From the UK Observer, November 2001:
"A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has been pulled from a leading journal.
"The paper, 'The Origin of Palestinians and their Genetic Relatedness with other Mediterranean Populations', involved studying genetic variations in immune system genes among people in the Middle East.
"In common with earlier studies, the team found no data to support the idea that Jewish people were genetically distinct from other people in the region. In doing so, the team's research challenges claims that Jews are a special, chosen people and that Judaism can only be inherited.
"Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East share a very similar gene pool and must be considered closely related and not genetically separate, the authors state. Rivalry between the two races is therefore based 'in cultural and religious, but not in genetic differences', they conclude."
These conclusions are just as controversial in 2005.
"A keynote research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical has been pulled from a leading journal.
"The paper, 'The Origin of Palestinians and their Genetic Relatedness with other Mediterranean Populations', involved studying genetic variations in immune system genes among people in the Middle East.
"In common with earlier studies, the team found no data to support the idea that Jewish people were genetically distinct from other people in the region. In doing so, the team's research challenges claims that Jews are a special, chosen people and that Judaism can only be inherited.
"Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East share a very similar gene pool and must be considered closely related and not genetically separate, the authors state. Rivalry between the two races is therefore based 'in cultural and religious, but not in genetic differences', they conclude."
These conclusions are just as controversial in 2005.
6 Comments:
I never realized that there were people out there who think that the Jewish people are genetically distinct from other Middle Eastern peoples. Ironically, that's almost a classically Nazi thought - racially "superior", special, chosen people. Ehm.
I have argued with many a Likudnik in all sorts of forums over the years and one of the things they hate most is being reminded that the Arabs are their bro's.
So I did a google to see if I could find any old posts to demonstrate this; not one.
Maybe they pulled those too!
Yes, those Palestinians, who inherited the nazi style hatred of their previous mufti of Jerusalem, are sick racists.
Amazing how they desire a second holocaust... of their brothers.
Look at the charter of Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad. What is the popular sermon in the Palestinian mosques?
You don't really need me to substantiate that claim. You already know it.
Eddie, Sorry that your literary skills end before you get to the "between the lines" information.
Destruction of Israel includes the destruction of the Jewish people of Israel.
From the five year-old news story "The journal's editor, Nicole Sucio-Foca, of Columbia University, New York, claims the article provoked such a welter of complaints over its extreme political writing that she was forced to repudiate it"
Sounds plausible to me, having read many a scientific paper. The editor is saying was the text and the discussion, not the data or the conclusions, that got the article pulled. That and the fact people get easily upset about anything touching Israel/Palestine, no matter which way it spins. Qvit yer kvetching.
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