Maybe the male side is, but they mainly descend from four European women as my reading goes. Eighty percent of Ashkenazi matrilinial inheritance is European.
Which emm...means they have no claim by the Jewish matrimonial rules to actually belong to those biblical Jewish middle eastern ancestors.
Not sure what happens in the Old Testament (i am an ignoramus on that subject btw) but it seems that Christians have adopted it for some reason, lending a legitimacy to some of these claims. Perhaps a theologically primed Christians can guide me ?
Well there's a very popular eschatological Protestant Christian heresy which claims the Jews have to return to the holy land before Jesus returns.
To be frank Israel would probably have no existence without such nutters...once prevalent in the UK but now mostly in the US, but there you are.
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