Mr Baroody representing Saudi Arabia at the United Nations 1973
The ethnological argument is that political Zionism is an alien ideology that was introduced in our midst: it is none other than a Central European and Eastern European incursion into our midst. The late Herzl and the torch-bearers of Zionism were of Khazar origin, not of our area; they came from the northern tier of Asia, and they were converted to Judaism in the eighth century A.D. But just as the British were converted to Christianity, a Semitic religion, by St. Augustine in the sixth century does not make the British a Semitic people, so those Central European Jews-those Khazars, those Ashkenazim-are not Semites.