Anti-Zionists Become More and More like the Nazis They Compare Israel To
Videos recommended by Respect’s Carole Swords on Facebook push the lie that the majority of European Jews have no genetic relationship to the populations of the Middle East, and I notice that the ‘80~90% Jews are NOT Semite’ video tellingly includes links to David Duke’s website and ‘Jew Watch’.
This claim is popular amongst all sorts of hate groups and activists, especially white and black supremacist groups, but is also used by ‘anti-Zionists’ to delegitimise Israel as a Jewish State.
Recent studies in the field of population genetics have comprehensively debunked these false claims about Jews and Israel. See, for example this 2010 study in the American Journal of Human Genetics:
For more than a century, Jews and non-Jews alike have tried to define the relatedness of contemporary Jewish people. Previous genetic studies of blood group and serum markers suggested that Jewish groups had Middle Eastern origin with greater genetic similarity between paired Jewish populations. However, these and successor studies of monoallelic Y chromosomal and mitochondrial genetic markers did not resolve the issues of within and between-group Jewish genetic identity.
Here, genome-wide analysis of seven Jewish groups (Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, Italian, Turkish, Greek, and Ashkenazi) and comparison with non-Jewish groups demonstrated distinctive Jewish population clusters, each with shared Middle Eastern ancestry, proximity to contemporary Middle Eastern populations, and variable degrees of European and North African admixture. Two major groups were identified by principal component, phylogenetic, and identity by descent (IBD) analysis: Middle Eastern Jews and European/Syrian Jews. The IBD segment sharing and the proximity of European Jews to each other and to southern European populations suggested similar origins for European Jewry and refuted large-scale genetic contributions of Central and Eastern European and Slavic populations to the formation of Ashkenazi Jewry.Rapid decay of IBD in Ashkenazi Jewish genomes was consistent with a severe bottleneck followed by large expansion, such as occurred with the so-called demographic miracle of population expansion from 50,000 people at the beginning of the 15th century to 5,000,000 people at the beginning of the 19th century. Thus, this study demonstrates that European/Syrian and Middle Eastern Jews represent a series of geographical isolates or clusters woven together by shared IBD genetic threads.[1]
Of course Jews do not constitute some kind of ethnically ‘pure’ Middle Eastern race that has had no mingling with non-Jewish populations. This study of the Ashkenazi Jewish population, for example, found ‘evidence for a low level of introgression from host European non-Jewish populations’.[2] However, the notion that European Jews have no genetic or historical link to the Middle East is simply utterly false and is solely promoted by anti-Semites.
How interesting to see some on the Left are now making use of racial pseudo-science in their attacks on
Zionismthe Jewish people.