Classify James Harding, the current Head of BBC News

[Tooting Carmen]

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/6/27/1246121131314/James-Harding-001.jpg http://www.tuanvietnam.net/Library/Images/47/2007/12/james%20harding.jpg http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Media/Pix/pictures/2013/4/16/1366117331315/James-Harding-008.jpg

[Also]

Keltic. Screams british.

[Tooting Carmen]

I just checked Wikipedia - he is actually Jewish. I am no conspiracy theorist, but a lot of Jews have been powerful in the BBC within my lifetime - Alan Yentob and Michael Grade come to mind.

[Tooting Carmen]

Could a mod please move this to 'Taxonomy' for me?

[Tooting Carmen]

bump

[Armand_Duval]

Keltic nordid perhaps with some baltid strain.

[Maleficent]

Keltic Nordid.

[YeshAtid]

Keltic- east med. Easily passes as a Levantine

[Tooting Carmen]

Keltic- east med. Easily passes as a Levantine

And the percentage of Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians with reddish brown hair, light eyes and freckles is...

[MINARDOWICZ]

Keltic- east med. Easily passes as a Levantine

More like a combo of Keltonordid, Borebby and East Med. He does not really pass as Levantine though... not full at least. He seems to be HEAVILY mixed with british islander. It is QUITE clear. You don't find borebby + keltonordid influenced people in the levant. But it is STILL quite evident he has jewish roots.

[MINARDOWICZ]

And the percentage of Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians with reddish brown hair, light eyes and freckles is...

Try Israeli, Palestinian, etc. It is usually a darker shade, but trust me, it happens. Look it up. I even am friends with people who had kids born with red-tinted hair. Usually it is hard to notice as they get older, but the tint is still there. Happens sometimes among them I guess. However... this guy is clearly keltonordid and borebby partially AS WELL. Clearly his fam is mixed with british islander. He looks like a cross between an ashkenazi jew and a straight up british islander.

[YeshAtid]

More like a combo of Keltonordid, Borebby and East Med. He does not really pass as Levantine though... not full at least. He seems to be HEAVILY mixed with british islander. It is QUITE clear. You don't find borebby + keltonordid influenced people in the levant. But it is STILL quite evident he has jewish roots.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dany+chamoun&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=MmjYUvq8IcSw7AajvoHIAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1538&bih=796

And the percentage of Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians with reddish brown hair, light eyes and freckles is...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dany+chamoun&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=MmjYUvq8IcSw7AajvoHIAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1538&bih=796

[Tooting Carmen]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dany+chamoun&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=MmjYUvq8IcSw7AajvoHIAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1538&bih=796

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dany+chamoun&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=MmjYUvq8IcSw7AajvoHIAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1538&bih=796

Of course there are SOME who can look like that, but I sincerely doubt that they are the most typical or numerous faces in the Levant, to say the least.

[MINARDOWICZ]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dany+chamoun&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=MmjYUvq8IcSw7AajvoHIAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1538&bih=796

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dany+chamoun&espv=210&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=MmjYUvq8IcSw7AajvoHIAQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1538&bih=796

Cool, good for you. I even agreed with what you think about the hair and skin color (this happens with Palestinians too) but his PHENOTYPE is not levantine. Only partially. Nice try though. They guy you are showing DOES NOT (and I repeat... DOES NOT) look brithish islander AT ALL.

[Tooting Carmen]

Grant Shapps, the Housing Minister is another Jew with a very Borreby/Keltic Nordid look
http://blog.sewellgardner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/grant-shapps.jpg

[MINARDOWICZ]

Grant Shapps, the Housing Minister is another Jew with a very Borreby/Keltic Nordid look
http://blog.sewellgardner.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/grant-shapps.jpg

Yes. Good luck finding someone like this in the levant... however, you can find people with this coloring there. Just, they have a TOTALLY different looked. You should be ashamed of yourself, Barberis, as a jew who cannot recognize levantine vs british isles influences.

[SardiniaAtlantis]

KN - He has the kind of face you just want to punch.

[YeshAtid]

Yes. Good luck finding someone like this in the levant... however, you can find people with this coloring there. Just, they have a TOTALLY different looked. You should be ashamed of yourself, Barberis, as a jew who cannot recognize levantine vs british isles influences.
A quarter Jew, and yes you can find some yishuvim who look like him.

[Tooting Carmen]

A quarter Jew, and yes you can find some yishuvim who look like him.

Is Harding only partially Jewish then?

[YeshAtid]

Is Harding only partially Jewish then?

No I'm not a quarter Jew, the rest Italian, contrary to minard's claim that I'm a full Jew. Not that there's anything wrong with it. Harding is obviously a mischling , like myself.

[MINARDOWICZ]

THESE are Levantine looking redheads:

Palestinian:

http://www.voccoquan.com/images2006/mahmoud%20Abu%20Tir.jpg

Israeli:

http://israelity.com/wp-content//sharon_bareket_boy.jpg

[gregorius]

Keltic- east med. Easily passes as a Levantine

ahahahahahahaa

[YeshAtid]

THESE are Levantine looking redheads:

Palestinian:

http://www.voccoquan.com/images2006/mahmoud%20Abu%20Tir.jpg

Israeli:

http://israelity.com/wp-content//sharon_bareket_boy.jpg
That Israeli is a Mizrahi Jew, originally from Kurdistan.

[MINARDOWICZ]

No I'm not a quarter Jew, the rest Italian, contrary to minard's claim that I'm a full Jew. Not that there's anything wrong with it. Harding is obviously a mischling , like myself.

Never said you are a full jew... and about time you admitted he is a mischling. It is OBVIOUS he does not fit in the levant, with a face like that.

[gregorius]

Never said you are a full jew... and about time you admitted he is a mischling. It is OBVIOUS he does not fit in the levant, with a face like that.

Im trusting you, you know why?

because the scientific world knows you

[Tooting Carmen]

Why do discussions about Jews or Southern European always attract so much passion and interest, but no one really cares about Northern Europeans?:picard1: I have another partially-related thread, only he is the vehemently Welsh-speaking Head of BBC Wales, and hardly anyone has responded.:(http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showthread.php?110571-Classify-Rhodri-Talfan-Davies-Head-of-BBC-Wales

[MINARDOWICZ]

That Israeli is a Mizrahi Jew, originally from Kurdistan.

My bad... He is still not euro, but MENA, though. Look at the first BTW. True Palestinian. Not some Ashkenazi jew (who arleady are only partially levantine) but he is ALSO mixed with british islander OBVIOUSLY. Never will fit in the levant.

[Smeagol]

But it is STILL quite evident he has jewish roots.

Yeah I'm sure you would have guessed him as a Jew had you not known his ethnicity.

[MINARDOWICZ]

Im trusting you, you know why?

because the scientific world knows you

Oh come on. Very funny!

Seriously though, Barberis is obviously on crack if he thinks ACTUAL partially BOREBBY and KELTONORDID people EXIST in the levant. They do not. Unless they are part european.

[YeshAtid]

My bad... He is still not euro, but MENA, though. Look at the first BTW. True Palestinian. Not some Ashkenazi jew (who arleady are only partially levantine) but he is ALSO mixed with british islander OBVIOUSLY. Never will fit in the levant.

Kurdish Jews are very pure indeed, that guy is what the original Israelites looked like.

[MINARDOWICZ]

Yeah I'm sure you would have guessed him as a Jew had you not known his ethnicity.

To be honest, I would have guessed him as part Italian part Scottish, to be fair. Much closer to what he is than placing him IN THE LEVANT! HAHAHA!

[Also]

THESE are Levantine looking redheads:

Israeli:

http://israelity.com/wp-content//sharon_bareket_boy.jpg

If this guy is levantine looking then levantines look extremely northern european.

[Tooting Carmen]

If this guy is levantine looking then levantines look extremely northern european.

Indeed...

[YeshAtid]

Indeed...

He is a Kurdish Jew.

[MINARDOWICZ]

Kurdish Jews are very pure indeed, that guy is what the original Israelites looked like.

LOL you are a funny dude. But you know, Mizrahi jews tend to have high amounts of MENA blood, compared to Ashkenazi jews. Look at some admixture results, you will see. Sephardic jews are higher than them too, and it is quite evident.

[Tooting Carmen]

He is a Kurdish Jew.

His nose is Middle Eastern (sort of), but even that is not obvious to the vast majority of people with untrained eyes.

[Smeagol]

If this guy is levantine looking then levantines look extremely northern european.

Kurds have Aryan influence.

[Graham]

Looks Kelto-Brunn. Jews are fairly spread out in looks, as a Nomadic people. :P

[YeshAtid]

His nose is Middle Eastern (sort of), but even that is not obvious to the vast majority of people with untrained eyes.

Are you saying he's not native? Kurdish Jews are relatively pure specimens.

[MINARDOWICZ]

If this guy is levantine looking then levantines look extremely northern european.

Not really. Not nearly as north euro as this guy who looks NORTHWESTERN euro. Clearly not able to fit in the levant.

[Tooting Carmen]

Looks Kelto-Brunn. Jews are fairly spread out in looks, as a Nomadic people. :P

And they are also pretty spread out in the worlds of politics, business and journalism.:D (I am no conspiracy theorist. Jews aren't the only ethnic group who are over-represented in certain fields. Black people do well in music, sport and fashion; South Asians do well in I.T., business, law and medicine).

[Tooting Carmen]

Are you saying he's not native? Kurdish Jews are relatively pure specimens.

Whether he is native or not I am not here to dispute; I am saying he is much lighter-than-average compared to the vast majority of both Kurds and Jews.

[YeshAtid]

Whether he is native or not I am not here to dispute; I am saying he is much lighter-than-average compared to the vast majority of both Kurds and Jews.

Kurdish Jews are very light,
http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ariel-sabar.jpg

[Tooting Carmen]

Kurdish Jews are very light,
http://www.turkishnews.com/en/content/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ariel-sabar.jpg

But the vast majority of other Kurds are not. As for Jews, there is of course a whole range, but surely most have dark brown/black hair and brown eyes, even if often combined with fair skin.

[Sikeliot]

Keltic-Nordid

[Tooting Carmen]

Keltic-Nordid

Do you see the Jewish in him? It isn't really obvious to me - I only discovered it through Wikipedia.

[Sikeliot]

Do you see the Jewish in him? It isn't really obvious to me - I only discovered it through Wikipedia.

No.

[Smeagol]

But the vast majority of other Kurds are not. As for Jews, there is of course a whole range, but surely most have dark brown/black hair and brown eyes, even if often combined with fair skin.

Majority of Ashkenazis are blue eyed.

[Anomander Rake]

Majority of Ashkenazis are blue eyed.
I don't think the majority, but I would say that about 55-60% of Ashkenazis have blue eyes and another 10-15% are green eyed.
Well, I turned out to be an idiot. It is the majority :lol:

Moreover, something most people don't know - about a third of Sepharadi Jews have light eyes, and they have pale skin (more than average Levantine, surely).

I don't know any details about the Mizrahi Jews, but I guess they are about 5-10% light eyed.

[Smaug]

Kelto-Brünn, if really Jewish must be very mixed with native Islanders.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

I just checked Wikipedia - he is actually Jewish. I am no conspiracy theorist, but a lot of Jews have been powerful in the BBC within my lifetime - Alan Yentob and Michael Grade come to mind.

Beat me to it, he is obvious jew.

[Odin]

Kelto-Brünn.