[ckilmer]

Well Abraham was Semitic, Amorite in origin, the second wave of Semitic people from Yemen who came to Mesopotamia after the Akkadians
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Why then are the Kurds of northern Iraq said to be related to the Jews if the Jews came from Yemen.

[Cronos]

I never heard of Kurds being related to Jews. Kurds are not Semites -- they are an Irani people, speaking an Irani language. They are most likely descendents of the Cardusii (a people who lived on the western bank of the caspian during Achaemenid times) or the Medes or both

Though of course, they could also have Jewish blood or Israelite blood due to centuries of living next to each other