Question: Besides, once you remove the mystic overtones of blood ties and kinship, diasporan identity reduces to a piece of circular reasoning.
Diasporan identity doesn't have any logic once you strip the accessories.

Answer: yes

Question: That would mean putting off traveling until next spring or early summer.
Traveling was not on hold.

Answer: no

Question: Editorialists labored to connect the two contrary outcomes.
One of the outcomes was correct and the other was wrong.

Answer:
it is not possible to tell