https://theconversation.com/ashkenazic-jews-mysterious-origins-unravelled-by-scientists-thanks-to-ancient-dna-97962

1. The maternal lineage of Ashkenazi Jews is European, not Levant or Middle Eastern.

2. Only 3% of Ashkenazi DNA is “ancient ancestry” from the Middle East.

Religiously, point #1 above means that nearly all Ashkenazi Jews are descended from converts, because Judaism is passed down maternally and nearly all of the maternal ancestors of Ashkenazi Jews would not have been original Jews from the Middle East or even from the Levant.

Also, I understand that people who hate Jews and hate Israel think this means that Jews should all commit suicide or something and give up Israel to the “Palestinian” Arabs, but then why shouldn’t white Americans and Canadians do the same thing?

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Kosher Kowboy writes in a comment:

Lion I’d caution you that this article may be fake news/fake science with an anti-semitic anti-Israel agenda. Genealogy and genetics are a hobby of mine, so I’m quite familiar with a lot of the scientific literature on Ashkenazi genetics. Unquestionably, a large percentage of Ashkenazi mitochondrial DNA (passed down from the mother) is of European origin, probably Italian. If I recall correctly it’s about 80%. So, yes, that much is true. That said, the article also asserts that only 3% of Ashkenazi DNA has origins in the Levant/Eastern Mediterranean. I’ve only skimmed the paper they cite, but it smells like science with an agenda, and it runs counter to most of the other papers I’ve read on the subject.. What would be anyone’s motivation for saying that Ashkenazi Jews have essentially no genetic ties to Israel? ???? One data point… I’m Ashkenazi, and my paternal Y-DNA haplogroup is one common among middle eastern men, including “Palestinians” as well as, yes, you guessed it, Ashkenazi Jews