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Scott Pritikin · Top Commenter · NIU
OK people, here it is.... for the very last time-- THIS IS A PARODY or SPOOF written in the tradition of the Jewish holiday of Purim. Purim is celebrated with unbounded levels of joyous merriment and foolishness including April fools like parodies or spoofs such as this one penned by Jim Wald.
At the very top of the parody the dateline listed is from Jerusalem and Zhitomir (a city in West Ukraine), 16 March/Adar II 14--which is the secular and Hebrew date in which the holiday of Purim is celebrated. An obvious giveaway at the very beginning of the spoof.
The author provides many subtle hints throughout indicating this is a parody. The author lists one of the correspondents filing the story as Hershel of Ostropol, a 19th century Ukrainian and a prominent figure in Jewish humor and a noted prankster. Unless you have a time machine or can re-animate the dead, Hershel of Ostropol would not be available to comment on this story, let alone file the report.
"The small-scale successor to the medieval empire of Khazaria (as the peninsula, too, was once known) would be called, in Yiddish, Chazerai." The word Chazerai is Yiddish meaning unattractive or unappetizing food or articles, i.e. feces or trash.
The author says "Given the confluence of the weekend and the Purim and Saint Patrick’s Day holidays, reporters scrambled to get responses" i.e. everyone was too drunk celebrating the holiday of Purim to comment. The author says "Members of the YESHA Council of settlers, some of them evidently the worse for wear after too much festival slivovitz." Slivovitz is plum brandy usually consumed on the holiday of Purim.
One website listed in the parody by the author is called "DAFTKAfile". There is no website of this name. The author is using a tongue in cheek attempt at humor based on the website intelligence/rumor website DEBKAfile and using the English word "DAFT" -- 1. informal foolish, simple, or stupid: 2. a slang word for insane: 3. informal extremely fond (of) 4. slang frivolous; giddy
The author also uses the Yiddish word "YONTEF" meaning HOLIDAY as part of a Hebrew name “Menuchem Yontef Jews”: “M. Y. Jews,” for short--- i.e. MY JEWS.
One of the fictitious people quoted is Judith Buntler, who doesn't exist (if you don't believe me, just try a Google search of "Judith Buntler" in quotations). This is a play on the name "Judith Butler" an anti-Israel American philosopher and gender theorist who's fictitious and meaningless rambling quote about ‘being Khazarian.’ was an homage to something she probably said about gender identity or Zionism.
The author quotes Anti-Israel BDS leader Ali Abubinomial, "Abu" in Arabic means father and a binomial is a theorem describing the algebraic expansion of powers. There is no person named "Ali Abubinomial" and this is an obvious joke about an anti-Israel Arab seeking an expansion of power.
The author also speaks of a Pecheneg Liberation Organization (PLO). The Pechenegs were an ancient people forced to leave their Central Asian homeland between 800 and 895 CE. This is a homage to the Jews forced diaspora from Israel by the Romans and a spoof on the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and their "from the river to the sea..." motto, which was humorously changed to “From the Black to the Caspian Sea, We’re Gonna Find Somebody to Free!”
The author quotes a fictitious person named "Myron Benvenuti." There is no such person as Myron Benvenuti. Benvenuti is an Italian word meaning "welcome."
A Palestinian woman is quoted as saying... " We all long for an agreement but just cannot see how to achieve it. For now, all we can see is this Chazerai." Again, the word "Chazerai" is Yiddish meaning # or nothing of value. Palestinians don't often speak Yiddish.
Admittedly it is difficult to find much that is humorous in this Purim parody/spoof, but anyone with any level of intelligence and/or background on the subject can clearly tell the author is attempting to use history, current events, politics and anti-Semitic mythology to be humorous, he's just not very good at it.
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: Britguy
So some say that it's satire, they are not Khazars and have no claim to anything in Ukraine.
It is satire directed at people like you, who deny Jews their very identity by attempting to "prove" that they are not "really" Jewish.
originally posted by: Britguy
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: Britguy
So some say that it's satire, they are not Khazars and have no claim to anything in Ukraine.
It is satire directed at people like you, who deny Jews their very identity by attempting to "prove" that they are not "really" Jewish.
I don't attempt to deny anyone their religion (or freedom to practice it), which is what Judaism is. However, the Jews are NOT a race, they are simply followers of one of the many religious beliefs on this planet. Accordingly, for them to claim that land belongs to them and to murder, oppress and militarily occupy that land is wrong, and I judge them by their actions. I am not anti-semitic, but I am anti-A$$hole!
They have NO claim to any particular piece of land, any more than I could murder the royal family and lay claim to Balmoral and the land it sits on, being half Scottish.
They have NO claim to any particular piece of land, any more than I could murder the royal family and lay claim to Balmoral and the land it sits on, being half Scottish.
originally posted by: UmbraSumus
a reply to: Britguy
Like I suspected - It is a completely bogus story
The clues are in the correspondents names Hirsh Ostropoler and I.Z Grosser-Spass
Our Russian and Ukrainian correspondents Hirsh Ostropoler and I.Z Grosser-Spass
Times Of Israel
Hershel of Ostropol ("a prominent figure in Jewish humor")
a prominent figure in Jewish humor, the Jewish equivalent of Nasreddin and Till Eulenspiegel.[original research?] Hershele was a prankster from Ostropol, Ukraine, who lived in poverty and targeted the rich and powerful, both Jew and Gentile. Common folks were not safe from his shenanigans, either, but usually got off lightly. He is also remembered by Ukrainian gentiles as something of an ethnic folk hero,[1] who could take on establishment forces much larger than himself with nothing but his humor.
source
And the other author I.Z Grosser-Spass:
Grosser-Spass roughly translates to "Big Fun/Joke"
Big-Fun indeed
HOAX Label required !
"Israel seems finally to have thrown in the towel. A blue-ribbon team of scholars from leading research institutions and museums has just issued a secret report to the government, acknowledging that European Jews are in fact Khazars."
originally posted by: Britguy
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: MysterX
To be honest, i haven't checked into this for myself yet, but If this is actually true, then colour me an anti-semite then!
It's not true, but by all means cop to your Anti-Semitism if you want.
Ok I admit there may be something to this study.
originally posted by: DJW001
a reply to: ufoorbhunter
Ok I admit there may be something to this study.
As for Ashkenazi Jews being descended from Khazars, perhaps some of them are. Because Judaism is a religion and lifestyle, there are probably a variety of "ethic strains" represented in European Jewry.