Wars have a way of bringing the oldest hatreds back to the surface.
Operation Roaring Lion launched on February 28, and within days the antisemitism surge was visible and measurable — synagogue vandalism up 300 percent across American cities, hashtags accusing Jews of starting World War III racking up 50 million views on X, death threats against Chabad Houses following Tucker Carlson’s March 4 claim that the Brooklyn-based outreach organization had secretly orchestrated the war to destroy Al-Aqsa and rebuild the Third Temple. The war gave the haters a fresh pretext. The conspiracy theories did the rest.
But one strain of the current disinformation is different from the others, and more dangerous, because it doesn’t argue about the war. It argues about whether Jews have any legitimate claim to Israel in the first place.
On his March 10 appearance on the Megyn Kelly Show, Carlson pushed a claim he has been building for weeks: that Ashkenazi Jews are not the descendants of the ancient Israelites at all, but medieval Khazar converts — a Turkic people from the Caucasus who adopted Judaism in the eighth century — with no bloodline to Abraham and no ancestral connection to the land they are defending. In this telling, Netanyahu is a “Polish impostor.” Jewish leaders should submit to DNA tests to prove their lineage. Zionism is not a national liberation movement. It is a land grab by people who have no business being in the Middle East.
The Khazar theory has been debunked by historians and geneticists for decades. But knowing that it has been debunked and being able to refute it in real time — across a dinner table, on a college campus, in the comments of a viral post — are two different things entirely. Most supporters of Israel can do the first. Very few can do the second, because doing it properly requires knowing 4,000 years of history well enough to deploy it on the spot.
That is exactly what Rabbi Yotav Eliach’s Judaism, Zionism and the Land of Israel makes possible — which is why Israel365 is making it available now, when the need for it has never been more urgent.
You can order your copy here.
Rabbi Eliach did not write this book in response to Tucker Carlson. He wrote it before Carlson discovered the Khazar myth, before any of this became the crisis it is today. But the accusations being mainstreamed right now are not new — they are the oldest lies in the arsenal, recycled for a new audience — and Rabbi Eliach built the answer to all of them. Judaism, Zionism and the Land of Israel traces the Jewish claim to the land from Abraham’s covenant in Genesis through 4,000 years of religious law, history, and national identity, straight through to the modern State of Israel.
At 804 pages, with nearly two dozen maps courtesy of the late Sir Martin Gilbert and full texts of key documents, resolutions, and speeches, it is the most comprehensive case for Israel ever assembled in a single volume. It has been assigned in schools across the country, nominated for the National Jewish Book Award, and cited in actual diplomatic debates over Israel’s legitimacy.
On the Khazar theory specifically, Rabbi Eliach documents what serious historians have long established: Jews maintained an unbroken physical presence in the Land of Israel through every century of foreign conquest — Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Crusader, Ottoman, and British. The “impostor” narrative is not a suppressed heterodox position. It is fiction, and the primary sources that refute it are not obscure.
The book goes further, into territory that rarely surfaces in public conversation. Rabbi Eliach documents that Arab immigration to the Land of Israel surged after early Zionist economic successes in the 1880s — meaning the population Zionism supposedly displaced arrived largely because of Zionism. He records that British Mandate policy restricted Jewish immigration while placing no limits on Arab immigration. He establishes that the number of Jewish refugees expelled from Arab lands in 1948 exceeded the number of Arabs who fled the nascent State of Israel — a refugee crisis the Arab world deliberately prolonged by warehousing its displaced people in camps rather than resettling them. And he asks the question the Palestinian statehood campaign has never answered: if occupation is the crime, why was no Palestinian state established between 1948 and 1967, when Judea, Samaria, and Gaza were controlled entirely by Arabs?
There has never in history been a national entity called Palestine — no government, no army, no currency, no distinct culture. That is documented history, and this book documents it.
The battle for Israel is not only being fought over Iranian airspace. It is being fought on podcasts, on X, at dinner tables, and in university seminar rooms — and in that battle, most supporters of Israel are showing up without the facts they need. When Carlson demands DNA tests for Jewish leaders, the answer is not outrage. The answer is the covenant God made with Abraham in Genesis, the laws recorded in Leviticus, the prophets who promised return from exile, the unbroken chain of Jewish presence across every century of occupation, and the legal frameworks of international law that recognized Jewish sovereignty before the State was ever declared.
Rabbi Eliach has assembled all of it. If you love Israel and you love the Bible, this is the book you have been waiting for — the one you will want to hand to every skeptic you know.
Get your copy of Judaism, Zionism and the Land of Israel today.
