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This is great.. would love to see you debunk the Khazarian / Ashkenazi theory. I've seen some good individual pieces, but would love to see a central piece that combines all the reasons it's nonsense.

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I could cover it at some point. Aside from the history it kind of just boils down to there being no genetic evidence for Khazar origins, and other people more competent than me have addressed that stuff like you said

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Do the people who favor the Ellis Island theory ever ask themselves whether Jewish immigrants were willing to write the letter "X" in general?

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Phenomenal research - all these years I'd laboured under the kikel myth, unaware that an obscure scotch slang was the root origin all along.

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This was great! Thanks!

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