The Khazarian hypothesis is not the only junk science Jewish origin story. ... While the Khazars disappeared as a separate people about 1,000 years ago, millions of Berbers still live in North Africa.

The reason is that as you can tell from the title of the author takes a position on the Khazarian origin model of Ashkenazi Jews (in favor). Here is a non-genetic take over at GeoCurrents, the thrust ...

Did the Khazars convert to Judaism? The view that some or all Khazars, a central Asian people, became Jews during the ninth or tenth century is widely accepted. But following an exhaustive ...