How does Deuteronomy 28 not completely refute all of Zionism?
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Feel free to elaborate on the word “verify” and how it differs from “take people at their word, full stop”
Sounds like he has his head on straighter than you!
You mean, beyond the fact that ashkenazim aren’t Judahites, as you just acknowledged?
I didn't acknowledge that the Ashkenazi aren't Judahites. Evidence indicates they arise from the merger of Judahites and Khazarians, which eventually continued the name Judahites and not the name Khazarians. It doesn't make them non-Jews just because they have more intermix but have always been taken as Jews by Jews and most everyone else. There is no case in history I know of where mixing two together removes the right to use either name in the future; and usually a marriage takes the man's name.
Not exactly, but you did acknowledge that your ashkenazi acquaintance rightly observed that his tribe has less claim to the name than peoples who are excluded from the name by the group known as “world jewry”, which is a roundabout way of acknowledging that Ashkenazim aren’t jews.
Not what he meant, I expressed the thought accurately as being less claim. The African tribes are being debated by world Jewry regularly, many are accepted fully such as those he spoke of, some are also given provisional acceptance due to weaker history. That's mostly about outlier cases though, as well as about "degree of Jewishness". To the question of who are Jews when Jews are being persecuted by government, yes or no, they all qualify, and Christians don't anymore (not since the 300s).