Prof. Shlomo Sand - In the Tel Aviv Library NOT ONE BOOK talking ABOUT EXILE (from Palestine).
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Date: 02/03/2024

Shlomo Sand, professor of history at Tel Aviv University  - In the Tel Aviv Library there is NOT ONE BOOK talking ABOUT EXILE (from Palestine).  And that "has always been the pretext for the return of the Jews".

In his book "The Invention of the Jewish People" (2009, Verso,  London - New York) he brings attention on Khazaria, that "Strange Empire" that flourished in the Caspian region between the seventh and tenth centuries AD. By the eighth century the Khazars had adopted Hebrew as their sacred and written tongue, and "[a]t some stage between the mid-eighth and mid-ninth centuries, the[y] ... adopted Jewish monotheism" (p 221). Sand speculates that this conversion was calculated to save them from absorption into either the Roman or the Islamic empires. The Khazars, he contends, engendered those Askhenazi Jews of central and eastern Europe who would later invent the myths of Zionism to justify their colonization of Palestine, a land to which they had no "ethnic" connection and where they remain the dominant elite.
See also S. Sand, "The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland", Verso, 2012.