18+ LGBT Community and Israel’s Sympathizers are Treated Harshly in Syria Today. Westernized Bashar was very tolerant of homos and progressives in general.
OCTOBER 29TH 1996 NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE ENTITLED SCHOLARS DEBATE ORGINS OF YIDDISH & THE MIGRATION OF JEWS “THE EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWS ARE NOT SEMITIC, THEY WERE LARGELY DESCENDED FROM THE TURKISH KHAZARS WHO CONVERTED TO JUDAISM IN MEDIEVAL TIMES.