Hilarious. Apparently the tradition of random Ashkenazim claiming illustrious Sephardic ancestry with ersatz certificates is nothing new; one Samuel Solnik in 1942 attempts to convince British authorities of his descent from Don Isaac Abarbanel, and therefore King David and his right to claim personal dominion over the entirety of Mandatory Palestine.“To this day there are families who live among us, with papers proving their lineage that reaches back to the time of the kings of Israel. As an example, I must note the Solnik family, descended from the family of the Sephardic Don Abarbanel, and it is known that he was in possession of a certificate confirming he was a descendant of King David. Despite the expulsions and the riots this lineage remains unbroken, and the Hebrew people proudly carries the royal crown in its blood!”The joke is, of course, that according to simple mathematics, that the Identical Ancestry Point for Jews is much more recent than the time King David is supposed to have lived, meaning any ethnic Jew regardless of ancestry would be a Davidic descendant if such a person ever indeed existed.I'm not sure whether I'm more nauseated at this individual's narcissism during a time when his brethren were facing genocide, or charmed by the audacity of his sheer chutzpah.