By the mid-C20, the idea that Eastern European #Jews were the descendants of #medieval #Khazar converts had become the province of cranks & #antisemites (usually both). Although the #Arab states tried to invoke this canard in the 1947 #UN Partition debate, they made relatively little global use of it afterward. It is thus very disturbing that this canard is again popular--among the racist lunatic right, but also in some Arab and pseudo-left discourse on #Israel and #Palestine #Mazeldon 3/n