Yuyutsu, I agree many stayed in Babylon, but in more recent times they
returned to Jerusalem. Not sure when but I suspect it was in the last 100 years.
No matter how you grind it up, the Islamist offer is convert or die.

You could be right Toni, I do not make a log of everything I read.
So I have to work from memory.
But did Alexander ethnically cleanse the Phoneticians ?

Just yesterday I saw a comment that the Lebanese claim they are the Phoneticians.
Certainly Phoneticia was on the coast of the Levant.

“Not sure when.......

I have to work from memory.......

No matter how you grind it up, the Islamist offer is convert or die.”

Islamophobia is a bit like Alzheimer’s Bazz, it impacts on cognitive areas of the brain. There is a least a dozen religions that are alive and well and have been living with Islam for over a thousand years. They did not convert and obviously they did not die. You'll be pleased to here though that there is cure for Islamophobia. It's called academic journals. They filter out the bs that can collect on your cognitive areas and impair your thinking. Before you know it you'll be so freed up that you'll be able to think for yourself. That will be good for you and good for the rest of us, as we won't have to read mindless repetitions of Islamophobic bs.

Y,

Thanks for correcting Anti colonial.

I never claimed that there was a second diaspora. The second ethnic cleansing to which I referred occurred in the 1940s and 50s when all Arabs expelled their Jewish citizens who often had ancestry in that country dating back many centuries.

That they moved to Israel was because they had no where else to go, and roughly doubled the Jewish population. So the Arabs in other countries are largely responsible for the new settlements that need to be built as a consequence of Arab racism.

The current events in Indonesia - our enemy to the north pandered to by the Jakarta Lobby - show that Islamophobia is as starkly valid as Naziphobia.

"David Goldstein, a Duke University geneticist and director of the Duke Center for Human Genome Variation, has said that the work of the Technion and Ramban team served only to confirm that genetic drift played a major role in shaping Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited in a matrilineal manner. Goldstein argues that the Technion and Ramban mtDNA studies fail to actually establish a statistically significant link between modern Jews and historic Middle Eastern populations. This differs from the patrilineal case, where Goldstein said there is no doubt of a Middle Eastern origin. In June 2010, Behar et al. "shows that most Jewish samples form a remarkably tight subcluster with common genetic origin, that overlies Druze and Cypriot samples but not samples from other Levantine populations or paired Diaspora host populations.

Well Anti-colonial, Islamaphobia, an unreasonable fear of Islam.
Well I maintain that I have a reasonable fear of Islam.
So I do not have Islamaphobia.

I suggest that you examine what is going on in Europe and the Middle East.
Would you say that the French are suffering Islamaphobia ?
Would you say the remaining Christians in ME have Islamaphobia ?
Would you say the Copts in Egypt are suffering Islamaphobia ?
Would you say the children in Rotherham are suffering Islamaphobia.
Would you say the customers in the Lindt Cafe were suffering from Islamaphobia.
Would you say the workers in the Trade Centre were suffering Islamaphobia.
etc etc etc etc.

I suspect you would.
The moslems have a name for you, "Useful Idiots".