Reading Arthur Koestler, _The Thirteenth Tribe_, and...what the heck?
Noah > *Japheth* > Gomer > Ashkenaz
(Genesis 10)
The Ashkenazi ... aren't even Semites?
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Discussion
Sir, I think you are banned from everything now 😂
Not sure I follow. Give me the pbs kids version
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob descend from Shem, one of the three sons of Noah. They are, therefore, S(h)emites. Hence the term, 'anti-Semite.'
If the _Ashkenazi_ Jews are descended not from Shem, but from Japheth...then that rather confuses the narrative a bit about being 'God's Chosen' who have a 'divine right' to the land. A rather important talking point these days...
...I think I'm about to fall into an absolutely cavernous rabbit hole...
I'm starting to think the star of David is a Masonic symbol and only an illusion of being Jewish, and the narion of Israel has nothing to do with Judaism
The Khazars (Eastern Europeans) evidently converted to Judaism around 740 A.D. as an opportunistic way to maintain independance from, and a measure of peaceful relations with, the Islamic Turks to the Southeast and the Christians (Byzantine) to the Northwest...
Their own documents (if accurate) trace their ancestry through Ashkenaz to Japheth...
Which also means they're of the line of Gomer and so related more closely to the Gernanic family line that to the actual Semites...what a mess...
[[ Interesting anecdote, this explains why my in-laws who are of Polish-Ukrainian descent have Ashkenazi blood markers--I'd always been confused by that but only out of ignorance. ]]
I'm about halfway done with Koestler, might read Schlomo Sand next.
Yes they aren’t
Additionally majority of Askenazis are converts from the Khazars in like the 9th and 10th century. Great read on this is Shlomo Sand who makes this case as an Ashlenazi Jew living in Israel himself.
So as these non-Semitic Ashkenazi Jews genocide the native Palestinians (many of whom are actual descendants of semites), and then when the world calls them out on their evil they call it “anti-semitism.”
It so blatantly outrageous that it almost seems intentional. Like “all of this is so fraudulent and obvious yet as a flex we will still have these goys calling us semites as we wipe the face of the earth of real Semites.”
...100%.
And the vast majority of (American, evangelical) Christians support this, because of the false religion* of dispensationalism. Almost like this qualifies as a 'strong delusion' that will deceive many--except the elect.
*I think it was Gerstner who argued that dispensationalism was such a perversion that it could be considered a different religion altogether.
...followed, by the way.
Absolutely. Truly a cancerous theology with profound real world implications we see playing out in real time in the most gruesome, violent ways imaginable.
Christians can’t call out blasphemy if they are not first able to identify it. And unfortunately the biblical illiteracy of the average American Christian today is appalling. On top of that, many of us are too cowardly to speak truth. We have the prophetic edge of a butter knife.
That said, unbelievably hopeful with how widespread this exposure of dispensationalism is becoming. I know that I have absolutely zero filter on this topic online or in person these days and it’s incredibly freeing to not be scared or ashamed to speak up for the truth