Comment by Yawrehto

Bonus, since you apparently subscribe to the Khazar conspiracy theory: https://forward.com/israel/175912/jews-a-race-genetic-theory..., https://www.jta.org/2016/05/03/global/prominent-scholars-bla... (debunking a paper that 'supported' that), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234157950_Highlight..., and most critically this paper (https://rosenberglab.stanford.edu/papers/BeharEtAl2013-HumBi...), which is literally titled "No Evidence from Genome-wide Data of a Khazar Origin for the Ashkenazi Jews".

Note also that this applies solely to Ashkenazi Jews, the ones the conspiracy theory generally applies to and the most reasonable (a 1,000 foot pile of bullshit rather than a 1,001 foot pile, to be clear). However, this doesn't even matter, because most Israeli Jews are Mizrahim, from the Middle East and North Africa. I fail to see how a kingdom that was roughly from the Caucasus and extended into southern Ukraine could manage to get its genes into those of Jews whose ancestors lived in, say, Libya for centuries or millennia (and were expelled following Israel's independence, if you're wondering how they ended up in Israel. The whole exodus of Jews from Muslim countries was roughly equal to that of Palestinians from Israel. The reason you don't hear about the plight of those refugees is that Israel, at the time a young new state still working things out, accepted them quickly and without delay, often proactively getting Jews out to safety.)