Some time ago, an email was forwarded to me. A reader wrote that in Christian circles in Germany – and apparently on various Telegram channels as well – people were seriously debating whether today’s Jewish people are even identical to the Israel of the Bible. Whether the promises still apply. Whether the covenant still has an address. Or whether we might perhaps be a historical case of mistaken identity.
This debate is accompanied by the by-now familiar ingredients: Epstein Files, Rothschild, Rockefeller, allegedly corrupt elites who supposedly “built” the State of Israel in 1948. And of course it resurfaces again – the Khazar thesis. Today’s Jews are supposedly not descendants of the Israelites at all, but instead descended from a Turkic people from the Middle Ages.
You read that – and briefly wonder whether to laugh or shake your head.
I decided to do both.
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I was born in Oldenburg. My father was Norwegian, my mother a German Jew. Israel was not...
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