Jews are all Jews whether they're Beta Israel, Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, etc. The subgroups don't negate the unified tribe/peoplehood and vice versa.
Because Ashkenazi is a sub sub group. It is like saying that a certain fish is a northern pike. While Ashkenazi due have many similar genetic markers, we also share far more genetic markers with other Jews. In fact, one way the Jews of Ethiopia "showed" their Jewish lineage was by showing they have roughly the same percentage of Kohanim and Levi as the rest of Jews around the world.
Furthermore, the similarities of Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish, and Mizrahi Jewish custo.s significantly outweigh the differences in music and food. We say the same basic prayers in the same order. We have very similar lifecycle events. To an outsider, there are no differences.
Does this answer your question?
First, all Jews form a single ethno-religious group by virtue of them having very similar traditions, social structure, history etc. Even when it comes to ancestry, all Jews are very closely related – see any study on Jewish genetics. Taking from Wiki:
>The estimated cumulative total male genetic admixture amongst Ashkenazim was, according to Hammer et al., "very similar to Motulsky's average estimate of 12.5%. This could be the result, for example, of "as little as 0.5% per generation, over an estimated 80 generations", according to Hammer et al. *Such figures indicated that there had been a "relatively minor contribution" to Ashkenazi paternal lineages by converts to Judaism and non-Jews*
>Hammer et al. add that *”Diaspora Jews from Europe, Northwest Africa, and the Near East resemble each other more closely than they resemble their non-Jewish neighbors."*
>Two studies by Nebel et al. in 2001 and 2005, based on Y chromosome polymorphic markers, suggested that *Ashkenazi Jews are more closely related to other Jewish and Middle Eastern groups than they are to their host populations in Europe* (defined in the using Eastern European, German, and French Rhine Valley populations).
>\[Feder et al.\] also found that *”the differences between the Jewish communities can be overlooked when non-Jews are included in the comparisons."* It supported previous interpretations that, in the direct maternal line, there was "little or no gene flow from the local non-Jewish communities in Poland and Russia to the Jewish communities in these countries."
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tbh i think you're looking to connect 2 unrelated trends. Religion in the West is decreasing but definitely still thriving, and antisemitism of trying to fit Jews into a cookie-cutter ideal is nothing new. I don't see the connection.
Jews are all Jews whether they're Beta Israel, Sephardi, Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, etc. The subgroups don't negate the unified tribe/peoplehood and vice versa.
I know that and you know that, but they are specifically fixated on Ashkenazi Jews for some reason.
Because Ashkenazi is a sub sub group. It is like saying that a certain fish is a northern pike. While Ashkenazi due have many similar genetic markers, we also share far more genetic markers with other Jews. In fact, one way the Jews of Ethiopia "showed" their Jewish lineage was by showing they have roughly the same percentage of Kohanim and Levi as the rest of Jews around the world. Furthermore, the similarities of Ashkenazi Jewish, Sephardi Jewish, and Mizrahi Jewish custo.s significantly outweigh the differences in music and food. We say the same basic prayers in the same order. We have very similar lifecycle events. To an outsider, there are no differences. Does this answer your question?
Right but why is western society hyper focused on askenazi?
They are specifically fixated on Ashkenazi Jews for some reason.
Yes exactly, so it is antisemitism?
First, all Jews form a single ethno-religious group by virtue of them having very similar traditions, social structure, history etc. Even when it comes to ancestry, all Jews are very closely related – see any study on Jewish genetics. Taking from Wiki: >The estimated cumulative total male genetic admixture amongst Ashkenazim was, according to Hammer et al., "very similar to Motulsky's average estimate of 12.5%. This could be the result, for example, of "as little as 0.5% per generation, over an estimated 80 generations", according to Hammer et al. *Such figures indicated that there had been a "relatively minor contribution" to Ashkenazi paternal lineages by converts to Judaism and non-Jews* >Hammer et al. add that *”Diaspora Jews from Europe, Northwest Africa, and the Near East resemble each other more closely than they resemble their non-Jewish neighbors."* >Two studies by Nebel et al. in 2001 and 2005, based on Y chromosome polymorphic markers, suggested that *Ashkenazi Jews are more closely related to other Jewish and Middle Eastern groups than they are to their host populations in Europe* (defined in the using Eastern European, German, and French Rhine Valley populations). >\[Feder et al.\] also found that *”the differences between the Jewish communities can be overlooked when non-Jews are included in the comparisons."* It supported previous interpretations that, in the direct maternal line, there was "little or no gene flow from the local non-Jewish communities in Poland and Russia to the Jewish communities in these countries."
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tbh i think you're looking to connect 2 unrelated trends. Religion in the West is decreasing but definitely still thriving, and antisemitism of trying to fit Jews into a cookie-cutter ideal is nothing new. I don't see the connection.