re: #47 Sergey Romanov

It’s of course the same sort of racism as when antisemites claim that Jews are Khazars.

No, it’s more akin to the whole ‘Israel is illegitimate because the majority of Jewish Israelis’ ancestors arrived in the area during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. How come they didn’t just stay where they were? How come they needed a state?” routine. Self-determination being dependent on meeting a certain arbitrary standard of historical ‘authenticity’, and ignoring actual historical events and pressures.

Much of what he’s saying there is, to a degree, historically accurate, just as it’s accurate to point out that the great boom in the proto-Israeli population happened after WWII. It just doesn’t HELP anything.