Arab trying to interpret Jewish and European results

**Levant15** · 10-07-2018, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by waam

I bet his European is due to shared ancestry with other Mediterranean peoples and not related to crusaders (most Middle Easterners score either Greek or Italian on MyHeritage).

I agree. His European is only south European not Western European. I think it came through Lebanese or Syrian ancestry.
Gedmatch shows him shifted towards northern Levant.

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**Sp_loa** · 10-07-2018, 06:52 PM

Originally Posted by whoibe

Thanks to all who have replied!

Another person from my town, which is pretty small with less than 30 thousand inhabitants, is from a different, but related family. That person got 59% middle eastern on myheritage and no Mizrahi Jewish. My one-to-many comparison also includes some obvious Jewish matches, although all admittedly only between 9 and 15 cM, which I guess is a negligible result.

HarappaWorld 4-Ancestors Oracle

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I'm from a town in the Galilee

MDLP K16 2xOracle and OracleX4

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Many palestinians have Jewish matches due to the face that many palestinians are descendants of Jews and Samaritans that were forcibly converted to Islam in the middle ages.
Can you post Harappa Single oracle (with the x%+y%)

**whoibe** · 10-07-2018, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by DR_2001

Many palestinians have Jewish matches due to the face that many palestinians are descendants of Jews and Samaritans that were forcibly converted to Islam in the middle ages.
Can you post Harappa Single oracle (with the x%+y%)

I suppose so.

I hope this is what you meant:

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**Sp_loa** · 10-07-2018, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by whoibe

I suppose so.

I hope this is what you meant:

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You seem to be mostly Levantine with minor Southern European and North African.

**whoibe** · 10-07-2018, 07:24 PM

What I'm wondering now is if Palestinians are so genetically similar to Mizrahis, how does one distinguish 'real' from 'not so real' mizrahi jewish results?

**Sp_loa** · 10-07-2018, 07:33 PM

Originally Posted by whoibe

What I'm wondering now is if Palestinians are so genetically similar to Mizrahis, how does one distinguish 'real' from 'not so real' mizrahi jewish results?

Not always easy. Differ per case.

**whoibe** · 10-07-2018, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by DR_2001

Not always easy. Differ per case.

How should I go about doing that in my case?

**Sp_loa** · 10-07-2018, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by whoibe

How should I go about doing that in my case?

IDK. Unlikely you have recent Jewish heritage. You probably just share with the Jews common Israelite Ancestry. Jews and Levantine Arabs are indeed cousins/siblings.

**Anglojew** · 10-07-2018, 09:05 PM

Palestinians are Arabised Hebrews

**Aren** · 10-07-2018, 09:07 PM

You seem to have a Iranic shift tbh. But at the same time you also score more Anatolian farmer/West Med than most Palestinian Muslims which obviously would not be due to Iranic input.