Sccit says there’s no such thing as an “Arab Jew”, thereby conferring ethnic status to Judaism.
If Jews are an ethnicity, they are certainly lacking a unifying vernacular lingua franca before the re-invention of Hebrew in the late 19th century. Moreover, what of those who have converted to Judaism? Indeed, genetic testing on Jews generally reveals the mixed nature of most Jewish populations.
Jews who spoke Arabic and lived in Arab cultural settings for hundreds of years certainly existed. If we understand that Ethiopian Jews exist, why not Arab Jews?
Mainly because Sccit hates Arabs and wants to distance Jews from Arab peoples.
If Jews are an ethnicity, they are certainly lacking a unifying vernacular lingua franca before the re-invention of Hebrew in the late 19th century. Moreover, what of those who have converted to Judaism? Indeed, genetic testing on Jews generally reveals the mixed nature of most Jewish populations.
Jews who spoke Arabic and lived in Arab cultural settings for hundreds of years certainly existed. If we understand that Ethiopian Jews exist, why not Arab Jews?
Mainly because Sccit hates Arabs and wants to distance Jews from Arab peoples.