On Sun, 29 Nov 2009, Chris Doss wrote:
> This is why attempts like that of Koestler (his was bogus anyway, I
> think, since Eastern European Jews, with the possible exception of a few
> small Turkic groups, are probably not descended from the Khazars) to
> argue rationally with anti-Semites are totally fruitless.
It's worse than that, actually. It's not only that it's pointless to argue rationally with an idee fixe. And it's not only that his archeology was bad. It's that (a) his argument depended on accepting the anti-semites' first premise, namely if Christ was killed, some people must be collectively responsible, including unto their descendants 2 millenia later; and (b) it threw the Sephardim under the bus. He only proved the Ashkenazi didn't do it.
With enemies like that, anti-semites don't need friends.
Michael