The Computational Jew

What is the genetic essence of Jewishness?

This post will mostly concern the majority of Jews – the Ashkenazim, that branch of Jewry that Whites are most familiar with.

Now, these Jews have been shown to be a mix of Middle Eastern, Southern European, and Eastern European ancestries, in proportions such as shown here.  However, as I have written before, Jews are more than this; they are more than merely a mix of these ancestries, as they have gone through genetic bottlenecks and have been subjected to selective pressures that have resulted in a unique suite of mental and physical traits that constitute the essence of “Jewishness” – e.g., relatively high intelligence, particularly of a verbal nature; a tropism toward achievement; a tropism toward neuroses and paranoia; greediness; misanthropy toward Gentiles; ethnocentrism and collectivism; dual morality; overall unpleasantness; a tropism toward exploiting and harming the host peoples among which they live; a particular physical appearance and traits; various genetic disorders, etc., much of which no doubt has a strong genetic component.  Some researchers have studies the genetics of, e.g., Ashkenazi intelligence, associating it with certain genetic disorders; thus, there is precedent in attempts to understand the genetic basis of the Jewish phenotype.  However, such studies were targeted to particular traits and not to the entire suite of traits that constitute “Jewishness.”

Now, simply mixing Middle Easterners, Southern Europeans, and Eastern Europeans would not reconstitute Ashkenazi Jews as we know them, even if such hybrids would no doubt have PCA and admixture profiles similar to Jews since the broad overall genomes would be similar.  But the specific genetics encoding the essence of Jewishness would not be present.  Thus, such non-Jewish hybrids would serve as a good baseline comparison to compare Jews to, in order to identify the specific genetic variations that differentiate Jews from simply hybrids of their ancestries.

If such non-Jewish hybrids exist in significant numbers, then their genomes can be used for comparison.  But it is not strictly necessary to find such hybrid.  Instead, I propose the methodology of determining The Computational Jew – using computational genetics of in silico modeling of non-Jewish hybrids in order to determine the genetic essence of Jewishness.

There are databases in which the genetics of Middle Eastern, Southern European, and Eastern European peoples are known – for example, one can use as the parental populations here Palestinians (and other Levantines such as Lebanese and Syrians, etc.), Italians, and Russians/Poles.  One could then use computational methods to model hybrids of these peoples in proportions similar to the range of ancestries found in Ashkenazi Jews.  Then one can compare actual Jewish genomes (of which there is plenty of data) to the in silico computational models of the non-Jewish Middle Eastern, Southern European, and Eastern European hybrids.  Genetic differences could then be identified, which can serve as the basis for identifying gene frequencies that determine “Jewishness” above and beyond the foundational baseline of a mixed Middle Eastern, Southern European, and Eastern European ancestry. These genetic variants and their frequencies can be then associated with function and phenotype, followed by gene expression studies of Jews (at the mRNA and protein levels) to correlate expression of relevant identified genes with phenotypes of interest.  In this manner, one can begin to build a tentative catalog of a specifically Jewish functional genetic distinctiveness – the genetic basis for the essence of “Jewishness.”  Again, the key point is the comparison between Jews as they exist today and the ancestral baseline of their derivation – that baseline being most practically created in silico, but any actual living non-Jewish people with such proportions can be used. One reason why the computational method would be superior is that actual people with the ancestry may be more recent mixes and thus would have larger chromosome blocks derived from their ancestries, compared to Jews in which the mixing took place earlier and thus the blocks would be smaller (and more inter-mixed).  This earlier mixing could be modeled via the computational method, yielding a fairer baseline comparison.

Once the genes and gene expression patterns defining the essence of Ashkenazi Jewishness are identified, and properly correlated to the associated phenotypes, a variety of follow-up questions can be evaluated.  Are Jews with certain ancestral profiles more or less likely to demonstrate the essence of Jewishness?  Which of the ancestral components of Jews is most associated with Jewishness; for example, are Jews that are “more Middle Eastern” more likely to manifest traits associated with Jewishness?  Or is it specific ancestral combinations that are more “Jewish?”  In addition, full Jews can be compared to part-Jews to determine the extent to which these genes and their consequent traits are dominant or recessive, and how they are modified by the ancestral components derived from the non-Jewish ancestors.  Do part-Jews resemble their Jewish ancestors; is a “Jewish taint” a dominant?  One could also compare the genomes of today’s Jews with those of Jewish remains from past eras, to understand how selection and genetic drift have influenced stereotypical Jewish traits over time.  For example, one theory suggests that ethnocentrism among full-blooded Jews has been increasing, since less ethnocentric Jews have out-married and became assimilated into the Gentile population. With identification of the proper genetics, such hypotheses, and others of a similar nature, can be tested.

The same methodology could be used for other Jewish groups, such as the Sephardim, if the founding populations and their percentages are identified. Non-Jewish groups can also be analyzed; for example, are American Negroes merely West African-British Isles hybrids or a selected population derived thereof, possibly enriched in gene variants encoding obesity, violence, and stupidity.

One criticism of this plan is that the traits in question may be due to a large number of genetic variants that each have a small effect and thus it may be difficult to identify the genes influencing certain phenotypes.  However, the only way to find this out is to do the experiment and given the distinctiveness of the Ashkenazi (and previous studies about them) it is more likely that valuable information will be obtained.  Another criticism is that epigenetic influences would not be identified by this method.  What is proposed here is the first step of analysis; no doubt other analyses would follow, possibly including epigenetics.  In addition, given that the phenotypes in question have been stable over long periods of time and in different environments they are most likely to be predominantly of genetic origin.

In any case, the approach is theoretically feasible and possibly could yield interesting and useful data.

Implications of the Marcus Case

Jews are an ethnic group.

First, read my definition of “indigenous,” which I believe is reasonable and captures the essence of the essential meaning of the term in a manner that can be fairly applied to all peoples, including Whites.

Very well.  Now read this, emphasis added:

The move by Kenneth L. Marcus, the assistant secretary of education for civil rights and a longtime opponent of Palestinian rights causes, signaled a significant policy shift on civil rights enforcement — and injected federal authority in the contentious fights over Israel that have divided campuses across the country. It also put the weight of the federal government behind a definition of anti-Semitism that targets opponents of Zionism, and it explicitly defines Judaism as not only a religion but also an ethnic origin.

And it comes after the Trump administration moved the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, moved to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority and announced the closing of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s office in Washington.

In a letter to the Zionist Organization of America, obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Marcus said he would vacate a 2014 decision by the Obama administration and re-examine the conservative Jewish group’s cause not as a case of religious freedom but as possible discrimination against an ethnic group.

There is much in support of Marcus’ contention that Jews are an ethnic group: population genetics studies that show that the bulk of Jewry (excluding some numerically small outliers), and especially the Ashkenazim (but others like the Sephardim are genetically close to the Ashkenazim as well, so they all can be viewed as one large group), do constitute a biologically distinct population group; history; culture; certain physical and behavioral traits; a sense of shared destiny and peoplehood – the totality of Identity. The fact is that genetic testing can identify Jews and even one-half and one-quarter Jews.

In this sense, Marcus agrees not only with the verdict of science and history, but with what White nationalists and other racial activists have been saying for a long time: Jews are a distinct ethnic group.

Now, a question.  If Jews are an ethnic group, where is their homeland?  In other words, to what territory are they indigenous to?  Is it in Europe?

After all, the English are indigenous to England, Germans to Germany, Italians to Italy, Russians to Russia, Irish to Ireland, Swedes to Sweden, Greeks to Greece, etc. Even at the level of “regions,” this still holds: Saxons and Bavarians, Padanians and Sicilians, Flemish and Walloons, Basques and Catalonians and Andalusians, Bretons, etc. are all indigenous to their particular areas of Europe.

Where in Europe – specifically where – is the Jewish ethnic group indigenous?   Re-read the definition if you need help answering that question.

Answer: Nowhere.  They are not indigenous to any nation or region of Europe for the simple fact that they are not European.  Like the Roma, the Jews are an intrusive group that entered Europe in historical times, settled into nations and regions already populated by indigenous groups still extant today, and to an extent interbred with the natives (although there are still large pockets of essentially pure Roma and there is variation among Jews in their ancestral proportions).  

Now, no one on the Far Right – and most people otherwise in fact – consider the Roma to be European, to be White.  They are considered a racial minority group within Europe.

The same applies to the Jews, and that derives not only from facts, history, and logic, but from the views of Jews themselves – the refutation of the Alt Wrong “they look White to me” attitude in fact directly can be derived from the arguments of Marcus.

If Jews are an ethnic group – and they are – then they cannot be one that is indigenous to Europe; there is no “blood and soil” tie between Jews and any specific nation or region of Europe. They are a Diaspora group scattered across Europe, and across Asia and North Africa as well.  They have chosen Israel as their homeland, properly reflecting their modern historical origins in the Levant, in the Middle East.

They can’t have it both ways – on the one hand claiming (truthfully) to be an ethnic group, but at the same time claiming to be “White” and “European.”  

Who is Marcus?  Great to see that the “God Emperor” is taking good care of people – the Jews - who did NOT vote for him, who despite him, and are part of the “resistance” against him.  Meanwhile, his supporters are ignored, shunned, or he signs legislation bringing the force of the federal government to combat them.  In other words, Trump punishes his friends and rewards his enemies.  A “cuck nagger” if I ever saw one.