09/28/2025
What if we discovered that most Palestinians are actually Jewish? Not culturally Jewish, but direct genetic descendants of the people that Moses led out of Egypt. A lost tribe of Jews who assimilated to Islam and Arabic centuries ago in order to continue living peacefully in Palestine. To be possible as a theory we'd need genetic evidence of this. And that we already have..
"Palestinians are genetically as close or closer to any modern Jewish population than are those Jewish populations to each other. In other words, genetic data is totally consistent with the idea that Palestinians are the direct descendants of ancient Jews who never left their ancestral land and who later converted to Christianity and to Islam.
Behar's study, which is the most detailed, revealed that most Jewish populations (except Ethiopian and Indian Jews who are more closely related to their host populations) form a cluster with modern Middle-Eastern populations.
There are actually three Jewish sub-clusters, one including Ashkenazi and Sephardi populations, another including Iraqi, Iranian and Caucasian Jews, and a third comprising Yemeni Jews. Remarkably, the Palestinian sub-cluster is located exactly in the middle of the three Jewish sub-clusters, suggesting that modern Palestinians are possibly even more closely related genetically to the ancient Hebrews than many modern Jews.
In addition, any of the three Jewish sub-clusters is closer to the Palestinian sub-cluster than to the other two Jewish sub-clusters. This implies that if one considers Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Iraqi, Iranian, Caucasus and Yemeni Jews to all be part of the same Jewish people, then, from a genetic point of view, the Palestinians are an integral part of it.
If the latest genetic evidence vindicates Zionist ideas of Jews returning to their ancestral homeland, it also implies that this right of return should apply to all Palestinians, which have to be considered part of the same Jewish/Palestinian people."
~Damien Marsic, Ph.D.
Source: "New studies show that Jews and Palestinians are both descendants of the ancient Jewish people"
http://raelnews.org/news.php?extend.398
See also:
BBC News: Jews and Arabs are 'genetic brothers' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/742430.stm
"In a study of Israeli Jews and Palestinian Muslim Arabs, more than 70% of the Jewish men and 82% of the Arab men whose DNA was studied, had inherited their Y chromosomes from the same paternal ancestors, who lived in the region within the last few thousand years."
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_on_Jews
"Jews Are The Genetic Brothers Of Palestinians, Syrians, And Lebanese." New York University Medical Center And School Of Medicine. ScienceDaily, 9 May 2000.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000509003653.htm
"Our recent study of high-resolution microsatellite haplotypes demonstrated that a substantial portion of Y chromosomes of Jews (70%) and of Palestinian Muslim Arabs (82%) belonged to the same chromosome pool."
Nebel, Almut; Filon, Dvora; Weiss, Deborah A; Weale, Michael; Faerman, Marina; Oppenheim, Ariella; Thomas, Mark G (2000). "High-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes of Israeli and Palestinian Arabs reveal geographic substructure and substantial overlap with haplotypes of Jews". Human Genetics. 107 (6): 630–41. doi:10.1007/s004390000426. PMID 11153918.
