Why do a lot of Greeks look like they have Jewish ancestry?

[Zeno]

First of all, a Nickocado Avocado-looking Americano talking about resemblance of Greeks towards Jews while posting a pic of Romans and Italians is peak American intelligence and negative stereotypes combined, in the most hilariously comical manner.

Secondly:

Well, they are all on the same racial spectrum. Greeks and Southern Italians are about as white as Jews in Israel.

That is pretty retarded of anyone saying that considering the prevalence of phenotypes such as Armenoid, Arabid and Orientalid amongst all types of Jews is infinitely more present than in Greeks, at all times. Even if just Ashkenazis are compared to either Greeks and Italians, the former have a lot more non-European phenotypes than the latter.

Nope, probably with Southern Italians. They hadn't yet mixed with browns from MENA when the Jews first arrived in the European part of the Roman Empire I think. Also, Southern Italians were not originally Gauls (they didn't look like krauts at a costume party) but Mediterranean people like Sardinians and Ancient Greeks. All ethnicities residing in Mediterranean basin possess similar facial traits and are genetically linked.

The last sentence is peak mental retardation. Hence the moment they do not seem the same phenotypically (because I do not think you're as vile or retarded to unironically compare between Southern Euros and MENAs, since in many older comments even you said they're completely different), what makes you think we'll be genetically the same? Appearance is dependent on genetics, and the genetics between southern Europeans and MENAs, including Jews, is different.

In the case of Ashkenazis (because Sephardis and the rest of the Jewish subgroups aren't even related at the least with Southern Euros), it's only them that have Southern European admixture in very big percentages. Italians, and especially Greeks, have close to no amounts of it. Especially for Greeks, even here, there hasn't been any talk about Greeks having sizeable Jewish ancestry. In fact, it's way, way less than the disputed West Asian admixture for which there have been countless upon countless of keyboard fights here, and in other fora.

[Cristiano viejo]

All ethnicities residing in Mediterranean basin possess similar facial traits and are genetically linked.

FALSE. Spaniards/Portuguese/French are pretty different than Greeks/Italians and Croatians/Slovene, Albanians, Montenegrians, and viceversa.

[Tooting Carmen]

Yeah, Zeno has a point - most West Asian admixture in Greeks is Anatolian/Kavkazian-like (same with other Balkan groups) - not Jewish/Levantine-like, which is more common among some Southern Italians instead.
Also, why did the OP choose entirely Italian and Roman faces to illustrate his putative point about Greeks and Jews looking alike?

[Richmondbread]

First of all, a Nickocado Avocado-looking Americano talking about resemblance of Greeks towards Jews while posting a pic of Romans and Italians is peak American intelligence and negative stereotypes combined, in the most hilariously comical manner.

Secondly:



That is pretty retarded of anyone saying that considering the prevalence of phenotypes such as Armenoid, Arabid and Orientalid amongst all types of Jews is infinitely more present than in Greeks, at all times. Even if just Ashkenazis are compared to either Greeks and Italians, the former have a lot more non-European phenotypes than the latter.




The last sentence is peak mental retardation. Hence the moment they do not seem the same phenotypically (because I do not think you're as vile or retarded to unironically compare between Southern Euros and MENAs, since in many older comments even you said they're completely different), what makes you think we'll be genetically the same? Appearance is dependent on genetics, and the genetics between southern Europeans and MENAs, including Jews, is different.

In the case of Ashkenazis (because Sephardis and the rest of the Jewish subgroups aren't even related at the least with Southern Euros), it's only them that have Southern European admixture in very big percentages. Italians, and especially Greeks, have close to no amounts of it. Especially for Greeks, even here, there hasn't been any talk about Greeks having sizeable Jewish ancestry. In fact, it's way, way less than the disputed West Asian admixture for which there have been countless upon countless of keyboard fights here, and in other fora.

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[Ruggery]

FALSE. Spaniards/Portuguese/French are pretty different than Greeks/Italians and Croatians/Slovene, Albanians, Montenegrians, and viceversa.

Sean thinks France is Northern Europe.

[Cristiano viejo]

Sean thinks France is Northern Europe.

Americans (Canadians included) are not famous for their geography skills.

[catgeorge]

We don't - 15-20% of Jews cluster with SE Europe. The rest are pretty far away. It's actually the opposite.