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Jim Wald

When became | Al Mayadeen

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Sigh. Here we go again with the myth. 🙄
Slick piece of historical denial, combining fragments of fact with rhetorical sleight of hand & pure nonsense.
The conversion happened but did not embrace the masses of the population or leave major identifiable traces in the Jewish gene pool.
Sand's polemical book is simply bad history. Elhaik's provocative hypothesis has not garnered significant scientific support

Al Mayadeen EnglishWhen Europeans became SemitesResearchers, historians, and theologians have debated the origins of European Jewry for centuries. Except for the roughly 100 Jewish captives who were brought to Rome as slaves in the period 66-73, European literature offers little information linking European Jews to Palestine, nor a significant collective presence or widespread persecution of Jews prior to the 11th century.