Your commentary seems poorly thought out.

1. But it is true and it’s well documented to be true. Be more specific in what you’re contesting.

2. No, we would expect them to be dumber than the appropriately comparable Jews, and they are. I’ve documented this: cremieux.xyz/p/updated-…. Try not to use proxies like educational attainment since those will generate confusion.

3. They are smarter than their appropriate comparators. See my point #2. And you can identify plenty of intellectual contributions from Jews in the Muslim world, but to do that, you do have to look.

4. When did I cite their population figures? I know they made extrapolations about population figures that are (A) not meaningful, and (B) not relevant. Make them relevant to what I wrote if you’d like to debate them, but as far as I can tell, they’re neither here nor there, and mentioning them does nothing to any of my arguments.

5. Plenty know the origin of Ashkenazi Jews genetically and they know there were clearly population inflows into Europe for hundreds of years, so I’m a bit perplexed by your comment. Is it just a feeling you’re hoping I’ll acknowledge as a datapoint for some reason? I can see from another of your comments below that you outsource thinking to AIs instead of actually doing reading, which means you probably don’t have very good information on many topics. It’s important, then, that you actually source this thinking, since we can’t trust you to not have simply gotten it from some LLM hallucination.