-and it is to them that “God” promised the land- not to the present-day Israelis
STATEMENT FROM PETE GREGSON, CHAIR OF ONE DEMOCRATIC PALESTINE
(who holds a BSc in Biochemistry, specialising in genetics)
In Israel and with its Zionist “Jewish” supporters, we are facing a Judeo-supremacist cult that sees any who are not Zionist as “untermensch*” and suitable only for slave duties. Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are the tip of the iceberg. The world can only move forward by dismantling Israel.
[*”a person considered racially or socially inferior”… and if you are unfamiliar with the history of Israel and the origins of Zionism, etc, please use the index at www.onepalestine.land/israel-palestine-explained ]
Summary
Unlike the Palestinians, “Jews” living in Israel today are not directly descended from the Ancient Hebrews of the Bible. Whilst the Mizrahi & Sephardic “Jews” have some genetic links to Palestine, as they are descendants from the proselytizing Jews of over 2,000 years ago, the Ashkenazi “Jews” are actually from Khazaria (largely present-day Ukraine), which is over 2,200 miles distant from Palestine. In this article, I will make the case that the Palestinians, being the direct descendants of the Ancient Hebrews, are the true Jews of today, and have sole and perpetual rights to the land. The Ashkenazi have none and are simply (unwelcome) guests – from Ukraine.
As we and the rest of the world can see, the humanitarian argument has failed us, on Gaza, on the West bank. On Palestine.
The Zionists claim the land as theirs, a claim that they are allowed to get away with. The Christian Zionists truly believe that Palestinians are all illegal immigrants from Saudi Arabia, and the Zionists will push them into the Sinai desert with no objections from the UK and the US, branding all Palestinians as terrorists. Just a couple of weeks ago, the Christian Zionists supported Trump giving $2.8 Bn on armaments to Israel. Which will be used to eradicate Palestinians from their land.
The genetic case is the only argument left to us- and one we have avoided using, to date. Many readers of this article will not want to use DNA to defend the Palestinian cause. But the Zionists use a ton of cod archaeology to get away with their claim to Palestinian land. That’s why what follows here matters.
In 2024 the Nazareth-born American developer Mohamed Hadid (father of American models Bella and Gigi Hadid) declared : “Israeli Jews have no genetic connection to ancient Hebrews”- he said that Israeli Jews have no Levantine genetic ancestry, adding that they are being antisemitic to a true Semitic people, the Palestinians.
Some history
Modern Jews, who number more than 13 million worldwide, are traditionally divided into various groups. They include Ashkenazi Jews from Europe, who comprise 90% of American Jews; Middle Eastern Jews, who live in Iraq, Iran, and other places in the Levant; Sephardic Jews from Spain and Portugal; North African Jews from Morocco, Algeria, and other countries north of the Sahara; Ethiopian Jews; and many other communities scattered across the globe.
The population changes of Palestine over the past 500 years helps give a sense of the changing demographics (from www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-and-non-jewish-population-of-israel-palestine-1517-present)
The Pew Research Center reports that Israeli Jews are now nearly evenly split between: Ashkenazim: 45% and Sephardim/Mizrahim: 48%. But the Ashkenazi began the colonisation of Palestine between 1900 to 1948 and it is they who traditionally hold the reins of power. The IDF “grunts” are largely Mizrahi and latecomers to Israel; they come from Arabic countries and are particularly keen to prove their loyalty to the their Ashkenazi masters in the IDF and the Government, killing and torturing Palestinians with enthusiasm and brutality.
In the Bible, the roots of Jewishness reach back 4000 years to Abraham and his descendants. But historians have suggested the story of Jewishness is more complicated, and may not include a single ancestor. I, along with many others, argue that most modern Jews are descended from converts to Judaism and don’t share genetic ties at all.
In fact, the historical record is absolutely clear: the majority of “Jews” living in Israel today are not descended from the Ancient Hebrews of the Bible; the Ashkenazi half are actually of the Khazars- a Turkic people from the Caucasus who converted to Judaism in the early medieval period.
In 1976, polymath Arthur Koestler, a widely respected Jewish author, published his book titled The Thirteenth Tribe, advancing a theory that today’s Ashkenazis descend not from the Holy Land but, rather, from Khazaria, a medieval Turkic empire in the Causasus region whose royals, caught between the rock of Islam and the hard place of Christendom, chose the politically expedient course of converting to Judaism.
It was to be 36 years before Koestler’s premise was scientifically proven. The ground-breaking DNA research work by Eran Elhaik “The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses” was published by the Oxford University Press in 2012 on behalf of the Society of Molecular Biology and Evolution.
The report says “Eastern and Central European Jews (Ashkenazi) comprise the largest group of contemporary Jews, accounting for approximately 75% of over 13 million Jews worldwide.
It found evidence for the Khazarian Hypothesis, which suggests that Ashkenazi Jews are Khazars. From the results, it may be concluded that probably no more than 2 per cent of Jews in Israel are descended from Israelites. The PLOS study of the following year suggested that the Palestinians, on the other hand, show an 80% match to the Ancient Hebrews.
The PLOS-Genetics article of 2013 is entitled: Genome-Wide Diversity in the Levant Reveals Recent Structuring by Culture | PLOS Genetics It notes “Consequently, Levant populations today fall into two main groups: one sharing more genetic characteristics with modern-day Europeans and Central Asians, and the other with closer genetic affinities to other Middle Easterners and Africans.” The first group are the Israeli Ashkenazis; the second group the Palestinians and the Lebanese.
Also in October 2013, Martin Richards, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Huddersfield in England published research which contradicted the notion that European Jews mostly descend from people who left Israel and the Middle East around 2,000 years ago. Instead, a substantial proportion of the population originated from local Europeans who converted to Judaism. The article headed “A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages” can be downloaded at https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3543.pdf
So let’s be clear: the “Jews” of Ashkenazi descent never emigrated from ancient Israel. In his book, The Invention of the Jewish People, the Israeli historian Schlomo Sands observes that these Hebrews were not driven out by the Romans after the destruction of the second temple in 70AD. In fact, some of these Hebrews/early Palestinians converted to Christianity in the 4th Century, followed by the majority who embraced Islam during the 7thCentury Arab conquest.
I have summarised various papers on this topic- read them on our Israel & Palestine Explained page at https://www.onepalestine.la Td/israel-palestine-explained/#not-descendants-of-the-israelites
Read more on this by vising this Sub-stack piece by Tomas Gilgames: Jews living in Israel today are not descended from the ancient Hebrews of the Bible
Also see this definitive Jordan Nutall article: https://jordannuttall.substack.com/p/are-ashkenazi-jews-khazars
Let us look at the map of Europe and the Middle East in the early 10th Century:
In the 10th Century AD, the greatest number of Jews in the world could be found in Khazaria, some 2,300 miles distant from Palestine. How could that be?
It was because the Khazars had converted en masse to Judaism some 200 years before. But why did the Khazars convert en masse when few, if any, had been to Palestine? Because in the 8th Century they were trapped between two mighty armies- the Christian Byzantine Empire on the one side, the Islamic Caliphates on the other.
An ultimatum was delivered to the Khazar rulers by the Russians and other countries around them that they must adopt either Christianity, Islam or Judaism as their state religion. If the Khazars had pledged for either the Christians or the Muslims, they would have been slaughtered wholesale by whichever side was winning. The Khazar ruler, King Bulan, therefore decreed that his country would take a neutral course and adopt Judaism, since neither the Christians nor the Muslims of the time had any interest in attacking Judaism, rather respecting Jews as being “people of the book” – and the oldest people too, to be protected rather than attacked.
First the King and the elite layer of the kingdom converted to Judaism, and the rest of the populace gradually followed in the years thereafter. The version of Judaism the King chose to adopt was melded with their previous beliefs, of ancient Babylonian black magic, derived from Babylonian Talmudism, written by hired rabbis, based on ancient Baal worship.
The Russians later defeated the Khazars, who moved west, into Central Europe. The ongoing animosity between Ukraine and Russia can be traced, in part, to these earlier wars.
Over the following thousand years, the descendants of the Khazar people moved further west, fleeing the approaching Mongolian hordes, to create the Ashkenazis, who thrived in Eastern Europe. Being denied traditional occupations such as farming and husbandry and being excluded from the masonic trade societies, they turned to usury, banking, and property management, which meant they were ultimately rich enough to fund the Zionist Federation and support the Jewish National Fund, both key players in the foundation of Israel.
(see Khazars Convert to Judaism | Religion and Philosophy | Research Starters | EBSCOhost)
Present-day reality
The fact that Israel’s genealogy laws, introduced in the year 2000, place major restrictions on getting your DNA tested in Israel, attests to the great fear that the Israeli Government hold on this matter; they do not want Israelis to learn that this is not their land- and that they are not the descendants of the Ancient Hebrews. (see https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-no-dna-tests-230000258.html ) Furthermore, one often finds that Google provides misleading information, because it “scrapes” information from around the web, and there are plenty of Zionists making claims that have no archaeological basis:
For instance, if you ask Google about what took place on the 7th October 2023, one only gets the Israeli version, never the Hamas one.
To sum up, if we want to believe in a God of 2,000 years ago promising Israel/Palestine to the Jews, that God would have been promising the land to the occupants of the land at the time: the Ancient Hebrews. Who are, of, course, genuine Semites. Unlike the Kazars (ie the Ashkenazi) who are not.
Interestingly, Zionists seem to acknowledge their Khazar bloodline- Israel calls Kazakhstan (which shares some territory with the ancient Khazar kingdom and which lies between Russia and China) its “Partner in Eurasia”
Some geneaology
And the descendants of the Ancient Hebrews are still there to this day, for they are the Palestinians. I believe the history of the region goes like this: after Jesus Christ died, around about the 4th Century AD, the religion of Christianity took hold in Palestine.
Many of the Ancient Hebrews decided to convert from Judaism to Christianity. The myth of the 12 tribes of Israel and the expulsion of Jews from Judea and Samaria began when this happened. Archaeological studies do not show evidence of the great “diaspora” forced upon the Jews by the Romans (it is well-known that the Romans preferred to crucify their rebels, not expel them). When the Romans occupied Jerusalem in 70 CE they only banished Jews from the Jerusalem area. There was no mass expulsion from Palestine. Many Jews expelled from Jerusalem moved to the Galilee. The Romans did not bother to empty the small villages in the remote countryside. The farming communities were left alone, basically until 1948!
Some did leave, for back then Judaism was a proselytizing religion and these missionaries found most success as they traveled towards Morocco and planted the seeds of Judaism, right along the North African coast; in Iberia (Spain and Portugal) these were to become the Sephardic Jews.
(During the Inquisition in Iberia in the 1490s the Jews fled west towards the Americas, and south to North Africa where they joined up with their Arab Jewish brethren. They left Spain with the Muslims, knowing that whilst the Christians would kill them, they were safe with Islam, which has always protected the Jews, as they are all “people of the book”).
More proselytizing Jews headed south and east to establish what were to become the Mizrahi Jewish communities of Yemen, Iraq and Iran.
Back to Palestine and the years of Christ. The descendants of the Ancient Hebrews, who chose to follow Jesus, are the Palestinian Christians that you find in and around Palestine/Israel today. But the great majority of Palestinians of those times then converted again when Islam was promoted, following its establishment by Muhammad in Mecca (now Saudi Arabia) and even in Palestine itself, in Jerusalem, or Al Quds. There you will find the Mosque of Al Aqsa, from where it is said that Muhammed ascended to Heaven, in the year 632 AD. So, for religious/ political expediency the Palestinians converted to Islam when the Arabs arrived from Arabia. (This was not a difficult switch, given the status of Jesus in the Koran [see here]). This conversion to Islam has been the biggest issue in Palestinian history.
So the present Palestinians, who are mostly Sunni Muslim, chose to follow Islam in the years following 632 AD, which is why now most Palestinians are Muslim. The genetic tests tell the true story, that Palestinians never left the land; they are the direct descendants of the Ancient Hebrews. And so the Palestinians are the only people who can say that God gave them the land (but they won’t, because according to the Koran, the land was not promised by God to anyone, because God is fair and earth is for all).
If the Ashkenazis took their right of return honestly, they should be making Aliyah to southern Russia, for this is where they came from:
Indeed, Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, knew this. Right after the Balfour Declaration, he had a vision that Israel could be a bi-national state for the Palestinians and the “Jews”, these being the Ashkenazi, like himself. His vision of peaceful co-existence (see below) meant he was open to exploring the history of the Palestinians and he came to the exact same conclusion as I did- that the Palestinians are the direct descendants of the Ancient Hebrews.
Ben-Gurion and fellow Zionist Yitzhak Ben Zvi wrote a book “Eretz Yisrael Past and Present”, first published in 1918 in Yiddish, in which they acknowledged that Palestinians, particularly the peasants in the rural areas, were descendants of the ancient Hebrews. They had in mind a role for them as “hewers of wood and drawers of water”. When the Palestinians weren’t interested, Ben-Gurion quickly changed his tune on the bi-national state idea and decided the way forward was to “clear the Arabs out”.
Establishing the rights of the Palestinian population in Palestine in international law is not about presenting their genetic profile, but about showing that they had been indigenous for many generations before Zionist colonialism came from Europe to Palestine.
What is a Jew?
(from https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Jew )
I differ with many on the definition of “Jewry”. My interpretation springs from the Merriam-Webster dictionary definition, so I consider that a Jew can only be a Jew if they are one of these things:
- That they are a descendant of the Ancient Hebrews. DNA testing has shown that the true descendants of the ancient Hebrews are the modern-day Palestinians. First, many of them converted to Christianity in the 4th Century, they then (mostly) converted to Islam in the 7th Century. Even Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first Prime Minister said this. So we must see the Palestinians as the TRUE JEWS. Those of Sephardic or Mizrahi stock will carry a tiny part of the DNA of the Ancient Hebrews, because the proselytising Jews of 2,000 years ago interbred with the local Semitic peoples in whichever country they settled (eg Arabia) , so Ancient Hebrew genealogy is highly diluted in their descendants, who constitute the Sephardic or Mizrahi Jews of today.
- That people can be Jews if they follow the Judaic religious duties as prescribed in the Torah to the letter. The only people who do this are the orthodox Jews and in particular, the Neturei Karta. They recognise that there is no Messiah and therefore God forbids that they return en masse to Palestine. Also, Rabbis in Israel who oppose Israel, such as Dov Lando – Wikipedia
- This final category I largely discount, for it claims that a Jew is someone who identifies as “Jewish” and who observes the religious Jewish festivals, wears a Kippah sometimes, enjoys a Friday night (Sabbath) dinner, etc. But they might only go the synagogue a couple of times out of curiosity and they would describe themselves as Secular Jews (ie they don’t believe in God or the Torah). I think they are about as Jewish as I am Christian, for I (being reared a Catholic) do follow the tenets of the Christian church, by celebrating Christmas, after all, but I do not think that makes me a Christian, for I do not believe in God. In the same way, the secular “Jews” are not really Jews, (especially the Ashkenazi), as their only connection to the ancient land of the Hebrews is in their mind; their biology tells another story. And because they do not believe in God, they have zero connection to Palestine.
They are, what Rabbi Weiss of the Neturei Karta and I agree upon, ex-Jews, or lapsed-Jews. this means that their parents may have been religious and gone to the synagogue, etc and can claim some deep connection to their God and their faith, but they, being secular “Jews” are more properly described as simply being just Europeans, with some fake implanted memories that they are of the Ancient Hebrews, when a DNA test will show them to be of Kazhar stock and so not connected to any Semitic race at all.
True Semites are considered to be the “sons of Shem” and so of Middle Eastern stock.
The addition of modern “Jewry” into the semitic races was by German Zionist Steinschneider, who coined the term “antisemitic” in 1860, mistakenly imagining the Ashkenazi Jews were Semites. He created the modern perception of antisemitism and implied it could refer only to “Jews”. Some two decades later, the use of the word semitic peoples was deliberately changed by Wilhelm Marr who founded the ‘League of Anti-Semites’ in Hamburg in 1879. Marr also falsely believed that Ashkenazi “Jews” were a ‘semitic race’.
(Before 1860 it was widely held that semitic people were the Arabs of the Near East including East Syria, Iran, Iraq, Afghan. Semitic tribes spoke three languages: Arabic, (old) Hebrew and Aramaic. Very similar languages, all could understand and converse with each other. Even Jesus spoke Aramaic.)
We see this gross perversion of the term “antisemitism” taken further in the Israeli-sourced politicised and fraudulent IHRA Definition of Antisemitism (devised from 2000 to 2010 by Dina Porat from Tel Aviv university, who was working with the US State Dept) and now widely adopted by public bodies in the UK, which pretty much inverts anti-racist campaigners such as I into Nazis, because in that definition, identification of Israel as racist (eg to say “Israel is a racist endeavour”) is deemed antisemitic and puts you in the same boat as Adolf Hitler. (See how Israel achieved this at The IHRA Definition of Antisemitism and Labour – One Democratic Palestine )
And so pro-Palestine supporters find themselves being expelled, sacked or disciplined for criticising Israel, most notably in the British Labour Party, as that is where Israel targets its energies (see more here). Israel supporters argue that only a Nazi would condemn modern-day Israel, because they would then be hating all Jews, obviously…
Semites
So- what is a “Semite”? If we go back to Merriam-Webster:
So, clearly, the Palestinians are Semites. But how about Zionists living in Israel? The term “a Semitic language” is problematic here. For inhabitants of Israel speak Modern Hebrew which was basically invented by Zionists in the 19th Century, with many words still bearing great similarity to Arabic. Biblical Hebrew is far more complex, which is why the Zionists rejected it when they sought to create the new “Jew”, who was a racially superior being of their own invention.
So I would argue that Israelis don’t cut the mustard as Semites. Their Modern Hebrew is another of their inventions, hastily constructed by leading Zionists when they realised they would be shipping in emigres from all four corners of the Earth and so needed to bring them together under one tongue. And so they created a kind of “Esperanto” Hebrew, one that is somewhat different from the Biblical (or Classical) Hebrew of the Ancient Israelites.
Finally, are Jews ethnically different from we Europeans? I believe that the Ashkenazis are not, but the Mizrahi and Sephardic Jews are, their genes being interwoven with those who are Arabs or Berbers, as they spring from North Africa and countries south and east of Palestine. Current PM-hopeful, Eisenkot, is that rare beast, a Sephardic/Mizrahi success story, of Moroccan stock:
But let’s be clear:
The Ashkenazis, European emigres each and every one, who devised and continue to run Israel, are of European, not Semitic, stock– Netanyahu’s family is originally from Lithuania; Golda Meir from Ukraine, Ben-Gurion was Polish, Herzl was Hungarian, Weizman was from Belarus, Ariel Sharon’s family was from the Republic of Georgia; Jabotinsky from Ukraine.
The above locations are all to be found across what was and what lies due west of ancient Khazaria; note that all Israeli leaders have been of Khazar stock. (Interestingly, what has distinguished the Khazars from time immemorial was their brutality, their wickedness and their cunning, characteristics that leaders such as Netanyahu display in spades).
The above Zionist leaders would admit themselves to be Ashkenazi; whilst none were genetically connected to the Holy Land, although in their minds they were. All declared that God had given them the land of Palestine, but all were avowed atheists. All considered themselves to be racially superior, for they had been reared to believe that they were God’s chosen people.
Indeed, the only people who thought Jews were a separate race were the Zionists and the Nazi Party of Adolf Hitler.
But the Ashkenazis most definitely are not a separate race; the above Israeli leaders were atheists and they were of Khazar stock. The secular Ashkenazi “Jews” who created and run Israel are not actually Jews at all- in their minds they are, but in their bodies they are as European as I am, and about as much of a Jew as I am a Christian – ie not Jewish at all.
In fact, the Israeli Zionists are adhering to a Christian reading of Judaism, as is laid out in the Christian bible, which declares that if the “Jews” returned en masse to Israel that this would bring about the coming of the new Messiah. (Although Christians did not invent Zionism; those who did can be found in David Miller’s post here.)
As Tomas Gilgames notes “… in the global media, who gets called the “occupiers”? The Palestinians. Who get portrayed as the “eternal people of the land”? The Khazar converts. This is not history — it is propaganda designed to sanctify a colonial project.”
He goes on to say: “In the propaganda used for the British, the Americans, and the world, Zionist leaders clung to the fantasy that modern Jews were a pure, direct bloodline of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
This is why the Khazar thesis became so dangerous for them. If the truth—that Ashkenazi Jews descend largely from medieval converts in the Caucasus—were widely known, the entire justification for Israel’s creation collapses. No “biblical deed,” no “return,” no “eternal people.” Just a 20th-century colonial movement by a group of Europeans who fabricated an ancient claim to dispossess the real indigenous inhabitants of the land.
The irony is staggering: Zionist leaders who were avowed atheists and materialists used the Bible—a book they did not believe in—as their chief political weapon, all while knowing the genealogical link was fraudulent. And the Western powers, eager for a foothold in the Middle East, went along with the lie.
So here is the essential truth: Zionism was never about returning to an ancestral homeland. It was about manufacturing a myth powerful enough to justify conquest. The leaders knew their Ashkenazi followers were Khazars, not Israelites. But myth was more useful than fact, so myth became “history.”
… The ongoing annihilation of the Palestinian people is not just genocide—it is a deliberate erasure of the actual Biblical Hebrews, those whose lineage directly connects to the covenant made with God. The Zionist project, long thought to be a Jewish nationalist movement, is instead a geopolitical and occultist scheme designed to rewrite history, eliminate the true heirs of the Holy Land, and replace them with European Khazarian imposters.”
But what about secular Jews, I hear you ask? In my book, these people are not Jews- they are just Europeans, like you or I (especially if they are Ashkenazi). I reiterate they have about as much connection to the Holy Land as you or I (ie zero).
DNA studies bear this out. We do all the Judaic faith a disservice by allowing these “Jews” to call themselves Jews.
They may observe Hanukkah and wear a kippah, but I can observe Christmas and visit a Catholic church- that does not make me a Christian. By allowing the secular Jews to call themselves Jews, we are, in my view, muddying the water. Because these “Jews”, whether they be Zionist or anti-Zionist, all consider Israel/Palestine to be in some way, important and “special” to them. By allowing them to do this, we encourage them to dominate the narrative.
…and they bring with them a narrative of supremacy (see this Instagram post about “anti-goyism”).
It’s plain common sense, really; Judaism is a religion; it’s not a nationality. Imagine all Muslims claiming a Saudi Arabia passport…
Conclusion
Both Zionist and Anti-Zionist “Jews” sit at the root of the problem.
Considering our British Zionist “Jews”: Jonathan Freedland of The Guardian, Lord Alan Sugar, Hadley Freeman, Stephen Fry, David Baddiel; and our British Anti-Zionist “Jews”: Tony Greenstein, Graham Bash- and the Americans Norman Finkelstein and Miko Peled etc… the whole “Jewish” gang are not actually Jewish at all- as Ashkenazis they think they are, but they are atheists, do not follow the Torah, have zero genetic linkage to the Holy Land, yet wave their credentials as if they really were Jews, but, sadly, they are just Europeans with inbred delusions about where they originated.
Truly, they would all have been gassed in Hitler’s Germany, and so they carry their hurt victimhood about them like a trophy. (For they prey on our Holocaust guilt; Britain did nothing to stop the genocide of the Jews in WW2, though Churchill and Eden and Parliament knew full well of what the Nazis were doing (see here).)
I should mention here that the Nazis and the Zionists were quite fond of one another; see the Havara agreement, for example. The Zionists knew they needed the Nazis and the Holocaust in order to guilt-trip the world onto accepting the creation of Israel after the war. And the Nazis needed the Zionists too- as a place to decant the strong young “Jewish” stock into; both sides decreed that the old, weak, Orthodox Jews and Bundists should perish in the gas chambers; see here. (More about the history of the Bundists here), The Zionists were hugely appreciative of Hitler gassing the Jews who refused to move to the Holy Land, whether that be for political or religious reasons. They knew that after the war, Hitler’s work would give them Israel. And thanks to the “Final Solution” they knew that those Jews that opposed its creation would be dead.
But ask any one of our “Jews” to take a DNA test and you would find that they have zero linkage to the Holy Land. They are probably not even aware that making their “Aliyah” would more truthfully take them on a plane back to Southern Russia.
Both Rabbi Weiss of the Neturei Karta and I agreed that these secular “Jews” were really “lapsed Jews” in the same way that I am a lapsed Catholic.
So, by allowing the secular Ashkenazi “Jews” to call themselves “Jews” we are pouring petrol on the fire of Palestine. We must move to seeing all secular Ashkenazi “Jews” as simply Europeans, the same as goyim such as you or I, and not in any way “chosen” and not in any way “related to Palestine” . It is this failure on our part to declare or understand this which allows the apartheid psychology inherent in this supremacist cult to thrive.
The Palestinians are clearly the descendants of the prophets of the Book- Moses (of the Torah and the Old Testament) and Jesus (Christ, another Islamic prophet) and of course Muhammad, the final prophet of God .
So- I repeat, the only true Jews, are basically, the Palestinians. And it was to these people that “God gave the land”- not the Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian or Georgian emigres, whose biology and racial origins were from a place 2,300 miles distant, a place where few (if any) had ever seen or visited the Holy Land.
For Israel is a European colony, a racist construct, designed to exclude the indigenous peoples and mask the wholesale theft of a country from the true sons and daughters of Shem- the Palestinians.
And what about Ben-Gurion? Although he believed in his heart that the Palestinians had existed in the land for thousands of years, he worked on expelling and massacring them. For once in office, he no longer connected the Palestinians to the Ancient Hebrews. A collective amnesia descended on the matter, as the Zionists began arguing that the Ancient Hebrews had all been driven out by the Romans (they were not) and that the Palestinians were just Arabs who had wandered into Palestine from Saudi Arabia- and by, rights should go back to Saudi Arabia.
Ben-Gurion was reported as saying that Jewish militias should have gone right on and ethnically-cleansed all of Palestine in 1948. He also said “The Arabs will have to go but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war”.
And so the Zionists coined the phrase of “a land without a people for a people without a land”, ignoring the thriving country and friendly locals that had welcomed them into what was pre-Mandate Palestine, showing the traditional hospitality for which Islam and the Palestinians are famed. The welcome soon became bitter of course, as the Zionists set about excluding Palestinians from trade and industry with the Histradut trade union, establishing Kibbutzes and building the organs of state (enthusiastically enabled by the British), thereby creating their own little version of a new world, populated with the very best European genetic stock they could find.
Most Ashkenazi Jews definitely do not look Arab or indigenous. They look like Europeans. For those that recognise Israel’s “right to exist”, under their twisted logic, the native population were to be seen as migrants and the invading colonists were to be seen as the old natives making a comeback. This, of course, is the ideology of Zionism.
Last Words
A friend asked me why does all the above matter now, in the present day? Well, my answer is this: the Zionists claim God gave them the land. In the UK, even now, out of the 300,000 “Jews” in the UK, about 70% of them are Zionists, claiming that a “God” (that many won’t believe in) gave them the land. But this claim is bogus.
For ever since the Zionist movement was founded by Herzl in 1897, we have been entertaining the Zionists’ claims that they had some right to be there- because, they argued, God gave it to them, over 2,000 years ago. But my article makes clear that was impossible, because 2,000 years ago these Ashkenazi were running about as Goths and Huns in what is now present-day Ukraine; God was busy giving the land to the actual Ancient Hebrews at the time. We need to challenge Zionism at its roots; the Western world is bored and become thick-skinned by our humanitarian arguments against Israel’s existence. We need to attack the fundamental claims of Zionists by presenting them with their own DNA.
One can see that so many other settler nations of the West (the US, Australia, etc- places where the indigenous tribes have been decimated) continue to trade with Israel, alongside the European countries that were doing the settling. Because white settler tribalism goes right around the world and white people naturally support other white people who have stolen land. Thus the white citizens of the world (ie from what was Khazaria, all the way over to England) were enthusiastic colonisers, with the Ashkenazi a little late to the party.
In most colonised countries, so much damage has been done to the native peoples whose lands the colonisers stole that it is, sadly, too late to give the land back to the Aborigines, the native American Indians, etc- but it is NOT too late to give Palestine back to the Palestinians. To do this, we urgently need to stop entertaining the idea that the Zionists have ANY claim to the Holy Land- by dismissing them with tests upon their very own DNA.
If we did this, we could prove in a jiffy that the Palestinians, with an 80% match going back over thousands of years, have and always will be, the true inheritors of the Holy Land.
HAMAS
But more ethnic cleansing of “Jews” out of Palestine when the Zionist entity comes to an end is not a foregone conclusion. Rather like Mandela’s approach to South Africa’s whites, it is in the magnanimous nature of the Palestinians, even Hamas, for example, to consider letting these “Jews” stay when Israel falls; the Hamas policies indicates that if those calling themselves Jews in Palestine were to give up Zionism, and give back the homes (or compensate) those with a right to return, then they might remain and make their future lives in Palestine. If we look at Hamas’ “A Document of General Principles and Policies” of May 2017 (see it at www.tinyurl.com/hamaspolicies ) – we can refer to:
“16. Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity.
17. Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, antisemitism and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage. The Zionist movement, which was able with the help of Western powers to occupy Palestine, is the most dangerous form of settlement occupation which has already disappeared from much of the world and must disappear from Palestine.”
The UK aids and abets Israel in its destruction of Gaza because our Government deems Hamas to be terrorists. This is new; until 5 years ago, the political wing of Hamas was not proscribed and it was accepted as the legitimate voice of the elected Government of Gaza. This only changed in 2021 when the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel came back from secret meetings in Israel with Netanyahu whilst she was on holiday, for which she lost her position. Netanyahu possibly started planning his genocidal attack on Gaza then, knowing UK support for destroying Gaza in rooting out every last Hamas operative was essential.
If, like me, you think Hamas ought to be de-proscribed, please sign my petition to the UK Government at www.tiny.cc/hamas (I should like readers to note that Hamas has never executed a person for being gay; the Gazan people are naturally conservative, as Islamic tradition demands; public shows of affection between adults of a romantic nature is not considered appropriate. Women are free to choose whether they wear the Hijab and Hamas are entirely relaxed about those of other faiths or none; there is a Christian community and Jews from the Neturei Karta have been welcomed by them; girls have football teams; women work in the same way that men do- there is no gender bar- to read more about how local democracy works in Gaza, go to https://www.twingaza.com/gaza-council-explains-how-mayor-was-appointed-no-hamas-involvement/ ) For the full, true account of the Hamas attack of 7th Oct 2023, go to https://www.onepalestine.land/hamas/
Also see my Substack post calling for Hamas De-proscription here and my London talk of 30th May 2026 at www.tiny.cc/hamastalk and finally my Hamas talk of August 2026 at the Tall Cranes Celtic pub in Govan, Glasgow
UK and US “Jews”; Judaic Zionism vs Christian Zionism
There are 300,000 “Jews” in the UK. They are Ashkenazi and many are influential in the government, (both national and local), political parties, the unions, and especially the media. Most, around 70%, support the existence of Israel, ergo they are racists, as David Miller notes, as he mused on the Green adoption of the “Zionism is Racism” motion::
The Ashkenazi “Jews” in the US are similarly well-placed in the government, (both national and local), political parties, the unions, and especially the media. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is key to controlling both the Republican and Democratic parties. But young US “Jews” are experiencing cracks in their lifelong confidence in Israel, with many shocked at what they see of genocide in Gaza ( see https://www.aljazeera.com/video/featured-documentaries/2024/10/24/israelism-the-awakening-of-young-american-jews )
It’s worth pausing to note the difference between Judaic Zionism and Christian Zionism here. The chief rabbi to the UK, chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, is an ardent Judaic Zionist and proudly stands up for Israel at every opportunity. The UK Gov allow him to get away with this by accepting his role (but there are plenty of real Jews who don’t). So Rabbi Mirvis is following the Christian interpretation of the Torah- that all “Jews” should be heading to Israel/Palestine; eventually they will bring the new Messiah, the Al Aqsa mosque in Al-Quds/Jerusalem will be demolished and on that site the third temple will be built (Israel is already working on that- see here) and Israel will become all-powerful in its Eretz Israel project (ie taking all the land from the Nile to the Euphrates). The Judaic Zionists work only to the Old Testament, where Jehova was God and a really aggressive, punishing, brutal God he was too, all smiting and hell-fire, with none of the hippy nonsense of the New Testament (where God advocates one to love thy neighbour as thyself, turn the other cheek, etc). This helps explain Israel’s great love of killing any non-Jews standing in their way, who they refer to as Amalek, because mercy is an alien construct to them, and every less than rosy exchange with the wider world becomes a fight for their survival.
Christian Zionists also follow the Christian interpretation of the Torah, but in their version, once the new Messiah has come (who to them, will be the “Second Messiah”, because Jesus was the first), all Jews in Israel will convert to Christianity and those who won’t will barbeque in hell for eternity… And we will know the new Messiah because he will bring world peace (clearly, Trump wants that job). Any Christian that believes the bible believes God gave the land to the Jews – but the only “Jews” those English Christians knew about were the Ashkenazis; when the modern bible in English came out in 1611 (King James Version) that was the message; it includes this statement, from the book of Genesis (see more here):
But what about Christian support for Israel? Balfour was a Christian Zionist. British Lord Michael Gove is his modern equivalent (see his views here). Half of the US Republican Party are Christian Zionist, maybe more. And as long as they think God gave the land to the Zionists, the longer they will support Israel. Last week Trump cleared a weapons package from the US to Israel of $2.8 Billion
That $2.8 Billion came because of Christian Zionist support for Israel within the Republican Party. If the Christian Zionists in the US realise that God promised the land to the Palestinians (because they are the descendants of the Ancient Hebrews) rather than a bunch of Eastern Europeans with no links to the Holy Land, then they will begin to realise they are backing the wrong team.
That’s why history and the very definition of what makes a Jew is key to winning this struggle.
Israel will crumble when the USA pulls the plug on it…
The battle for Palestine will be fought this autumn in the petrol stations of the USA. Every American must make a choice: do I pay double for petrol for my car… or do I support Israel and its crazy wars? I think Americans love their cars more than they love Israel. Wait and see what happens in November in the USA; Trump’s Republican Party is going to lose big-time because they made war on Iran (on Israel’s behalf). I think change is coming… for the better- because Trump and Netanyahu are over-confident idiots that have created a petrol shortage in the West…
Notes
This article is also available on my Sub-stack- go to https://petegregson.substack.com/p/the-palestinians-are-the-true-jews and on Medium at https://medium.com/@postmaster_54604/the-palestinians-are-the-true-jews-701841ad9f9c and at Are Palestinians The True Jews Debunking Zionist Claims And DNA Myths : Pete Gregson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive . It is also in Italian at https://petegregson.substack.com/p/i-palestinesi-sono-i-veri-ebrei
Hear me speak about this article on the Richie Allen Show Sept 30th 2026 [Go one hour, 10 minutes and 40 seconds in (I’m then on for 45 minutes)] at: https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/richieallen/episodes/2026-09-30T11_16_11-07_00
MORE NOTES
If you have 30 minutes free a week and want to help a Gazan by chatting in English (something we all can manage), might you consider signing up for my other project: https://www.twingaza.com/english-and-arabic-with-a-gazan/ ?
I also ask for money- help me buy bagpipes for Palestine. They play them there as much as the Scots do here (they invented them, after all). It would be a great gesture of solidarity. More at https://chuffed.org/project/bagpipes-for-palestine
Contact me and see my social media on Linktree at https://www.linktr.ee/petegregson
Which Political Party should you support? Well, the Workers Party of Britain is uniquely anti-colonial, which is why I have joined it: see page 29 of the Workers Party manifesto: WHY PALESTINE IS IMPORTANT “The Workers Party believes that the future is now One State: Israel – Palestine or Palestine-Israel or the Holy Land, the details cannot be worked out by us, but the picture is becoming clearer by the day. We also, in this context, support the right of return for all those Palestinians ethnically cleansed over many years and an immediate end to Israeli settlement on the West Bank! … we also abhor the weaponisation of antisemitism for dubious political purposes in British politics and consider that the neglect of Islamophobia in society and its weaponisation by the populist Right receives inadequate attention.”
And since the Greens adopted the Zionism is Racism motion in October 2026 they now advocate the dissolution of Israel and its replacement with a single state of Palestine, so they are now also on the right side of history vis-a-vis Palestine.
If you have heard negative stories about me- that I am an antisemite, for example, please read this: https://petegregson.substack.com/p/i-was-blacklisted-by-the-founder
Videos
See my talk on Hamas and Corbyn’s failures at the Tall Cranes pub, Govan, Glasgow, 1.8.26 (at https://rumble.com/embed/v7bfdxg/?pub=2l2hxc and below)
Watch Owen Jones speak with Margaret Hodge MP who repeats every lie that Israel made about 7th Oct 2023:
Hear Ilan Pappe, Ramzy Baroud, Romana Rubeo speak with Katie Halper on 10/10/2026 as they reflect on what took place on Oct 7th 2023. From 43 minutes in:
Go 40 minutes in and watch the last 5 minutes to hear from Chris what Israel plans for Gaza:
Watch James Baldwin on Zionism, the Ashkenazis and the Sephardic Jews in Israel, still true 52 years on. Watch from 32 mins 40 secs in:
Sundry pictures
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