Philistines were Europeans

[Token]

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/7/eaax0061

Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines

The ancient Mediterranean port city of Ashkelon, identified as “Philistine” during the Iron Age, underwent a marked cultural change between the Late Bronze and the early Iron Age. It has been long debated whether this change was driven by a substantial movement of people, possibly linked to a larger migration of the so-called “Sea Peoples.” Here, we report genome-wide data of 10 Bronze and Iron Age individuals from Ashkelon. We find that the early Iron Age population was genetically distinct due to a European-related admixture. This genetic signal is no longer detectible in the later Iron Age population. Our results support that a migration event occurred during the Bronze to Iron Age transition in Ashkelon but did not leave a long-lasting genetic signature.

[Token]

Samson killed 1000 Europeans. Nice.

[TheOldNorth]

Explains why both Ashkenazi and Sephardi have detectable Southern European dna, it makes sense that after the philistines where conquered by the Israelites that they (like the Celtic Britons in Anglo-Saxon england) would convert to their culture and marry into their families like Sampson himself participated in.

[grecoroman]

(It seems that Europeans have a good claim to Israel then).

I think Dutch people are the real Israelites. Only gods chosen could be blessed with stroopwaffels

[The Lawspeaker]

I think Dutch people are the real Israelites. Only gods chosen could be blessed with stroopwaffels

Let the Greeks have it !

[Token]

Let the Greeks have it !

[grecoroman]

Let the Greeks have it !

No. It is God's commandment to his chosen nation to walk in wooden shoes and eat raw herring

[PaleoEuropean]

You have it backwards, They are the ancestors of Europeans of Middle Eastern Farmer lineages. Samson just killed other West Asians

The people they are related to are all Mediterraneans from around the Aegean, which are just people who came from the middle east and north Africa anyway. They just have a slight WHG admixture from the Balkans most likely.

[TheOldNorth]

You have it backwards, They are the ancestors of Europeans of Middle Eastern Farmer lineages. Samson just killed other West Asians

The people they are related to are all Mediterraneans from around the Aegean, which are just people who came from the middle east and north Africa anyway. They just have a slight WHG admixture from the Balkans most likely.

no the philistines are to recent to literally represent the EEF, they're more likely greek or pre-indo european speaking sardinian pirates, and warriors who settled there after their raids on the Hittite empire, and Babylon as well as the failed conquest of Egypt

[Aspar]

You have it backwards, They are the ancestors of Europeans of Middle Eastern Farmer lineages. Samson just killed other West Asians

The people they are related to are all Mediterraneans from around the Aegean, which are just people who came from the middle east and north Africa anyway. They just have a slight WHG admixture from the Balkans most likely.

Good point!

I somehow feel that many Northern Europeans just use the term "European" when they feel and for their own benefit but when it doesn't suit them then it's "We' and "You".

No matter what, these Philistines have more to do with the Levantines then with most Europeans...