talking point?”

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