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[@slysteel7227]

Almost all the ancestry DNA test of Palestinian people on KZbin showed they have Jewish ancestry

[@gracelilyyoshua328]

Agreed... @Arkan Al Amin There's a research done to prove this conclusively. Ancient Palestinian settlers are ISRAELITES HEBREWS JEWS.

[@5Gazto]

Yes, ancient Hebrews and canaanites mixed with Nabaetans, Gassanids and other christian and muslim arabs.

[@aminseif9822]

But they not the people in the vid

[@ultimatedark5969]

@@5Gazto It's not true, ancient hebrew were not arabs or muslims or Christians, Christians came after jews and islam came after jews

[@yerom1]

There are no genes that exclusively exist in Jews or people with Jewish ancestry. People who come from the same geographic region and speak related languages would be expected to have very similar genetic profiles. Even if there are genes that occur more frequently in Jews than in Palestinians (or vice versa) you would still expect those genes to occur in Palestinians more frequently than say poles. What these tests show is that Jews and Palestinians have common ancestors, it cannot prove if Palestinians have Jewish ancestors if they split before Jews existed.

[@mandatorial]

The right answer is I dont know

[@interestingyoutubechannel1]

That's the 2nd best answer to anything/everything. 1st best answer is to ask another question ;D

[@adoringfan5947]

Mandatorial I dont know is not an answer

[@Aivottaja]

And neither do they. The temple was destroyed. The Priestly Bloodlines are gone. Stumps remain. Replaced with something not so nice.

[@immers2410]

Alex Sunderland you’re the authority on Arab record keeping and genealogy.

[@nab.7250]

Mandatorial correct *

[@MortezaFC]

he should have asked them what religion they think their ancestors before islam believed, not if their "great great grandparents" were jewish

[@empiricwisdom7902]

Before being Muslims they (their ancestors) were probably pagan (Zoroastrans, Manicheans etc).

[@guywhousesapseudonymonyout4272]

Zorastrians aren't pagan per se, and they were in Iran/Medea, not the Levant.

[@mohamedelkayal8871]

would a DNA test help in anyway?

[@celinesleiman6001]

and before jews who was living there? Canaanite, Palestinians grandfathers. so you have no point of view to proof stay in iran please.

[@ahadsayed6878]

They were not jewish they are polythiest or idol worshipper ok

[@Simsrockslol]

Should have named this "Palestinians say no for 2:54 mins"

[@marksimons8861]

LOL How about Palestinians say no for 100 years. What is it about no you don't understand?

[@hueygorl8264]

"la la la la la", lol...

[@rosalindagarza5653]

OF course.........they do King David son of( )and different person- Abraham came from the same family genealogy.......???

[@rosalindagarza5653]

The ? would be why did they go to Mecca so many times? Is it uglier or just not Holier or just different place were something miraculous......happened and what was it?? Because an Angel telling Mary she was pregnant without knowing a man!.....Is pretty BIG!! HUGE!! And When Cornelius was visited is also Huge!! And Peter leaving John the Baptist to go with someone else is also HUGE!! Just Some huge passages..........

[@rahimel-mulla2894]

Huey Gorl 😂😂😂 hahaha i got it :-)

[@carlosa.n5100]

My great grandfather was a man who's ancestors converted to Christianity and he was from Bethlehem in the west bank. With a bunch of research my family did, we found out his last name is of Jewish Origin.

[@Ariel-rk2fy]

The early Christians were Jewish

[@marcdigiambattista751]

@Babd That is like saying Christianity began at Nicea, not with the original apostles of Jesus.

[@nurimahrasidz271]

@Babd is Judea an ethnic to identify biblical Jew? (does not matter the tribe)

[@gershonsavitsky6620]

@@nurimahrasidz271 Of course it is. In English it may look similar but not identical. In Hebrew it's absolutely clear Self name of Jews is "Yehudi" and of the region is "Yehuda".

[@Nehmi]

@@nurimahrasidz271 Judea was the Roman name for the country/kingdom. The name comes from the kingdom of Judah.

[@1sabukhader]

I think that people who asked them they didn't know precisely where their grands from. I my self Palestinian, and I recently did an ancestry DNA test. The result showed that I have Ashkenazi Jews also I did in family tree DNA showed Sephardic Jews. My parent, grandma, and grandpa didn't know that we have jews genes. I think many Palestinians have jews genes and Jews have Arab genes as well

[@phuckyall6079]

Roslen lol. The racist state of Israel only allows people from abroad to become citizens if they could show proof of their "jewishness" with a DNA test. Lol

[@sharaichekzion8245]

But the Jewish breast line is K2 N1 but Arabic R0a The Jewish Navye Sapharades H2

[@ISREALYAHWEH3INONE]

Jew with arabs what I lived in America it doesnt mean I am native American

[@f4u21ramon8]

Prophet jacob have 12 son, Israel identificated two genetic only from yehuda and benjamin/yamin. Where is 10 son of jacob genetic other?

[@maa518]

Samarian is from Yusuf tribe.

[@sweetacapella]

majority of them will have christian ancestors who converted.

[@MakeLoveNotWar865]

layla Almost most of them

[@salmasay3370]

Clearly all muslims were non-muslims about 1400 years ago. شئ بديهي يعني :D

[@sallyray515]

And what was the ancestry of these christians before Jesus arrived?

[@mr.harambe2658]

@@sallyray515 just idle worshipers.

[@egyptianminor]

And those 'christian ancestors' ancestors were likely...Jews. Maybe not all, but a considerable portion of 'original' Levantine Christians were likely Jews.

[@makouras]

The 'purity of blood' myth lives on in every nation state.

[@omaral-ajmi1192]

You can't say this about saudi arabia

[@pseudokanax2957]

@@omaral-ajmi1192 are you full-blooded or what?

[@denissaliaj9459]

This is not the case. They just dont know anyone being jewish in their family. Simple as that

[@user-cu2gy9fc4o]

@@omaral-ajmi1192 actually many of Saudis are of jewish origin

[@gracelilyyoshua328]

DNA TEST OF select PALESTINIANS prove JEWISH DNA HERITAGE. Time to offer FREE DNA TEST to debunk the myth. *Ancient settler PALESTINIAN who believe they do not have JEWISH ISRAELITE LOST TRIBE DNA 🧬 will be surprised and conflict may be resolved, HalleluYAH* 🙌 SHALOM PEACE LOVE JOY PEACE 💞🕊️ GBU ALL 💖

[@Over9000Gingers]

I’m guessing they don’t understand the context of the question? Of course we have Jewish ancestry. Some Palestinians, my grandmother included, still carry Hebrew surnames despite not being Jewish.

[@mohamedelkayal8871]

People in the Middle East don't generally know that being Jewish could be cultural or ancestral. They're probably thinking about it in terms of religion as an practitioner of the Jewish faith or Judaism. I too being frim the region did not know this as well. It over the years learned about it and realized that there is a good chance my family has Jewish ancestry as well. I mean some members of the family married Jews. This could go back centuries.

[@porsche911sbs]

Yeah but they don't know that... I have no idea what ethnicity my ancestors were 1500 years ago.

[@mohamedelkayal8871]

@Noah Pritchett Pritchett I mean the probability is pretty high and various people in neighbouring countries would probably have Jewish ancestry or whatever connects them to this piece of Land. Southern Lebanese people have ancestry related to the Canaanites. None of that is surprising the Middle East has various ethnicities mixed with one another over the centuries, so it would be rather rare to find someone belonging to one group and being "pure" if you know what I mean. I wish I could do a DNA test too to trace my ancestry but don't know if it is available in my country.

[@DD-rv8hi]

@Noah Pritchett nope, some Palestinians are more related to Ashkenazi Jewish than with any other Jewish division (of course all of them are Jews but depending in their Diaspora experience, some were more subject to marry with non Jews than others), but it's known that some Palestinians that can trace their background to Nablus their ancestors were Samaritans (Israelites too, related to Jews), who were forced conversion to Islam

[@DD-rv8hi]

@Noah Pritchett if we talk about the genetic charge yes of course Palestinians are more Jewish than Ethiopian Jews, but we can't deny Ethiopian Jews are a mixture of Jews who lived in Egypt and Yemen and emigrated to Ethiopia and got mixed with local population (because that's what genetic says and what we can see in their skin color etc), but still they're Jewish, they preserved their identity, if Palestinians tomorrow say they recognize they're Jews ethnically but Muslims religiously and embrace Jewish (or Hebrew let's say) culture, the there's no issue because the character of Israel of all the Hebrew nation will not change, but they don't recognize they descend from Jews or embrace Hebrew culture 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@iqbalhakim9329]

Theyre just civilian..not historian. How can they know their ancient 2000 years ago..of course they said no.. Almost all middle eastern are related each other based on DNA..

[@yosikama2611]

it's 1,500 years at most

[@sathishvijayan2160]

They are all related, but some more related than others. Egyptians are descended from Ancient Egyptians and Greeks. Iraqis were Babylonian. Lebanese were Greek and Phonecians. That's why Arabs do not all look the same, from Yemen to Syria - they look different. Palestinians are more descended from Hebrews who never left....who were Jewish, than Christians, and now Muslim.

[@mahaelsakka9958]

Yosi Kama when Coptic Christians did the dna tests it’s showed that they are more Arabs than some of the Muslims themselves, there were Arab tribes that were Christians lives in Yemen and the Arab peninsula .. religion is something and race is something else .. DNA prove that as well

[@anon-iraq2655]

@@yosikama2611 copts are heavily admixed with greeks and armenians Christians in general are the least native of middle easterners, only surpassed by jews The closest people to ancient egyptians are bedouins and palastinians See: nature study on ancient egyptian dna

[@nocapstreet8291]

@@yosikama2611if Shem was Jew, then everyone who speaks a Semitic language is Jewish by default.

[@azizalaliq8]

Get their dna tested. 80% of them do have jewish ancestry.

[@phuckyall6079]

aziz alali when their Arabic has a lot of Aramaic into the mix it tells you something. Just like Egyptian Arabic has Coptic into because the Egyptian spoke Coptic before. Just like my country speaks Spanish with black African influence because of my ancestry. It is too painfully obvious

[@stevefals2818]

Absolutely they just feel ashamed to admit it

[@phuckyall6079]

Steve Larson yes, same with the Greeks who stayed when the Eurasian Turks conquered them. Most became Muslims and many of them mixed with the Turks. Their DNA, the name Anatolia and intanbul is Greek and their music has Greek influence. The Palestinians are no different

[@rainhawk5264]

genetical tests reveals that only 10% in Anatolia are Central-Asian (Turkic) origin - the majority are a mix of Indoeuropeans and Caucassian

[@Intifada1981]

I'm actually proud to admit I do have Hebrew blood. nothing to be ashamed of, it's still *Semitic* and that is what matters in the grand scheme of things

[@TheLetsBeBluntPod]

I was born a Muslim and raised by my Bengali parents but I never knew my great grandma from my mother side was Jewish. She came from Iran and moved to India with her father. Knowing I am part jewish is very interesting.

[@azizabdiwali3364]

@aupti I’m of similar situation my great grandmother who is also my great grandmother on my father side too( lmao cousin marriage 😂) is yemeni Jew and I have 8% Jewish dna according to dna test. Even tho u may consider me religiously Jewish I really can’t agree with that because I’m Muslim and my religion requires me to denounce the idea of post Jesus عليه السلام and post Mohamed ﷺ Judaism.

[@withreed7224]

Basically, you are granted İsrael citizenship

[@withreed7224]

@@aupti how about Atheist Jew?

[@withreed7224]

@@aupti then you agree that they could live in İsrael? You agree that everyone whose Jewish blood are "the chosen people" to live in "Promised Land"?

[@withreed7224]

@@aupti then the law of return is full of bias

[@mikezarifa4537]

I am Palestinian and I know that through my great grandmother and her family used to circumcise their kids on the seventh day and always kept candles and put stones on Tombs but when she knew over the time that that was a jewish tradition, she stopped doing it... I also know that they used to intermarry to keep their maternal lines.... There are also a couple of families, well known ones, who know that they used to be jewish .....

[@fuqaimi]

I do but from india & they converted to islam ages ago before migrating to Singapore so all traces of jewishness was hardly recognisable

[@guyeshel9316]

Well, if that is so and if I'm not wrong, your ancestors are Persian/Iranian Jews (Zarif)

[@mizrahimjew9351]

I sense they have Jewish ancestry, just don’t know it. Some seem like they know, but for some reason they don’t want to say.

[@ardian3429]

Yeah I see that..

[@user-db1vc3lg1k]

Almost all of them have Jewish Ancesters... They just don't know... I am a Jew and I discover that I have Persian Ancesters after doing a DNA test. We are not what we believe we are, every one is mixed

[@yosikama2611]

Over 70% of them originate from syria and egypt during the British mandate. Considering that prior to that, the turks while occupying the country made non-stop efforts to "moslemize" the country, by bringing in population from different arab countries.. a very marginal percentage of moslims actualy originate from Israel.

[@DevathasanAPNair]

They will never admit even if they hv .

[@eliashazboun1564]

@@DevathasanAPNair all my DNA is Jewish , i come from a christian family from Bethlehem , and i am proud of my Jewish roots mate , my grandmas grandma on both sides of the family converted to Christianity . DNA test showed that 96 % of my DNA is Jewish , Sephradi/Mizrahi . most of Christian families in Israel/Palestine , have Jewish ancestry and they know it .

[@abbad707]

prolly

[@abbad707]

@@yosikama2611 Not.

[@camillevise8892]

My father's family is Christian and my mother's family is a Muslim. On both sides of the family there were stories of one or more Jewish ancestors . I discovered that it was true on both sides of the family after I took a DNA test .So some people who come from a muslim country do have jewish ancestors, they just dont know it.

[@zohreHakimi18]

what is the country your family is from?

[@moussaemad]

The question is wrong and is asked in the wrong way. We Palestinians understand that we're genetically closer or identical to Jews and some of our origins are Jewish, Christian and Islamic (through generational conversions). At least most Palestinians are more Jewish than the majority of Ashkenazim. But the denial is more political than it is based on historical facts. A lot of us, for known reasons, associate Judaism with Zionism, and Zionism by definition is the antithesis of Palestinian identity. Corey, by asking if we have Jewish ancestors, you somehow come across as implying that Palestinians should accept 'Israel's legitimacy'.

[@jenaccess4luv]

Well said!!!👏🏽

[@Firstname_Surname]

"At least most Palestinians are more Jewish than the majority of Ashkenazim" - what a ridiculous statement that has absolutely no evidence. Would you like to provide some? Have you studied any genetic analysis on the subject? Ashkenazi Jews are an ethnic group that descended from Jews who settled in Central and Eastern Europe, especially Germany and Poland. Genetically, Ashkenazi Jews show evidence of shared Middle Eastern ancestry. Studies of the Y chromosome (passed down from fathers to sons) show that Ashkenazi men trace ancestry to the Middle East, sharing common ancestry with other Jewish and non-Jewish Middle Eastern groups. Mitochondrial DNA studies (passed down from mothers to children) also show evidence that Ashkenazi Jewish women have common ancestry in the Near East. Genome-wide studies indicate that Ashkenazi Jews are genetically more closely related to various Middle Eastern and Sephardi Jewish groups than their neighboring non-Jewish European populations. Overall, it is estimated that around 80% of Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry comes from ancient Judeans who lived in the early 1st millennium CE. The remaining 20% comes from conversions and intermarriage in Europe, primarily with Southern and Western Europeans. So in summary, the genetic evidence confirms that Ashkenazi Jews are closely related to other modern Jewish groups as well as non-Jewish groups originating in the Middle East. Their ancestry can be traced predominantly (around 80%) to the ancient Israelites and Judeans who lived in the region of Judea (Israel and Palestine) in ancient times. However, Ashkenazi Jewish genetics also reflect some European admixture as well. On the other hand, most Palestinians show high genetic similarity to other modern Levantine Arabic populations. They cluster more closely to groups like Syrians, Lebanese, etc. than to major Jewish groups including Ashkenazi Jews. A substantial portion of Palestinian ancestry does come from indigenous pre-Arab/Jewish groups. However, there is little evidence most Palestinians are predominantly descended from or can trace most genealogy specifically to ancient Israelites. Political narratives arguing Palestinians have greater Israelite/Judean ancestry than Jews often do not align with consensus views in genetics on ancestral origins based on testing and modeling. Self-reported genealogies can differ.

[@MusculaRMinD]

Skeik family in Gaza, one of their members (a friend) told me they’re originally Jewish. Also, my uncle’s sister-in-law’s husband is from Al-Muhtadi family; they were Jewish, they say. Its name literally means “The Guided One”. I just asked my mother about them and she said he’s probably from Jerusalem. She added that that woman has a sister who is ALSO married to a former Christian whose lastname had also been changed to Al-Muhtadi.

[@mentalhell4846]

I'm Palestinian Muslim and my ancestors were Jewish.

[@peace2033]

Yes kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6vSqnttab-porM

[@pr32000]

Forced conversion

[@sofiae8123]

I am Jewish on both sides of my family, My mother's family has a long line of rabbis, yet my DNA shows that I have a percentage of Moroccan Jewish DNA and a smaller percentage of Moroccan DNA (non-Jewish). I also have a high percentage of Middle Eastern (non-specific) and I'm also Italian as my DNA has specified. When cultures live together, there's always some mixing, regardless of what religion you are.

[@shainazion4073]

The European Jews show much Ancient Greco-Roman DNA from Sicily, Sardinia, Greece, Spain, and Cyprus.

[@itsytyt5192]

Hhaa

[@sofiae8123]

@@itsytyt5192 I don't understand.

[@agnostic258]

where are you from?

[@agnostic258]

​@@sofiae8123where are you from? are you a Moroccan?

[@Djspice240]

Majority of them do have Jewish ancestors most of them in other words....

[@j.m.5620]

Interesting. As a Hispanic, most of us have Jewish in our DNA. I know many, including myself, who have taken an ancestry DNA test and have found that we have some(3-25%) European Jewish and/or Sephardic Jewish ancestry.

[@ef2718]

It contradicts the narrative of Jews being foreign colonizers in Judea/Israel.

[@ateginadeusaportuguesadano458]

which test, please?

[@j.m.5620]

@@ateginadeusaportuguesadano458 ancestry dna & 23 & me.

[@nenaj1]

Yes I’m hispanic and 3% European Jewish

[@igor_pavlovich]

we need TV-show with palestene people DNA tests, im sure 90% of them will have at least 1% of jewish

[@gracelilyyoshua328]

Agreed There's a research done to prove this conclusively. Ancient Palestinian settlers are ISRAELITES HEBREWS JEWS.

[@UnitAlir]

All Palestinians should apply for Israeli citizenship

[@Nithincr1]

Agree! 💯

[@sherlockhomie6062]

They're all saying no because they believe the basis of this question is to justify the occupation of Palestine. That is to say if they have Jewish roots then the Jewish Israelis cannot be occupiers. In truth many of them probably do have some Jewish ancestry as people in the end are not particularly choosy when it comes to survival.

[@vannakinder352]

You are probably the only person in the comments to get to the crux of why they responded the way they did. See I don’t get these religious fanatics like Rabbi Dov Stein who insist palestinians are Jewish yet want to continue settlements. If, Palestinians are Jewish, your active opression against them makes them more likely to distance themselves from their “roots”.

[@raywillaimjhonson]

Its pretty simply. Jews were expelled from Jerusalem, but not all of them. Since the 2000 years that has happened, its pretty conceivable that some Palestinians may have Jewish ancestors. Not all of them of course.

[@berly9397]

most of these arabs are not from this region. Most immigrated at the end of the 19th century. But of course the ones who lived there for centuries could be originally Jewish.

[@salmasay3370]

Jews being expelled is a myth with no historical evidence.

[@24karats4you]

only about 80% of Palestinian people test positive for Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry

[@immers2410]

Berly that’s not true. They are from the Levantine Arabs, descended from Canaanites

[@juniatapark54]

Imran Hussain Is there reason to believe that Palestinians have only Canaanite ancestors? After the Romans took over the population remained largely Jewish, then (many) converted to Christianity, then (many) converted to Islam. Palestinian Arabs would have Canaanite and Judean ancestors. Besides, would the genetic difference between Canaanite and Judeans be huge?

[@user-ez9vl1yx9y]

I know a few Arab Israelis / Palestinian Israelis who are Muslim or Christian and who told me personally that they had not only a historic Jewish ancestor but a Jewish grandmother or grandfather that they knew and even told me their grandparent's Hebrew name! maybe some of these people had too, but the difference is that theyre being filmed and know what would happen if they said yes and somebody from their society would find out about this video.

[@frikativos]

When I lived in Nablus, a Palestinian guy told me his grandmother was Jewish. I didn't even ask, but he wanted to tell me that in the past the relationship between Muslims and Jews was way better than today.

[@shimajumdi1205]

​@@frikativosof course its better before zionist invaded palestine there's no conflict in Palestine

[@zohreHakimi18]

@@shimajumdi1205 not nice. actually, often their were attacks of "itbakh el yahud," and massacres by muslims of jews.

[@hala1468]

Lol. I’m Palestinian, did a ancestry DNA test a while back and came back 20% Mizrahi Jewish. Most Palestinians who have done the test have at least 10%. I think it’s really safe to say that most Palestinians who’s forefathers have lived on that land for centuries have screwed/married a Jew along the years. That or if you go far back enough you’d find a lot of ppl who converted. It’s scientifically proven that Jews and Palestinians are more close related genetically than say a Palestinian and a Syrian. I don’t know what this was a question to begin with though. People don’t have scrolls of family trees lying around everywhere lol.

[@emmanuelbrooks3039]

Most Jews and christians were forcibly converted when Muslims took over that land. So by the logic of your own information it is save to say the land belongs to JEWS RIGHT?

[@zohreHakimi18]

im sorry about your choice of words

[@GoA7250]

Denial is a river in Egypt......

[@livvylife1210]

Corey you are a doll, ill bake for you anytime. I think Jews and Palestinians are related, it is not very smart to say no Jewish DNA as we all came from the same area...We had to be Jews before we were Christians and Muslims i would think..i have Jewish DNA and i am Palestinian.

[@babahamaj7656]

Islam or Muslim is not a race or tribe Islam is basically anyone regardless of their race or color who testifies there’s only God to be worshipped that’s it

[@vannakinder352]

and that the prophet (PBUH) is the last prophet. Anyone who says otherwise is usually a salafist or hates Shias/Quranists.

[@azizabdiwali3364]

@vanna kinder what about praying fasting paying zakat and doing hajj if capable 🤔

[@YahiaTheGreat]

How could they know? They probably don't or couldn't trace their ancestors hundreds or thousands years ago. No one can generally. Few only. Who knows!

[@salmasay3370]

Even today's jews cant trace their ancestors 100s of years ago. they also cant prove it for sure that they are related to the biblical Hebrews coz they dont have their DNA.

[@12SPASTIC12]

I think the point was to see how they react. It could be strident denial or a more circumspect answer.

[@zakoot]

Ironically, I hear how they answer using their Arabic Palestinian dialect that is heavily influenced by Aramaic language.

[@screamingisillegal2405]

Yeah exactly they don't know that they are speaking in another language 🤣😅

[@user-ui3pw1ys3k]

Yeah they have a lot of Aramaic Words

[@arkanzaki]

Levantine is native Aramaic mixed with colonial Arabic Most of the Palestinians are ethnic Jews

[@gracelilyyoshua328]

@@arkanzaki There's a research done to prove this conclusively. Ancient Palestinian settlers are ISRAELITES HEBREWS JEWS.

[@TheTruth-ko9ov]

Funny that you don't know that Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew are the same family of language and they have so much similar words because they are from the same root

[@damianeadie510]

There are some questions you ask where people just look REALLY paranoid.... worried who may hear the answer :-)

[@Adamhuge7]

It's a hard question to answer because you can't expect someone to know what religion their ancestors followed 1500 years ago

[@monamie691]

Hi, this is one of the translators, that's very true.

[@Rajul_Jamil]

In the town of Husan there is a very large family that they claim that they were Jews called Sabatin.

[@RevanX]

Palestinians aren't ethnically Arab, only culturally and linguistically. They are descendants of various indigenous peoples that inhabited the region of Judea and stayed there throughout the years agter the Jewish diaspora, including Hebrews. Most of them (80%-85%) converted to Islam at some point after the Muslim conquest of the Holy Land.

[@Ehav4Ever]

Actually, the better question would have been: "Before Islam came into the region what was your family's nationality/background? What language did they speak, 2,000 years ago? What culture did they practice, 2,000 years ago and do they still speak the same language today and perform the same culture today? If not, why?"

[@tillyboos]

They're all in DENIAL......and I don't mean the river in Egypt.....

[@qualqui]

Yes, they know in the Koran, there were Jews in Medina and elsewhere in Arabia but ol' Mo'(piss be upon him), demanded of them: 'convert or die' or be 2nd class citizens(dhimmi)paying "the best of peoples" the extorsion tax called jizyah.

[@celinesleiman6001]

speak about yourself SHOE.

[@yasminesafwan9142]

How are they suppose to know? Islam came in about a 1000 years ago which means that if they were Jews than they may converted 1000- 500 years ago.

[@phuckyall6079]

Yasmine Safwan but their Arabic language is greatly influenced by Aramaic which was a language that Hebrews spoke. How the fuck can they not know? Just like the Egyptian Arab is influenced by Coptic

[@hotsauce153]

@@phuckyall6079 do you actually have a legitimate source that its influenced by aramaic? An actual source, not a terrible wikipedia article? No it's not, neither egyptian, these are merely ignorant claims, nothing more, btw, levantine arabs, when they speak classical arabic, they do it better than anybody else in the arab world.

[@CM-eg3gl]

Bit like asking an Irishman like myself if he has English blood in him; he might have but he ain't saying! 🇮🇪🤣🇵🇸

[@CM-eg3gl]

@laila H The biggest supporters of your country in Europe! 🇵🇸🇮🇪

[@Jewish_Israeli_Zionist]

Stop comparing the Irishmen to the Palestinians. This is not comparable. Israrl moved back to its homeland, the Brits conquered your tertotories. Of course, Irish are catholic as hell, and the new testament is an extremely antisemiyic book, and the quran also, so you feel like you share the same faith and the same antisemitism. This is pathetic.

[@nawaf761]

We love Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤️ 🇵🇸

[@biochemdog5198]

This is a purely hypothetical question, if this was the case it would not be in the living memory, but thousands of years ago

[@stevet6676]

Perhaps the best answer is "not to my knowledge". But, human history does indicate that we spread our "seed" in places we migrate. So, genetically........

[@SamohtNox]

i noticed this question made people very uncomfortable...seems a sensitive issue..you can see doubt in some of them. they would be stigmatized by their community and isolated..even targeted in some cases. the moment your neighbour finds out you have jewish lineage the door closes..that is the reality of it

[@5Gazto]

The possibility of present day Palestinians not having any ancient Hebrew ancestry is roughly as low as Umbrian Italians having no ancient Etruscan ancestry. Pretty much zero.

[@ef2718]

Appropriation of the title Palestinians started only in 1966, 55 years ago. It is still in formation, acknowledging other identity contradicts political narrative.

[@5Gazto]

@@ef2718 , I am talking about human genomics not politics. People probably don't even choose their political affiliation unless they are rebellious, most of it is given to them from birth and socially reinforced thereafter.

[@wallyarroyo7939]

All of them descend from Hebrews forced to convert.

[@vannakinder352]

No one takes any holy book at face value and that isn’t true bc ishmaelites would refer to Egyptians. If your proof is the Bible than you are doing some Saudi Arabia or USA evangelical shit. Not everyone relates to holy book scripture the same way you do. Some do not believe in it.

[@rknape]

How would a person know their ancestry if they don't have a proper family tree record? Scientifically they can do genetic test but they are probably not even interested in doing that.

[@ElectricWarior]

Those people have too much pride,even if they did have jewish ancestors they wouldn't mention it because they're far to proud to admit that,and believing that they are what they hate is probably very difficult for them.

[@vannakinder352]

Oh honey you could say the same thing about Yemeni jews who are not in anyway ethnically Jewish. They are just hashemites who converted to Judaism.

[@victor-hugedivitorilamas5802]

@@vannakinder352 What do you mean? Yemeni jews have the most pure DNA of the entire jewish world, there's little to no evidence of mass conversion.

[@felimn2]

What was Corey doing by the barbershop?

[@mikha007]

+felimn getting waxed

[@KaramKettanie]

Manar Nabut Oh are you the translator!!???

[@mohammadhamad9978]

Why is this entire script framed as "Muslim"? Not all Palestinians are Muslim. Have you been to Bethlehem? It's a bizarre question to ask people who their ancestors are, from hundreds of years ago. It creates a generalization that everyone has the same story, or was impacted in the same by ongoing shifts in colonial powers within the landscape of Historic Palestine.

[@EricCanterra]

I've seen videos where non Jewish Middle Easterners took genetic blood tests, and were VERY surprised (i.e. confused) that they had a percentage of Ashkenazi Jewish in their background. Father Abraham?

[@markaxworthy2281]

How would Palestinians be expected to know their ancestry details from several hundred years ago? They are not expressing racial exclusivity but honest ignorance. That said, I would venture to suggest it is possible modern Palestinian DNA may resemble ancient Jewish DNA more than modern global Jewish DNA. Have any studies been done on this?

[@markaxworthy2281]

@efopo Thanks.

[@YMWitty]

A more helpful way to phrase this might have been something like "do you believe/ does your family believe that you are descended from the ancient Israelites /judeans?"

[@salmasay3370]

Irrelevant question. how can they know the religion of their ancestors hundreds of years ago before Islam! they certainly were non-Muslims.

[@shainazion4073]

All of you, watch the video by Misinai Tsvi, titled, *"Palestinians of Jewish Origin higher resolution"* and his other videos. He is well versed in history and lore. He tells it like it is.

[@flyingcat7975]

I saw it. He has DNA evidence to prove that the Palestinians are the indigenous people of Israel.

[@fitafanatomy3359]

Palistinians have more jewish blood than israelis..... it's common sense really simply through geography.

[@YehudaLion]

I don't see the purpose of this video if everyone answers the same thing - which is already kind of expectable taking into account that everyone in this video is being exposed online. It's well known that most people living under the rule of Fatah or Hamas won't feel confortable or safe publicly admiting they may have Jewish or Northern Israelite (Samaritan) roots. In regard to the sepcific case of the people in Hebron, there are in fact Muslims of Jewish ethnicity. I know this well as part of my distant family is Muslim but still keeps its Jewish name. There are more like them. The truth is most Jewish and Northern Israelites who remained in Israel since the Roman/Byzantine occupation period were gradually converted to Christianism and Islam (just like most Arameans, Northern Canaanites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians and Berbers). They comprise a significant part of the people who now identify themselves as Palestinians. The rest of them are foreigners who have settled in this land since then, particularly between the late decades of the 19th century and 1948.

[@omaralfar1666]

Well my family came from Haifa, which is north, does that mean my ancestors would've been the natives or the foreigners?

[@YehudaLion]

@@omaralfar1666 You would have to check your family origins. If your family has ancient Israelite (Jewish or Samaritan) roots then it's definitely indigenous or at least partially indigenous. Also keep in mind that families and tribes expand and its members can move to different places and marry people from other ethnic backgrounds. Keep in mind that being native is not the same as being indigenous. If you were born in France, you would be native to France but not indigenous thereto. To be indigenous to a place, means that you belong to an ethnic group that emerged in such place has a long History therein and also developed its distinct cultural identity therein (language, music, architecture, food, literature, clothing, values, theological and mythological beliefs...).

[@paikuhansensei815]

Most probably their farthest ancestors were Christians before the coming of Islam to the area, when the bizantines ruled the area. But also probably many were Jewish and other religions. There are early Muslim scholars in the medieval times that had converted to Islam from other religions.

[@dr_monday]

To be honest, I have been watching your videos since 3 years ago, but this is the first time I see your face, Corey Gil-Shuster. You are great! Best regards from Indonesia (the biggest Muslim majority country in the world and has no diplomatic relation with Israel)!! I have Jewish ancestry and support Israel!!!

[@nitsrah]

They were supposed to say YES ABRAHAM

[@longordon2506]

They forget to lie

[@mahaelsakka9958]

Abraham is not a Jew , ( Abraham he is the father of two nations the Arabs and the Jews ) Ibrahim wasn’t Arab neither a Jew .. who said he was a Jew.. get some knowledge of the history or even the science of the DNA and how it works

[@sharaichekzion8245]

Sarah juive Abraham no juif

[@MrPinoCavallo]

Muslims/Arabs say that they stem from Abraham, however, there is no historic evidence for that. Indeed, I wonder if Arabs even knew who Abraham was before hey had contact to the Judeo-Christian culture and then developed a new religion called Islam.

[@bunb8541]

Abraham is not an historical person. He didn't exist

[@debsantos5419]

Of course they would not know. Take DNA tests will prove it. And ironically if it proven they have jewish roots, then that is a good reason for them to be in Israel as citizens, right? :)

[@markwalterevans886]

Martin Buber, who was a cultural anthropologist as well as a philosopher & historian, maintained that the "root stock" of the so-called "Palestinian" people descended from the Remnant of the Judeans who were left in the Land after the Romans suppressed the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 135 A.D./C.E. Buber termed these folk "the Remnant of the Tribe of Judah." After the Jihad came up from Mecca in the seventh century, the bulk of these "Judeans" converted to Islam, mingled with the Ishmaelites from the Arabian Peninsula, and eventually forgot who they were. Buber also said, "Bring me a Palestinian Christian from Galilee, and I will show you some of the purest Jewish blood on the planet."

[@michellesmith9256]

Mark Walter Evans 100 percent correct. -- B.

[@rrn7689]

"I don´t know it, and I don´t want to know it"

[@minnago]

Not surprising. But there have been genetical tests that prove that these people share genetics

[@berserker912]

Minna go Yes, that is true, but they are too ashamed and afraid of being lynched by their community for admitting it. A significant percentage of Palestinians have Jewish ancestry but over the centuries have moved to Islam. Jews and Palestinians are the same people, the world should just quit with this "Two state solution" charade and promote unity/heal the divide through one state.

[@naeetr2350]

Because they both are middle eastern people, judaism islam Christianity, doesn't matter the religion, it is all names, we're all humans, jews don't have different dna despite what they say.

[@misinai]

This video was done by amateurs and is unintentionally misleading, demonstrating naivety that may damage the only hope for peace here: 1. Since 1882 the Jewish origin was hidden out of fear from the authorities and of fear from other Palestinians who are themselves afraid that others will expose them. In order the get the truth one has to know more about the family,' the clan, to be able to confront the interviewee with prior knowledge and facts they cannot deny. In addition, some Palestinians really do not know about their real origin, the younger the one asked the lesser is his knowledge. But when you tell them to ask their elders they return with the right answer. 2. When we asked people we came most of the time with our Palestinian supporters or activists that gave the interviewed some feeling of security and of being part of a group and of a hope for better life sometime in the future. When here in this video somebody is asked - he is alone and isolated. These people already had and still have more than their share of suffering. it is naive to think that just for answering somebody that they do not know, they do not trust, that may be an agent of the PA, they will take risk to suffer even more. 3. When we filmed people or recorded them with hid their faces and distorted their voices. The PA tried twice to assassinate one of our main Palestinian activists. He was extremely lucky to succeed to save himself. Once they sent three murderers and after they failed they sent 3 cars loaded with PA policemen. this time it was almost a miracle how he succeeded to escape. This survey is like Alexander the Macedonian cutting the Gordian knot. To find the hidden deep truth you must be patient and sophisticated to be able clean up the mess in the knot without destroying the wires connecting to the past. The Oslo process was the Alexander way. However, it has failed and failed again and again. You cannot make here real, just and lasting peace by naivety. Peace in this case is a matter for the wise and knowledgeable, and even this will not be easy. Especially when naive people are trying to intervene thinking that they invented some wheel.

[@misinai]

The ottoman did not change significantly their attitude towards the Jews in 1882. They mainly changed their attitude towards those that officially were declared as Muslims but they practiced jewish customs and considered themselves descendants of Jews or even Jews.

[@arkanzaki]

beautifully said

[@nadaamroussia9509]

I don't think Palestinians would think that much about their ancestors whether they were Jews or not. It is only the Israelis who have this obsession about their ancestors, their origin, and their genetics because they need to prove that they belong to a land that they have actually colonized.

[@ef2718]

"Jews colonizing Judea" is oxymoronic.

[@nadaamroussia9509]

@@ef2718 not oxymoric if you think of it as some Europeans who built a settler colonial state in Palestine...and here we talk about Historical facts not religious beliefs...

[@shainazion4073]

@@nadaamroussia9509 But Jews are Judeans, Not Europeans!

[@z8ph0d]

They're all refusing way too adamantly, I'm suspicious.....

[@ka3abneh]

z8ph0d that is just the way it is. Since the Jews existed all Middle Eastern people disliked them. 3000 years ago

[@z8ph0d]

You're just jealous. Always have been.

[@thewarper3393]

Most countries did. And the modern-day Greeks, hate them now. 101 countries, they have been kicked out of. And yet the Jews claim that it was ALL illogical bigotry, nothing but hateful tribalism. That was NO other reason for hating them! This is the narrative, that the eteranl enemy has constructed. I am glad, it is slowly breaking apart.

[@thewarper3393]

Dragon Dimosthenis, that's just goes to show how cucked their government is. The Greeks themselves are fairly anti-Semitic. They are like really based.

[@georgesorosghost7244]

Like the Jews would deny having NAZI blood and a lot Mizrahim deny having Arab blood ....

[@josephrivera4872]

Ancestry DNA would be the appropriate vehicle to discover their DNA.

[@DD-rv8hi]

Already proved they're related to Jews, even more with Ashkenazi Jews (aka European Jews) because them both hold a generic mutation that when getting old they start going kinda deaf (a mutation only seen in Ashkenazi Jews and Palestinians)

[@vannakinder352]

No it wouldn’t it only connects to areas of governates. That’s why they don’t have kurdish, indigenious tribal dna, other non-aryan south Asian groups, yezidis, etc.

[@PS-ru2ov]

that last guy was gorgeous

[@zohreHakimi18]

he looks exactly like my brother and we are jewish

[@jacobm1265]

How would anyone know whether someone from previous centuries was a convert. Bad question results in no interesting answers.

[@kikikoko607]

I think the people have no idea! Of course, they just know their ancestors of their latest history. But if everybody would make an ID- test, there would appear a lot of different heritages in their blood, not just jewish! Most people simply don't know much about that! It got nothing to do with racism

[@gracelilyyoshua328]

There's a research done to prove this conclusively. Ancient Palestinian settlers are ISRAELITES HEBREWS JEWS.

[@ummhussain159]

Being Muslim has nothing to do with ethnicity. Just like being Palestinian has nothing to do with being Muslim. All of the Muslims have the same rights, but the larger superpowers left the people who lived in al quds to be called Palestinians. Their views belong to them, as everyone has roots, and all Muslims come from different branches of Bani Adam. In the same way, having Jewish roots doesn’t made One Israeli, and doesn’t mean that you or your ancestors were followers of the Shareeah of MUSA alaihi as salaam. Al of al ANBIYAA were Muslims, and called their people in their own tongue.

[@interestingyoutubechannel1]

Umm Hussain But it is interesting that Syrian Christians often claim tradition of roots to being Aramean, culturally and ethnically. Likewise with Lebanese Christians & being of Phoenician roots. They have a vague understanding of what roots them to the land, where their culture came from etc. Whereas Palestinian Arabs, in 1950s & any time earlier, would just call themselves 'Arab'. Some were from here, some from there, some from everywhere. They were felaheen. Peasant Arab farmers working for super-rich Arab landowners that were living in Egypt and elsewhere. They probably would've gladly continued living in other Bilad al-Shami lands of Syria etc. as this was how they perceived the region.... if only these newly formed Arab states didn't have the anti-Israel agenda & consequently forced Palestinian Arabs to live in refugee camps, refused them basic human rights & refused them jobs, till today! Its some sort of sick joke that the world is looking at Israel while we abolished the refugee camps from day 1 of the new state, & gave them citizenship, while the Arab countries around us still refuse to do this for them.

[@Yassinekamp]

Our only ancestor is Adam and our only Lord is Allah (swt) La illaha illallah!

[@user-nj4if6xh6c]

Umm Hussainbi don't think he tried to make a statement I think it's just a question he asked for simple data (a boring one)

[@rainhawk5264]

blabla yes, all have the same rights. Only Kurds not, these you can kill right?

[@JohnSmith-xq6cv]

I would say Arabism and Islam are synonymous culturally

[@juliankonkani]

It's pointless to ask present-day Palestinians about their Jewish ancestry, because their ancestors converted more than a thousand years ago or at least hundreds of years ago during the rule of the Turks. Also not all are patrilineally descended from the ancient Hebrews. All Palestinians do have a large degree of Jewish and Samaritan ancestry. But of course, they are mixed with the many ethnicites which settled in that region and assimilated into the local populace. I've even seen blonde and blue-eyed Palestinians, which clearly points to ancestry from Europe. The region of Israel/Palestine was originally Jewish and Samaritan, but most of them converted to Christianity under the Byzantines and under Muslim rule, they were all Arabized and the vast overwhelming majority of them became Muslim.

[@yenneferofvengerberg]

To be fair, some of them didn't really seem to understand the question correctly. It could easily have been understood as recent history - some could be in denial about sharing a common ancestor, I'm not saying they're perfect. But when you say hundreds of years, they'd likely know. I can count back 300 years of Muslim Palestinian ancestors... Now what came before that, I wouldn't know. There could have been a mix; there could've been converts. The truth is, we don't know. Is it likely? Sure. And I wouldn't be angry about it. If I found out I had jewish ancestors, it'd just be another part of my family history.

[@femmy820]

The man sitting beside his wife @ 0.28 looks like some few men that I have seen at my local synagogue. Won't be surprised if he has some jewish dna.

[@kwabenatree]

The answer should have being i don't know, because of families keeping secrets

[@robreese1373]

Jesus is a Palestinian and of a Jewish faith

[@AdamAlq]

Many of these people have Jewish ancestry but their hate for Israel makes them not want to entertain the thought of having Jewish ancestry

[@vannakinder352]

Kind of like the only Jewish people they meet is IOF and settlers. Which would make them hateful. Just like how the only Azeris, an Armenian meets is a violent soldier so they are less likely to want anything to do with Azerbaijan.

[@AmethystEyes]

This is what is so ironic. They share so much of their DNA with each other, Palestinians and Israelis. It’s kind of like siblings fighting with each other. And they don’t even know that they’re siblings.

[@fivish]

The Jews have lived in Israel for 3,800 years. Jerusalem became the capital 3,000 years ago. These arabs (originally from Arabia) forebares mostly arrived from Egypt and Syria in the 1920's

[@birsen778]

As l am Muslim Turk.I dont know if l have an ancestor as a jew.How people can know 400,500 years ago who were their ancestor.l fell Muslim Turk but l cant be sure about 500 years ago my grandmother where she came from 🙂 I am originaly Caucasian Turk and my relatives generally didnt married with strangers but l am not sure about 400,500 or 1000 years ago who were my ancestor.Turks came from central Asia but they were travelling all over the world.Thats the reason Turks look different from Asia to Turkiye and Europe.

[@RishayanPorMexico]

Now ask the Jews if they have any Palestinian blood!

[@DD-rv8hi]

Palestinian is not an ethnicity but s citizenship (the same as Israeli), being Jewish is an ethnicity, being Kurd is an ethnicity, being Arab is a macro ethnicity, being Copt is an ethnicity, a Jew will remain a Jew no matter their citizenship

[@muhammadbayu1099]

@@DD-rv8hi yes...you're right

[@AdrianoAparicioCarrasco]

They have... but they don't know it

[@GoldenuggetZMC]

How are they supposed to know if their ancestors converted stupid question my guy

[@AereForst]

How the heck would any of them know what happened in their ancestry beyond 3-4 generations at most? That goes for almost all humans on earth. There are a few families that have been keeping records but most don’t. Now, having said all that, the science of populations genetics shows that Palestinians and Israelis are indeed very close genetically despite the Ashkenazi European component. Don’t go ask random people what they think. Even if they know that they possess genes of their traditional adversaries they’ll deny it, both Palestinians and Jews.

[@azizabdiwali3364]

I’m Somali and we have a culture memorising the names of our paternal ancestors ranging from 10-20 generations. Its perhaps due us being a very homogeneous ethnic group but I haven’t heard of this being a common practise else where it’s only rare famous or aristocratic families that usually know the names of there ancestors

[@mercygraceful4924]

A lot modern Israelis are not even of middle Eastern blood claiming to be the "chosen people" so it should be questioned.

[@sportac]

I know personally a Israeli Muslim (Palestinian 48) that she tell me secretly that in her family they have Jewish roots , but it a shame to talk about and better that nobody will know from her village. and she tell me about that is "shame" while i am israeli jewish :D

[@rotemaviaroor]

Hebron is historically Jewish city these people has no real connections to the city.

[@nikoknightpuppetproduction369]

Yes, but their hate towards Jews are so bad, they are not into facts.

[@chugalongway01]

Hebron is historically an Arab city. The ILLEGAL Judeo Supremacist settlers have American accents and originate from the old Russian empire.

[@rotemaviaroor]

gur ruh keep telling yourself that joke💙

[@chugalongway01]

Hebron today is an Arab city........like it was 50 years ago, 100 years ago, 200 years ago, 500 years ago, 1000 years ago.....that is a fact you just can't ignore

[@rotemaviaroor]

gur ruh today unfortunately yes... but Hebron has deep meaning in Jewish history way more than Muslims will ever have to this city. They live in it they immigrated to it... and Hebron never was Always Arab sorry to inform you

[@geerenmo]

How the hell would they know? I think most of them understand the question wrongly. They might be thinking recently.

[@gr4_nd374]

They claim that they don't have any Jewish roots, but Arabs who live in the Levant (Those who got arabized with the spread of Islam via the Umayyad caliphate) share the same exact ancestors. Arabs and Jews where really close to each other before the zionist movement, they'd go as far as babysitting each other's children. I'd love to see this friendship and brotherhood come back, but I don't think that it's gonna happen since Israel doesn't have really strong ties and communication skills towards Arabs. Why not install a new government? An Arab-Jew state preferably, exactly the same way Palestine was before the Zionist movement. Wouldn't a unified Jewish Palestine solution solve this conflict? I personally prefer the name Palestine as a reference to that land, since it means "Holy land" which fits really well with that area.

[@ef2718]

The first Zionist movement was the Israelis returning from Egypt under leadership of Moses.

[@makpazon11]

Here is the story 101: 1. Judea was mostly Jewish in 1st century AD. The Romans expelled the elite and mostly kept Jewish farmers to provide food. 2. Since these Jews (200,000?) lost their spiritual/rabbinical core, they became the core of Christianity as it was gradually more accepted. After the conversion of Rome, Judea was mostly Christian and the majority of them had Jewish origin. 3. Comes Islam 7th century AD. Christians are persecuted and many convert to Islam. About 75% converted eventually. Therefore, any Palestinian in Judea and Samaria whose roots date back 2000 years in Palestine (mind you,, this name is a Roman attempt to eradicate Judea) has a high chance of having Jewish roots.

[@jesselivermore2291]

funny thing or not funny at all is that palestinians have 60-70% jewish dna and the israelis sometimes not even 10%, and this is not bullshit, its proven by dna tests, most israelis have mostly european dna sometimes they are just converts.

[@darrenpowell7225]

There all in denial they have a dna

[@shainazion4073]

The major subgroups of Jews all have 60% minimum Levantine DNA, the Sephardim, Mizrahim, Ashkenazim, Romaniote, Italkim and others. The Ethiopian and Yemeni Jews do not share the "Jewish "DNA patterns.

[@shainazion4073]

They have proven that there are less than half a percent of converts exist per generation amonh Jews. They still show 50% of Canaanite DNA, who did they convert from that would carry Canaanite DNA????

[@rachelsamuel3328]

There is no study that says this, you are lying. I work with DNA and there is no Jewush DNA, there are Jewish patterns of DNA, and they are recognized as Jewish, because I'm So many Jews share the patterns. So it would be impossible that someone who does not claim or know of any Jewish ancestry that would have more than a Jew.

[@mjhmab]

lmao wtf is this ? how would they know if their great great great grandpa was jewish ?

[@vannakinder352]

Some idiotic questions zionists ask palestinians. Usually to harass them

[@emilaslan8452]

Well, this was Corey's shortest video.

[@amaren133]

Yes, they do. My wife is from Israel, and she has very high Jewish DNA( she is Muslim). Unfortunately, I don't have any ! because I am from Lod by the Mediterranean Sea, but all Palestinians in the West Bank have high Jewish DNA!

[@icimdekisen]

The question is misunderstood Jewish in Arabic refers only to religion not ethnicity

[@eros727]

I call bs on most of them. My mother , who was born pre-‘48 in a small town north of Nazareth told me that they were originally Jews, then were Christian then Muslims. She heard it from her father and grandfather . It is extremely naive to think that there isn’t a slight chance of Jewish blood in these people.

[@eros727]

@laila H I am calm, I’m just not naive or arrogant to think that it’s not possible. Maybe you don’t, but a lot do.

[@eros727]

@laila H how very polite Of you. I won’t respond in kind, but I hope your parents are proud of how they raised you.

[@MrResearcher122]

No doubt the original Jews of their land are in their ancestry. Sad thing is, imagined communities distort the past: European Jews are actually Europeans who adopted or co-opt ed a Middle Eastern Identity while Palestinians are Middle Eastern Jews who have adopted or co-opted an Arab identity.Their firm denials were venomous, clipped, a grunt at the present enemy, not at their Jewish ancestry.

[@victor-hugedivitorilamas5802]

wtf you mean european jews are europeans who adopted a middle eastern culture? In any case, it's the other way around, middle easterns who co-opted a European culture and then rejected it to go back to their ancient roots.

[@MrResearcher122]

@@victor-hugedivitorilamas5802 I can't say I understand you. Forgive any offence. However, I do believe people close to a house live near the house and people who live distant from a house live far from the house. In short, those whose ancestors were born in a Levantine village are more likely to have family ties with the neighbours than those whose ancestors were born in a Russian or Polish village.

[@victor-hugedivitorilamas5802]

@@MrResearcher122 I don't think so. A current Indian is likely not to have gypsy blood, nor is a current day Pakistani, rather romani blood has been maintained thousands of miles away from there, in places so distant like Europe. In the case of the jews specially, most if not all jews were expelled after the bar kochba rebellion, and so the blood pool from where the palestinians could take "jewish blood" is non-existent, there were jewish communities tho, but they were extremely closed knit and still live on today and they came to the land during medieval era. And about the thing you did not understood. Jews are from the Middle East, they came to Europe and, during the Enlightment (or how jews call it, the Haskalah) they tried to blend in with the europeans, even rejecting their origins in some cases and when I say they went back to the roots I'm talking about the zionist movement that revived the once defunct jewish civilization and language.

[@MrResearcher122]

@@victor-hugedivitorilamas5802 I can't agree. I have nothing against people because of their race or religion.But European Jews to me are Jewish in the sense Mexicans are Spanish or the Irish are Vikings. I've read the the DNA articles and the tedentious claims and counter-claims. Nor do I believe Palestinians are Arabs,nor Egyptians, except in a loose jangly sense of the word. I do believe,however,most Saudis are Arabs.I also believe that Iraqi and Iranian Jews are probably descendants of the Jews and Hebrews in the Torah.

[@victor-hugedivitorilamas5802]

@@MrResearcher122 Eh. . .Have you read anything really? Ashkenazi jews have paternal levantine descendance, Yemeni jews have very pure israelite ethnicity, and no, that's not how it works, the historical the community, the "purer" the jew, that's why Iraqi jews (or jews of babylon) are the purest, because their community dates thousands of years, same with the sephardic jews and the jews of egypt (jews of mizraim). However, European jews can easily trace their ethnicity back to the region, and before the stablishment of the state of Israel, most euros agreed that jews looked different than them because of their "levantine features."

[@holyhelena2]

WEIRD. They're scared and ashamed and hate that part of themselves - the smart ones must know the history makes ALL of them a "no" SUPER unlikely.

[@arvbbaby3778]

People need to take a chill pill. Being Israeli doesn’t mean ur Jewish and being Palestinien doesn’t mean ur Muslim.

[@Baduri89]

Most Palestinians and Middle eastern’s who take a DNA test will show they have Jewish ancestry and dna test also shows Palestinians majority ethnicity is from the Palestine and not the Arabian peninsula. So pretty interesting what occupiers will say when it clearly states Palestinians being native to the land. I’m half Eritrean and even I showed 1-3% Jewish Ancestry

[@zavtradnem]

So name me palestinian kings and poets, military leaders. surely should be many if they native. and jesus was palestinian also or a jew? white eritrean

[@victor-hugedivitorilamas5802]

Actually palestinians can track their DNA and clan to other places non-native to Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Arabian Peninsula, Yemen, you name it. All arabs are related, specially the Palestinians, which were for most of their history simply an unpopulated territory in the crossroads to Syria and Egypt, and therefore there was no indigenous big clans and rather just imported ones.

[@Baduri89]

@@victor-hugedivitorilamas5802 Well if you claim all Arabs can claim significant ancestry to one and another. Why come an Sudanese, Egyptian, Iraqi and a Moroccan don’t look the same? There’s Jews in every colour, Ethiopians and let’s say an Ukrainian Jew, why don’t they look the same? All population mix with eachother and I would say an Palestinian have as much original Arabic ancestry as an Ukrainian Jew has Ukrainian or whatever. The world is more complex then that useless claim that’s used to claim a country thousands years later

[@victor-hugedivitorilamas5802]

@@Baduri89 Easy, all arab populations mingle with eachother. I was not saying that inherently all arabs look the same, but every single one of them share some common DNA through the ethnical connection of the middle east. Again, a Palestinian shares DNA with Bosnians, Moroccans and Yemenites altogether. The difference between a Palestinian and a jew is that while a jew shares some genes from the lands they inhabit, their lineage goes back to a single place. In contrast, Palestinians are a part of a greater arab ethnogroup, and not indigenous by DNA to that single place.

[@Baduri89]

@@victor-hugedivitorilamas5802 Not entirely true. Look at Palestinians DNA test results and majority of them get some Jewish DNA results although I highly doubt it’s recent but rather ancient that have stayed in their DNA since they mixed with others who had that admixture. And yes a Palestinian can share ancestry with an Bosnian due to when it was part of the Ottoman Empire. And a Moroccan since Egypt is next to there and that’s an ancient North African genetic marker. I’m myself part Eritrean and it even showed up some Jewish due to history. The world is more complicated then it looks. It’s really sad that you can occupy a whole land based on old scriptures when you only had the religion left and barely had any real identity left. As a Semitic speaker myself Hebrew sounds like an German tries to speak an Semitic language. It’s like Roma people would invade India and make Indian people second class citizens. I have nothing against Jews at all, but the claim to take over a land is ridiculous

[@TheMom2three]

I guess they forgot about Abraham.

[@egyptianminor]

LOL

[@xyman]

Abraham was not Jewish. He was from Mesopotamia.

[@MS-zi3pw]

Abraham was from Iraq not. A Jew

[@Kuokino23]

Jemi Abraham is not a jew nor anything but we knew he is the father.I don't deny it.

[@naeetr2350]

@Alan Hughes it's their right to believe it just like you believe he was jewish, and no jesus was not jewish.

[@michael2514]

Palestinians are closer to the Hebrews of the Bible. Israelis not from mizhrahim are Hazar converts, they are white Europeans with German names

[@agnostic258]

The Mizrahim are not from Europe and are not white, but rather from the Middle East. The Ashkenazim are the white Europeans

[@carljacobson7156]

According to Genetic Studies, the Israeli Jews and Palestinians are genetically related - meaning that they descend from a common Ancestral Group. But that ancestral group goes back several thousand years ago, likely before an established Jewish Identity - so possibly they share early Israelite or even Canaanite Ancestors. And then there's the admixtures of both with other groups too. So, the Israeli Jews and Palestinians aren't separated by Genetics or Biology as much as by Ideology and Identity - very similar to the Northern Irish Protestant Unionists and Catholic Nationalists.

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The true people that lived in Palestine/Israel befire the 1860s were fellahins and Bedouins that had Jewish ancestry. See the Video, *`Palestinians of Jewish Origin higher resolution"*