I can readily accept that the ’13th tribe’ should not be taken literally. After all it was written by a communist in dispute with the zionists for the jewish soul.

The 13th tribe myth was promoted as an alternative to the holy land myth.

But it did draw attention to the existence of a large thriving jewish population in Russia and Poland, that spoke Yiddish and had no historical blood ties to the Holy Land.

Er, no. Modern genetic research refutes the idea that any but a few at court in the Khazar kingdom converted and transmitted their genes to today’s Jewry.

Koestler was probably sincere, while enjoying mischief-making, but anyone who still talks about Khazaria as the real place of origin of Israelis is ‘avin’ a larf.

My interest in all this is the ‘centuries of persecution’ and ‘irrational hatred’ schtick.

Ever since Flavius Josephus, the unpopularity of Jews among their gentile hosts and neighbours has been a recurrent theme of history. The Jews pitch up in a new country, get persecuted into positions of wealth and influence, then get kicked out or worse.

Is it really ALL down to blind prejudice… or does it ever occur to the more thoughtful of them that, you know, they might be doing something wrong?

Oh no! Perish the thought! Evil Nazi Alert!

It would be like asking the rest of humanity to make covenant between muslim and kuffar, the term only exists in Islam, no it is on their heads to relinquish a barbaric belief or suffer as they deserve to suffer, in return for the suffering they cause.

Haven’t yet seen the Barghouti documentary, but would also suggest reading (along the same line) Ramzy Baroud’s book, “My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story.)

And they achieved it, but after the initial conflict, refused to make peace with their neighbours. They should have learned from e.g. New Zealand, where the English settlers came to an accommodation with the Maori to share the land.

The only ‘logical’ explanation for this, is that the Zionists are still awaiting the arrival of all the European jews. But its not going to happen, because although the Diaspora may empathise with Israel they have no intention of living there.

‘Logically’ the Zionists must know this and should settle for a Jewish homeland with international guarantees, and a diaspora made secure by supporting democratic institutions and not having to defend the actions of extremist Israeli governments.

Their problem is, the failure to make peace is destroying the Zionist project, by changing the demographics of Israel. And it is this change that will lead the Zionist lobby (despite its apparent omnipotence) to suddenly collapse, like the Berlin Wall.

This is because in order to pursue the conflict, Israel has looked around for other jews and non Jewish jews to boost numbers and man the factories.

This has led to a rise in the ethnic Arab Jewish population (the real Semitic jews!), Russian non Jewish jews (said they were jews to escape the Soviet Union) and other nationalities as ‘guest workers’.

This process, which takes time, is changing the face of Israel from a European to an Arab/mixed one and will eventually turn Israel into just another country in the Middle-East.

And this trend is leading to the de-Zionization of Anglo Jewry.