Jews are half-White. I’ve mentioned this before, but now we have genetic evidence proving my sensible observation.
The Ashkenazi Jewish (AJ) population is important in genetics due to its high rate of Mendelian disorders. AJ appeared in Europe in the 10th century, and their ancestry is thought to comprise European (EU) and Middle-Eastern (ME) components. However, both the time and place of admixture are subject to debate. Here, we attempt to characterize the AJ admixture history using a careful application of new and existing methods on a large AJ sample. Our main approach was based on local ancestry inference, in which we first classified each AJ genomic segment as EU or ME, and then compared allele frequencies along the EU segments to those of different EU populations. The contribution of each EU source was also estimated using GLOBETROTTER and haplotype sharing. The time of admixture was inferred based on multiple statistics, including ME segment lengths, the total EU ancestry per chromosome, and the correlation of ancestries along the chromosome. The major source of EU ancestry in AJ was found to be Southern Europe (≈60–80% of EU ancestry), with the rest being likely Eastern European. The inferred admixture time was ≈30 generations ago, but multiple lines of evidence suggest that it represents an average over two or more events, pre- and post-dating the founder event experienced by AJ in late medieval times. The time of the pre-bottleneck admixture event, which was likely Southern European, was estimated to ≈25–50 generations ago. …
Running RFMix on the AJ genomes with our EU and ME reference panels and summing up the lengths of all tracts assigned to each ancestry, the genome-wide ancestry was ≈53% EU and ≈47% ME
Ashkenazi Jews are ancestrally 53% European White and 47% Middle Eastern Caucasian.
I make the distinction for a reason. “Caucasian” is the broadest possible racial category; “White” has always colloquially referred to the peoples native to Europe (including Western Russia). “Caucasian” includes such luminaries to the European cultural canon as Turks, Pakistanis, Afghans, Iranians, Algerians, etc etc. /sarcasm
No one who isn’t a disingenuous prick would argue that Afghans, for instance, are anything like Germans, Italians, Hungarians, or Danes, or that the collective latter are as genetically and culturally close to Afghans as they are to each other. So “White” correctly draws a colloquial distinction between the European people and the wild outposts where Caucasian warlords roam.
And so it is with Jews: by the conventional definition of “White”, they are a half-White, half-Semite ethnicity. Precisely, a half-White, half-Levantine (eastern Mediterranean) ethnicity:
… We observed that in simulations of admixed genomes, the Middle-Eastern regional source could have also been recovered by running the same localization pipeline. Applying that pipeline to the AJ genomes, we identified Levant as the most likely ME source: the proportions of chromosomes classified as Levantine was 51.6%, compared to 21.7% and 22.2% classified as Druze and Southern ME, respectively.
… In these simulations, we fixed the Levantine admixture proportion to 50% and varied the proportions of the different European regions. We then used a grid search to find the ancestry proportions that best fit the observed fraction of AJ chromosomes classified as each ancestry. The simulation results (Fig 2) suggest that the European component of the AJ cohort is 34% Southern EU, 8% Western EU, and 8% Eastern EU. This analysis thus suggests that roughly 70% of EU ancestry in AJ is Southern European.
The genetic analysis also confirms age-old observational wisdom that Jews and Italians share aesthetic, culinary, hirsute, and some cultural similarities. (But their differences are still yuge; see, for example, how Jews and Italian-Americans voted in the last election.)
The genetic facts of half-White, half-Semite Jewish ancestry shows in their look and their behavior. (Yes, Jews have a “look”. Those who aren’t bullshit artists with a motivated bias can readily identify 9 out of 10 Jews in a crowd of Christian Gentiles by face alone.)
Even the blonde-haired, blue-eyed Jews who inherited a greater share of Eastern European genes can be identified by facial appearance and do stand out from the background EE Gentile population. Now, with the increase in Jewish out-marriage in America, there are more Jews who can pass almost completely for Gentiles, but primarily in appearance it would seem, because behaviorally Jews are as separate from Gentiles as they have ever been. However, I’ve noticed that the Jews with very Gentile physiognomies also lean more rightward in their politics than the norm for their tribe and are more comfortable “bro-ing it up” with Gentile Chads.
The crucial take-home point is that the unique (some would call it peculiar) half-White, half-Semite Jewish ethnic ancestry correlates with a stereotypical Jewish personality and behaviors, which GENTILES CAN NOTICE when they aren’t lying to themselves and others to avoid a pained bout of evangelical cogdis. From Cagey Beast,
[This genetic analysis] matches up with pretty much everyone’s sense of [Jews]: familiar but somehow off. A little later we realize how these folks always insist the rest of us are wrong about everything, all the time, forever.
Ashkenazi Jews rock. Nothing makes me happier than the fusion of WASP triumphalism and Ashkenazi tikkun olam. I think something magical and wondrous (and not the least bit Satanic) happens when money-grubbing heretics join with lapsed East European Jews to form a coalition to transform Christendom by force.
The Uncanny Ari.
Isn’t it time we stopped Lying about observable reality and embraced enlivening Truth? We all would waste a lot less mental energy and far fewer resources on a quixotic quest to force a defiant Reality to accommodate our Lies. And, we would finally see more clearly the threats to our nation, our towns, our families, and our souls.
PS I know this blog has plenty of jewish readers. You come to this place for the quippy lip and the hard truths. Well, I give them to you. Try not to take it personally when my Truth Shivs point at the antics of your own tribe. If I held back, would this place be nearly half as fun? Instead of lashing out in tribal indignation, try something different for once: take it in stride and do a little self-examination. It’s good for the soul…if you believed you had one.
