I am offended at every governmental and non-governmental form I am compelled to complete that does not list Ashkenazi Jews as a race or even an ethnicity. If you can take a blood test and, at the most basic building block of what makes us human, be identified as a distinctive group, then you're a race. Jews also have a common mother language, a set core books and beliefs, as well as a defined set of holidays and foods common to them. That is an ethnicity.
It is time for Jews to demand racial parity with blacks and asians and ethnic parity with hispanics, irish and everyone else who shows up in the master list of acceptable form entries.
Years ago, I sat on the minority affairs committee of the Montgomery County, Md. public schools. I was told that I could not be there as a minority. I replied that I knew that Jews were a minority, the Jewish students knew that they were a minority , and that, when push came to shove, the broader community would treat Jews as the minority they were. To say otherwise was to promote a lie. I was required to leave.
Government bureaucracy does what government bureaucracy does which is follows political mood with more senseless forms that only contribute to ethnic and racial animosity . Personally, I check myself as "other" in relevant box on these forms .
Indeed. The census is historically the way malevolent parts of The State keep the record of us, and when The State starts calling Jews a Race get worried. But I write Jewish on the other part of the form, knowing full well that Israel is my Refuge if and when The State here in Europe becomes Nazi.
I repeat, the Ashkenazi and Mizrahti experiences are not the whole Jewish story. Flasha Ethiopian Jews, and the Jews of Eastern Russia and China are Ethnically distinct from the ethnic Jews of Israel you describe. Thus we are a faith of separate Ethnicities. Certainly I accept that Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews are a broad genetically linked category, and our claim to the Land of Israel as the origin of this is very strong. But to say all Jews are in this category is simply not the case.
Jewish communities around the world have adopted many of the attributes of where they lived. And the Jewish people is comprised of many races as you mentioned. The point of this article is that regardless of where Jews lived, we are connected by history, belief, and blood.
The sequencing of the genome is often the western genome and the population you mention may not have enough published genome data to add to the comparison in the article. Still Jews and still deeply connected to all Jews.
MAZAL TOV! I did my DNA test as well a few years to learn I am 100% Ashkenazi (Eastern Europe). Proud of every drop of my DNA. Recently I watched a very interesting video on YouTube about our DNA and the interesting results of testing Jews from every part of the world, including the Mideast. The scientists have, over many years, read more results and taken even deeper. Jews from all over the world, exception are Jews By Choice, of course, have a commonality that relates to the Mideast. I woke during the night, couldn't get back to sleep, put the TV with YouTube and this video was on. It was fairly and instead of lulling my back to sleep, I watched it all. If this doesn't prove the we are originally from the Mideast, I don't know what will. Am Yisrael Chai!
I too took the 23&Me test. 98+% Ashkenazi. Grandparents emigrated to America in the 1910’s. I was told by my grandparents who were told by their grandparents who were told by their grandparents……….came to Transylvania (Austria-Hungary) by way of the Turkish trade routes from the LEVANTINE. .🙏 It is not only a great historical and scientific piece, it is proof beyond a reasonable doubt we are as much a PEOPLE as a religion. Great explanation. Thanks
Judaism has always maintained we are a people. All of TANACH says so. Whoever says being Jewish only means adherence to the same religion is pathetically wrong.
My brother did a DNA test. It showed that on our father side, the humans that left Africa 60,000 years ago went through the Middle East. But on our mother side, they crossed into Europe. From both directions, they eventually " met" in Eastern Europe, on both sides.No question, conversion to Judaism happened more often than we think, surely amongst women. Thus the non-Middle Eastern physical traits of many Jews.
The " coloniser" accusation, like all other wilful inversions of meaning or deliberate misinformation, such as " apartheid", "progressive", " ethnic cleansing", " genocide", is the most non-sensical of all. A coloniser needs a mother country from which to " colonise" others. There is a mother country, which has "colonies" elsewhere. The Jews never had a country since the last exile by the Romans from the Land of Israel, 2,000 years ago! The Jews never had a country from which they could colonise others. Those Jews that found themselves in British Palestine in 1947 at the time of the partition, were immigrants. In 1948, Arab countries expelled and dispossessed close to a million Jews, the only true Nakba .
The Jews were immigrants, always, forever wandering, expelled, resettling in someone else's country, at the mercy of that country's rulers and populace. Immigrants, not " colonisers". Ask all the vociferous libelling braindead which country they belong to. Or their parents' countries. US, Europe, Islamic , Arab countries, they were all conquerors and colonisers. They conquered, dispossessed, ruled, oppressed, sometimes slaughtered en masse.
It's good to remind them of that. They descend from colonisers. The Jews don't.
Today there is a difficult situation with the settlers in Israel, a violent minority that breaks laws. They represent only themselves. The State of Israel didn't colonise those areas, even as the current Israeli government has not done nearly enough to combat the phenomenon. Israelis don't want any of it.
But we also remember that between 1948 and 1967 and still into 1988, that territory, called historically Judea and Samaria, was conquered ,occupied,colonised and annexed by Jordan, and all its inhabitants were Jordanians.
As for Gaza, Israel withdrew unilaterally in 2005. Previously, it was not " Palestinian". It was Egyptian.The colonisers of all those territories were Jordan and Egypt.
My daughter took a test of her ancestry and it came out as 12% Jewish and my ex-wife as 25% Jewish. Made sense as her Grandfather and Grandmother were in born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Yes: in my soul. My great grandparents fled Russia/Poland in the mid 19th century, to the U.K., finally settling in Manchester(where two Jews were murdered last year on Yom Kippur, at the synagogue) I’m born and grown up in Scotland, in my 70s, and that - what you said - expresses my feelings so well: it’s in my soul.
Imagine it's morning. You’re in New York, London, or Tokyo. You’re doing what you always do-checking your phone, commuting to work, sending your kids to school, and making plans for what lies ahead.
But just behind this seemingly normal day, a series of unusual challenges are steadily changing our world: A cyberattack causes a disruption in the network at a local hospital and puts a patient’s care on hold.
An AI-powered scam drains a family’s entire savings account. A heat wave breaks the temperature record again and closes the local schools. A drought impacts food production far away, raising the price of your groceries in continents away. As geopolitical tensions bring major shipping lanes to a halt, supply chains buckle and businesses struggle with escalating costs.
To human eyes, these challenges may appear unrelated, but this couldn’t be more untrue.
This generation faces a confluence of interconnected risks unprecedented in history. Both human and technological: The World Economic Forum ranks environmental risks, misinformation, cybersecurity, and geopolitical conflict among the top long-term threats. Environmental hazards are getting worse: The WHO estimates that 7 million premature deaths per year is attributable to air pollution, and the IPCC warns that climate impacts are becoming more frequent and more severe.
Human endeavors in the field of artificial intelligence could bring extraordinary opportunities but also introduce challenging and new questions regarding jobs, privacy, security, and governance. It's not technology that's the challenge. Whether our economies, institutions, and policies can innovate as fast as technology.
For businesses, this is about preparing for a world where resilience equals efficiency.
For governments, this is about prioritizing investment in secure infrastructure, education, healthcare, and adaptation to climate change-while also ensuring the health of democracy and public trust. For our communities, this is about creating the conditions in which we can support one another during times of crisis, strengthen local resilience, and educate the next generation with the skills needed for a hyperconnected, digital world. History is filled with examples that, when innovation meets cooperation-and where knowledge leads to innovation- humanity is able to overcome even the toughest challenges. AI is revolutionizing the way we combat and predict illness, mitigate disaster, optimize energy systems, and prevent fraud.
We are rapidly deploying technologies that use solar power and generate a new source of revenue.
We're on the verge of breakthrough in fields like biotechnology, robotics, and digital infrastructure. Engineers, scientists, innovators, educators, policymakers, and entrepreneurs are already designing the solutions to these problems that seemed unimaginable just ten years ago. But our efforts won’t truly be sustainable without the right support: This will continue to rely on technology and innovative thinking.
Most important, though, our progress can only go as far as our trust, accountability, ethical innovation, and the international co operation it generates. What ever the country-regardless if it is United States, United Kingdom, China or everywhere around - all futures are being intertwined: A natural disaster doesn’t respect borders. A cyberattack can destabilise any corner of the world within minutes.
The financial market reacts in real time to geopolitical risks.
All of us are affected by both the benefits of technologies and threats from it . The central questions for our generation aren't if there are going to be changes-because already exist. The question will be if the humanity as a community and its leaders are going to take the responsibility to shaping this transformation rather than simply reacting to it . The next chapters of history will not be written by technology alone but by our collective will: to cooperate, not to compete ; to innovate ethically, not reckelessly ; to invest in a resilience, not postpone decisions.
Humanity’s legacy won’t be determined by the obstacles it confronted in 2024-but by the will, reason, and wisdom it brought to solve them.
The future isn't waiting; it's being built, and every contribution counts.
"The suffix -ism turns a root word into a noun that means a belief system, an action, or a state of being." Thus we have Catholicism, Protestantism, and so on.
Zion has multiple meanings: a mountain, a temple, a city, a nation. It is an English linguistic construct that attached the "ism" to the word Zion to reduce the Jewish relationship to their unceded, historic, ancestral territory to a recent, artificial political invention.
For Jews, Zion was always the focus of their worship, their collective identity, their ethnicity, their history, their nationality, their Peoplehood.
"some 850,000 Jews [were] pushed out of Arab lands in a single generation."
Heavens, could this be a Jewish Nakba? Do these Jews now come under UNWRA's protection as persecuted Arabs? Or does their Jewishness mean persecution inflicted on them is righteously deserved?
" Israel and the Palestinian territories
Defining a territory is not something assigned on the basis of belief, opinion, bias, or prejudice. It is a legal designation. "Sovereign governments, international law, and central authorities decide what defines a territory. They use legal acts, borders, and administrative rules to set these areas apart." So what legal entity with the authority to do so denominated Judea and Samaria as Palestinian Territories?
"[The Levant] is a region, not a country, and it was always larger than any border later drawn inside it. The Jews come from there. So do the Palestinians, the Jordanians, the Syrians, and the Lebanese."
The destination Palestinian indicates that are one or more of a race, a religion, an ethnicity, a nationality. If they are physically distinct from all the other peoples of the region then then are a race. If Palestinianism is a religion then they fit that category. If their ethnicity is not Arab and they do not identify as Arab and their language is not Arabic, then they are a distinct ethnicity. If they have had a nation from which they or their ancestors originally came, then they are a nationality. Otherwise, a claim to distinctiveness that goes all the way back to 1968 is a politically manufactured identity whose goal is the annihilation of a sovereign state and elimination of its people. In this case, their violence, many written and oral declarations of intent, and incitement against a protected class of people constitutes the crime according to the terms of the UN Genocide Convention.
"More than one people is indigenous to that ground, and saying the Jews are one of them takes nothing from anyone else who is."
Correct, but to include Palestinians within that group violates the definition of indigeneity and selectively ignores history, archeological evidence, International and Customary International Law, the UN founding Charter, and legal precedent.
Jews especially must be careful how they portray "Palestinians" because repeating their finely. honed public image as a legitimate, indigenous people victimized by those vicious, conquering, settler colonizing, apartheidist genocidal Jews is to legitimize that claim in the eyes of the uninformed, ill informed, disinformed, gullible, naive, indifferent population who swallow the purple grape juice.
Excellent, excellent article! Although my DNA test only shows about 10% Ashkenazi ancestry (with the rest being non-Jewish), I‘m still a proud non-Jewish descendant of Jews!
To Robert below, I've taken to writing "Jewish Diaspora" for my ethnicity. For the anonymous writer...I don't see a name.....the book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden gives an excellent history of foods Jews adopted, adapted and eaten. So I 'm happy to eat borscht or kasha. And now felafel is on the menu at every Jewish style deli. Even the Ukrainian one on 2nd Ave. Which has great blintzes. Origin: Hungary. Klezmer is recognizable as Klezmer....as far back as Thoroughly modern Millie in contemporary America....so it's unique gift of the Jews of East Europe. Don't undermine diaspora culture of the Jews. Your other contention....that is great news. That the Muslim Arabized people of "palestine" are natives from centuries ago is the argument of the anti Zionists. It doesn't take into consideration the Syrians, the Egyptians, Moroccans and Arabians who settled in this conquered and despoiled land....pretty much erasing Jewish history till modern times.
Wonderful piece. Sadly facts mean little these days but that doesn’t mean we should stop slapping the world with them. I will save this for future reference.
I am offended at every governmental and non-governmental form I am compelled to complete that does not list Ashkenazi Jews as a race or even an ethnicity. If you can take a blood test and, at the most basic building block of what makes us human, be identified as a distinctive group, then you're a race. Jews also have a common mother language, a set core books and beliefs, as well as a defined set of holidays and foods common to them. That is an ethnicity.
It is time for Jews to demand racial parity with blacks and asians and ethnic parity with hispanics, irish and everyone else who shows up in the master list of acceptable form entries.
Years ago, I sat on the minority affairs committee of the Montgomery County, Md. public schools. I was told that I could not be there as a minority. I replied that I knew that Jews were a minority, the Jewish students knew that they were a minority , and that, when push came to shove, the broader community would treat Jews as the minority they were. To say otherwise was to promote a lie. I was required to leave.
I don't love the part where you were required to leave, but I do love your response.
💔
Government bureaucracy does what government bureaucracy does which is follows political mood with more senseless forms that only contribute to ethnic and racial animosity . Personally, I check myself as "other" in relevant box on these forms .
Just write Jewish under other.
Indeed. The census is historically the way malevolent parts of The State keep the record of us, and when The State starts calling Jews a Race get worried. But I write Jewish on the other part of the form, knowing full well that Israel is my Refuge if and when The State here in Europe becomes Nazi.
I enter Ashkenazi on forms, or “other.” I don’t feel an obligation to fit anyone else’s category list.
I repeat, the Ashkenazi and Mizrahti experiences are not the whole Jewish story. Flasha Ethiopian Jews, and the Jews of Eastern Russia and China are Ethnically distinct from the ethnic Jews of Israel you describe. Thus we are a faith of separate Ethnicities. Certainly I accept that Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews are a broad genetically linked category, and our claim to the Land of Israel as the origin of this is very strong. But to say all Jews are in this category is simply not the case.
Jewish communities around the world have adopted many of the attributes of where they lived. And the Jewish people is comprised of many races as you mentioned. The point of this article is that regardless of where Jews lived, we are connected by history, belief, and blood.
The sequencing of the genome is often the western genome and the population you mention may not have enough published genome data to add to the comparison in the article. Still Jews and still deeply connected to all Jews.
MAZAL TOV! I did my DNA test as well a few years to learn I am 100% Ashkenazi (Eastern Europe). Proud of every drop of my DNA. Recently I watched a very interesting video on YouTube about our DNA and the interesting results of testing Jews from every part of the world, including the Mideast. The scientists have, over many years, read more results and taken even deeper. Jews from all over the world, exception are Jews By Choice, of course, have a commonality that relates to the Mideast. I woke during the night, couldn't get back to sleep, put the TV with YouTube and this video was on. It was fairly and instead of lulling my back to sleep, I watched it all. If this doesn't prove the we are originally from the Mideast, I don't know what will. Am Yisrael Chai!
I too took the 23&Me test. 98+% Ashkenazi. Grandparents emigrated to America in the 1910’s. I was told by my grandparents who were told by their grandparents who were told by their grandparents……….came to Transylvania (Austria-Hungary) by way of the Turkish trade routes from the LEVANTINE. .🙏 It is not only a great historical and scientific piece, it is proof beyond a reasonable doubt we are as much a PEOPLE as a religion. Great explanation. Thanks
Judaism has always maintained we are a people. All of TANACH says so. Whoever says being Jewish only means adherence to the same religion is pathetically wrong.
My brother did a DNA test. It showed that on our father side, the humans that left Africa 60,000 years ago went through the Middle East. But on our mother side, they crossed into Europe. From both directions, they eventually " met" in Eastern Europe, on both sides.No question, conversion to Judaism happened more often than we think, surely amongst women. Thus the non-Middle Eastern physical traits of many Jews.
The " coloniser" accusation, like all other wilful inversions of meaning or deliberate misinformation, such as " apartheid", "progressive", " ethnic cleansing", " genocide", is the most non-sensical of all. A coloniser needs a mother country from which to " colonise" others. There is a mother country, which has "colonies" elsewhere. The Jews never had a country since the last exile by the Romans from the Land of Israel, 2,000 years ago! The Jews never had a country from which they could colonise others. Those Jews that found themselves in British Palestine in 1947 at the time of the partition, were immigrants. In 1948, Arab countries expelled and dispossessed close to a million Jews, the only true Nakba .
The Jews were immigrants, always, forever wandering, expelled, resettling in someone else's country, at the mercy of that country's rulers and populace. Immigrants, not " colonisers". Ask all the vociferous libelling braindead which country they belong to. Or their parents' countries. US, Europe, Islamic , Arab countries, they were all conquerors and colonisers. They conquered, dispossessed, ruled, oppressed, sometimes slaughtered en masse.
It's good to remind them of that. They descend from colonisers. The Jews don't.
Today there is a difficult situation with the settlers in Israel, a violent minority that breaks laws. They represent only themselves. The State of Israel didn't colonise those areas, even as the current Israeli government has not done nearly enough to combat the phenomenon. Israelis don't want any of it.
But we also remember that between 1948 and 1967 and still into 1988, that territory, called historically Judea and Samaria, was conquered ,occupied,colonised and annexed by Jordan, and all its inhabitants were Jordanians.
As for Gaza, Israel withdrew unilaterally in 2005. Previously, it was not " Palestinian". It was Egyptian.The colonisers of all those territories were Jordan and Egypt.
I am a Christian as is my ex-wife.
My daughter took a test of her ancestry and it came out as 12% Jewish and my ex-wife as 25% Jewish. Made sense as her Grandfather and Grandmother were in born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Very proud of that.
Love this. My dad was able to get a detailed ancestry test. He too is from the Levant. We all are. It’s not just in our blood it’s in our souls.
Yes: in my soul. My great grandparents fled Russia/Poland in the mid 19th century, to the U.K., finally settling in Manchester(where two Jews were murdered last year on Yom Kippur, at the synagogue) I’m born and grown up in Scotland, in my 70s, and that - what you said - expresses my feelings so well: it’s in my soul.
🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️
Are you still in Scotland?
Sorry for late response…yes, been here all my life, aside from a brief period in London
Great essay. One question: Why is no author listed?
Imagine it's morning. You’re in New York, London, or Tokyo. You’re doing what you always do-checking your phone, commuting to work, sending your kids to school, and making plans for what lies ahead.
But just behind this seemingly normal day, a series of unusual challenges are steadily changing our world: A cyberattack causes a disruption in the network at a local hospital and puts a patient’s care on hold.
An AI-powered scam drains a family’s entire savings account. A heat wave breaks the temperature record again and closes the local schools. A drought impacts food production far away, raising the price of your groceries in continents away. As geopolitical tensions bring major shipping lanes to a halt, supply chains buckle and businesses struggle with escalating costs.
To human eyes, these challenges may appear unrelated, but this couldn’t be more untrue.
This generation faces a confluence of interconnected risks unprecedented in history. Both human and technological: The World Economic Forum ranks environmental risks, misinformation, cybersecurity, and geopolitical conflict among the top long-term threats. Environmental hazards are getting worse: The WHO estimates that 7 million premature deaths per year is attributable to air pollution, and the IPCC warns that climate impacts are becoming more frequent and more severe.
Human endeavors in the field of artificial intelligence could bring extraordinary opportunities but also introduce challenging and new questions regarding jobs, privacy, security, and governance. It's not technology that's the challenge. Whether our economies, institutions, and policies can innovate as fast as technology.
For businesses, this is about preparing for a world where resilience equals efficiency.
For governments, this is about prioritizing investment in secure infrastructure, education, healthcare, and adaptation to climate change-while also ensuring the health of democracy and public trust. For our communities, this is about creating the conditions in which we can support one another during times of crisis, strengthen local resilience, and educate the next generation with the skills needed for a hyperconnected, digital world. History is filled with examples that, when innovation meets cooperation-and where knowledge leads to innovation- humanity is able to overcome even the toughest challenges. AI is revolutionizing the way we combat and predict illness, mitigate disaster, optimize energy systems, and prevent fraud.
We are rapidly deploying technologies that use solar power and generate a new source of revenue.
We're on the verge of breakthrough in fields like biotechnology, robotics, and digital infrastructure. Engineers, scientists, innovators, educators, policymakers, and entrepreneurs are already designing the solutions to these problems that seemed unimaginable just ten years ago. But our efforts won’t truly be sustainable without the right support: This will continue to rely on technology and innovative thinking.
Most important, though, our progress can only go as far as our trust, accountability, ethical innovation, and the international co operation it generates. What ever the country-regardless if it is United States, United Kingdom, China or everywhere around - all futures are being intertwined: A natural disaster doesn’t respect borders. A cyberattack can destabilise any corner of the world within minutes.
The financial market reacts in real time to geopolitical risks.
All of us are affected by both the benefits of technologies and threats from it . The central questions for our generation aren't if there are going to be changes-because already exist. The question will be if the humanity as a community and its leaders are going to take the responsibility to shaping this transformation rather than simply reacting to it . The next chapters of history will not be written by technology alone but by our collective will: to cooperate, not to compete ; to innovate ethically, not reckelessly ; to invest in a resilience, not postpone decisions.
Humanity’s legacy won’t be determined by the obstacles it confronted in 2024-but by the will, reason, and wisdom it brought to solve them.
The future isn't waiting; it's being built, and every contribution counts.
"long before Zionism was a word."
"The suffix -ism turns a root word into a noun that means a belief system, an action, or a state of being." Thus we have Catholicism, Protestantism, and so on.
Zion has multiple meanings: a mountain, a temple, a city, a nation. It is an English linguistic construct that attached the "ism" to the word Zion to reduce the Jewish relationship to their unceded, historic, ancestral territory to a recent, artificial political invention.
For Jews, Zion was always the focus of their worship, their collective identity, their ethnicity, their history, their nationality, their Peoplehood.
"some 850,000 Jews [were] pushed out of Arab lands in a single generation."
Heavens, could this be a Jewish Nakba? Do these Jews now come under UNWRA's protection as persecuted Arabs? Or does their Jewishness mean persecution inflicted on them is righteously deserved?
" Israel and the Palestinian territories
Defining a territory is not something assigned on the basis of belief, opinion, bias, or prejudice. It is a legal designation. "Sovereign governments, international law, and central authorities decide what defines a territory. They use legal acts, borders, and administrative rules to set these areas apart." So what legal entity with the authority to do so denominated Judea and Samaria as Palestinian Territories?
"[The Levant] is a region, not a country, and it was always larger than any border later drawn inside it. The Jews come from there. So do the Palestinians, the Jordanians, the Syrians, and the Lebanese."
The destination Palestinian indicates that are one or more of a race, a religion, an ethnicity, a nationality. If they are physically distinct from all the other peoples of the region then then are a race. If Palestinianism is a religion then they fit that category. If their ethnicity is not Arab and they do not identify as Arab and their language is not Arabic, then they are a distinct ethnicity. If they have had a nation from which they or their ancestors originally came, then they are a nationality. Otherwise, a claim to distinctiveness that goes all the way back to 1968 is a politically manufactured identity whose goal is the annihilation of a sovereign state and elimination of its people. In this case, their violence, many written and oral declarations of intent, and incitement against a protected class of people constitutes the crime according to the terms of the UN Genocide Convention.
"More than one people is indigenous to that ground, and saying the Jews are one of them takes nothing from anyone else who is."
Correct, but to include Palestinians within that group violates the definition of indigeneity and selectively ignores history, archeological evidence, International and Customary International Law, the UN founding Charter, and legal precedent.
Jews especially must be careful how they portray "Palestinians" because repeating their finely. honed public image as a legitimate, indigenous people victimized by those vicious, conquering, settler colonizing, apartheidist genocidal Jews is to legitimize that claim in the eyes of the uninformed, ill informed, disinformed, gullible, naive, indifferent population who swallow the purple grape juice.
Excellent, excellent article! Although my DNA test only shows about 10% Ashkenazi ancestry (with the rest being non-Jewish), I‘m still a proud non-Jewish descendant of Jews!
To Robert below, I've taken to writing "Jewish Diaspora" for my ethnicity. For the anonymous writer...I don't see a name.....the book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden gives an excellent history of foods Jews adopted, adapted and eaten. So I 'm happy to eat borscht or kasha. And now felafel is on the menu at every Jewish style deli. Even the Ukrainian one on 2nd Ave. Which has great blintzes. Origin: Hungary. Klezmer is recognizable as Klezmer....as far back as Thoroughly modern Millie in contemporary America....so it's unique gift of the Jews of East Europe. Don't undermine diaspora culture of the Jews. Your other contention....that is great news. That the Muslim Arabized people of "palestine" are natives from centuries ago is the argument of the anti Zionists. It doesn't take into consideration the Syrians, the Egyptians, Moroccans and Arabians who settled in this conquered and despoiled land....pretty much erasing Jewish history till modern times.
Wonderful piece. Sadly facts mean little these days but that doesn’t mean we should stop slapping the world with them. I will save this for future reference.