re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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The situation in Kreminna is getting heated for the Russians. According to this Russian report, the Svatove-Kreminna highway is under threat.

Going further, if Kreminna falls, this could potentially create a threat of encirclement of Lysyschansk.

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Darth Putin
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A carton of milk left next to your fridge will have stayed fresh longer than Lyman was part of Russia.

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I have no anti semite bs

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According to Michael Barkun, while the Khazar hypothesis never played any major role in anti-Semitism generally,[246] it has exercised a noticeable influence on American antisemites since the restrictions on immigration in the 1920s.[note 109][note 110] Maurice Fishberg and Roland B. Dixon's works were later exploited in racist and religious polemical literature in both Britain, in British Israelism, and the United States.[218][note 111] Particularly after the publication of Burton J. Hendrick's The Jews in America (1923)[247] it began to enjoy a vogue among advocates of immigration restriction in the 1920s; racial theorists[248] like Lothrop Stoddard; antisemitic conspiracy-theorists like the Ku Klux Klan's Hiram Wesley Evans; a certain type of anti-communist polemicist like John O. Beaty[note 112] and Wilmot Robertson, whose views influenced David Duke.[249] According to Yehoshafat Harkabi (1968) and others,[note 113] it played a role in Arab anti-Zionist polemics, and took on an antisemitic edge. Bernard Lewis, noting in 1987 that Arab scholars had dropped it, remarked that it only occasionally emerged in Arab political discourse.[note 114] It has also played some role in Soviet antisemitic chauvinism[note 115] and Slavic Eurasian historiography; particularly, in the works of scholars like Lev Gumilev,[251] it came to be exploited by the white supremacist Christian Identity movement[252] and even by terrorist esoteric cults like Aum Shinrikyo.[253]

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Abstract
The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The "Rhineland hypothesis" depicts Eastern European Jews as a "population isolate" that emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and expanded rapidly. Alternatively, the "Khazarian hypothesis" suggests that Eastern European Jews descended from the Khazars, an amalgam of Turkic clans that settled the Caucasus in the early centuries CE and converted to Judaism in the 8th century. Mesopotamian and Greco-Roman Jews continuously reinforced the Judaized empire until the 13th century. Following the collapse of their empire, the Judeo-Khazars fled to Eastern Europe. The rise of European Jewry is therefore explained by the contribution of the Judeo-Khazars. Thus far, however, the Khazars' contribution has been estimated only empirically, as the absence of genome-wide data from Caucasus populations precluded testing the Khazarian hypothesis. Recent sequencing of modern Caucasus populations prompted us to revisit the Khazarian hypothesis and compare it with the Rhineland hypothesis. We applied a wide range of population genetic analyses to compare these two hypotheses. Our findings support the Khazarian hypothesis and portray the European Jewish genome as a mosaic of Near Eastern-Caucasus, European, and Semitic ancestries, thereby consolidating previous contradictory reports of Jewish ancestry. We further describe a major difference among Caucasus populations explained by the early presence of Judeans in the Southern and Central Caucasus. Our results have important implications for the demographic forces that shaped the genetic diversity in the Caucasus and for medical studies.

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March 09, 2022

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, extremists and antisemites across the ideological spectrum have used the war as fodder for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories. Emanating from classic antisemites and white supremacists, as well as QAnon influencers and Proud Boys acolytes, classic tropes of Jewish power, financial control and “abuse” of the Holocaust narrative abound online. In just a few short weeks, tens of thousands of social media users have been exposed to these dangerous lies.

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In the last several decades, research on the population genetics of the Jewish people, what has been popularly called “Jewish genetics,” has captivated scientists and the public. In turn, scholars in the humanities and social sciences have noted the impacts of DNA testing on the Jewish identities of communities, families, and individuals. Few studies in contem-porary antisemitism, however, have focused on how antisemites dialogue with Jewish ge-netics. In this article, I consider the Christian conspiracist writer and radio personality Texe Marrs (1944–2019), an antisemite who recently showed interest in Jewish genetic research purporting to support the Khazarian hypothesis, culminating in a 2013 book, DNA Science and the Jewish Bloodline. I show how Marrs mobilized recent research on Jewish genetics to denounce Christian Zionists, demonize Jews and Judaism, and delegiti-mize the State of Israel. Though Marrs died in November 2019, he was part of a much larger network of Christian conspiracists who drew from an archive of Jew-hatred. Where relevant, I address the work of other antisemitic Christian conspiracists in Marrs’s circle and consider the antisemitic sources upon which he drew.

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Damn you are stupid.

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