Between Ashkenazi Jews and Palestinians

Those Ashkenazi Jews like Netanyahu who love to deny the rights of Palestinians over the land of Palestine and claim that only Israeli Jews are descendants of the Israelites and the Jews of Biblical Israel will be forced to eat their words when shown scientific DNA evidence that their hated Palestinian brothers are probably closer to their Israelite lineage than them. 😉

A 2020 study found that Ashkenazi Jews and modern Levantine
Arabic-speaking peoples like the Palestinians share common ancestry, but Ashkenazi Jews have a higher European-related component (41%). There's a substantial genetic overlap between them.

Most Palestinians descended from local inhabitants who converted after the Islamic conquest in the seventh century CE. The most genetically native groups to the land are the Samaritans and Palestinian Christians. They are far more native than Ashkenazi Jews.

The Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry postulated that they are largely descended from the Khazars, Turcic people from the Caucasus region of central Asia.

Regardless, I agree with Noam Chomsky, the great American intellectual famous for his work in linguistics, cognitive science, political activism and analytic philosophy when he said it really doesn't matter whether Ashkenazi Jews are closer to their Levantine roots than their eastern European and central Asian roots or vice-versa.

He added that we are a product of our cultural heritage more than our DNAs. We live in a world of cultural traditions. Whether the Moses of history truly exist or not, it doesn't matter. Chomsky himself is an Ashkenazi Jew like Netanyahu.

I agree with Chomsky. Even us Filipinos, we defined and redefined our being Filipinos, a product of our own cultural tradition.

Originally, the natives or "indios" were NOT considered Filipinos. Filipinos back then were Spaniards or at least mestizo Spaniards born in the Philippines. They were considered "insulares" as opposed to full-blooded Spaniards born in Spain called "peninsulares."

Later, half Chinese locals or chinoys who became the nouveau riche in Philippine society were accorded the right to be called Filipinos. I believe this is where Jose Rizal acquired his being Filipino long before the word applies to every native in the Philippines.

It doesn't really matter if your family's roots were Malays, highland Austronesians or lowland Austronesians, Chinese or Spaniards who lived in the Philippines for a very long time, you are Filipinos not because of your DNAs but because of your family's cultural heritage.