>>19423851Correction,Christians worship a dead Palestinian on a stick. All modern "Jews" are just highly diverse larping mysterymeats.
>So what, finally, does the barplot above based on ancient DNA tell us about how modern-day Palestinians and Ashkenazi Jews relate to ancient Canaanites and to each other?>The above paper shows that Palestinians have more of the Megiddo_MBLA ancestry than Ashkenazi Jews, Moroccan (Sephardic) Jews or Iranian Jews do. Megiddo_MBLA ancestry is the ancestry of ancient Levantines, so in the end, modern Palestinians retain a greater fraction of Hebrew-like ancestry. >Drilling down even further, independent researchers, including myself, who have collated and compared private and public datasets despite political sensitivities find that Lebanese Christians, Palestinian Christians and the Jewish-adjacent sect of Samaritans exhibit the smallest genetic distances to Bronze and Iron Age Canaanite samples.>So, who are the actual indigenous people of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza? If by this you mean those populations with the deepest and most substantial genetic roots in a geographical region, then that would be Palestinian Christians and Samaritans.>As for the Palestinians, Y chromosomes plus comparisons between Muslims versus both the small Christian minority and the Samaritans, all indicate that they are admixed between populations of Arabs moving north and west with Islam’s rise starting in the 7th century AD, as well as Egyptians in places like Gaza, and finally Turks and Africans who arrived with the region’s integration into a global Dar-al-Islam. But, it also seems that for Muslims, the majority of their ancestry is the same as that of their Palestinian Christian neighbors; they too are the scions of ancient Levantines. The Arabic-speaking villagers of British Palestine descend from ancestors who spoke Aramaic, and who before that spoke Hebrew.https://www.razibkhan.com/p/more-than-kin-less-than-kind-jews