Are Europeans the descendants of the Israelites?

Are Europeans the descendants of the Israelites?

Apparently "Saxon" comes from "Isaac's son".

No, that's a long debunked folk etymology

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Proof?

Saxon literally means knife-men

That's some premium fucking Wewuz right there.
Also Requesting a 'My ancestor...' edit with a Jew and a Saxon.

Around Saxons watch your actions.

That's a sax. That's what we are named after. Now go fuck yourself christboy

It's the other way round actually.

19th century English gentry genuinely thought they were descended from Israelites.

The need to feel relevant is an english core trait.

Huh. That's kind of funny. I guess a Saxon and a Jew works as well.

They descend from the Edomites which is close enough.

It's not exclusive to the English. The fact that the Bible is largely a history of the Jewish people encourages a tendency towards trying to appropriate a slice of that history among Christians that aren't of Jewish descent.

WE WUZ JOOZ. Fits well with the constant hardon for Nazi Germany.

ICH BEN JUDEN

There's actually a splinter movement from British Israelism called Christian Identity that asserts that not only are white people the true descendants of Israel, but that the Jews as we know them are actually descendants of Esau.

>a splinter movement from British Israelism
now that's just sad. subgroup of an irrelevant sect. That takes wewuzzery to a whole new level.

Germans are Assyrians (Asshur), not Jews.

Thank god

The main rationale behind this theory is that, at the time of Israel (1000~500 BC), Europe was largely empty. Most of mankind was situated in the ME, North-Africa or Asia minor.

>Flood happens
>All of mankind gathers around Mesopotamia
>fast forward a couple centuries
>Entire Middle-East is covered
>fast forward a couple centuries
>NA and a bit of Asia is covered, and early Greeks (around the time of Persia)

The argument goes that the Israelites scattered to Europe after the Assyrian conquest. There's also a theory that the Spartans were the descendants of the tribe of Dan.

But this is borderline "Black Hebrew" we wuzing, it's in the realm of speculation and the normal interpretation of Biblical YEC is the "Table of Nations".

Table of Nations cont.

A. Four Sons of Ham:
1. Mizraim (Egypt)
2. Cush (Sudan, Ethiopia)
3. Put (Lybia)
4. Canaan (Hivites, Jebusites, Arvadites, Girgashites, Amorites, Arkites, Sinites, Hittites,
Sidonians, Perizzites, Zemarites)

B. Five Sons of Shem:
1. Elam (Arabia)
2. Asshur (Assyria)
3. Lud (Lydians)
4. Aram (Aramaic, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Syria)
5. Arphaxad (From which Abraham descended)

C. Japheth's Descendants (14 Nations came out of Japheth):
The immediate descendants of Japheth were seven in number, and are represented by the nations designated Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Mesech, and Tiras; or, roughly, the Armenians, Lydians, Medes, Greeks, Tibarenians, and Moschians, the last, Tiras, remaining still obscure. The sons of Gomer (Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah) were all settled in the West Asian tract; while the sons of Javan (Elisah, Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim or Rodanim) occupied the Mediterranean coast and the adjacent islands.

Seven Sons of Japheth
1. Javan (Greece, Romans, Romance -- French, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese)
2. Magog (Scythians, Slavs, Russians, Bulgarians, Bohemians, Poles, Slovaks, Croatians)
3. Madai (Indians & Iranic: Medes, Persians, Afghans, Kurds)
4. Tubal (South of Black Sea)
5. Tiras (Thracians, Teutons, Germans, Scandinavian, Anglo-Saxon, Jutes)
6. Meshech (Russia)
7. Gomer (Celtic)