Tinfoil to Truth

You’re missing the point. Jews in AD 33 were basically homogeneous - a few mostly-female converts marrying in, but that’s about it. Jews were a coherent people, a “race” in the 19th century sense of the word. But today? Genetic surveys show that Palestinians share more DNA with ancient Levantines than Ashkenazi Jews do. Around the world, there are more non-Jews carrying some portion of Jewish DNA than there are Jews. What can be said about Jews today that has general validity? There are religious and atheist Jews, Zionist and anti-Zionist Jews, black, white, and brown Jews. There’s a reason a Gallup poll a few years ago showed that most Jews (by a wide margin) said “Remembering the Holocaust” was the most important part of Jewish identity - the shared sense of threat and victimhood is the only thing that holds together a group of people that otherwise have nothing in common. The Israel of AD 33 disappeared. Its ritual observance ceased, its language was forgotten, and its genetic heritage was scattered and dispersed among the nations. The Zionists of 1948 are akin to mixed ancestry Irish-Americans invading Ireland, saying they were the true Irish people come to reclaim land that is theirs by right, and ethnically cleansing Ireland of its inhabitants. The idea that there’s some clear continuity between Jews of the Bible and those who invaded Palestine is pure fantasy.