Syag, he has an interpretation of history; we’re not speaking about straight facts. Unless someone is a gadol batorah, the argument from authority is weak and not convincing. I’m entitled to have a different opinion than him. From your posts i don’t think you agree with everything the covid experts say, even though they’re scientists and know a lot more about medicine than you do, and medicine is much more of a hard science than history.
For the record, being a popular history book writer isn’t even much of an authoritative position.
Gershom scholem knows more about history than i do, but his ideas are anti torah and he is simply wrong about a lot of things.