Palestinian Marranos?
Palestinians and Jews in the Holy Land may be intertwined, but with the level of intermingling and overlapping suggested in this news item about Palestinian Marranos, it's getting ridiculous:
Four Palestinians from the Hebron Hills contacted a group of rabbis on Tuesday and claimed to be the descendents of Jews who were forced to convert to Islam.
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Good background reading on Marranos: http://irincarmon.net/marranos.html
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David Peters
10/29/08 12:49 PM
Not so ridiculous.
There were reports from the 1920s and 30s that some families (clans) in the Hebron area were slandered as ‘Yahud’ (Jew in Arabic), even as they strenuously denied any Jewish ancestry.
Obviously, the locals kept track of bloodlines.