Jews are not a race, “anti-Semitism” is a lie

Today, any criticism of Jewish ideology and the movement of Zionism is met with claims of “anti-Semitism”, as if to imply that Jews are some sort of race or ethnicity and that the rejection of Judaism and the Jewish state of Israel is some form of racism. The biblical record shows that the claim that Jews are a race or ethnicity of any kind is absurd, and even more absurd is the choice of the word “anti-Semitism”. Jewish law allows for conversion to and apostasy from Judaism (one cannot convert to or leave a race). Further, modern DNA evidence shows that many of today’s Jews are the descendants of non-Semitic converts from the region of Khazaria in modern day Russia. “anti-Semitism” is a word used to silence legitimate criticism of the socio-religious-political system of Judaism, the same way “Islamophobia” is used to silence legitimate criticism of Islam by portraying Muslims as being some sort of race or ethnic group.

Semites & Hebrews In The Bible 

A “Semite” is a descendant of Noah’s son Shem, while “Hamites” are the descendants of Noah’s son Ham and “Japhites” are the descendants of Noah’s son Japheth. Abraham, the patriarch of Judaism and Islam, was a descendant of Shem and thus a “Semite” but he was only one of a myriad of descendants of Shem. According to the Jewish Talmud, there were nearly 800 years of generations between Shem and Abraham (Talmud, Abodah Zarah 9b), and the vast majority of these “Semites” (descendants of Shem) never became Jews.

Most "Hebrews" are not Jews

Even most of the descendants of Abraham are not Jews. In Genesis 17:15 we are told that Abraham’s name was changed from Abram because he would be “a father of many nations”, not just the father of the Jews. Because Arab Muslims are the descendants of Abraham through Abraham’s son Ishmael, there are more Arab Muslim Semites in the world than there are Semites who just so happen to be Jewish. Further, the word “Hebrew” does not refer to a Jew or a descendant of the 12 tribes of Israel but a descendant of Abraham (Genesis 14:13). Thus because they are the descendants of Abraham through Ishmael, today’s Arab Muslims are also just as Hebrew (and Semitic) as any Jew. The Torah also speaks of the many more children Abraham had with his later wife Keturah as well as his unnamed concubines. All of these children were sent away east so that everything could be inherited to Abraham’s son Issac. These sons of Abraham were, of course, Semites and Hebrews, but they did not at least in the Torah become Jews (Genesis 25: 1-6) Abraham also had a grandson through Issac named Esau; Jacob’s twin brother (Genesis 25: 22-28). Esau gave birth to the Edomite nation, who by definition were Hebrew Semites and the direct cousins of the Jews, yet the Edomites were later fought and destroyed by the Jews of Israel under King David. Even though they were the Semitic Hebrew cousins of the Israelites, the Edomites were not Jews (2 Samuel 8: 13-14).

Not All Israelites Became Jews
Not All Jews Are Descendants of Judah 

Israelites are the descendants of Abraham’s grandson Jacob whose name was changed to Israel ( Genesis 32:28-29 and Gensis 35:10), yet not every Israelite later adopted the “Jewish Religion” created by Moses, and thus not every Israelite is a Jew. The word “Jew” comes from the name of Jacob’s son Judah whose tribe became the “leader” of the tribes of his 12 brothers (the 12 tribes of Israel). It is because of Judah’s leadership that the descendants of these 12 brothers, the 12 great-grandsons of Abraham, were called Jews (1 Chronicles 5:2). We know that one did not need to be a descendant of Judah to be a Jew because Moses, the lawgiver of Judaism, was not a descendant of Judah but was a Levite on both sides, a descendant of Judah’s brother Levi (Genesis 2:1-10).

Jews Intermarried With Non-Semites/Non-Hebrews 

Remember, a “Semite” is a descendant of Noah’s son Shem, but there were also the “Hamite” descendants of Noah’s son Ham. Ham’s descendants, the “Hamites”, became the biblical Canaanites through Ham’s son Canaan (Genesis 10:15-19). Hamites also populated the land of Egypt. According to the Bible, Egypt was settled and peopled by Mizrain, a son of Ham, and Egypt was called “the land of Ham” (Psalms 78:51; 106:22, 105:23). Judah and his eleven brothers were the founders of the tribes of Israel, and even in the first generation, they began to intermarry with the Hamites. Because Hamites are not the descendants of Abraham, they are also not Hebrew. Judah himself married a non-Hebrew Hamite Canaanite woman and had several children with her (Genesis 38). Judah’s brother Simeon also married a non-Hebrew Hamitic Canaanite (Genesis 46:10). Their brother Joseph married the non-Hebrew Hamitic daughter of Potiphar in Egypt; her name was Asenath (Genesis 41:45). Thus, three of the 12 founding tribes of Israel were half-Hamite and half-Semite as well as half non-Hebrew from the very start. Once the mixed half-Hebrew / Hamite-Semite tribes of “Israel” (descendants of Jacob) arrived in the non-Hebrew Hamitic land of Canaan, they began to intermarry with the non-Hebrew Hamitic Canaanites and produced offspring (Judges 3:5-7) further diluting the Hebrew Semitic bloodline with more non-Hebrew Hamitic blood. Thus the founding “Israelite” tribes were certainly not pure Semites nor pure Hebrews, nor were they the only Semites, nor were they the only Hebrews. So today, most Semites are not Jews, most Hebrews as well are not Jews, and it can be said that not all Israelites (descendants of Jacob) are Jews. Also, the Jews who entered the land of Canaan and founded the Jewish religion were of mixed non-Hebrew, Hamite-Semite family lines.

Conversion & Apostasy

Another clear sign that Judaism is not a race is the presence of Jewish law regarding conversions and apostasy (one cannot convert to or leave a race/ethnicity). According to the Talmud in Yebamoth 23a, Jews are not to marry slaves or heathens unless they convert to Judaism, upon which they are described as “becom[ing] a different person” (Babylonian Talmud, Yebamoth 23a). One of the most famous converts to Judaism is Ruth, a Moabitess who converts so as to follow her mother-in-law Naomi back to Israel (Ruth 1:16–17) where she remarries a Jew named Boaz (Ruth 4:1-12). The Moabites were not the descendants of Abraham and were not Jews, they were the descendants of Abraham’s brother Haran through Haran’s son Lot and Lot’s son Moab (Genesis 19: 20-38). Interestingly enough, Abraham was the only Monotheist of his family, even Abraham’s father Terah was a polytheist (Joshua 24:2). Thus Ruth, the polytheist Moabitess, converted to Judaism and became the great-grandmother of King David (Ruth 4:13-22) On a quick note, according to the Talmud in Avodah Zarah 26a-26b, Jews who become apostates can be thrown into a pit to die (Talmud, Abodah Zarah, 26a – 26b). One cannot become an apostate of a race.

DNA Evidence Of Mass Conversion Of Khazarian Russians To Judaism

Modern-day DNA analysis shows that many of today’s Jews are not even Semitic at all but the descendants of Khazarian Russians who converted to Judaism centuries ago (See Here, Here & Here)