Which is kinda funny when they claim to be the same people who the Old Testament recorded as being super patriarchal, to the point that OT women were typically recorded as "X's wife" or "Y's daughter".
We don't have a lot in common genetically with Israelites*, and we made up most of our religion later, but it's anti Semitic to say we aren't them. - Ashenazi probably
*Yes, I know you can identify jews by gene clusters, but it seems like Palestinians would be more directly descended
Which is kinda funny when they claim to be the same people who the Old Testament recorded as being super patriarchal, to the point that OT women were typically recorded as "X's wife" or "Y's daughter".
We don't have a lot in common genetically with Israelites*, and we made up most of our religion later, but it's anti Semitic to say we aren't them. - Ashenazi probably
*Yes, I know you can identify jews by gene clusters, but it seems like Palestinians would be more directly descended
If they ever had the covenant (they didn't) it was lost with the killing of Christ.