“the dispute is over whether it was just the rulers / ruling class and/or the populace”
Just the rulers??? Trying to substitute fantasy for common sense.
“AND the asinine claim that all the Jews who had migrated into Europe were wiped out exterminated/assimilated before then”
There were Sephardic Jews in Spain, which is in Europe, and there were Jews in Rome (Jews in Rome claim they are descendants from them) and Rome is in Europe.
And probably the Jutes were Jews.
“Just the rulers??? Trying to substitute fantasy for common sense.”
Try getting your head out of your *ss.
Try reading RESPECTED CONTEMPORARY historians and DNA researchers. you had the link - you ignored it, you fart nonsense like all Jew hating leftists who have their heads up the rear ends.
Here’s your stupid Wiki sourceL
“The Thirteenth Tribe is a 1976 book by Arthur Koestler, which the author advances the thesis that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from the historical Israelites of antiquity, but from Khazars, a Turkic people. Koestler hypothesized that the Khazars (who may have converted to Judaism in the 8th century) migrated westwards into Eastern Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries when the Khazar Empire was collapsing.”
“thesis”
“hypothesized’
“Khazars (who MAY have converted to Judaism...”)
Do you know what those words mean, or are they too big for you?
“Koestler used previous works by Douglas Morton Dunlop, Raphael Patai and Abraham Polak as sources. His stated intent was to make antisemitism disappear by disproving its racial basis.”
PRE-DNA. And the irony that anti-semites would use his stupid novel to justify annihilating Israel.
“Popular reviews of the book were mixed, academic critiques of its research were generally negative, and Koestler biographers David Cesarani and Michael Scammell panned it.”
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In other words, EVERYONE SAID IT WAS BULLSH*T.
Also there were Jews ALL OVER EUROPE who weren’t Sephardic. You’re clearly trying to get up your nerve, so take your nazi/Celtic/replacement theory anti-Jew troll you’re spewing and BIOYA.