RACE: Defined Biologically, Socially, And Demographically

When someone explores their “23 and me”, those of us with Jewish ancestry have commonalities in our DNA, distinguishable from non-jews. This is because our genetic composition dates back thousands of years. Thus, Judaism is a race.  

Two-thousand five-hundred years ago before we were exiled from our homeland, we were one large community of a shared language, culture, traditions, rituals, and genetic map. Thus, Judaism is a race.  

When the Jewish Race was forced to disperse, most Jews settled in the Middle East and Mediterranean countries and later, throughout Europe. We remained the same Jewish Race genetically but dispersed geographically.  

We adapted and adopted the languages and traditions of our new neighbors, but we kept our culture and gene pool, often under threat of death.  

We were evicted from Spain (800 years ago), blamed for the Black Death Plague (650 years ago), subjected to the Cossack’s sabers (150 years ago), and between the 1930’s and 1950’s, 259,000 Jews were banished from Morocco, 140,000 from Algeria, 100,000 from Tunisia, 75,000 from Egypt, 38,000 from Libya, 135,000 from Iraq, 55,000 from Yemen, 34,000 from Turkey, 20,000 from Lebanon and 18,000 from Syria… and 25,000 from Iran too.