“Not From Zion” – Ksirov H Kushan

"Not from Zion" They call themselves Jews, but their genes tell a different story. Not from Canaan, not from Sinai, not from Jerusalem. But from the Zagros, from the Taurus, from the windless dust of northern Mesopotamia. Their skin bears no desert. Their bones remember no Judah. Their blood does not call to Zion—it calls to Sinai, to Amed, to Hewler. They are Kurds, disguised in scrolls, in rites, in memories they gave themselves. They did not …