 The
seldom-heard-of group of people known as the Khazars were hardly
ever the subject of discussion outside scholarly circles --
particularly those interested in Jewish history -- until the
release in 1976 of a controversial book entitled The Thirteenth
Tribe by Jewish philosopher and social critic Arthur Koestler
(1905-1983).
 However,
independent of Koestler (whose work he had never before known),
a Canadian-based writer of Jewish origins, Michael Bradley,
released his own 1978 work, The Iceman Inheritance,
followed up by its sequel, Chosen People From the Caucusus,
in which (combined together) he put forth his thesis that the
modern day people known as the Jews were descendants from the
Khazars and that, indeed, the Khazars could trace their origins
back to the Neanderthals.
Bradley's
website at michaelbradley.info
describes Bradley's findings in part:
In
Chosen People from the Caucasus, Bradley focuses
on the two separate groups of people who came from the Caucasus
Mountains of the Middle East: the Biblical Hebrews who emerged
from the southern Caucasus between 3000-2000 BC to invade
Palestine, and the northern Caucasus "Khazars" who
were converted to Judaism about 740 A.D.
The
Khazars were pushed into Central and Eastern Europe by Mongol
invasions, and their descendants comprise the vast majority
of modern Jewry [a point that some historians, both Jewish
and non-Jewish have quibbled over, some suggesting that only
a small number of both peoples, ironically, are considered
to be "Jews" -- although they have no direct historical
or genetic connections with each other-except as they shared
a Neanderthal origin in the Caucasus Mountains in the far
distant and ancient pre-Judaic past.
Bradley
contends that people and cultures emerging from the Caucasus
Mountains (a known refuge of late-lingering Neanderthal populations)
in proto-historical and historical times would have remained
highly intelligent, highly aggressive and psychosexually maladapted
(promoting a high level of in-group cohesion). These traits,
Bradley contends, explain the survival of Biblical Hebrews
against all odds and also the inordinate social influence
of modern Western Jews.
Bradley
contends that there is no mystique of "the chosen people."
"Monotheism" -- a purely male and abstract Godhead
-- is merely a result of Neanderthal glacial physical and
mental adaptations or "maladaptations." Proven Neanderthal
in-group cohesion and extreme aggression together resulted
in a fiercely parochial "chosen people" perspective.
The cultural fusion of the two separate streams of "Jews"
has, since the 16th century, played an important role in the
evolution of Western Civilization and thus in the molding
of the entire world's present cultural profile.
Bradley
contends that a uniquely high level of lingering Neanderthal
aggression, perpetuated by ethnic prohibitions against outside
marriage, has been responsible for the major role played by
those calling themselves Jews in the discovery and conquest
of the Americas, the transatlantic trade in Black Americans
as slaves and cultural colonization of non-Whites by the West.
It
has been a role too often distorted and disguised by loud
lamentations of "anti-Semitism."
Bradley
writes further of his own research and the subsequent controversy
that erupted when many media outlets (and Jewish sources) which
had previously hailed his writing on the topic of the Neanderthals
came to realize that his work pointed toward Neanderthal origins
for the Jewish people:
The
"Jewish" Ashkenazim had come from a region of known
late-lingering Neanderthals, the Caucasus Mountains and the
neighboring Russian steppes.
Some
typically "Jewish" physical traits were very obviously
-- vestigial Neanderthal ones -- generally a short stature
and a plump physique, many very short wide-hipped and big-breasted
women, extremely hairy men and a tendency toward beetling
brows and large beaky "hooked" noses in both genders.
Many Ashkenazim have crinkly-curly head hair tending toward
dark reddish brown or mahogany in color.
Among
Ashkenazi "Jews" there is also a genetic tendency
toward beaky faces, not only just noses, and big mouths (in
more ways than one) that "wrap around" the lower
face. Barbara Streisand and Julia Roberts provide two lovely
and very well known examples of how attractive this genetic
trait can be. But these are not "Semitic" physical
traits. They are Neanderthal physical characteristics.
And
maybe some Neanderthal emotional and behavioral traits persisted
among the Ashkenazim along with the physical ones.
Their
"chosen people" pretension is a typical Neanderthal
in-group obsession that is actually a genetic racist predisposition
against all other humans. It is a genetically determined "us
against them" mentality. Their higher level of known
Neanderthal aggression against outsiders is responsible for
their disproportional social influence wherever they have
settled in the West. ...
The
Ashkenazi Jews, as a group, exhibit lingering Neanderthal
traits most strongly among living Caucasians because of Jewish
prohibitions against marriage with outsiders. Their Neanderthal
genes have been kept "all in the family", as it
were. These Neanderthal genes were not diluted by intermarriage
nearly as much as with most other Caucasians .
.
. . This Russian steppe origin of today's Ashkenazi "Jews"
was not just a "theory" based on squibs by medieval
Christian, Moslem and Jewish chroniclers: It was solid and
objective historical reality based on linguistics and hard
archaeological artifacts.
And,
with The Iceman Inheritance, my unforgivable crime
had been to add very persuasive anthropological data to all
the other evidence. And this "data" was also something
that anyone could actually see by simply taking a close look
at many North American "Jews."
According
to Bradley, the Neanderthal heritage of modern-day Jewish people
explains much about their ongoing problems with not only the
native people of Palestine but with other people on the planet.
He writes:
This
unfortunate combination of high aggression combined with a
tendency toward emotional instability and hysteria when they
feel nervous or threatened ... which is all the time when
they are not in absolute control. And they are arrogant, but
uneasy, even then. An ethnic symptom of this emotional instability
is the Jewish tendency toward hypochondria. Even they cannot
(yet) control death.
This
unfortunate combination of high aggression combined with a
tendency toward hysteria and emotional instability has proved
to be a dangerous and tragic situation over the course of
Western history. Their aggression encourages continual Jewish
attempts to control societies, while the emotional instability
makes it difficult for most Jews to distinguish reasonably
between justified social criticism by their non-Jewish neighbors
and attacks.
Insensitive
even to objective concerns about inordinate Jewish influence
in societies, and reacting with hysterical aggression to any
such supposed "attack" on their behavior and pleas
from non-Jews to limit it, Jews have always provoked violence
against themselves. And then they, with much emotional satisfaction,
feel victimized and attribute the situation to innate "anti-Semitism"
among their neighbors.
On
his website, in an essay entitled "A frightening publication
history of Jewish media suppression" (from which the above
is adapted), Bradley explores the amazing negative reaction
against his writings and the amazing and eye-opening efforts
to suppress his work and condemn his research .
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