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[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 41 points 1 week ago (9 children)

To see diagram progressions like this is really sad. like a beautiful rainforest gradually being chipped away into nothing. same perps too considering the vast majority of Israelis are European

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (8 children)

What percentage are European? I didn't know that.

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Look up DNA testing in Israel, their govt doesn't want people testing and finding out their genetic history seems to include an awful lot of eastern Europe and not anything from the Middle East.

Even Ashkenazi Jews are from Turkey, not historic Palestine.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Purdy much, most Palestinians are actually the native Jewish population who converted to Christianity and then Islam. That's why the Israeli government doesn't want DNA testing.

[–] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 6 days ago

Ancient Judea & Israel were also not ethnostates.

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Any ideas why they converted? I wasn’t aware of this, and I don’t see that it matters…I’m just curious.

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 1 week ago

A lot of it was forced conversion. There's a long history of religious and cultural oppression of various peoples in the region. You could probably find some online documentaries about it, though more than a few likely view the events through a pro-Zionist lens.

[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Christian crusades followed by Islam doing what Islam is designed to do.

Mass conversion of populations are not common. It's either conquest, oppression or rebellion.

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