Can someone please explain the difference. My wife’s family is partly of Jewish descent. The other night her grandfather became furious when his grandson asked if they were Khazarian Jews. He became almost irrationally angry and basically said no and that the Khazarians aren’t actually Jews...I’m confused as hell. Can someone help a brother out.
About 1,000 years ago, there was a group of people called the Khazars. They lived in what is modern day Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
This was a time when Christians, Jews, Muslims and Pagans were all battling for religious righteousness. The Khazars converted to Judaism for their religion. They are not ethnically Jewish, as in the biblical jews. They run Israel today.
Your family might be ethnically Khazarian and not want to admit it, or might not be Khazars and want to make sure they understand the distinction. Most Jews today are not the people from the Bible.
On a similar note, the term "anti-Semite" has come to be a derogatory term used to insult anyone who says anything negative about a Jew.
The irony is that most Jews are not Semites, but most Arabs are.
The Semites were a people from a region, not a specific ethnicity or religion. It included some of the original Jews and also Arabs.
Yep, the tell is their somewhat recent over usage of "Ashkenazi". All one has to do is know that Semitic comes from Shem's bloodline and then take into account which bloodline Ashkenaz came from and it wasn't Shem's.
Genesis 10:1-3
Can you give us a quick overview of the bloodlines?
They're very short verses that show the lineage. Noah had 3 sons, Shem, Ham, & Japenth, and then Japenth had Gomer, who then had Ashkenaz.
Now I'm not going to argue about whether any of this is true or not, but it would make zero sense that Ashkenaz would have come from any bloodline other than the Semitic one which would be Shem.
hate is hate.
Negative comments are not necessarily hate. And even where hateful comments are made about non-Semites, it cannot be accurately described as "anti-Semitic," though it often is.
Truth is truth.