Walk through a diaspora protest in London, Los Angeles, or Toronto, and you will spot something that shatters decades of state propaganda. Right beside the ancient Persian Lion and Sun flag flies the Star of David. This isn’t a cheap political stunt. It’s a raw, spontaneous nod to a shared history stretching back thousands of years. The people holding those flags are entirely ignoring the modern borders and religious ideologies designed to keep them apart.

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To understand why, you have to go back to antiquity. In 539 BC, Cyrus the Great captured Babylon and inherited a population of Jewish exiles who had been held captive there for decades. Instead of enslaving the conquered, he freed them outright. The Cyrus Cylinder, a clay proclamation now sitting in the British Museum, records the policy: captive peoples sent home, their gods and temples restored. He let the Jews return to Jerusalem and helped fund the reconstruction of their Second Temple. The Book of Ezra credits him by name for the decree, and the Hebrew Bible calls him an anointed one — the only time that title is given to a non-Jewish ruler anywhere in the text. For........

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