Are Yemenite Jews Arabs?

[Eurafricanid]

I was analyzing some Arab samples and then, I've come to realize that the Yemenite jews are actually the quistessencial Arabs, how is that possible? A conversion community?

Distance to: Yemenite_Jew
0.01539558 Yemenite_Ma'rib
0.01660615 Yemenite_Al_Jawf
0.01941612 Saudi
0.02267227 Yemenite_Al_Bayda
0.02349473 BedouinB
0.02359521 Yemenite_Dhamar
0.02694156 Yemenite_Amran
0.02737718 SaudiA
0.03082710 Yemenite_Mahra
0.03455356 EmiratiA
0.04054864 SaudiB
0.06100723 EmiratiB
0.07296920 BedouinA
0.07842119 Palestinian
0.08135035 Samaritan
0.08402504 Jordanian
0.08920012 Tunisian_Rbaya
0.09767379 Egyptian
0.09769329 Palestinian_Beit_Sahour
0.09877378 Lebanese_Christian
0.10266276 Karaite_Egypt
0.10380173 Lebanese_Muslim
0.10555734 Iraqi
0.10572622 Lebanese_Druze
0.10584410 Syrian



Target: Yemenite_Jew
Distance: 5.0029% / 0.05002883
51.6 Natufian_Hunter-Gatherer
20.2 Levantine_Neolithic_Farmer
15.4 Iranian_Neolithic_Farmer
12.8 Kura-Araxes


Target: SaudiA
Distance: 4.6863% / 0.04686303
42.2 Natufian_Hunter-Gatherer
25.6 Levantine_Neolithic_Farmer
17.2 Iranian_Neolithic_Farmer
12.6 Kura-Araxes
2.4 Yamnaya_Pastoralist

[Melkiirs]

I was analyzing some Arab samples and then, I've come to realize that the Yemenite jews are actually the quistessencial Arabs, how is that possible? A conversion community?

Distance to: Yemenite_Jew
0.01539558 Yemenite_Ma'rib
0.01660615 Yemenite_Al_Jawf
0.01941612 Saudi
0.02267227 Yemenite_Al_Bayda
0.02349473 BedouinB
0.02359521 Yemenite_Dhamar
0.02694156 Yemenite_Amran
0.02737718 SaudiA
0.03082710 Yemenite_Mahra
0.03455356 EmiratiA
0.04054864 SaudiB
0.06100723 EmiratiB
0.07296920 BedouinA
0.07842119 Palestinian
0.08135035 Samaritan
0.08402504 Jordanian
0.08920012 Tunisian_Rbaya
0.09767379 Egyptian
0.09769329 Palestinian_Beit_Sahour
0.09877378 Lebanese_Christian
0.10266276 Karaite_Egypt
0.10380173 Lebanese_Muslim
0.10555734 Iraqi
0.10572622 Lebanese_Druze
0.10584410 Syrian



Target: Yemenite_Jew
Distance: 5.0029% / 0.05002883
51.6 Natufian_Hunter-Gatherer
20.2 Levantine_Neolithic_Farmer
15.4 Iranian_Neolithic_Farmer
12.8 Kura-Araxes


Target: SaudiA
Distance: 4.6863% / 0.04686303
42.2 Natufian_Hunter-Gatherer
25.6 Levantine_Neolithic_Farmer
17.2 Iranian_Neolithic_Farmer
12.6 Kura-Araxes
2.4 Yamnaya_Pastoralist

To my knowledge there are two clusters of Jews that are distinct from from their hosts and they exclude Yemenite Jews.

The “Eastern” Jewish cluster is around Assyrians, corresponding to Babylonian exiles. Those are Iraqi, Georgian, and Persian Jews. They definitely cluster closer to their hosts in West Asia than Western Jew Ashkenazi/Sephardi in Europe, but still are distinguished by elevated Levantine admixture.

https://i.ibb.co/19JjZC0/55-F7-AB3-A-7478-43-A0-B389-180-C4-C390-AF7.png (https://ibb.co/7GNLv3S)

Yemenite Jews like Ethiopian Jews, are believed to descend overwhelmingly from non-Levantine converts. Jewish conversion would have occurred back in the pre-Islamic Himyarite Kingdom where Judaism was in fact the dominant religion during the 5th century.

Read more about Yemenite Jewish genetics here:
https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2021/10/28/yemen-and-the-yemeni-jews/

[Voskos]

Nope, they are not Arabs. They probably descend from common ancestral populations with the so called ''Arabs'' of Yemen. Arabs are not an ethnicity, they are indigenous populations who got Arabized by a bunch of nomadic Bedouin clans.

[Adriaticia]

Yemenite Jews by appernace looks Yemenite, Saudi, Beduin, the ligther ones Jordanian and Palastinians.
But by Dna their root in Israel 2800 years ago. Immigrant to Yemen untill they return to Israel at 1948.

[Adriaticia]

Take Samaritan ethic group and Yemen ethic groups. And run it with Yemenite Jew you will see that root is Levantine.

[Melkiirs]

Forgot quote

[Melkiirs]

Take Samaritan ethic group and Yemen ethic groups. And run it with Yemenite Jew you will see that root is Levantine.

Yememite Jews are distinct from Yemenis because they originate from the Pre-Islamic indigenous population, not because of any Levantine admixture. They are similar to the more isolated populations in Yemen.