How strong was this man! RIP Tony you are a great example for Us, the historians. I want to appreciate for the luck of reading your whole work.

Such a brilliant historian.. Even in the face of death, he is able to explain so properly and clear what this disease does to him.. He will be missed..

I was diagnosed with ALS three months ago and I'm only 22. Tony Judt is a hero and someone you can truly look up to. We seriously need to reform the euthanasia laws in the UK.

I'd recommend this video to anyone who has a friend or relative with ALS, and wants to understand the illness better.

From Spain: RIP. Always we will have his work.

RIP. Great man and intellectual. His messages and contributions will live on.

My former boss just died of this and it brought me here. This gentleman articulated this so poetically what victims of this disease go through. You can see the pain in his face carrying this burden. RIP😢

Thank you for your service to humanity, Mr. Judt.

Prof Tony Judt, an intellectual hero. R I P.

So very sorry for him and his family. I learned so much by reading just a few pages of one of his books.

Courage and honesty.

Professor, u are an amazing exemple how love always wins, do the natural course of life, in the end, everybody is going to end the same. Ur family is precious to u and i am sure u are very much precious for them. U will be in my prayer tonight.

The fact that your brain remains perfectly intact with this disease is the most terrifying part IMO. Trapped within your own body unable to scream. Truly the stuff of nightmares.

great mind. thanks for the work!

It will be a really sad day for us when he is gone. such a towering intellectual

rest in peace tony . he was a great person!

Poor guy :( Im really sorry for him! :(

My father died of this a month ago. He suffered terribly. He lost his voice very early in the illness. It is unbelievably cruel.

What a remarkable man, such a loss.

OH MY GOD ... I had no idea Tony Judt had developed this disease. This is a total shock. I'm halfway through 'Postwar' at the moment. Thus it has just struck me how extraordinarily painful it will be to have a mind that capacious trapped in a body that atrophied. I really do feel for him. This must seem like such an extraordinarily cruel stroke of fate. I so enjoyed listening to his interviews in particular.

This is one of life’s real hero’s .

What an inspiring character: "I've been teaching this semester, students come in here.."

This is quite depressing. I admire Tony Judt a lot.

my friend has got this he can't talk anymore and us about to get pegfeed its awful for him. he is very Angry poor man 😢 one of the nicest kindest people i have ever met.

I feel very sorry for him. Life is strange. Eschilo docet. Rest in peace Tony.

my mother died bcuz of dis sickness on january of diz year 2011 r.i.p. we will always have u in our heart nd 4 da ppl dat wants to knw dis sickness spread fast on my mother she only lasted 10 months da last month she was with us she couldnt walk couldnt move no part of her body she couldnt talk for wat i understood her she used to say her tougue felt really heavy :,( thiz was the hardest months of my life missin u mother nd god plz help find a cure for dis ppl r.i.p.

I feel so sorry for this man

A dignified and poignant reminder that the only thing we have control over is our attitude.

Tony Judt is a mastermind. His premature demise is a major bummer

@pragmatismnotidealis can i ask what the very early signs where and how it was diagnosed because its in my family and i have just had a blood test and it was clear .

No my Grand father died because of this the muscles do not work...... Now he is no more .......he couldn't get up from bed unable to walk and to speak

Brave man RIP.

i hope they find a cure for this damn thing. this is incredibly cruel.

@hamzyboy Sadly he had already passed away on August 6th of 2010....

Pls help us my mother has ALS and now she needed mechanical ventilation .. help us to buy this machine , we really need it

@21centurynostradamus Hi, Step father died of MND on Feb 18th 2011. He experienced spasms in his muscles about 3 years ago. He then started to trip over (Drop Foot) and started falling. He was still driving this time last year. muscle bipopsy in March 10. In May I raised concerns about his breathing because he was gasping for air. September 10 2010 was diagnosis day. put on Rizuzole. Died of Aspiration Pneumpnia. He was 66

RIP❤️

R.I.P Tony Judt

Wonder how he is now?

stephen hawkings has this too

@hamzyboy so who would?

Bollix going to mars or the moon this needs a cure

My grandad has this disease

What an amazingly brilliant mind going to waste in the wrong body

this is gods wel

My uncle Hugh mnd motor neurone disease and he died at age of he died when he was 53 it was in a hospice and we got a phone call at 3:55 in the morning ways friend to tell you to tell us he was dying when my grandmother died

iii Scientists estimated the date of the original priest based on genetic mutations, which indicated that the priest lived roughly 106 generations ago, between 2,650 and 3,180 years ago depending whether one counts a generation as 25 or 30 years,, This mutations in DNA is used nowdays as exclusive Israelite base for comperation with other ethnic groups.

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This is very sad. AIPAC finally got rid of him.

@hamzyboy No one deserves to be put through that much pain and suffering, it's inhumane, and horrible.

RIP

ii The researchers estimated that the most recent common ancestor of modern Kohanim lived between 1000 BCE (roughly the time of the Biblical Exodus) and 586 BCE, when the Babylonians destroyed the First Temple. They found similar results analyzing DNA from Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews.

@shadowgirl0907 they are so far from finding any sort of effective treatment for this disease. it's penicious to deny that and say facile things like "biopsychologists are making rapid advancements :)" They are not, and Tony Judt is smart enough and honest enough and brave enough to know that.

At least he will have a long life..... If you get this disease you can not live up to three years! Remember youtube this is a very rare disease and it is painless.

Conclusion cont.. van Oransky. "Tracing Mideast Roots Back to Isaac and Ishmael: Study of Y Chromosome Suggests a Common Ancestry for Jews and Arabs." The Forward (May 19, 2000).

Haplogroup K Although is common throughout western Eurasia, "the observed global pattern of distribution renders very unlikely the possibility that the four aforementioned founder lineages entered the Ashkenazi mtDNA pool via gene flow from a European host population." 4 In addition, Behar et al. have suggested that the rest of Ashkenazi mtDNA is originated from ~150 women, most of those were probably of Middle Eastern origin. Citations links follow..

This is a very rare disease and you cant live up to three years. Every one should remember that this can happen in any age and their is no cure it takes a while to paralyze your body. Thank you for reading this commet

Behar, M. Ene Metspalu, Tomas Kivisild, Alessandro Achilli, Yarin Hadid, Shay Tzur, Luisa Pereira, Antonio Amorim, Lluı's Quintana-Murci, Kari Majamaa, Corinna Herrnstadt, Neil Howell, Oleg Balanovsky, Ildus Kutuev, Andrey Pshenichnov, ,

I'm halfway through Postwar, and it is already the most brilliant, authoritative and wonderful book on Europe post 1945. I don't share his social democratic politics, and it is easy to punch holes in his arguments against rightist politics, but there is no doubting his intellect and the power of his writing. It's such a shame for Left that Mr Judt died, because it has emasculated itself in recent years.

Worst disease in the world

Cont. Almut Nebel, Dvora Filon, Bernd Brinkmann, Partha P. Majumder, Marina Faerman, Ariella Oppenheim. "The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic Landscape of the Middle East. Wade, Nicholas (January 14 2006) More recent studies point to a significant female founder ancestry deriving from the M-Et. A 2006 study by Behar et based on high-resolution analysis of haplogroup K(mtDNA) the current Ashkenazi population is descended matrilineally from just four women, or "founder lineages",

So they had to shut him up for speaking the truth !

sad.

Cont: c descended from a common Middle Eastern ancestral population", and suggested that Jewish communities have remained isolated from neighboring non-Jewish communities during and after the Diaspora Researchers expressed surprise at the remarkable genetic uniformity they found among modern Jews, no matter where the diaspora has become dispersed around the world.

A Study of haplotypes of the Y chromosome, published in 2000, addressed the paternal origins of Ashkenazi Jews. Hammer et al. found that the Y chromosome of some Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews contained mutations that are also COMMON among Middle Eastern peoples, but UNCOMMON in the general European population. Suggesting MALE ANCESTORS OF THE ASHKENAZIM could be traced to the

Cont. a We conclude that four founding mtDNAs, Near Eastern ancestry, and can be described as a sovely Israelite mtDNA.This mt DNA was not found in any non jewish or semitic people searched ("Palestinians",Turks,Kurds,Slavs and others) Wade, Nicholas (January 14 2006) Behar, M.; Ene Metspalu, Toomas Kivisild, Alessandro Achilli, Yarin Hadid, Shay Tzur, Luisa Pereira, Antonio Amorim, Lluı's Quintana-Murci, Kari Majamaa, Corinna Herrnstadt

B Haplotypes study continued: MIDDLE EAST. The PROPORTION of male genetic ADMIXTURE in Ashkenazi Jews amounts to LESS than 0.5% per generation over an estimated 80 generations, with " minor contribution of European Y chromosomes to the Ashkenazim,"

6Yiddish Any language has to have characteristics with common languages.Therefore if Ashkenazi Jews would originate from khazars, Yiddish will for sure have to have some Turcic elements common for the envirviment from where it occured. However, Yiddish which is known to be spoken from VIII century A.CE doesn't have any Turcic elements. Its highly influenced by German, Hebrew and Aramaic languages but NOT A SINGLE WORD originates from Turcic languages.

Conclusion cont... The main ethnic element of Ashkenazim (German and Eastern European Jews), Sephardim (Spanish and Portuguese Jews), Mizrakhim (Middle Eastern Jews), Juhurim (Mountain Jews of the Caucasus), Italqim (Italian Jews), and most other modern Jewish populations of the world is Israelite. The Israelite haplotypes fall into Y-DNA haplogroups J and E.

1 B. All jewish groups have identical frequencies of identical haplogroups proving that they do represent ONE ETHNIC group with a common origin.If the origin of one part of the group is Khazarian than the origin of the rest have to be Khazarian too However its a historical nonsense to claim that for example Tunesian Jews could have any khazarian ancestors!

1. All jewish groups from Yemeni to Polish Jews have simular haplogroup frequency. If we imagine that somehow Ashkenazi Jews are "Khazarian converts" then their haplogroup distribution couldn't match the haplogroup distribution and frequencies of Moroccon Jews. Both populational groups have mutations and haplogroups which are characteristic to non Muslim Middle East (Samaritanians Druze and Lebanese Christians) and partialy to the Muslim Middle East

C Haplotypes.. Points which Jewish groups differ is largely in the source and PROPORTION of genetic contribution from host populations. The proportion of male indigenous European genetic admixture in Ashkenazi Jews amounts to around 0.5% per generation over an estimated 80 generations, and a total admixture estimate "very similar to Motulsky's average estimate of 12.5%. A MORE RECENT STUDY an EVEN LOWER European male contribution, only 5%-8% of the Ashkenazi gene pool is of European origin.

7.Culture of Khazars If Jews are khazars they couldn't/wouldn't somehow forget their roots.Some cultural traditional expresions from Khazar people will somehow have to be present in traditions of the Ashkenazi Jews which would represent similarities with other Turcic people. However no such traditions or customs exist (folk dance, beliefs ,rituals etc)

Give the land back to the indigenous people, the Aborigines which you've benefited from at their expense. As an indigenous person I sympathize with them. There's no ethnic cleansing of the frauds that call themselves "Palestinians."