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"Racist" jews
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paternal gene pools of Jewish communities from Europe, North Africa
and the Middle East descended from a common Middle Eastern ancestral population, and
suggests that most Jewish communities have remained relatively isolated from neighboring
non-Jewish communities during and after the Diaspora. |
 | Jewish law tracing back almost 2,000 years states that Jewish
affiliation is determined by maternal ancestry, so the Y chromosome study addresses the
question of how much non-Jewish men may have contributed to Jewish genetic diversity. Dr.
Hammer was surprised to find how little that contribution was.
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conversion, rape, etc.) into the gene pool of these various
Jewish communities...Only the Jewish people in the history of mankind has retained its
genetic identity for over 100 generations, while being spread throughout the world --
truly unique and inspiring. |
 | The Knesset Immigration and Absorption Committee discussed the case
of a family that was asked to undergo DNA testing to prove that they
were eligible for immigration under the Law of Return. Religious representatives said DNA
tests are legitimate to prove family ties; secular representatives called the tests
invasive. |
 | More than 112 genetic
diseases demonstrate that jews are a mamzerized race. |

http://www.australia-travel-visa-immigration.com/news/lithuania/sep_1998-22mn.asp
The Israeli Immigrant Liaison Bureau (Nativ) says that about half of the immigrants
arriving from the CIS between January and June, 1998 were not Jewish; about 800,000
immigrants have arrived from the ex-USSR since 1989. The Knesset Immigration and
Absorption Committee discussed the case of a family that was asked to undergo DNA testing
to prove that they were eligible for immigration under the Law of Return. Religious
representatives said DNA tests are legitimate to prove family ties; secular
representatives called the tests invasive.

http://www.uwsa.com/pipermail/uwsa/1998q3/023181.html
Liaison chief: Half of CIS immigrants aren't Jewish
By LIAT COLLINS
The Jerusalem Post, July 14, 1998
JERUSALEM - Roughly half the immigrants from the CIS who arrived in the past six months
are allegedly not halachically Jewish, according to Immigrant Liaison Bureau (Nativ) head
Yaacov Kedmi. Kedmi, who spoke at the Knesset Immigration and Absorption Committee
yesterday, said 30 percent are the children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren of Jews
and 20 percent are the spouses of Jews. "The number of non-Jews eligible under the
Law of Return is on the rise because of the expedited assimilation taking place in the
Jewish population - and not just in the CIS," Kedmi said. The committee discussed a
news story that immigrants who could not in any other way prove their relationship to a
Jewish mother or father to make them eligible for immigration under the Law of Return had
been asked to undergo DNA tests.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/geneticbrothers000509.html
Middle Eastern
Roots Shared Y Chromosome Illustrates Genetic Map of the
Past
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Ibrahim Yacoub is surrounded by neighborhood Muslim children in front of the Jewish school
in Raydah, Yemen, March 9. Scientists say grouping Jews and Arabs together as Semites is
based on genetic as well as historical and linguistic reality. (Ahmed Al-Haj/AP Photo) |
By Maggie Fox
W A S H I N G T O N, May 9
They may be enemies but Jews and Arabs really are brothers, a genetic analysis
shows.
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The comparison, published Monday, of groups of Semites also shows
that Jews have successfully resisted having their gene pool diluted, despite having lived
among non-Jews for thousands of years in what is commonly known as the Diaspora the
time since 556 B.C. when Jews migrated out of Palestine.
Michael Hammer at the University of Arizona in Tucson and
colleagues studied and compared the genes of more than 1,300 males from 29 different
populations. Map of the
Past
These included seven different Jewish groups the Ashkenazi (European), Roman, North
African, Kurdish, Iraqi and Iranian, Yemenite and Ethiopian Jews. They compared their
genes to samples from Arabs such as Palestinians, Lebanese, Syrians, Israeli Druze and
Saudis, and then compared the Semitic group to groups such as Russians, Germans, British,
Austrians, Egyptians, Gambians, Ethiopians, Turks and others.
The researchers looked at the Y chromosome, which only males have
and which is passed down with little change from father to son. These small changes can be
tracked and provide a kind of molecular road map to the genetic past.
They found that grouping Jews and Arabs together both are
Semites is based on genetic and well as historical and linguistic reality.
Semites Have Remained
Separate
Jews and Arabs are all really children of Abraham, Dr. Harry Ostrer, director
of the Human Genetics Program at New York University School of Medicine, who worked on the
study, said in a statement.
And all have preserved their Middle Eastern genetic roots
over 4,000 years.
They also found that Jews had remained remarkably similar on the
genetic level over the millennia.
Despite their long-term residence in different countries
and isolation from one another, most Jewish populations were not significantly different
from one another at the genetic level, Hammers group wrote in their report,
published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Very few non-Jewish European genes have gotten into the Ashkenazi
and Roman Jewish populations, they said.
The results support the hypothesis that the paternal gene
pools of Jewish communities from Europe, North Africa and the Middle
East descended from a common Middle Eastern ancestral population, and suggests that most
Jewish communities have remained relatively isolated from neighboring non-Jewish
communities during and after the Diaspora, they wrote. 
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http://www.csulb.edu/~kmacd/genetics.htm
May 9, 2000
Y Chromosome Bears Witness to Story of the Jewish Diaspora
By NICHOLAS WADE
With a new technique based on the male or Y chromosome, biologists have
traced the diaspora of Jewish populations from the dispersals that began
in 586 B.C. to the modern communities of Europe and the Middle East.
The analysis provides genetic witness that these communities have, to a
remarkable extent, retained their biological identity separate from
their host populations, evidence of relatively little intermarriage or
conversion into Judaism over the centuries.
Another finding, paradoxical but unsurprising, is that by the yardstick
of the Y chromosome, the world's Jewish communities closely resemble not
only each other but also Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, suggesting
that all are descended from a common ancestral population that inhabited
the Middle East some four thousand years ago.
Dr. Lawrence H. Schiffman, chairman of the department of Hebrew and
Judaic Studies at New York University, said the study fit with
historical evidence that Jews originated in the Near East and with
biblical evidence suggesting that there were a variety of families and
types in the original population. He said the finding would cause "a lot
of discussion of the relationship of scientific evidence to the manner
in which we evaluate long-held academic and personal religious
positions," like the question of who is a Jew.
The study, reported in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences, was conducted by Dr. Michael F. Hammer of the University of
Arizona with colleagues in the United States, Italy, Israel, England and
South Africa. The results accord with Jewish history and tradition and
refute theories like those holding that Jewish communities consist
mostly of converts from other faiths, or that they are descended from
the Khazars, a medieval Turkish tribe that adopted Judaism.
The analysis by Dr. Hammer and colleagues is based on the Y chromosome,
which is passed unchanged from father to son. Early in human evolution,
all but one of the Y chromosomes were lost as their owners had no
children or only daughters, so that all Y chromosomes today are
descended from that of a single genetic Adam who is estimated to have
lived about 140,000 years ago.
In principle, all men should therefore carry the identical sequence of
DNA letters on their Y chromosomes, but in fact occasional misspellings
have occurred, and because each misspelling is then repeated in
subsequent generations, the branching lineages of errors form a family
tree rooted in the original Adam.
These variant spellings are in DNA that is not involved in the genes and
therefore has no effect on the body. But the type and abundance of the
lineages in each population serve as genetic signature by which to
compare different populations.
Based on these variations, Dr. Hammer identified 19 variations in the Y
chromosome family tree.
The ancestral Middle East population from which both Arabs and Jews are
descended was a mixture of men from eight of these lineages.
Among major contributors to the ancestral Arab-Jewish population were
men who carried what Dr. Hammer calls the "Med" lineage. This Y
chromosome is found all round the Mediterranean and in Europe and may
have been spread by the Neolithic inventors of agriculture or perhaps by
the voyages of sea-going people like the Phoenicians.
Another lineage common in the ancestral Arab-Jewish gene pool is found
among today's Ethiopians and may have reached the Middle East by men who
traveled down the Nile. But present-day Ethiopian Jews lack some of the
other lineages found in Jewish communities, and overall are more like
non-Jewish Ethiopians than other Jewish populations, at least in terms
of their Y chromosome lineage pattern.
The ancestral pattern of lineages is recognizable in today's Arab and
Jewish populations, but is distinct from that of European populations
and both groups differ widely from sub-Saharan Africans.
Each Arab and Jewish community has its own flavor of the ancestral
pattern, reflecting their different genetic histories. Roman Jews have a
pattern quite similar to that of Ashkenazis, the Jewish community of
Eastern Europe. Dr. Hammer said the finding accorded with the hypothesis
that Roman Jews were the ancestors of the Ashkenazis.
Despite the Ashkenazi Jews' long residence in Europe, their Y signature
has remained distinct from that of non-Jewish Europeans.
On the assumption that there have been 80 generations since the founding
of the Ashkenazi population, Dr. Hammer and colleagues calculate that
the rate of genetic admixture with Europeans has been less than half a
percent per generation.
Jewish law tracing back almost 2,000 years states that Jewish
affiliation is determined by maternal ancestry, so the Y chromosome
study addresses the question of how much non-Jewish men may have
contributed to Jewish genetic diversity.
Dr. Hammer was surprised to find how little that contribution
was.
"It could be that wherever Jews were, they were very much isolated," he
said. The close genetic affinity between Jews and Arabs, at least by the
Y chromosome yardstick, is reflected in the Genesis account of how
Abraham fathered Ishmael by his wife's maid Hagar and, when Sarah was
then able to conceive, Isaac. Although Muslims have a different version
of the story, they regard Abraham and Ishmael, or Ismail, as patriarchs
just as Jews do Abraham and Isaac.

http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/comments.php?id=1638_0_5_0

September 1998
Volume 5 Number 9
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Israel's Foreign Workers
Israel's internal security agency, Shin Beth, labeled foreign workers "a time
bomb" that threatens the country's security. There are 190,000 foreign workers in
Israel, including 100,000 illegal workers and another 80,000 legal and illegal
Palestinians. One-third of the legal foreign workers are believed to remain in Israel
illegally following the expiration of their work permits.
Romanian migrants working near the new city of Modi'in brushed past security guards to
complain to visiting Romanian Prime Minister Radu Vasile about poor working and living
conditions and unpaid wages. About 30,000 Romanians work in Israel, most in construction.
Israeli builders say that Romanian construction workers can earn $800 a month in Israel,
compared to $80 in Romania.
A decision to send 250 Ethiopian Jews to Israeli settlements in the West Bank in April
continues to draw fire from critics who say the government is using the newcomers as pawns
in its land battle with the Palestinians. The Israeli government counters that the
settlements were the only communities willing to take the new arrivals, an indication that
there may be limits to Israel's policy of welcoming all Jewish immigrants.
Orthodox Jews are in charge of the Interior Ministry, which regulates immigration and
citizenship, and there have been complaints that the Interior Ministry is making it
difficult for non-Orthodox to immigrate. Some fear that large numbers of non-Jews may try
to obtain easy conversions abroad and immigrate.
The Israeli Immigrant Liaison Bureau (Nativ) says that about half of the immigrants
arriving from the CIS between January and June, 1998 were not Jewish; about 800,000
immigrants have arrived from the ex-USSR since 1989. The Knesset Immigration and
Absorption Committee discussed the case of a family that was asked to undergo DNA testing
to prove that they were eligible for immigration under the Law of Return. Religious
representatives said DNA tests are legitimate to prove family ties;
secular representatives called the tests invasive.
About 10 percent of Israel's six million residents are neither Jewish nor Arab.
Liatt Collins, "Liaison chief: Half of CIS immigrants aren't
Jewish," Jerusalem Post, July 14, 1998. "Ethiopians in West Bank Called Pawns in
Tussle Over Land," Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1998. Lee Hockstader, "Israel
Balks at Admitting Family of Black U.S. Jew," Washington Post, July 6, 1998. |

(Gen 5:32) And Noah was five hundred years old. And Noah fathered Shem,
Ham, and Japheth.
(Gen 10:6) And Ham's sons were Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and
Canaan.
(Gen 9:18) And the sons of Noah that went out of the ark were
Shem, Ham, and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan.
(Jer 36:14) And all the rulers sent Jehudi, the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, Take the scroll in your hand,
in which you have read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch, the son of Neriah,
took the scroll in his hand and came to them.
(Gen 10:2) The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and
Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
(Gen 10:3) And Gomer's sons were Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and
Togarmah.
(Gen 10:21-22) And to Shem was born, even to him, the father of
all the sons of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder. The sons of Shem were Elam,
and Asshur, and Arpachshad, and Lud, and Aram.
(Gen 10:24) And Arpachshad fathered Salah; and Salah fathered Eber.
(Gen 10:25) And two sons were born to Eber; the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth
was divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
(Gen 11:18) And Peleg lived thirty years and fathered Reu.
(Gen 11:20) And Reu lived thirty two years and fathered Serug.
(Gen 11:22) And Serug lived thirty years and fathered Nahor.
(Gen 11:24) And Nahor lived twenty nine years and fathered Terah.
(Gen 11:26) And Terah lived seventy years and fathered Abram,
Nahor, and Haran.
(Gen 21:3) And Abraham called the name of the son who was born to
him, whom Sarah had borne to him, Isaac.
(Gen 25:26) And afterward his brother came out, and his hand was holding to the heel of Esau; and
his name was called
Jacob. And Isaac was a
son of sixty years when she bore them.
(Rom 9:13) even as it has been
written, "I loved Jacob, and I hated Esau." Mal. 1:2, 3
(Gen 36:2) Esau took his wives
from the daughters of Canaan: Adah, the daughter of Elon the Hittite; and Oholibamah, the
daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;
(Gen 36:6) And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his
daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his livestock, and all the beasts of
burden, and all his property which he had gained in Canaan, and he went to a land away
from his brother Jacob.
All of Jacob's [read: Israel's] descendants are
Israelites. Ten Tribes of Israel were founded by his ten sons, and two of them were
founded by two of his grand sons:
(Gen 37:3) And Israel loved Joseph
more than all his sons, because he was a son of old age to him. And he made a robe reaching to the soles of his feet.
(Gen 48:1) And after these things it happened, one said to
Joseph, Behold, your father is sick. And he took his two sons with him, Manasseh and Ephraim.
(Gen 42:4) And Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph's brother,
with his brothers, for he said, Lest harm meet with him.
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