The Danger of the Self Hating Jew

Well said.

More on Sand:

http://cifwatch.com/2009/11/10/shlomo-the-sandlout/

http://cifwatch.com/2009/11/19/inside-the-irish-lobby/

http://cifwatch.com/2009/11/12/pondlife-buried-in-the-sand/

I always wonder what the rabid academic Israel-bashers teach their students in courses such as international politics and modern history that have particular relevance to the situation.
The infiltration of academic Jewish Studies departments by Israel-haters is a new and ominous development. Everyone is entitled, of course, to their own view of the Middle East situation, including the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. But I think we're entitled to shudder when advocates of an extreme anti-Israel position teach Jewish Studies at universities. For instance, at Leicester University courses on modern Jewish history, Israel,and Zionism are taught by Dr Claudia Prestel, a senior academic who has endorsed the "One State Declaration" prepared by Ilan Pappe and other extremists. Voicing opposition to aspects of Israeli policy, as she and certain other academics have done for years, is one thing. Advocating the abolition of Israel is quite another.
Perhaps it is in academia that Israel's battle for hearts and minds will be won or lost.

And I always wonder about the self-defeating Jew -- that is those who in the face of all the evidence still insist on backing Israel's self-destructive policies.

In the letter "Shlomo Sand responds to Simon Schama's review in the Financial Times", dated November 21, Sand claims "no serious work concerning the origins of the demographic weight of Yiddish-speaking Jews has been carried out" in recent decades. That isn't true. I wrote a study of this very nature titled "The Origins of East European Jews" and it was published in the scholarly journal Russian History/Histoire Russe volume 30 numbers 1-2 (Spring-Summer 2003) on pages 1-22.

Sand is familiar with the first edition of my book "The Jews of Khazaria" and cites it in "The Invention of the Jewish People" on page 238. But it is the second edition of my book that carries the full extent of the research on Jewish demographics and origins, with its Chapter 10 (formerly numbered 11) sourcing the new genetic studies as well as the demographic and linguistic research of scholars like Alexander Beider.

My evidence disproves Sand's book's ideas about the origins of Ashkenazim and Sephardim, showing that the real story is that Ashkenazim and Sephardim have preserved a large amount of ancestry from ancient Israel to the present day.

For full details on my book, which is available from UK bookshops, visit http://www.khazaria.com/brook.html