Though the finding may seem intuitive, it contradicts the notion that European Jews mostly descend from people who left Israel and the Middle East around 2,000 years ago. Instead, a substantial proportion of the population originates from local Europeans who converted to Judaism, said study co-author Martin Richards, an archaeogeneticist at the University of Huddersfield in England.

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    3 months ago

    This not true, and the human genome hadn’t even been completed at the time. I’m anti Israel have been all my life. But this just isn’t true.

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      3 months ago

      Refutation without a counter source isn’t welcome here. Wasting people’s time is a troll tactic. It is another thing if you had a source that proves your claim, but you don’t.

      The genome study is one evidence, another evidence is their susceptibility to melanoma unlike the indigenous Palestinians.

      It’s not enough being anti-Israel if you still promote the foundational myths of Zionism. Ashkenazi Jews are not indigenous to Palestine or any part of the Middle East.