As Britain’s Lyn Julius has pointed out, Islam claims Maimonides as Muslim in an attempt to “disappear” Jewish identity. Geisweiller’s false calims are in the same vein.

In point of fact, the Scrolls were discovered decades before the 1967 war. The Bedu shepherds who initially found them committed a crime against the Jews by severely damaging these archaeological treasures in order to gain more money.

As the scrolls are a Jewish national heritage, such actions were criminal. So, too, were the extortion gentile intermediaries extracted from the government of Israel in holding the scrolls for ransom.

Just as outrageous – but little-known – is the Egyptian insistence that Israel hand over to Egypt Jewish artifacts Israel found in the Sinai. Egypt blackmailed Israel into giving in by threatening not to sign the Sinai peace treaty.