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Ashkenazi Jews are Imposters in Palestine

Monday, March 16, 2026 17:01

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“Many Palestinians (Muslim and Christian) are, according to Sand, the genetic and cultural descendants of the Jews who stayed in the land after the Roman period and later adopted new religions. This undermines claims that modern Jews have a unique ethnic-historical right to the territory.”

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Shlomo Sand’s The Invention of the Jewish People (2008, English translation 2009) is a controversial work by an Israeli historian that challenges the traditional Zionist narrative of Jewish history and identity.

Core Thesis

Sand argues that the idea of a unified, continuous “Jewish people” — understood as a single ethnic-national group with shared biological origins in ancient Israel, forcibly exiled by the Romans, and later returning to their ancestral homeland — is a modern invention rather than a historical fact.

This concept, he claims, was largely constructed in the 19th century under the influence of European nationalist ideas (especially German concepts of the “Volk”) and solidified by Zionist historiography to provide ideological justification for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine/Israel.

Key Arguments

No mass exile occurred Contrary to widespread belief, the Romans did not carry out a large-scale expulsion or deportation of Jews from Judea after the destruction of the Second Temple (70 CE) or the Bar Kokhba revolt (132-135 CE). Most Jews remained in the region (Palestine) and gradually converted to Christianity or Islam over centuries. The notion of a forced “exile” that scattered the entire people is a later myth essential to Zionist claims of return.

Jews as a proselytizing religion, not a closed ethnic group Judaism was an actively missionary religion in antiquity and late antiquity, attracting converts from diverse populations across the Mediterranean, Middle East, and beyond (including notable examples like the Khazars in the Caucasus region, whose ruling elite and parts of the population converted).

Modern Jewish populations (especially Ashkenazi Jews in Europe) largely descend from these converts rather than from a direct, unbroken line of ancient Judeans/Israelites. Palestinians as closer descendants of ancient inhabitants

Many Palestinians (Muslim and Christian) are, according to Sand, the genetic and cultural descendants of the Jews who stayed in the land after the Roman period and later adopted new religions. This undermines claims that modern Jews have a unique ethnic-historical right to the territory.

Critique of “ethnos” and modern nation-building

Sand views the “Jewish people” as a constructed national identity, similar to other 19th-20th century nationalisms. He draws on historical, archaeological, and early genetic evidence available at the time to argue against essentialist views of Jewish continuity. He advocates for Israel to become a more inclusive, civic “state of all its citizens” rather than an ethnocratic state defined by a supposed biological-religious ethnos.

The book provoked intense debate: praised by some as a bold deconstruction of nationalist mythology and criticized by others (including many Israeli historians) as methodologically flawed, ideologically driven, or overly provocative in its claims. Sand positions it as a call to rethink Jewish identity beyond ethnic exclusivity and to “de-nationalize” history.

Source: https://henrymakow.com/2026/03/invention-jewish-people.html

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