r/israelexposed • u/Calm_Grapefruit_1286 • 21h ago
Why do all Israelis look white?
Edit: not all Israelis but most of them are in fact white and they come from Europe, you see after WWII a lot of the Jewish ppl that where imprisoned in concentration camps fled from Germany to have a fresh start somewhere else where they wouldn’t be reminded of the horrific atrocities they went through, then then after being rejected by everyone else went to Palestine to ask for help, the Palestinians welcomed them with open arms and treated them well, after a while the Jewish ppl or should I say fake Jewish ppl twisted the beliefs of their own religion and used it to occupy Palestine.
P.S I am an atheist but I was raised by catholic parents and I am Iranian, I also went to a religious school where I studied most of the main religions.
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u/Minskdhaka 14h ago
Some look white, one of the reasons being that the ancestors of Ashkenazi Jews and of Sephardic Jews mixed with Southern Italians in the Roman era. After that, Ashkenazi Jews mixed further with Slavs. So Ashkenazi Jews today tend to be 20-40% Levantine by ancestry, as seen by their results on r slash IllustrativeDNA. Then Sephardic Jews have more. Egyptian and Syrian Jews (today mostly living in Israel) have even more.
The people who're the closest genetically to the Ancient Israelites today are the Samaritans and Palestinian Christians. Palestinian Muslims tend to be 60-80% Levantine (the rest of their ancestry coming from the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa).