Well, are these true Jews with genetic roots back to the 12 Tribes?
Or are they Khazar Jews who are descended from a Caucasian ethnicity that adopted Judaism for political and economic power (so they wouldn’t have to fight the Muslims on one side of their empire and the Christians on the other side)?
I think a lot of Jewish Americans who are not practicing Jews and who are hardcore secularists (that is, JINOs) and who use their “Jewish heritage/culture” to push a socialist/communist agenda have more in common with the character of the Khazars than they do the Jews I study in the Old Testament.
Titus destroyed the genealogical records when he destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD. Nobody can verify that they go back to Abraham.
So, do all Jews from North Africa, Yemen, Iraq and Persia also descend from Khazar converts?
Or are they Khazar Jews who are descended from a Caucasian ethnicity that adopted Judaism for political and economic power (so they wouldn’t have to fight the Muslims on one side of their empire and the Christians on the other side)?
I think a lot of Jewish Americans who are not practicing Jews and who are hardcore secularists (that is, JINOs) and who use their “Jewish heritage/culture” to push a socialist/communist agenda have more in common with the character of the Khazars than they do the Jews I study in the Old Testament.
First of all, the idea that "liberal Jews" are liberal because they aren't really Hebrews but "Khazars" is pseudoscientific nonsense. The whole "Khazar" thing was seized upon by Arthur Koestler (a non-observant Jew) for the purpose of getting Jews declassified as Semites so anti-Semites wouldn't hate them any more.
What happened was that those same people turned around and then started hating them for not being Semites. Koestler's suggestion was taken up by Jew-haters who have run with it ever since.
I have no doubt that to your mind the "real Jews" of the "old testament" were chrstians. Of course, it is historically impossible because chrstianity did not exist at the time. They were Torah observant Jews just as Orthodox Jews are today, except that they lived the original Jewish context of a Theocratic state in the Holy Land rather than as an "oppressed urban left-wing minority."
I actually agree with you that the behavior of most Jews today--even the religious ones--is quite disappointing in comparison to Yehoshu`a Bin Nun (who exterminated whole nations because G-d ordered him to rather than build a "museum of tolerance" or engage in secular zeitgeist terminology). But none of this is due to genes or chromosomes. It is because Jews lost their original Theocratic sovereignty so long ago most now can't even remember it and seem to reflexively define themselves as a "minority group" on all issues whatsoever ("if they come for the gays, we're next!!!"). Though please note on the last example that American conservative chrstians sound like liberals when they criticize moslems for "persecuting gays" and not having "separation of church and state."
The crowning event in this tragic descent, however, was the eighteenth century European "enlightenment" which has been internalized to such an extent that for most Jews, Voltaire might as well have been the messiah.
PS: Voltaire was an anti-Semite, as were most of the "enlightenment" philosophers.
PS. I am one of those Jews with some Khazar ancestry on my father's side. That doesn't make us leftists.
The Khazar rulers were Turkic peoples who ruled what is now southern Russia and the Ukraine for centuries around the birth of Islam. They were turkic, not caucasian. They ruled over Slavic, Germanic, Irani (Alan), Ugric peoples, but there is no evidence that these ruled-over peoples ever converted to Judaism
The elites converted to Judaism -- it is conjecture to say they did it for political or economic reasons -- they could have stayed with shamanism or Tengriism
Also note that European Jews share the same genetic materials as Jews from the middle east, india, etc
Many of today’s modern Eastern European Jews for sure bear Khazar physical traits
Israel has done a good bit of scholarship on this all controversial
It’s ironic that a people’s who so eschew the religion given them by God in contrast are dead serious about the business of who is Jewish or not
Which tells me they know it’s a divine birthright and that they are wrong to deny at a minimum their original pre Talmudic instruction handed them specifically by the creator of all we know or ever will