That is really an absurd headline considering the content of the article. Defining who you are has very little to nothing to do with were some of your ancestors may have come from 5000 years ago.
If you found this interesting and want to dive deeper, I recommend 'The Horse the Wheel and Language' by David Anthony. The book is an intellectual tour de force, yet easily approachable. Integrating linguistics, genetics, archaeology and vigorous academic debate within and across the disciplines, startling conclusions emerge from seemingly intractable starting positions and thin, unreliable evidence.
There is a huge propaganda push to equate Israelis with 'Europeans' and 'Americans' to help justify the US and EU looking away from the atrocities being committed in Gaza.
Even if that were true (I have personally not seen any sign of it, Israeli pro-war propaganda is much more direct), this article has nothing whatsoever of the kind. They do not show nor talk about any kind of commonality between the people living in Israel and those in other parts of Europe.
This seems like either a misguided pro-Palestinian jab at an Israeli paper (I for one very much support Palestine, but that has nothing to do with this article) or even simple antisemitism of the "great replacement" white nationalism variety. I hope I am mistaken.
Haaretz is Israel's most internationally respected Israeli paper. It's generally liberal and sympathetic to Palestinians, so the warning could also be a anti-Palestinian jab at a left-leaning news source.
While that may be true of many Haaretz articles, at least in this case this article does not appear to contain anything else but a good enough summary of the two open-access research papers published in Nature, which are linked in the article.
Moreover, the conclusions of the 2 articles about the 3 main migrations that have affected most of the Europe are not controversial or completely new, they just bring more precision and additional details to what was already known.
Throws things around like 'no living descendants' of Neanderthals, except for half of us that still have their genes? What else does it take, to be a descendant?
And 'left the caves' which is a folk story. We have evidence of really ancient peoples in caves, and evidence of more modern ones everywhere. Why? Because 'they left the caves'?
No, because older evidence outside caves degraded because, well, they weren't in caves which are stable cold-rooms for preserving whatever is in there. Include perhaps some exceptional individuals who chose to go there (and die there). No reason to believe there was any special cave-preference at any time in history.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 60.7 ms ] threadEDIT: And the article seems unaccesible to me right now.
This seems like either a misguided pro-Palestinian jab at an Israeli paper (I for one very much support Palestine, but that has nothing to do with this article) or even simple antisemitism of the "great replacement" white nationalism variety. I hope I am mistaken.
Moreover, the conclusions of the 2 articles about the 3 main migrations that have affected most of the Europe are not controversial or completely new, they just bring more precision and additional details to what was already known.
Also its pretty ironic hearing complains from europe about emigration considering this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_emigration
Throws things around like 'no living descendants' of Neanderthals, except for half of us that still have their genes? What else does it take, to be a descendant?
And 'left the caves' which is a folk story. We have evidence of really ancient peoples in caves, and evidence of more modern ones everywhere. Why? Because 'they left the caves'?
No, because older evidence outside caves degraded because, well, they weren't in caves which are stable cold-rooms for preserving whatever is in there. Include perhaps some exceptional individuals who chose to go there (and die there). No reason to believe there was any special cave-preference at any time in history.
Anyway, I quit reading there.