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exclusively to the people who today are known as Jews. In fact few thing could be further
from the truth!
Interestingly, the words Semite, Semitism and anti-Semitism do not even appear in the 1828
edition of Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language.
They were coined
only toward the end of the last century.
So, who are the Semites?
The Semites are, according to the highly authoritative Oxford Universal Dictionary, 1944 (p.
1838) the people belonging to the race of mankind which includes most of the peoples
mentioned in Genesis 10 as descended from Shem, son of Noah, as the Arabs, Hebrews,
Assyrians, and Arameans, and speaking a Semitic language as their native tongue.
Well, most people in the world would answer the question whether the modern Jew is of
Hebrew or Semitic origin with a clear “yes”!
False!
This is simply not true. The Jews in
modern society have nothing to do with the ancient Hebrews of biblical times. For decades
we never thought of even questioning this basic assumption.
Actually, it is an historical fact that some 95 percent of modern Jewry are not of Semitic
stock.
They are of Turkish stock – the so-called Khazars.
“The Khazars came not from Jordan, but from the Volga, not from Canaan, but from the
Caucasus.
Genetically they are more related to the Hun, Uigur and Magyar than to the seed
of Abraham, Isaac and Jakob.
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from
the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax that history has ever perpetrated.” (Arthur
Koestler, The Thirteenth Tribe).
Let me give you some quick overview of the history of the Khazars.
“The Jews of our times fall into two main divisions: Sephardim and Ashkenazim.
The
Sephardim are the descendants of the Jews who since antiquity have lived in Spain
(Hebrew: Shepard) until they were expelled at the end of the fifteenth century. In the 1960s,
the number of Sephardim was estimated at 500,000.
The Ashkenazim or Khazar Jews as
the same time numbered about 11 million.” (The Thirteenth Tribe, p.181)
The Jewish Encyclopaedia tells us about the Khazars (spelling varies) “Chazars: A people of
Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with the very beginning of the history of
the Jews in Russia…driven on by the nomadic tribes of the steppes and by their own desire
for pluder and revenge. In the second half of the sixth century the Chazars moved
westwards…the kingdom of the Chazars was firmly established in most of southern Russia
long before the foundation of the Russian monarchy by the Vangarians (855 AD). At this
time the kingdom of the Chazars stood at the height of its power and was constantly at war.
At the end of the eighth century…the chagan (king) of the Chazars and his grandees,
together with a large number of his heathen people, embraced the Jewish religion.
(Having
the Christians to their left and the Muslims to their right they were asked to join either one of
those religions, but the chagan out of protest chose the Jewish religion).
The Jewish
population of the entire domain of the Chazars, in the period between the seventh and
eighth century, must have been substantial. About the ninth century it appears as if all the
Chazars were Jews and that they had
been converted to Judaism only a short time before.
It was one of the successors of Bulan named Obadiah, who regenerated the kingdom and
strengthened the Jewish religion.
“He invited Jewish scholars to settle in his dominion and founded synagogues and schools.
The people were instructed in the Bible, Mishnah and the Talmud and the divine service of
the hazzanim… In their writings the Chazars used the Hebrew letters… the Chazar
language predominated…
“The Russian Varangians established themselves at Kiev… until the final conquest of the
Chazars by the Russians after a hard fight. Four years later the Russians conquered all the
Chazarian territory east of the Azov river. Many members of the Chazarian royal family
