That was really interesting and informative! I want to read the Roy Cohen book—what was the author on that?
As far as the new khazarian hypothesis, I always hated the old one bc it didn’t make much sense to me, as there are no Turkish groups who have similar cognitive profiles to Ashkenazi Jews, but it has been definitively disproven with dna analysis. Two groups like this hypothesis: Christian antisemites who did not want Ashkenazis to be the people of the Old Testament, but also Jewish humanitarians who sought to weaken the notion of a Jewish genetic claim to Israel. Arthur Koestler did the most to promulgate the theory(who invented it?) in that 13th tribe book. Somewhere Koestler complained that Israel was in danger of becoming a “shitty little Sparta,” so I presume that was his motivation, similar to that Schlomo sand guy who published a book back in the 2000s. The Phoenician hypothesis, since Phoenicians have Semitic blood and are very closely related to Jews, resuscitates a form of the khazarian hypothesis that fits the dna evidence. However, recent dna analysis has shown that in fact Phoenicians and Carthaginians actually had primarily southern European dna and only a vestige of Semitic dna, and some Berber among Carthaginians, which would be expected in North Africa. So the Phoenician hypothesis doesn’t really work either.
mike piper definitely was onto trump and wrote an article (or a chapter in one of his books) on trump being part of Resorts International back around 1980 which if i recall right was set up by meyer lansky and the like.
Loved this! Great to see/hear Kevin in fine form. Well done + thank you both.
good one, thanks.
Wow! It's not the kool-aid. It's the punch bowl! 🥣
That was really interesting and informative! I want to read the Roy Cohen book—what was the author on that?
As far as the new khazarian hypothesis, I always hated the old one bc it didn’t make much sense to me, as there are no Turkish groups who have similar cognitive profiles to Ashkenazi Jews, but it has been definitively disproven with dna analysis. Two groups like this hypothesis: Christian antisemites who did not want Ashkenazis to be the people of the Old Testament, but also Jewish humanitarians who sought to weaken the notion of a Jewish genetic claim to Israel. Arthur Koestler did the most to promulgate the theory(who invented it?) in that 13th tribe book. Somewhere Koestler complained that Israel was in danger of becoming a “shitty little Sparta,” so I presume that was his motivation, similar to that Schlomo sand guy who published a book back in the 2000s. The Phoenician hypothesis, since Phoenicians have Semitic blood and are very closely related to Jews, resuscitates a form of the khazarian hypothesis that fits the dna evidence. However, recent dna analysis has shown that in fact Phoenicians and Carthaginians actually had primarily southern European dna and only a vestige of Semitic dna, and some Berber among Carthaginians, which would be expected in North Africa. So the Phoenician hypothesis doesn’t really work either.
mike piper definitely was onto trump and wrote an article (or a chapter in one of his books) on trump being part of Resorts International back around 1980 which if i recall right was set up by meyer lansky and the like.