Happy Easter to those celebrate the resurrection of Jesus (a “Palestinian”, according to progressives, though the Arabs did not invade and conquer present-day Egypt/Israel/Syria until around AD 642).
Easter this year falls on the last day of Women’s History Month. Under a system that presumably wasn’t designed by J.K. Rowling, “women” must share part of their month with the Transgender Day of Visibility, recently proclaimed by Joe Biden:
It gets truly inspiring towards the end:
Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America, and my entire Administration and I have your back.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as Transgender Day of Visibility. I call upon all Americans to join us in lifting up the lives and voices of transgender people throughout our Nation and to work toward eliminating violence and discrimination based on gender identity.
Is this true, though? What about a transgender person who is part of the Queers for Palestine movement? Is he/she/ze/they truly loved and heard by the Biden administration?
Also, if Transgender Day of Visibility is real, as Wikipedia suggests, why does a politician need to “hereby proclaim” it? Politicians don’t annually proclaim that July 4 is Independence Day (“Treason Day” for those in Britain; “Steal More Land Day” for Elizabeth Warren’s brothers, sisters, and binary-resisters in various Native American Nations (speaking of Proclamations!); “An Extra Generation of Slavery Day” for Black Americans, including those who only recently immigrated). Joe Biden didn’t proclaim that today is Cesar Chavez Day (maybe because Cesar Chavez was against low-skill immigration?), which every March 31 is.
Some Deplorables around Twitter…
- Ann Coulter: They/Them is Risen!
- @hale_razor: Tomorrow is the day where many Americans, following the WH, will solemnly worship, praise their deity, cling with comfort to their dogma, intolerant of criticism of their religion. Many others will celebrate Easter.
Part of the LGBTQ Community Calendar, from GLAAD:
If you love the word “Latinx” and are interested in pronouns, October should be your favorite month in this calendar:
And, speaking of Easter, the Israeli military produces an unusual card featuring an assault rifle. They may need a refresher on Jesus’s “turn the other cheek” philosophy.
The Palestinians are not Arabs.
They speak a Levantine variety of Arabic because they were conquered by Arabs. But Muslim Palestinians are only 20% Arab and Christian Palestinians much less than that.
If you had to identify a large modern-day population closest to Jesus genetically, it would be the Palestinians. The smaller subpopulation of Christian Palestinians would be closer still; and some tiny communities in Lebanon or Syria might be even closer.
The overwhelming majority of their genome is the same as the first-century inhabitants of Judea and Samaria. They are actually closer, in ancestry, to Jesus and the Jews of that time than modern-day Israelis are, because Israelis are mostly Ashkenazim and Ashkenazim are 50% European.
Joe: Are you sure about the Ashkenazi dominance? https://theconversation.com/israels-mosaic-of-jewish-ethnic-groups-is-key-to-understanding-the-country-217893 says
The largest Jewish ethnic group in Israel, about 40% to 45% of the country’s total population, is called Mizrahi, which means “Eastern” in Hebrew. Mizrahi Jews’ ancestors hailed from Jewish communities in the Middle East, including Israel itself.
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The second-largest ethnic Jewish group in Israel, about 32% of the population, is Ashkenazi. Ashkenazi Jews trace their ancestry to central Europe, most often via Eastern Europe.
Regarding the Science (genomic analysis), “Bedouins, Jordanians, Palestinians and Saudi Arabians are located in close proximity to each other, which is consistent with a common origin in the Arabian Peninsula”. That’s from Nature magazine, 2010: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44657170_The_genome-wide_structure_of_the_Jewish_people
If we combine this with what you’ve said, it is tough to square with Truth. You say that Jesus was Palestinian. The gene nerds behind that article say that Palestinians are close to Saudis (the canonical “Arabs”). The Truth says that Jesus was Black.
Maybe we need a progressive at Berkeley to come up with a genetic analysis showing that all present-day Palestinians are direct descendants of Jesus and, therefore, that every rocket fired from Gaza on civilians in Israel is a Christian rocket.
Do the various Jewish sub-ethnicities intermarry at any significant rate?
Tom: in 1950s Israel there was, I think, quite the cultural gulf between an Israeli who’d recently arrived from Iraq or North Africa and an Israeli whose parents had emigrated from Germany 20 years earlier. A marriage between two such people was considered a “mixed marriage”. Today, however, I don’t think people get too excited about who arrived on the Mayflower, so to speak.
Philip, during Turkish rule in the Land of Israel, Jews who never left Land of Israel and those who either returned there or whose ancestors returned there from Islamic countries were considered non-Muslim of first degree there, while Jews of European ancestry were considered non-Muslims of second degree and had more restrictions imposed on them. However, later, during British mandate, there was quite robust intermarriage among Jews from all countries of origin (as designated by non-Jews and non – traditional Jews). This is based on anecdotal family tales and on example of some celebrities, for example tank-man General Tal who descended from Jews who never left Land of Israel and Jews who returned from Europe.
I know that Ashkenazim are 75% of world Jewry, I did not realize the proportion was so much smaller in Israel. But much of the rest of Israelis are Sephardim who are also about half non-Levantine, and Mizrahim are somewhat mixed too.
Still reasonable to say Jesus probably looked like a Palestinian.
??? Red-haired king David. Sounds like one of Ashkenazim, lol. Messiah, and thus Jesus for Christians, is supposed to be a descendant of David.
Also, red-haired Jacob’s brother, Esau. The whole land of his (converted to Judaism) descendants called land of the red, Edom /Idumea. Also, Lebanon – from Hebrew work white, (Levan)
לבן
Where is the goods on genetic make-up of Ashkenazim? I read it is mostly tracked to Levant, with small mix of female line not from Levant, which is by the way is constituent with Genesis stories.
You’re correct to associate the founding of Israel with European Jews. But when Arab/Muslim nations began expelling 900,000 Jews starting in 1948, Israel was the only country in the world that would take them so they ended up being demographically dominant in Israel. And their descendants are big supporters of Netanyahu. They know that Israel is their last stop so they aren’t squeamish about doing whatever needs to be done to prevent the righteous from eliminating Israel and setting up a replacement Palestinian nation.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_exodus_from_the_Muslim_world
@perplexed.
Here are “the goods”:
“Overall, we estimate that most (>80%) Ashkenazi mtDNAs were assimilated within Europe. Few derive from a Near Eastern source, and despite the recent revival of the ‘Khazar hypothesis’16, virtually none are likely to have ancestry in the North Caucasus. Therefore, whereas on the male side there may have been a significant Near Eastern (and possibly east European/Caucasian) component in Ashkenazi ancestry, the maternal lineages mainly trace back to prehistoric Western Europe. These results emphasize the importance of recruitment of local women and conversion in the formation of Ashkenazi communities, and represent a significant step in the detailed reconstruction of Ashkenazi genealogical history.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3543#affil-auth
Ashkenazim as a distinct ethnic group is much younger that the Genesis story:
“Ashkenazi Jews (AJ) emerged as a distinctive ethno-religious cultural group in the Rhineland and Northern France in the 10th century.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms3543#affil-auth
Ivan,
It, a single study and somehow the only one highlighted by search engines, sez that majority of male DNA is from Levant, whatever it means, and that “~40% of Ashkenazi mtDNA variation” is from Europe, whatever it means. Europeans are not static people, many of descendants of European came to Europe from Mesopotamia and Middle East (and Judea by the way, Romans granted last of Jewish kings lands in the Gaul, modern France). A German tribe, the Vandals, had ruled North Africa for a while. Anyway, 40% is 1.5 times less then 60%. The Nature’s story is plausible, but it repeats what known from Jewish history, parrots it. Genetically, it is impossible to state whether gene comes from one person 2,000 years ago or 2 people 3,500 years ago. The story sez “late antiquity or Dark Ages”, a period of 500+ years.
So Nature repeats Yiddish researches story about Yiddish originating in the Rhineland in 9th to 10th century CE. Lol. It is plausible that during Dark Ages, when Church was not very strong in Europe, some European women would prefer to merry Jews, especially in France and Spain, where Jewish settlement was already ancient (in Spain it predated antiquity). That would not affect mDNA in any predictable manner. Both Picts and Celts originated in Mesopotamia, at different times, and Jewish stories place Jewish forefathers and fore-mothers origin there or in Chaldea (modern Turkey)
Genetic research can not shed light on history of Jews with any degree of certainty.
But we can say with high degree of probability, that Jesus was not an Arab from Arabia, whose DNA modern Israeli and “Palestinian” Arabs share. And that since early Middle Ages, there were no incentives of gentile ladies to marry persecuted Jews, until rise of Capitalism, modern state and later Israeli Sohnut outreach to poor countries. So if you do not know that any of your relatives was non-Jewish, it is likely that none of them were non-Jewish, except for occasional fervent believer convert who is considered 100% Jewish.
Wish our geneticist contributors could shed more light on the issue. I remember someone who was involved in genetic testing said that genetic genealogy research was a fraud, on this blog.
Ivan
Apparently Google is not that good at hiding non PC research.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20531471/ This seems to be analytically sound:
” Principal component and structure-like analyses identify previously unrecognized genetic substructure within the Middle East. Most Jewish samples form a remarkably tight subcluster that overlies Druze and Cypriot samples but not samples from other Levantine populations or paired Diaspora host populations. ”
In addition, some “Palestinians” are Jews converted to Islam recently, at time of Shabtai Tsvi and later, on memory of modern historians. But there are only few villages of them.
Is this true, though? No!
What about a transgender person who is part of the Queers for Palestine movement? Probably going to hell.
Is he/she/ze/they truly loved and heard by the Biden administration? No.
Also, if Transgender Day of Visibility is real, as Wikipedia suggests, why does a politician need to “hereby proclaim” it? Joe Biden’s handlers love to virtue signal. Not sure why Joe Biden would encourage behavior that would result in eternal damnation according to his own religion.
“In for a penny, in for a pound.”
“Turn the other cheek” probably relates to family or local matters. Christianity was chosen by Rome to unite distinct people, due to its universalism, and raise fighting legions form among them, as Roman base of farmer-soldiers was spent during early empire. Christianity was military religion from the outset, despite what you have heard form Social Democrats of America and Berni Sanders. Christianity has saints who were Roman generals. Saint George turns the other cheek to the dragon – no one Christian said. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George_and_the_Dragon
Sometime in the future, there may be a person of eminent position who would be a gender fluid/trans/lgbtqabcdefgz
Maybe the next presidential candidate!
All this propaganda is to normalize this for the American public perhaps
You got some 6 foot 2 hairy superfreak in a dress screaming obscenities out on the sidewalk, that guy visible enough without the president pointing him out.