Palestinians: Are you the descendants of the Canaanites?

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[Andredelagarde]

I have a Palestinian friend who took a DNA test, he was 80% Canaanite and 15% Greek/Italian, his family lived in the area for thousands of years according to his family, he even said they had Jewish ancestors once. His family was expelled and went to Jordan when Israel was created. This was a Native who has more Canaanite ancestors than many Israelis.

[IamDeathwatch]

Both Jews and Palestinians (as well as Samaritans) are the descendants of the Canaanites of the Southern Levant. But where Jews picked up other ancestries in the Diaspora, Palestinians picked up other ancestries from all the different folks who moved into the land after the Roman exile of Judeans - most notably the Arab conquests, which is seen in Palestinian Y-DNA.

[dianakarake]

Many Palestinians or let's say the real Palestinians are descendants of the anceint Canaanites just like the Lebanese. That explains why the Lebanese and Palestinians are genetically very close related. The Jews today are mostly descended from the ancient Jewish tribe of Judah and they are descendants of Isac son of prophet Abraham. Prophet Abraham was originally from mesopotamia so in ancient times the first ancestors of Jews were from mesopotamia.

[marksimons]

4:48 Saad is correct, to a certain extent, because not all Israelis are Jews.
Under the law of return (and general immigration laws) non-Jewish spouses can become Israeli citizens. On the other hand, while some Israelis many not be halachically Jewish, I'm pretty sure they will be Jewish enough for Palestinian purposes.

[TNothingFree]

Regardless of the answers I love your effort on continuing this project!

[Klayhamn]

All inhabitants of this land are a mixture of "indigenous" and foreign people who immigrated here at this point.
Many of the palestinians have families that migrated to this land from Syria, Egypt or Jordan 100 years ago or more, to find work.

This is why you can still find surnames like "AlMasri" ("The Egyptian") and so on, of families living in Gaza (or in the West Bank).

It's very rare (and possibly impossible) to find anyone who's a "direct descendant" of people who lived here 3000 years ago, if only because simple things like wars, famine, and search for work or resources made people move around the region (and the world) at various points in time.

So, even if you FIND someone who has a "direct line of descendece" to people who lived here 3000 years ago, their genetics are very likely ALSO intermingled with people from europe, turkey, mongolia, africa, etc.

[ThatLondonLady]

I did my DNA test which said I am 44% Canaanite. My mother is Egyptian Jewish. I also know Palestinian’s & other Levantine people who were raised Muslim, Christian or Druze who took their DNA tests which showed high amounts of Jewish & Canaanite DNA.

[newbengraham]

i just realized this. i've known about the ancient canaanites, but it didn't occur to me that the palestinians are canaanites. that's so good to know.

[marksimons]

IMHO all the peoples who lived in the Levant and territories close by are pretty much close to each other in terms of DNA. They were differentiated more by tribal affiliation than by genes.

[mohamadnaseebaldabbas]

Yes they are the descendants of Cannanites
Most of middle eastern have Semitic blood and origins
No matter if the name would be Cannanites, arameans, amorites, Phoenicians or assyrians
Most of us speak today Arabic with different dialects depends on the origin of the language

Like : syrian dialect has too much in common with aramean
So does Lebanese with Phoenician
Etc

[inana]

Why Israelis are forbidden to buy ancestry DNA kits from the store without presenting a court order?

[carpetano]

As an European, I find this question so pointless, at the end of the day no one is 100% "indigenous" to any land in Europe, the Middle East, , we are also the results of hundreds of invasions throughout history.

[interestingyoutubechannel]

Some of the Arab Felaheen of this region do still continue some Levantine agricultural practises of the ancient world that the Jews of Israel preserved in Israelite sites like Sataf nature reserve, which showcases ancient Hebrew agriculture.

Also I found out that zuta levana (a local wild bush plant used as a tea herb) is called ashab a-shai by Arabs (literally "tea herb"), but local Bedouin tribes have preserved the Canaanite / ancient Hebrew name for this herb - qurniyya. That's Arabized form of the Hebrew "Qoranit" mentioned in our ancient texts.

[ef]

Corey FYI Jews used to live in Nablus (Niapolis, Shechem) until 1929 riots.

[kyledefranco]

I suspect this question is only relevant to political claims.
DNA and culture overlap. But sometimes they do not.

[michaelacohen]

Why do people in the comments start arguing about whether the people in the video are telling the truth or not and call them liars? God they are just answering the question. The whole purpose of the video is to show their own opinion from their angle. For me as an Israeli, it was more interesting to watch this one than the Israeli because in this video you can see people actually understood the question and have a diversity of opinions on the topic, unlike the Israelis who hardly understood it and linked it only to what Judaism has to say on the subject. Nobody knew who the Canaanites were except a nation mentioned in the Bible and the average person from the street wouldn't know enough based on what they had learned in a Bible class somewhere in the past (except for the last couple). Here you have people mentioning their grandparents talking to them about it. Good video regardless 👍

[drossrieder]

Why do Palestinians predominately refer to themselves as Arabic? Why do the leading palestinian families bear names pertaining to other nationalities (e.g. Al Kurdi, Othman, etc.). Why have all Palestinian national leaders come from other countries, not from Palestine or PA territory. Arafat was Egyptian, Abbas is Syrian. Ahmad Shukeiri was born in Lebanon.

In fact the only Palestinian leader born in something akin to Palestine, Amin Al Husseini, who was born in Jerusalem, opposed Palestinian nationality, arguing instead for arab nationality based on Southern Syria.

This has no bearing on how a two state solution should be resolved, but points to the massive commitment to misinformation on the part of the Palestinian leadership and disseminated through the education system.

[marsdz]

I strongly believe the Palestinians are the people of that land and they are Jewish by blood not by religion their ancestors changed their religion after time ! Tell me how I know that !
I am a North African (algerian) I always thought after all these years of the Spanish, Turkish, French and arab presence whether by the sword or trades ! But lately I had my DNA ancestry test and it came out 100% north african no trace of middle eastern or European DNA !!! 100% west algerian/east moroccan ! Mind you i don't speak the berber language i only speak the north african dialect and Arabic and to the world we are considered Arabs even though we are not Arabs by blood we only speak the Arabic language!!!
Same as the south Americans we call them Spanish and most of them have no Spanish blood in them

[annri]

There are a lot of hurt zionist in this comment section. Too funny😂

[solvingpolitics]

LOL, they are descendants of the KGB & Yasser Arafat.