[A.J.Armitage]

A fair number of Jewish folks are descended from proselytes anyway.

I think most of them are descended from both converts and the original Hebrews. David was.

[DensaMensa]

David was.

Funny, I thought David was an Israelite. Everyone else in his kingdom was.

[the_doc]

Many probably were converts involving marriage arrangements. However, there are some historians who claim that a huge number of today's Jews are Slavic folks with no clear racial ties at all to Abraham.

(It doesn't really matter, since proselytism is not in and of itself illegitimate--and I am not sure how reliable the claims by the aforementioned historians are anyway. But they present an interesting scenario which I have not been able to debunk.)