{"id":56940,"date":"2014-08-29T11:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T19:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56940"},"modified":"2014-08-29T11:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T19:48:31","slug":"are-jews-going-to-fall-for-another-scam-about-black-african-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=56940","title":{"rendered":"Are Jews Going To Fall For Another Scam About Black African ‘Jews’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Background<\/a> on Ethiopian Jews in Israel, whose average IQ is 63 and whose descendants will assimilate about as well as American blacks into first world civilization.<\/p>\n

Report<\/a>: When I had met Pinchas in Abuja, Nigeria\u2019s federal capital some four months earlier, he had emphasized that one of the biggest difficulties facing the country\u2019s roughly 2,000-3,000 Igbo Jews is their isolation from other Jewish communities around the world. I had been considering that difficulty ever since I returned to Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

The Igbo, whose traditional homeland is in South-Eastern Nigeria, is one the country\u2019s largest ethnic group. Most of them are Christians, but many Igbo, even while practising Christianity, consider themselves ethnically Jewish and members of the lost tribes of Israel. In the past few decades, several thousands of Igbo have gone a step further and embraced Jewish practice, which they view as their lost heritage, though so far, only a small number have undergone formal conversion.<\/p>\n