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| Antisemites’ nightmare: Guess What: You’re Jewish! |
| 2025-11-17 |
| [AmericanThinker] Several years ago, my husband Steve and I were watching TV as an American politician of Hispanic descent responded to a challenging question by an antagonistic news hound. The politician gave such an eloquent and informed answer, sprinkling his response with historical facts, literary allusions, and even dashes of humor, that when he completed his answer, Steve said, "Damn...that is one brilliant guy!" Reflexively, I expressed what I’ve privately suspected for ages when witnessing similar scenarios: "He’s probably Jewish!" Steve laughed, but I meant it. FOLLOW THE SCIENCE According to Eric Buesing, the world is more Jewish than we realized. "DNA testing is revealing that as many as 152 million additional people have Jewish roots. If more people knew they were part-Jewish, would they still hate Jews?" Buesing asks. In the thousands of years that the Jewish people lived all over the world in the diaspora, he says, in order to survive, "many Jews became crypto-Jews" — known in Spain as Conversos — hiding their identities, "adopting new names and blending into Christian, Moslem, or secular societies under the shadow of inquisitions, pogroms, and forced conversions." Today, he says, "Advances in genetic testing have revealed that millions worldwide ... carry traces of Jewish ancestry in their DNA. In the United States alone, an estimated 15.8 million people, roughly 4.58 percent of the population, may have Jewish roots, often without knowing it." STAGGERING RESULTS Buesing reports that a 2018 study analyzed DNA from 6,589 individuals across five Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. The results were staggering. Approximately 23 percent of those sampled had at least 5 percent Sephardic Jewish ancestry, averaging 1 to 4 percent across these nations. This translates to an estimated 136 million Latin Americans who may carry Jewish DNA! "These numbers," Buesing says, "are more than statistics; they are stories of survival, of ancestors who hid their menorahs, whispered Shema Yisrael in secret, and passed down fragments of identity that science is now rediscovering." WHAT IF? Buesing asks us to imagine what it would be like for a Christian — or someone of any other religion — to discover that a great-great-grandparent was a Converso and that his Jewish DNA traced back some 2,000 years. "Antisemitism has plagued humanity for centuries," he explains, "fueled by myths, stereotypes, and the scapegoating of Jews as ’outsiders.’ But what if the world knew that millions — perhaps one in every 54 people globally — carried Jewish ancestry? If 152 million people, from São Paulo to Seville, from Johannesburg to Albuquerque, shared this heritage, the notion of Jews as ’other’ begins to crumble." |
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