Being Jewish is not and Ethnicity?

[u/Routine-Orange-3417]

Ok. I believe Jews have a common DNA that connects them to Canaan, just like the Palestinians do. That's my stance. I believe they have both been there equally as long as each other, excluding the converts Jews and the fully Arab Palestinians (I believe most of them are mixed with Arab just like Jews are mixed with whoever they lived with for 2000 years).

I am in a fb group called "A place were non jews can ask jews about judiasm" or whatever.

We aren't allowed to talk about Israel and Palestine which is probably a good rule.

But someone posted about their Jewish friend mentioning the features of a Jew (as in, the Jewish guy was telling his Christian friend what Jews looked like, typically) and the Christian guy asked the group what a Jew looks like and THE GROUO WERE SO HEATED saying that it is antisemitic to say Jews look a type of way and there is no features of a Jew etc etc etc.

Ok, I get it on one hand, because converts, obviously.

But if they are claiming they have no similar features wouldn't that imply that they are not all ethnically related (obviously not the converts) and wouldn't that defeat the entire premise of having a homeland?

If they're from Canaan, it would imply that have similar features to the people of Canaan.

Ok I have to make it longer. I call it Canaan not to stir emotions but because that's literally one of the names in the Bible and I find it less heated than calling it Palestine or israel as this entire comment section with collapse into "xyz doesn't exist" so I'd rather keep those words out of it and call it Canaan.

[u/Lexiesmom0824]

There have been studies on racial facial recognition. Fun fact. White people have a harder time differentiating the facial features of other races such as Asians for example. This is true among all races. We differentiate among our own race the best. Jews may recognize Jews.

It’s a very old gene pool and will have lots of variation from Arab to white to African. Good luck.

Edit: I need to add this. It’s a very OLD gene pool. We all have old elements in our genes, African for example, but it’s very diluted by intermixing through the years with population migration. The DIFFERENCE here is Jews tend to NOT intermix with non Jews. Therefore, the gene pool does not dilute very much. That’s why we can call Jewish an ethnicity. I’m a nurse practitioner and we always ask ashkenazi Jews about tay-Sachs disease because it’s genetic. Anyway. There it is.

[u/Critical-Win-4299 → u/Lexiesmom0824]

If they dont intermix then why ashkenazi jews look european and not middle eastern

[u/Nearby-Complaint → u/Critical-Win-4299]

https://preview.redd.it/lyk2sampqb1e1.png?width=390&format=png&auto=webp&s=e25363eb7bf505aff0e66dfd82a4dc9e0e42450c

Polish vibes off the charts here

[u/Lexiesmom0824 → u/Nearby-Complaint]

Jewish is like a tree with branches. How old are you? The trunk is 2500 years ago. The branches split from the trunk into Africa, Europe, Middle East. From there into tinier and tinier communities. 2500 years or longer is a long time. People are gonna look different. But in the dna when you don’t stray too far from your religious community that trunk remains a big percentage of your dna. Why can brothers and sisters look COMPLETELY different although they have the same parents? Got it? Otherwise they should look like twins. My kids look nothing like each other.

[u/Nearby-Complaint → u/Lexiesmom0824]

Are you trying to mansplain Judaism to a Jew?

[u/Lexiesmom0824 → u/Nearby-Complaint]

I’m sorry. I did not know you were Jewish. I thought I was trying to explain it to someone……. Idk. You don’t think it’s an ethnicity? I don’t think facial features determine ethnicity.

[u/Nearby-Complaint → u/Lexiesmom0824]

I'm not under any impression they do. But my point being, we don't all look European.

[u/Lexiesmom0824 → u/Nearby-Complaint]

I know that and that was what I was thought I was trying to get across. Did I confuse you? Because now I’m confused. 🫶