Modern Zionist Jews are usurping the post Canaanite history and calling it all Jewish.
Bar Kochba was no hero to them, he was so hated by the peasantry it was the last straw for most who converted to Christianity if they had not already done so.
Most of the people who stuck with Judaism were the "diaspora" actually consisting of mostly converts, as Judaism had been a very successful proselytizing religion in the early Greco-Roman periods (later, Christianity largely followed the same routes and displaced it). They even used different books than the Judeans.
And finally, at least many now claim, Rabbinic Judaism does not appear until the ending of the first millenium CE, though itself claiming much earlier invention. In fact, Rabbinic Judaism is the youngest Abrahamic religion.
QUOTING FROM LINK ABOVE (my opinion my may vary slightly)
Judaism was a massively proselytizing religion during the Greco-Roman period and before just as Christianity, which initially was a religion confined to Judea Province, became during the Roman Imperial period. Christianity spread out from Judea Province mostly through the paths that Biblical Judaism had previously used. Christianity, which was initially a sect of Biblical Judaism, started by parasitizing the proselytization of Judaism and surpassed Judaism first in Palestine and then throughout the Roman world mostly because the leaders of Judaism almost completely wrecked Judaism for the population of Judea Province. (In addition, Christianity, which absorbed many pagan ideas, seems to have been more comfortable with the euergetism that sustained the Roman Empire than Biblical Judaism was.)
Maniac Bar Kochba, who persecuted the Judean peasantry (90% of the Judean population) during his rebellion, and his lackey Tannaim like Rabbi Akiba completely discredited Biblical Judaism in Palestine. The peasantry rapidly converted to Christianity...
Modern Palestinians descend from Greco-Roman Judeans. Zionist colonial settlers have no* ancestral roots whatsoever in Palestine.
Land of Israel, Kingdom of Israel, Children of Israel, and Community of Israel have no reality outside of the cultic religious contexts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Only Palestine is real.
The Hasmoneans and the Herodians never called themselves Kings of Israel. They aspired to become Kings of Palestine but never managed to achieve their goal.
...[there is much more...writer goes on to explain the 2nd millenium construction of Talmudic Judaism...and that this was nothing like the Judaism Jesus knew, there was no "Oral Tradition" known to him, Josephus, or Philo, and what Jesus knew was also vastly different from the religion of Davidic kings...* I would say they have much less direct descent.]
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The same author has much more under other links, such as this one.
First he parses the etymology, Jew is someone who practices a religion from Judea, a Judean is someone who lived in Judea. Already in the time of the Roman Republic, most Jews were not Judeans.
The Jews own book (Pentateuch) says that Levantine Arabs (aka Palestinians) have been part of Levant since Patriarchal times (Ishmael), same as Jews.
Rome conquered and tried to rule Palestine directly, finally handing it over in the second century to a client state run by Levantine Arabs, who basically ran the place until the British.
Judeans did not leave the Levant en masse under Rome. Arabs never "conquered" Palestine. The Ottoman empire never "colonized" the Levant. The same people mostly stayed there, especially in the peasant majority. The Romans had no means or motive to move peasants around.
Judeans first converted to Christianity in the original Jewish version from James in which Jesus is not divine. Then, it was actually Levantine Arabs--Palestinians--who invented Islam, building on top of Jamesian Christianity.
Meanwhile, modern Rabbinic and Talmudic Judiasm is not even a Judean invention--it is Babylonian and from nearly a millenium later!
Every element of the Zionist claims is an attempt to legitimate their premeditated genocide. It is not based on historical facts. Palestine before Zionism was an inhabited land whose mixed but mostly Muslim inhabitants had every legal, historical, and cultural right to be there. They are the people with the greatest descent from ancient Judeans. Jews have less right to colonize Palestine than Roman Catholics have to colonize Italy.
And another great link by the same author.
Repeats much of the same material as above with a few more details. But also expands on the Talmud. Talmudic and Rabbinic Judaism served an international commerce class. Talmudic Judaism was taught as a legal code, so Jews all over the world could understand the same complicated legal concepts even if they didn't speak the same language. Talmudic Judaism was specialized for this role. The Torah was de-emphasized much more than in Christianity--where little would make sense without the Old Testament.
But the niche of small global traders with esoteric training became obsolete in the modern era. Talmudic education declined, setting up the stage for Zionism, to be invented by Jewish atheists using old Jewish myths but not the deep scholarship and thinking which would have debunked them, nor much the plain text of the Torah to steer against them either.
And a Deep Dive into the Hanukkah story.
The Hasmonians were themselves Hellenizers, and the Seleucids did not persecute Jews outside Judah, so the whole Jewish narrative of the context of the Hanukkah story is false.
The Hasmonians needed to obscure their replacement of the Persian installed second temple elite which had continued under Greek rule.
The Hanukkah story was the background for their new annual purification of the Second Temple, and makes them seem like the true successors to earlier priestly classes (though they were opposed by early Rabbinic Jews).
Another Deep Dive into the Hanukkah story.
The Hanukkah story is also connected to the stories about Hannah of the Hasmonians (who exposed herself to protest her planned rape by Greek elites) and Judith (of hundreds of years earlier).
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