Ohio professor fired over anti-Semitic Facebook posts

[OriZ 3,157]

As a half Ashkenazi Half Middle Eastern Jew myself, let me answer that.

The number of Ashkenazi Jews(Europe and America) and Jews that come from African/Asian countries(Sephardic Jews) is just about equal.

In regards to the origin of anti-semitism, while the word semite does give the false impression that it is directed against all semitic people, the word antisemite was popularized in Germany in 1879 as a term for Jew hatred, and that has been its common use since then.

There is actually DNA evidence that Jewish populations in the diaspora did, in fact, originate in the Middle East. Chromosome Y in men has shown a shared origin for Sephardic and Ashkenazi, while mitochondrial DNA has shown that the women were most likely European, and it's assumed that the men converted them.

[Rob L 3,811]

As a half Ashkenazi Half Middle Eastern Jew myself, let me answer that.

The number of Ashkenazi Jews(Europe and America) and Jews that come from African/Asian countries(Sephardic Jews) is just about equal.

In regards to the origin of anti-semitism, while the word semite does give the false impression that it is directed against all semitic people, the word antisemite was popularized in Germany in 1879 as a term for Jew hatred, and that has been its common use since then.

There is actually DNA evidence that Jewish populations in the diaspora did, in fact, originate in the Middle East. Chromosome Y in men has shown a shared origin for Sephardic and Ashkenazi, while mitochondrial DNA has shown that the women were most likely European, and it's assumed that the men converted them.

I read somewhere that scientists speculate that all Ashkenazi share a common Roman mother / Jewish father

[OriZ 3,157]

I read somewhere that scientists speculate that all Ashkenazi share a common Roman mother / Jewish father

This has some good info, they do mention the Roman Empire later on...

https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2013/10/08/ashkenazi-jewish-women-descended-mostly-from-italian-converts-new-study-asserts/

Also just to clarify since jg121783 was talking about "Jews in Israel" that is what I was referring to. Ashkenazi Jews are the majority around the world, due to large numbers in America and Western Europe.

[MarkPerry 488]

Is Jewish a race or is that religious discrimination

Jewish is a religious discrimination

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

I read somewhere that all of us originated from a common mother and father.

I read somewhere that scientists speculate that all Ashkenazi share a common Roman mother / Jewish father