The word Semitic comes from the race of peoples in ancient Sumer from whom the biblical Jews claimed to have emerged. Sem or Shem, one of the sons of Noah in the Bible stories, is said to be of this line and the origin appears to have been the legend of ‘Shemjaza’, the ‘heavenly son and guardian angel of God’. According to several Jewish writers, including Arthur Koestler, in his book The Thirteenth Tribe, very few Jews today can trace their genetic ancestry back to the Semite line of this period and/or the Semitic line in Palestine and Israel at the time of Y’shua (Jesus). Instead, they are the genetic descendants of a people of Turkish-Mongolian-Nordic ancestry called the Khazars who converted to the Jewish religion in 740AD.
The Khazars lived in lower Russia between the Black and Caspian Seas. They were between the Christian and Islamic worlds and their leader chose to accept the Jewish faith to avoid being swamped by the empires of the perceived alternatives. Most Jews today, Koestler says, originate from these people, not the Semitic line. In fact, to call someone ‘anti-Semitic’ is, more accurately, to call them ‘anti-Arab’, because more members of the old Semite race are Arab than are Jewish! After the breakup of the Khazar empire by the thirteenth century, the people who adopted the Jewish faith either stayed on in Russia or, in the case of the majority, moved on into what became the Balkans, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany.
The name Rothschild came from the Red Shield, the symbol of the Khazar “Jews” in eastern Europe (German: rotes schild = red shield). The Rothschild family have no more an historic link to Palestine than an eskimo. The ‘Jewish’ hooked nose does not originate from the biblical Israel. It has its genetic origins in the Caucasus. The classic Jewish face of Y’shua (Jesus) is a myth. He would not have looked anything like that because he was not born in Lower Russia.
As Koestler wrote, “Anthropology concurs with history in refuting the popular belief in a Jewish race descended from the biblical tribe”. The Jewish-born Christian bishop, Hugh Montefiore, said in the Church Times of January 24th 1992, that: “Anti-Semitism is built on a powerful racial myth, accepted by Jews and anti-Semites alike”. Yet it is members of the genetic stream which has no connection whatsoever with Palestine, who were behind the creation of Israel and today’s continued suppression of Palestinian rights.
The Jewish writer Alfred M. Lilienthal goes further. He says there is no such thing as a Jewish “race”. To be “Jewish” is to follow the Jewish religious faith and has nothing to do with race because, he says, people of endless races converted to the Jewish faith over thousands of years, so creating a vast cocktail of different genetic streams who called themselves Jewish. In his courageous book, What Price Israel?, Lilienthal points out: “The most persuasive argument the Jewish nationalist could advance for Zionism is based on the hypothesis of a ‘Hebrew-Semitic race’. But most members of such a ‘race’ would be found amongst the Arabic peoples of the Middle East, the overwhelming majority of whom do not profess the Jewish faith.
The Arabs, bitter enemies of the Israelis who have returned to their reported ‘racial home’, most closely resemble those Jews who are indigenous to Palestine and the Middle East; for they are of poorer Hebrew-Israelite blood than most of those who have been ‘ingathered’… The allegation that Arabs are anti-Semitic is somewhat ludicrous. “… it is, in fact, the unanimous conclusion of all anthropologists, from Weissenberg, Hertz and Fishberg (themselves Jews), to Boas, Ripley, Mead, Pittard and others that wherever Jews are found, they closely resemble the people amongst whom they live.
Even those of common family names supposedly traceable to the ancient Hebrew tribes, such as Levites (Levi) and Kohanim (Kohn, Coehn, Cohn) have little physical resemblence to one another. There is not one racial characteristic common to all who profess to be Jews.”
The Khazars lived in lower Russia between the Black and Caspian Seas. They were between the Christian and Islamic worlds and their leader chose to accept the Jewish faith to avoid being swamped by the empires of the perceived alternatives. Most Jews today, Koestler says, originate from these people, not the Semitic line. In fact, to call someone ‘anti-Semitic’ is, more accurately, to call them ‘anti-Arab’, because more members of the old Semite race are Arab than are Jewish! After the breakup of the Khazar empire by the thirteenth century, the people who adopted the Jewish faith either stayed on in Russia or, in the case of the majority, moved on into what became the Balkans, Lithuania, Poland, and Germany.
The name Rothschild came from the Red Shield, the symbol of the Khazar “Jews” in eastern Europe (German: rotes schild = red shield). The Rothschild family have no more an historic link to Palestine than an eskimo. The ‘Jewish’ hooked nose does not originate from the biblical Israel. It has its genetic origins in the Caucasus. The classic Jewish face of Y’shua (Jesus) is a myth. He would not have looked anything like that because he was not born in Lower Russia.
As Koestler wrote, “Anthropology concurs with history in refuting the popular belief in a Jewish race descended from the biblical tribe”. The Jewish-born Christian bishop, Hugh Montefiore, said in the Church Times of January 24th 1992, that: “Anti-Semitism is built on a powerful racial myth, accepted by Jews and anti-Semites alike”. Yet it is members of the genetic stream which has no connection whatsoever with Palestine, who were behind the creation of Israel and today’s continued suppression of Palestinian rights.
The Jewish writer Alfred M. Lilienthal goes further. He says there is no such thing as a Jewish “race”. To be “Jewish” is to follow the Jewish religious faith and has nothing to do with race because, he says, people of endless races converted to the Jewish faith over thousands of years, so creating a vast cocktail of different genetic streams who called themselves Jewish. In his courageous book, What Price Israel?, Lilienthal points out: “The most persuasive argument the Jewish nationalist could advance for Zionism is based on the hypothesis of a ‘Hebrew-Semitic race’. But most members of such a ‘race’ would be found amongst the Arabic peoples of the Middle East, the overwhelming majority of whom do not profess the Jewish faith.
The Arabs, bitter enemies of the Israelis who have returned to their reported ‘racial home’, most closely resemble those Jews who are indigenous to Palestine and the Middle East; for they are of poorer Hebrew-Israelite blood than most of those who have been ‘ingathered’… The allegation that Arabs are anti-Semitic is somewhat ludicrous. “… it is, in fact, the unanimous conclusion of all anthropologists, from Weissenberg, Hertz and Fishberg (themselves Jews), to Boas, Ripley, Mead, Pittard and others that wherever Jews are found, they closely resemble the people amongst whom they live.
Even those of common family names supposedly traceable to the ancient Hebrew tribes, such as Levites (Levi) and Kohanim (Kohn, Coehn, Cohn) have little physical resemblence to one another. There is not one racial characteristic common to all who profess to be Jews.”