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Comment by Parrhesia on December 13, 2022 at 11:17am

Little is known about the history of Ashkenazi Jews before they were expelled from the Mediterranean and settled in what is now Poland around the 12th century. On average, all Ashkenazi Jews are genetically as closely related to each other as fourth or fifth cousins, said Dr. Harry Ostrer, a pathology, pediatrics and genetics professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and the author of "Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People" (Oxford University Press, 2012).

Based on accounts such as those of Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, by the time of the destruction of the Second Temple in A.D. 70, as many as 6 million Jews were living in the Roman Empire, but outside Israel, mainly in Italy and Southern Europe. In contrast, only about 500,000 lived in Judea.  

All told, more than 80 percent of the maternal lineages of Ashkenazi Jews could be traced to Europe, with only a few lineages originating in the Near East.

Half Semites at best.

Comment by Less Prone on December 13, 2022 at 10:48am

Semites, the descendants of Shem indeed are not just the Judean tribe with its origin in the middle east and certainly not the ashkenazi jews of Khazaria, those who pretend to be "jews" but are not. And why are they called jews and not Judeans?

"Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you." Revelation 3-9

Comment by Parrhesia on December 12, 2022 at 3:13pm

A Semite is not a technical term and can refer to anyone from the Middle East. Both Hebrew and Arabic (along with Amharic, the language spoken in Ethiopia) are classified as Semitic languages. Indeed, it is not uncommon for Palestinians and other Arabs to insist they cannot be anti-Semitic, because they are themselves Semites.  The "jews" stole the term for their exclusive use, but it is not theirs alone.