Speaking last month at his Fatah party’s Revolutionary Council, Abbas outlined the baseless theory that Ashkenazi Jews are not descended from ancient Israelites but an ancient Turkish people known as the Khazars, who according to a discredited theory converted to Judaism en masse.
“The truth that we should clarify to the world is that European Jews are not Semites,” Abbas said, according to a translation of his remarks by the Middle East Media Research Institute. “They have nothing to do with Semitism.”
“So when we hear them talk about Semitism and antisemitism, the Ashkenazi Jews, at least, are not Semites,” he added.
Abbas has previously claimed publicly that Ashkenazi Jews are the descendants of Khazars, including a 2018 speech in which he charged that Jews’ “social behavior” caused the Holocaust, another assertion he reiterated in his recent speech.
The topic gets funky because per Talmudism someone's status as a "Jew" is only measured by matrilineal genealogy and is not measured by genetics. Meanwhile, "Jew" when measured by genetics is a completely different story.
The strangeness is that you could have someone that is genetically 99.999% non-Jew Canaanite and within Talmudism could still be counted as a "Jew" due to matrilineal pedigree.
And by Talmudism, there is no such thing as a "part Jew". One either is or isn't.
The_Reunto 0 points 7 months ago
The topic gets funky because per Talmudism someone's status as a "Jew" is only measured by matrilineal genealogy and is not measured by genetics. Meanwhile, "Jew" when measured by genetics is a completely different story.
The strangeness is that you could have someone that is genetically 99.999% non-Jew Canaanite and within Talmudism could still be counted as a "Jew" due to matrilineal pedigree.
And by Talmudism, there is no such thing as a "part Jew". One either is or isn't.